The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1915-02-18

and attorney general:
Representative Sawyer has intro
duced bill which requires all heal
ers to get licenses from the state
medical board.
A bill providing that the commits
sioner of weights and measures
must license all nickel-in. the-slot
and other weighing machines where
fee is charged has been introduced
| in the house.
Representative Lee has introduced
bill prohibiting the sale of liquors
within 200 feet of any public or
parochial school. ~
The house committee on public
accounts and expenditures and the
house committee on immigration
jointly sponsor bill to abolish the
state bureau of immigration. They
give as a reason for the proposed
adjustment of this bureau, that too
large percentage of the money ap-
lpropriated to encourage immigration
goes for salaries. It is also alleged
that certain land agencies are shown
| special favors.
Representative Guilford has intro
duced measure making all villages
separate from the towns of which
they were formerly a part.
A bill providing that after August
l, 1916, no school shall receive state
aid unless the special school tax in
the district voted for maintenance
of schools exceeds S mills, has been
introduced in the house. Representa-
tive Bjornson is author of the bill
and he also introduced a measure
providing state aid for graded
schools giving special normal in
|struction, of 81, 200 for the principal
teacher and 5000 for each additional
instructor up to total of S., 900.
Representative Moe]ler has intro
duced a bill admitting to the state
soldiers home veterans of the Philip
pine insurrection and the Boxer re-
bellion, and their mothers, wives and
widows.
Senator W. S. Dwinne]l of Mime
apolis proposes to prohibit the teach
ing Of nypnotism or its public prac-
tice or exhibition. This is reform
we'll worth considering.
A public hearing on the proposed
efficiency and economy bill was had
in the senate Monday. G. E. Elm
quist of the railroad and warehouse
commission criticized several fea-
lures of the bill, and several other
talks were made for and against the
| measure.
! Representative Indrehus, chairman
of the house committee on game and
fish, has a letter from a resident of
the northern part of the state in
which it is suggested that a bill be
passed prohibiting the use of puison
in taking wolves, on the ground that
numerous other animals are killed as
a result.
A bill appropriating S750,000 for
two years to be used to care for
tubercular patients in the counties
throughout the state has been in
PRODUCED in the senate. The bill
provides that the money shall be
spent in eduipping and maintaining
county and district tuberculosis san
atariums and allows 1924, 600 for the
expenses and salaries of the advisory
commission in charge of the work.
The senate has passed the Baldwin
bill providing that inmates of the
penitentiary and reformatory may be
put to work on the construction and
Improvement of roads in Minnesota.
Only five senators voted against the
measure.
Representative Gerlich has. intro
duced measure legalizing fore
closure of mortgages by ADVERTISE
ment and recording thereof where
certificates of sale were not filed
within time.
Senator r. G. Dunn has intro
duced a bill to legalize and confirm
certain corporations.
A bill authorizing boards of county
commissioners to enter into contracts
for care and support at county poor
houses of aged and decrepit or in
digent persons for a stipulated sum
per week has been introduced in the
house.
Representative Miner proposes that
villages acting under general laws
may fund their floating Indebtedness.
| A bill to reimburse county agri-
cultural societies in the sum of
$4,000 when such societies have ex-
pended that amount for county fair
grounds has been introduced in the
senate.
| REPRESENTATIVE Tndrehus has in,