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volving fund of s250,0oO. and in
cludes land clearing.
Divorce on the ground of incurable
insanity of five years. standing is al
lowed in bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Swanson.
The house has passed the Corning
bill to make the terms of all clerks
of district court expire at the same
time by extending for two years the
terms of "a clerks whose terms ex-
pire in 1916.
Representatives G.. H. Warner and
G. NJ. Bendixen have introduced a
bill to put commission dealers in
farm produce under rigid regula-
tions. Commission men must be
licensed by the railroad and ware
house commission, must file bonds to
protect their customers and must re-
frain from and kind of unfair prac-
tices
A bill to increase the pay of county
commissioners in counties having less
than $4,000 people to SIS per day, has
been introduced by Representative
Davis. The pay now is So per day.
Representative Larson of Sand
stone proposes that the Australian
ballot shall be used in villages of
more than l, 800 population, or where
the assessed valuation is more than
81, 100000.
Senator r. G. Dunn has introduced
bill amending the Dunn road law.
Town and county boards will be al
lowed to spend their own funds
under the terms of this bill Com
pulsory certiica tion of road by a
deputy highway commissioner is
eliminated, and full power of ap-
proyal rests with the local board.
The town board is given the care
and supervision of all town roads.
The minimum state aid to be appor-
toned to county is fixed at s of
per cent. This is 2 of l per cent
less than formerly. If the county
commissioners refuse to grant an ap-
plica tion signed by ten resident free
holders of county to revoke the
designation of a state road the high
way commission may, by written
order, revoke such designation with
out concurrence of the county board.
Speaker Flowers has appointed a
committee of twenty to investigate
the so-called needless departments
and unnecessary employees in the
state government. The speaker
named two members from each con-
gressional district.
Now that county option has been
disposed of the legislature will act
on the Lobeck prohibition bill. The
senate committee on temperance last
Friday reported the bill out without
| recommendation. The bill proposes
forbidding the manufacture, sale or
transportation of intoxica ting liquors
within the state. 1t is not thought
that the measure can muster enough
votes to pass, as a number in both
branches, who would vote for a con-
|stitutional amendment providing for
prohibition, would not care to i'm
pose prohibition without a vote of
the people. The temperance com;
mittee also voted to recommend for
indefinite postpone1nent the bill by
Senator John W. Andrews prohibit.
ing the use of screens in saloons.
The house elections committee
considered the Gordon bill to legal.
ize elimination" conventions last
Friday and numerous opposed it.
James A. Peterson of Minneapolis
spoke against the bill as did W. T.
Coe. Minnesota had one 'elimina-
tion' convention, and it proved to
be real eliminator. If Minnesota
is to retain the primary law, it
should not sanction state conven-
tions for the purpose of furthering
the political interests of any clique.
The Sageng woman suffrage con.
stitutional amendment has been
made a special order in the senate
for this morning, and the vote upon
this proposition is expected to be
extremely close.
Observation-Disclosures of Mime.
apolis has introduced measure pro.
viding for the registration and
licensing of cooks, and prohibiting
any cook not licensed from cooking.
There is no provision, however, fol
the examination of cooks as te
their competency.
The house last Monday passed the
Devoid joint resolution asking con
gress to make naturalization easier
One of the legislators gave it as his
opinion that the house had enough
to do handling the legislation be-
1 fore it without invading congress
sional fields.