Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1919-03-05
PROPOSAL FOR AMENDMENT TO
CONSTITUTION IS iNDEFl-
NlTELY POSTPONED.
BURNQUI S SIGNS s HOUR BILL
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Approval Delayed as Effort to Recall
Measure Was Expected Must Now
/ Be Repealed or Amended II
Changes Are Made. 's| s.si

lions committee ELIMINATING all
possibility OF submitting the
amendment to vote at the next u
election. 3sss5.
. 7 he bill MAS reported after the
senate passed unanimously the
u. Nimocks red flag bill and sent it
to the governor for his signature.
The bill had already passed the
house.
An attempt to bring the suffrage
bill to a vote was made by Sen.
ator James Madigan, who pre-
sented motion to place the bill
! on general orders. His motion
was killed by vote Of Fl to 40.
The committee Il report was then
adopted viva voce.
St. Paul-By the decisive vote Of
78 to 81, the Minnesota House Of Rep
resentatives yesterday passed the War
ner-Hompe bill providing for the nomi-
nation of state officers in conventions.
The bill does not provide for county
conventions, but requires that dele
gates to the state convention be Sc
lected by the voters! in the wide open
primaries held for the nomination of
county and congressional candidates.
It had been the intention of the au-
thors to omit the supreme court judges
from the provisions of the bill, but
they wore included inS' the list Of can.
didates to be nom mated by convention
at their own request. 80 49,
The bill will now go. to the senate,
where it is believed it has fair
chance Of passage, though some of the
senator's, it is said, will try to amend
1t to provide for the precinct caucus
and the county convention.
e-Hour Bill Signed.
Governor Burnquist has signed the
bill establishing an eight-hour day for
employees in state institutions. The
governor delayed signing the measure,
following a report that move to re-
call it might be made in the senate,
after a like motion failed in the house.
He was urged by many men oers to
delay action as long as possible, but
the three-day period allowed for his
signature ended was near an end when
he affixed his signature. The law now
must be amended or repealed if it is
to embody the ideas of many legisla-
tors on the, subject syfs.
SoIons Visit University. 5s
0 With the public school system OF
America, from kindergarten through
university, rests the responsibility of
Installing in the youth of the nation
true spirit Of democracy, rever-
ence for the ideals Of early patriots
and loyalty to- national principles.
Theodore Christianson, chairman of
the house appropriations committee,
said at the dinner, on the University
of Minnesota campus given the 205
legislators who were making their BIZ
ennlal inspection of the institution.
The solons were shown the needs of
the institution s.s
Patt;son Sill! Reported.
The. Pattison corrupt practices. bill,
proposing amendment to the present
statute. has heon recommended to pass
/ by the house elections committee.
re bill prohibits the expenditure Of
a:..,ss.1.lc.ie. fora candidate without the
authority ola candidate, by any per-
son or organiz" ton or league. Provi-
sion is mads that any such person or
organization thus authorized by a can
zdidate may expend the same amount
in campaign as the candidate is au-
thorized to spend, not to exceed $1O,-
600.
Tonnage Tax Bills Sent Back.
The house committee on taxes and
tax laws passed the buck to the
house on the tonnage tax bills. Both
the Bendixen per cent semi-net and
the WEIGH 10 per cent net tonnage tax
bills have been returned to the house
without recommendation and made a
special order.
Rest Biil for Women.
REPRESENTATIVE T. ". McGrath of St
Paul has introduced in the house s
rest bill for women. It provides that
no woman, except a domestic employed
in a private home or a nurse in a hos
pital, may be required to work more
than six days or forty-ei ght hours in
q week. After five hours continuous
semployme nt, women must be allowed
one hour Of rest.
The .'sWeatsho Tor doing work fol
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