Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1919-03-19
PEOPLE TO vOT
On INCOME TAX
Senate Adopts Measure Sub
hitting Question to Popular
Vote at 1920 Election.
HAD PASSED The HOUSE


Goes Through Lower Body, Which,
Also Passes Four Highway Mea-
sures atone Session.
st. Paul.-The state income tax
constitutional amendment bill has
passed the senate by vote of 48 to
10, and will be put to vote at the
1920 general election. The bill already
has passed the house, and met little
opposition in the senate. The amend
ment is expected to be one of the
most important issues in the 1920
elections.
Household Goods Exempted.
The bill provides that there may
be exempted from taxation household
goods, wearing apparel, agricultural
products in the possession of the pro-
ducer thereof. and tools, implements
and machinery to such an extent and
in such manner as the legislature may
determine. Taxes may be imposed on
incomes, privileges and occupations,
which taxes may be graduated and
progressive and the exemption of a
reasonable amount of incomes from
taxation may be provided, and such
taxes may be in slieu Of taxes on any
class or classes of personal property
as the legislature may determine.
House Passes -Four Highway Bills.
The House ground out a, stable
grist of highway legislation on spe-
clal orders after recess in one after
noon. Four bills were passed.
The bill authorizing the commits
sioner of highways to- revoke state
roads where county boards fail to
maintain them in proper condition,
was passed after vigorous debate, in
which attempts were made to amend
the bill so that the; county board
should have the final work about the
maintenance of the state roads.
Another bill passed, 80 to 16, in ef-
feet legalizes practice common in
counties where work on state roads is
paid for by the county auditor on the
records of the engineer in charge
without going through the hands of
the county board. This practice, fol-
lowed to expedite the paying of day
labor, is placed in the hands of an as
Sistant engineer, who is made a su-
perintendent of maintenance of state
roads
The bill limiting the total amount
of salaries to be paid out for the Of
fee Of the commissioner of highways
to 900 was passed, 70 to 50.
The McGarry bill amending the
present statute providing for the ap-
pointment by the commissioner of
highways of his assistant engineers,
and providing that the counties shall
pay the compensation fixed for their
services, was passed. -. .<a, E>ss:,
Free Pass Bill Defeated. w..
The Nimocks free pass" bill was
defeated in the House by vote of 81
to So. The bill proposed that mem
sbers of the Legislature be given free
transportation on all railroads within
the state during their terms of office.
y, Film Censorship Off.
y There will be no state censorship
Of motion pictures in Minnesota for
the next two years at least. The F.
II. Peterson bill, providing for state
board of motion picture censors, was
recommended for indefinite postpone
ment by the Senate general legisla-
tion committee.
Monument Is Proposed.
After fifty-six years, a monument
may, be erected to the memory of the
Dustin family of four pioneers who
were killed by the Indians on the from
I tier in Wright county, June 49,, 1868.
"A bill introduced in the House by
Represe Kelly Of Wright coun-
sty appropriates 5000 for the purchase.
sof land and the erection of a monu-
ment on the spot of the massacre The
Dustin family, which consisted OF
.Jenette, Amos and Kate Dustin and
Robert Dustin, aged 4, son of Amos
and Kate Dustin, was surprised by
the marauding redskins in their from
tier home and slaughtered before help
could arrive.
House Passes Insurance Bill.
The state casualty insurance bill,
passed by the house by vote of 70
to 48, now is in the hands Of the SEN
ate committee on Workmen's compen-
sation. The bill received two material
amendments before its passage in the
house, both accepted by the authors
of the measure. One permits mutual
companies and interinsurance ex-
changes, not operated for profit, to.