Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-03-09
OooY ALSO voTRo TO AMEND
LAW AND MEASURE MUST 40
70 eeNATE ron CONCUR
R1NcE OF THAT BODY.
STATUTORY BILL DEFEATED
BY LAYING IT ON TABLE
Death q Measuro % Brought AboUe
When Lower House Votes for 10,
dssinlte PostponeHent, % 70 ~
DRY Leaders Are Taken.
Completely by surpr.ss.

Ct. Paul. March S-After nearly
every member of the Minneapolis del
agation had exercised his vocal chords,
the House killed the Dryer bill &
repeal the civil service law affecting
Minneapolis. by a vote Of So to 81.
and then passed the Campbell bill
amending tho law by q vote Of 1el
% Q.
Back b the Senate.
The. bin that passed the House dit
lers somewhat from the one that
passed the Senate and will have 70
20 back to tho upper body for oonr
cu5reaoe. Tho chief changes made IN
tho present civil service law are
those providing for the payment Of
$1,000 yearly salary b the commits
sione1s and for hearings by the com.
mission when discharged employees %
petition. The bill also provides that
the city council must approve appoint
ments made to the board BY the May.
or.
Representative James Dryer, expon.
ont Of the repeal. led the debate for
his measure. He insisted that work IN
the city department was crippled by
the bill.
There was but little debate on tho
Campbell bill amending the law. Rep
resontative Marvin explained the
amendments. Representatives Devoid
and Gleason attempted to have the
bill amended, taking away from the
Civil Service commission control It
the common laporers.
statutory Sill 10 Killed.
st. Paul. March 8.-Statutory pro-
hibition was killed, 81 to ~, In the
Minnesota house Of representatives
when a motion to postpone the meas
ure indefinitely was carried. Many
drys voted with the vets against tho
bill, contending that it would be best
to let prohibition stand or fall by tho
Judgment of the voters Of the state
1T the 1918 election. when the prohibit.
ton constitutional amendment is sub.
mitted. Statutory prohibition would
have made Minnesota bone dry" be.
ginning next January.
There was no oratory preceding the
action. Representative George H.
Sutherland presented the report of
the temperance committee recon.
; mending that the bill pass and moved
that it be made special order. Rep.
resentativo Thomas H. G;rling, wet
leader, moved as q substitute that It
pc indefinitely postponed. The roll
call follows, those voting AYE" sup.
porting the Girling motion to kill the
bill.
The Roll Call.
Yeas-.Baldwin Bendixen, Bsssstte,
nncE SGri F}orE4 ); " .c 90ock C. "
Dare, T, Davis: Devoid. Donovan. Dwy::
e. e., Ec dickson Elowers. Fri:ch, Gerlich.
Grsene Asm sasGn + f. n GEssn; H.
!: NJ Harrtson, Hieken, Kinds, Howard:
k kSa1en Mk9nt1 LamH
win. Miner, q. Il. Moeiier .s a. " M Maf.
k sr; Mossm %91a,oo Murphy; Meitzsl, Metz
Eoyak apke Psst,so4 Pende NsaToo q.
n: Pstsrson, 8; N, Peterson. siesei. Silt:
e., steeqt sudhetmsr, swenson, 4. F.
W SifEahn' w TihS}entos Warner wash6arn'
T. Christensen. Corning, Crane, Gum:
p REt. F4S %;.n RaX1e5 Deela1a
Eoimss. Hompe. HUBERT Johnson.
SS er fFS5fagssn YHF 6S 9d%nS 31isa
stsnv,ck sggssssa SsS}! 6ae
sutherla1d. +: A. swanson, s. J.: swan:
Parker-47.