The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-07-05
WANT free LIST
TO REMAIN Same
FOOD SITUATION IN UNITED
STATES DEMANDS THAT
DUTY BE LEFT OFF.
CRITIClzESAFETY Commission
GOVERNOR NAMES COMMISSION
TO INVESTIGATE SCHOOL
MATTERS IN GENERAL


now pending in the United States SEN
ate. Minnesota is particularly inter-
ested whether or not the senators ad-
here to their plan not to place duties
upon those articles now on the Tree
list which include leather and hides,
fish, wheat, lumber and other products.
That the Minnesota contingent Will
stick is expected. The bill as it came
from the house contained provisions
for a horizontal raise of 10 per cent
on many of the articles now on free
list. The senate committee struck the
latter increase from the bill but it is
vet to be acted upon by the senate as
a whole, with of course house concur
renee. With the food situation IN the
northwest and the whole United
States, for that matter, serious, con-
sumers would be heavily hit by any
increase and especially by a duty, say
on fish and other articles now import
ed from Canada free of duty. The
same applies to leather and hides and
lumber. 1t is understood that the
Minnesota members in the lower
house are not at all anxious to see the
duty placed on the free list articles,
though they voted for the original
bill just as did many others, with
their eyes shut" Word has come that
the Minnesota members and others
from the northwest are satisfied with
the proposals in the senate to raise
he revenue needed for war purposes
in other ways. Lumber is now SELL
ing for higher prices in Canada than
in the United States. Placing duty
on It will simply increase the cost to
the farmers of the northwest who will
be building grana"ies, and to the gov
eminent in the erection of the big
environments where the great armies
of soldiers are to be trained.
, That newspaper criticism because
of his veto of the school deficiency ap-
preparation has not been lost upon his
excellency, the governor, is shown in
the naming of commission to inves-
tigate school finances and the system
of distributing the same. The COVER
nor contends that the present system
of school aid is wrong and he proposes
to show to the next legislature that
his recent disapproval Of better than
$1,000,000 satte school aid was justif-
ed. His excellency has obtained from
the state legal department an opinion
to the effect that the regular school
fund which he permitted to get by is
now available, but the state school
board can not see it in that light. They
say there is serious deficit and that
it can not be corrected by any Jug
Cling of funds or facts.
= Gls-I4at sl~,'
y A new political adviser for the gov
-ernor is mentioned in the person of o.
M. Opsahl of the state oil department,
who, by reason of the governors new
department consolidation scheme, will
be out of a job next month. 1t is pro-
posed to make him private secretary
to the governor to succeed Eric Thorn
ton, who will shortly resign. Mr.. OPP
sahl was formerly political manager
of Congressman Lindbergh of the
Sixth district.
At Duluth recently local justice of
the peace sentenced the secretary OF
the local 1. w. w. to S5 days in the
st. Louis county workhouse. The pun
ishment inflicted was as a result of a
law passed by the recent legislature
placing any organization which incit-
, ed industrial strife under the ban.
That the law will 60 to the supreme
court for Interpretation is certain. Ii
was not known that the secretary HAD
done anything, but the fact that he
belonged to an organization supposed
to favor industrial strife was respon-
sible for his Imprisonment.
Though Justice Oscar Hallam of the
Supreme court refuses to give the ru-
NOR confirmation, state capitol Cos
sips are strong in the belief that the
st. Paul jurist has designs on the next
United States senatorship. Such, of
course, would be in the event that Sen
ator Nelson decided to retire at the
close of his present term. Some of the
gossips think it is the republican nom
ination for governor that appeals to
him, but whatever it is they are
agreed that it is something better
than his present official position.
Judge Hallam practically all but filed
his name for the junior senator last
year, but the entrance of Frank B.
Kellogg made such an impossi5ility.
Some think that Judge Hsllar.'s resi-
dence, st. Paul, would be handicap,
but such is not regarded as serious by
his friends. Geography and national
ity were important factors in the old
convention days, but the primary has
changed all that. If Judge Hallam
should decide to go after the senator
chip, it is certain that his arrivals will
have to hustle. He is regarded as one
of the keenest in the political game.
Another supreme court rumon with
Eput verification is that the govern