Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1915-03-31
COUNTY DIVISION DEFEATED
Range Towns Not Only Lose Fight
: but Face curtaiIment of Mu-
= niclpal Expenditures: ;:

{ ST. Especially EFF the general
verdict is to be accepted, House File
rs, known. generally as Economy and
Efficiency" is dead. The house gave
the. measure its quietus when it re-
referred the bill to the committee
which has ihad it in charge, and the
same body two days later passed
what has been dubbed Gordon's seven
sisters" The seven bills are series
OF acts designed to take the place Of
the efficiency bill as drafted by for.
mer Governor Eberhart's commission
of thirty. One member, Representa-.
tive Knud Wefald of Clay county,
even wanted to recall the bill from
the committee and Kill it for good, but
this was more than the members could
stand and they adjourned before Rep.
resentative Wefald's motion could be
acted upon. Representative L. C.
Spooner of Morris, who has endeavor
ed to father the economy and eff
cheney act, practically gave up in dis
gust following the endorsement of the
Gordon substitutes and said he was
through. If nothing else his physical
!. i. J.
County division, so much desired
by residents of the Iron Range out
side of the city of Duluth and by the
southern half Of Otter Tail county,
met it's Waterloo when the house, by
an overwhelming vote, turned down
the bills providing for it. While coun-
ty division is dead, however, it's
memory is by no means stale and as
a result much trouble faces those who
started the movement represen-
tatives from the Range towns. The
trouble is bill offered by Represen-
tative Harrison of Hennepin county,
which in effect limits tax levies for
municipal purposes to $25 per capita
On the Range the levy varies from SIS
to 500 per capita and as a result
there is said to be wild line of
spending by the city and town Off
Gals for civic improvements Moth
ing is too costly for them to purchase
or erect. Their schools are magniti-
cent structures and their other public
buildings are the equal of those of
, Oily City vi .LVV,UUO VI
in the United States. All have a
way of light" and there is costly
paving without limit The burden of
all this falls on the mine owners prin-
cipally and the airing given the whole
thing looks very much as if the limit
on expenditures as proposed would
prevail The bill is before both
houses and each has approved it
through their committee on towns and
counties.
There is little possibility of any
further liquor legislation of impor-
lance this year The house tied a
large can to the Larimore- Davis reso-
luton proposing statewide prohibit
ton through constitutional. amend
condition, he said, would prevent any
more strenuous work on his part, and
this undoubtedly is true, as Mr..
Spooner by no means is a we'll man.
The Gordon substitutes mentioned
provide for the adjustment of the
| fire marshals, the oil inspection and
the hotel inspectors departments and
the placing of the state capitol and it's
regiment of janitors and petty Off
GERS in charge of the state, board of
control. It also provides budget
system for all appropriations and the
merging of state inspectors of all
kinds under one head. The latter
was killed, but later resurrected at
the request of Representative Gordon
and returned to the calendar. The
feature of the whole thing was the
heavy majority given all the Gordon
substitute measures. That these Cor
don bills. outside of the one providing
for an ofncial budget, will ever get by
the senate Is doubtful.