Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1917-03-28
ACTION AROUSES
GREAT INTEREST
Incorporation Of the Minnesota
Nonpartisan League.
new FACTOR IN POLITICS
Backers of Organization Deny Pur.
pose Is to Boost Any Partic-
ular Candidates.


st. Paul (SpeciaD - State capitol
circles, including the legislature, are
all agog these rays over the entrance
into the political game of new ele.
ment, or rather a new party. The lat
est bid for popular favor is the Min
nesota Nonpartisan league, and though
it is now better than a week old both
legislators and capitol habitues have
not quit talking about it or indulging
in conjectures as to the reason for its
creation. The league, which officially
came into being through the medium
of official documents filed with the
secretary of state, is not the North Da-
kOta league of fame, or even a branch
of it, but owes it's place in the polit-
ical armament to the activities OF
Representative G. F. Malmberg of
Washington county, J. A. Stonberg, a
prominent Republican of Isanti coun-
ty, and Oscar w. Blumquist Of the
same county, clerk in the senate.
rine Mills, are the incorporators. With
the new creation was filed an addi-
tional instrument legalizing a concern
to be known as the Minnesota Non
partisan Publishing company Rumor
connected the names of several promi-
nent politicians with the organization,
but all mentioned have vigorously de-
MED the report.
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That the latest in things political
has for it's chief end the capture of
territory now being invaded by the
North Dakota league goes without say
ing. Taking such for granted Secre-
tary of State Schmahl made public the
announcement that had he seen the
papers before they we're handed to a
clerk in his Office mandamus proceed
ings would have been necessary to
compel him to file them. State Aud
dtor Preus, whose name was con-
nected with the organization, also de-
nounced the movement in unmeasured
terms. On the other hand Representa-.
tive Malmberg and the other promo
tiers of the new league say the move
ment is genuine and that the whole
thing is for the purpose of putting the
entire state government on nonpar-
tisan basis. Naturally the followers
of the Dakota product denounce the
new creation and one of them, James
A. Manahan, has gone so far as to in
innate that bill may be introduced
in the legislature putting the Mime
sofa league out of business. One of
the features of the newly incorporated
party is that membership costs the
signer of it's articles Sc for two years,
while the North Dakota league, now
being extended to take in Minnesota,
stands it's subscribers SIG each.
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This week the house and senate will
take up as special orders nearly fifty
bills, the product of the children's well
fare commission named by Governor
Burnquist. The bills cover every phase
child life and control, and while a
Majority of them will undoubtedly be
reQegated to the junk heap the COM
m sion hopes that enough will get by
to make their labors worth while The
&C amission has been working on the
pfjposed juvenile legislation for sew
eral months,
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If the house concurs the further
killing of cartridges in the state will
be prohibited until 1920. The senate
has given it's approval to the bill by
Senator Fred B. Vibert of Cloquet pro-
particular game bird until Oct 20,
1920. The house will have field day
for all fish and game measures shortly
and the Vibert bill will be among those
considered.
Representative o. A. Swanson of
Nicollet county, acting with Senator
Rockne of the upper legislative body,
have succeeded in putting through
both houses a law permitting the leas-
ing of known ore deposits in lake and
river beds of the state. This will al
low the state to add heavily to it's
revenues and at the same time cause
the working of known valuable depos-
its of ore. The lease rate, under the
terms of the bill, is made so cents a
ton, an increase of Is cents per ton
over the old rate.
i. i. !.
The r. G. Dunn road act, which in
effect puts out of commission the
present state highway commission and
substitutes one-man department, is
now a law, Governor Burnquist having
affixed his signature to the measure.
This means a new job to be filled by
his excellency. The senate bill fixed
the minimum allotment of the road
fund at the present rate, but the house
refused to concur and finally succeeded
In bringing the senate around to It's
way of thinking. Under the new Law
the minimum allotment will be pei
cent Of the 1-mill tax for any county
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