Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1917-03-21


covering the tonnage tax issue in the
two legislative houses are no longer
to be permitted to remain in ignorance
regarding its merits and dement's is
more than certain. The general &C.
ceptance of the term tonnage tax is
that it is an exaction by the state OF
certain sum Of money for each ton
Of iron ore mined within its confines.
which is true, and is also in meas
ure true Of the Warner bill, which has
just gone to its death The Warner
BILL however. was different from the
others, in that it constituted super,
or additional tax, which if adopted
would have established a principle Of
taxation new to Minnesota. In effect
it was a license covering production
and would have been just as applica-
bic to the raising OF cabbages as to
the mining of iron ore It proposed
2 per cent tax on every ton of ore at
the mouth of the mine.
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In addition to 100000 appropriated
by the house and awaiting approval
by the senate for distribution among
the members of the Minnesota national
guard which saw service on the Mexi-
can border, Senator A. S. Campbell of
Austin would give them $4,000 more.
This money is to cover the period be-
tween mobilization on June Is, and
June 80 when the guard was sworn
into the federal service. The amount
is to cover the difference in pay. Sen
ator Campbell has offered bill call
ing for the payment of the amount
named
Next month will mark the close Of
calendar day in the supreme court. A
bill just signed by the governor and
now law does away with the time
honored term system and makes the
sessions continuous, or as long as
there is business to engage the courts
attention. The law. fathered by Sen
ator G. H. Sullivan Of Saltwater, is
the work OIL. A. Caswell, clerk of the
supreme court, and does away with
delays in the consideration of cases.
Under its workings the practice of
continuing cases from term to term is
done away with.
+ 4.
According to an opinion given by
Attorney General Smith April 10 Is
the last day for the Fortieth Mime
sofa legislature to remain in session.
1t must come to an end on that day.
Some members would close the ses-
sion sooner, but the chances are ex-
cellent that it will run to- the constitu-
tional limit. The bill hoppers in both
houses are choked and it will call for
much work to clear them
!. !.
A. F. Teigen of Montevideo, styled
the "silver tongued orator" of the
house and whose lengthy bursts of or
atory are feature of that particular
body, won out against strenuous op-
position when he was granted comper
tent help in the conduct of his inves-
tigation of alleged grain abuses in the
state. The fact that his inquiry run
to the several grain exchanges operat-
ing in the state and to alleged politf-
cal uses of the grain department Of
| the state railroad and warehouse com.
mission lined up the powers that be
against him, but twO-thirds vote
scattered the opposition to the winds.
| At the same time the house amended
to death and finally killed resolution
| by Tom Davis of Marshall county call
ing for an inquiry into political re-
ceipts and expenditures as they relate
to the various political parties regis
tered in the state. Representatives
Of all the parties and campaign COM
| mittees against which the resolution
OF inquiry was directed joined hands
in giving the measure its death swat.
| Davis even agreed to pay the cost Of
the inquiry, but it availed nothing.
| Proposed approval, which was finally
| given, OF President Wilson's armed
neutrality policy and the action Of
those members of the United States
senate and house of representatives
who backed the nations executive in
his demands was responsible for the
consumption of half day Of the SEN
ate's time. Though the vote was unan-
imous at the finish there was a note
of disapproyal throughout, and George
II. Sullivan of Saltwater, who backed
the resolution of endorsement, had IL
throw numerous oratorical fits before
he got by. In effect his resolution was
a slap at the senate filibuster, through
| direct endorsement of Senator Nelson
/ who voted with the president, and
Senator Kellogg, who had expressed
confidence in the executive. The Scan.
dinavian end of the senate, through
Senators Lende, Rockne and Sageng,
vigorously resented any use OF Sena
/ tor Nelson's name as club to swat