New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-02-28
.BUR;NQUI IS SENDS
IN VETO MESSAGE
GOVERNOR D1sAPPRovEs LAW ].
SOUGHT BY STATE SUPREME
COURT.
MUELLER OF BROWN, VOTES
AGAINST TONNAGE TAX
BILL.

81 T.. 3
Governor Burnquist has invoked tho
veto power invested in him for the first
time during this session Of the legislature.
bVt it is not yet certain whether or not
his veto will hold water. Last Friday
the governor disapproved the measure
Dy Representative A. F. Pratt of Anoka.
authorizing the supreme court to make
certain alterations in the east WING If tho
capitol, SO as to provide more room for
its deliberations. The governor holds
that the proposed law sets a bad pre-
cedent, as other departments would seek
the same privilege. On motion of Mr..
Pratt, action on the veto was deferred
till this week.
A dispute as to the time when the chief
executive sent in the message is now
engaging the attention of the lepisla-
'ture, it being contended that it was day
too late, and that the bill had become
a law without the governors signature.
Tonnage Tax Passes.
The fight over the tonnage tax bill
occupied four hours of the Solons'
valuable time and was at times pretty
bitter. Every member from the range
and from the northeast corner of the
state, except c. H. Warner, opposed the
bill. Most of the Hennepin and most
OF the Ramsey members also ranged
themselves with the opposition, but the
representatives from southern and west
ern Minnesota voted pretty generally for
the measure and put it across, with three
votes to spare. The vote follows:
Yeas: Anderson, Baldwin, Bendixen,
.Bjorge, ]. w. Book, Burrows, Car
michael, Christensen, A.; Christianson,
T.; Crane, Cumming, Davis, T. Dealand,
Devoid, Dwyer, Flikkie, Flowers, Frisch,
Frye, Gerlich, Grant, Green, H. NJ;
Greene, T.J.; Gullickson, Hale, Holmes,
Hompe, Hubert, Indrehus, johnson.
Knutson, Kuntz, Lee, Leonard, Nc
-. = ? =
Laughlin, Madigan, Malmberg, Moen,
N I.7ata Nett, Neuman, Nlmocks, Nord-
gren, Norwood, Noyak, Odlahd, Olien,-
Papke, Peterson, O. M; Pikon, Praxel,
Putnam, Rodenberg, Ryberg Seebach,
ompstead, slegel, Sitter, Steen, Stenvick,
Stevens, S. j.; Swanson, Swenson, Teigen,
9. =; Ieigen, Il. y; IoIlefson, WEIGH,
warner, Speaker Parker, 4. J-69.
Nays: Bernard, Besette, Birkhofer,
.h1orklund, Bergen, Bouck. e. W.; Briggs,
brown, Child, Corning, Danielsen, Dare,
Dawes, y; Donovan, Erickson, Gill,
,e1 'll Gleason IN. Hammer, Harrison, II.
H.. harrison, J. M; Hicken, Kinds,
howard. AAonlzen, Lang, Larson, Lennon,
Levin, McGratn, McNlven, Marschalk,
Marvin, Miner, Moeller, q. H.; Moss
man, Mueller, a. W.; Murphy, Nolan,
Nordlln, Norton, UT, Pattlson, Fender
CAST, Peterson, A.; Peterson, A. M;
Pittenger, Pratt, Reed, Ross, Searls,
Solem, Southwick, Stone, Strand, Sud-
heimer, Sutherland, Swanson, II. A.;
Thornton, Washburn, Winter-61.
The bill does not do away with the
present advalorem tax, but imposes in
addition thereto a two per cent tax on
all merchantable ore at the mouth of the
mine. AS the average ore mined is
worth from one to three dollars per ton
the tax will amount to from two to SIX
cents per ton, and Mr.. Warner, one OF the
authors OF the bill, stated that the total
revenue to the state from this new tax
will aggregate about 81 SOC, 600 per year.
This big sum will. if the bill becomes a
law, go into the general revenue furd Of
the state and will reduce the state tax