Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1917-02-14

these days. 1t is being bitterly as
sailed by range residents and repre-
sentatives and there is question if
it will get by. The assessment as pro.
posed is a super tax and there are
many who insist that it will not stand
in law.
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The house elections committee has
reported fayorably on the Larson bill
extending the vote to women and also
! the bill permitting the fair sex to vote
for president. The first named meas
ure is in the form of constitutional
| amendment and will have to be ap-
proved by the people. Many think
both measures will receive the en-
! dOrsement of the house.
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Senator Lobeck is of the opinion
that the sale and use of tobacco in all
its forms should he regulated and has
! introduced bill forbidding the use Of
1.-THE weed" by minors and licensing
it's sale. Senator Lobeck is one of the
few party Prohibitionists in the upper
body.
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Representative of the Nonpartisan
league are preparing to make a stiff
fight on the bills in the house and
senate making non-negotiable certain
kinds of promissory notes. Ostensibly
the bills in question are to prevent the
sale and transfer of promissory notes
given to lightning rod agents and 9TH
ers who, it is claimed, prey upon the
unwary, but the league says the bill
is for the purpose of hampering their
organization. The league is signing
up members from whom a fee of SIG
is exacted, and many promissory notes
are taken by the organizers.
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The absent voters bill has been rec
commended for passage by the house
elections committee 1t is the same
as the measure already passed by the
senate It is planned to later substi-
tute the senate measure for the house
passed last fall at the extra session of
the legislature giving Minnesota ma
tional guardsmen on the Mexican hor-
der the right to vote last November
at the general election.
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A bill by Representative Elias NorG-
gren of Sunrise. to aid in good read
building, has passed the house. It gives
the state railroad commission author
ity to reduce rates Oh sand and gravel
wherever the cheaper transportation
| will further good read work.
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A bill authorizing county commits
sioners to buy seed grain and loan it
| to Minnesota farmer is now ready for
Governor Burnquist's signature. The
measure is to aid Western Minnesota
farmers who lost their crops last year
! by reason OF foods and black. rust.
| Where grain is leaned the county is
given a first lien on the crop and later
on the borrowers land if the grain is
not paid for.
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The house military affairs commit
tee has recommended for passage the
bill by Representative George MoelleI
of St. Paul to pay Minnesota nationa!
guardsmen who served on the Mexican
| border so cents day in addition tc
the SIS a month they got from the
I! federal government An appropriation
| Of 100000 for this purpose is asked.
The speed with which the house
rushes bills from general orders to the
calendar brought forth vigorous pro
tests the other day from Representa-
tives Christianson and Teigen. In lit
tie more than an hour the house ad
vanced twenty-one bills to the calen
dar and there was not a large attend
ance of members at that. Thus fa1
the house has passed ten more bills
than were passed at this stage Of the
1915 session.
REPRESENTATIVE H. H. Flowers o
LIE Sueur has offered a resolution il
the house providing for COMMITTEES
of two representative and one senate
to go to Madison, Wis, to examine
the electric voting machine in use il
the capitol there. Formerly the rol
calls in the Wisconsin assembly re
ouired seven minutes, now they ar
made in less than one minute, MI
Flowers said. The cost Of installin:
the system at Madison was approx
mately $4,000.
THE COUNTY CHAIRMAN
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