Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1915-03-31

further attempts at drying up Min
nesota. The senate committee on
temperance at the same time report
ed out a similar bill for indefinite
postponement. Senator Gandrud, it's
author, protested, but he is more than
likely to meet defeat. Both houses
seem tired of the whole temperance
question and feel that they have
done their full duty in this line in the
passage Of the county option bill. !,
While booze is safe, however, Wom-
an suffrage which received partia.
knockout at the hands of the senate
week ago, is still vigorous child
Without warning the majority Of the
house committee handed in an ad
verse report on the giving of the bal
lot to women for presidential pur
poses only and received jolt in the
shape of the adoption of the minority
report, which was for passage Miss
Mary McFadden, who has been
doing some lively and effective lobby
ing for the woman suffrage move
ment, was on the job and the. enc
mics of the bill had to give way to
her activities. This bill will pass the
house. and has a good chance in the
senate.
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President George E. Vincent Of the
state university was before the sen.
ate finance committee to. urge the
passage of bills. appropriating prac.
tically 100000 for that institution.
but the probabilities are. that the
amount will be greatly curtailed.
hate to say it., but there is a growing
distrust regarding the university and
not few members appear to be
anxious to give the institution at Min.
neapolis a kick. The general cry is
that the overhead expenses at the
university are too high and that those
in charge do not make any effort at
curtailment. Another kick is that
members of the faculty are more. con.
'cerned with their side jobs than they
are with their official duties. In this
connection a story is told of a recent
trial in St. Paul in which the state
inspection of oil was under fire. II One
of the professors .of chemistry from
the university was subpoenaed by the
attorney generals department.. to aid
the state. His testimony. was, not re.
quired but his presence was and he
was much put out when his bill for
500 for expert services was turned
down. At the same time he was
drawing a. salary of something like
$4,000 year from the state.
The state insurance bill, fathered
by Representative E. E. Adams of
Fergus Falls and C. NJ. Bendixen of
Morgan, fell by the wayside in the
house and is beyond hope of resurrec.
ton. BY its terms the state would be
authorized to go into the liability
business to the extent of bonding it's
own officials. Members generally re.
garded the measure as decidedly too
far advanced for this period. .u
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The Minnette telephone :bill,y regu.
lating telephone companies in the
state to the extent of putting them
under the jurisdiction of the state
railway commission, was endorsed by
the senate. The senate returned the
physical connection feature, which
was wiped out by the committee in
charge, but refused to entertain the
referendum provision. The bill now
goes back to the house for repassage
and it is likely that a conference com.
r2ittee will be necessary to patch up
the differences between the two
houses over the amendments made to
the act. The house stands for the
referendum provision. Frank Min.
nette of Stearns county, who fathered
the bill, put through similar meas
ure two years ago, but it was vetoed
by former Governor A. o. Eberhart
The Dunn good roads law, consid-
erably altered and reinforced, will
come up in the senate shortly for con-
sideration. Under amendments ap.
proved by the house counties will be
permitted to build their own roads
without interference on the part of
the state highway commission and
the distribution of the state road and
bridge fund viii be along more equi-
table lines.
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1t is said that the twice-a-month
pay bill for public service corpora
tons, passed by the legislature and
now a law, is to be taken into the
courts to be tested as to it's consti-
nationality. This means that many
months will elapse before the new
order will prevail
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There are now more than 300 bills
out of committee awaiting considera-
ticn by the house in committee of the
whole Those who know say that
half of them will never be reached.
The two houses quit business mid
night of April %.