The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-01-17


Gated by Judge Hughes. It will alb
solutely protect every worker, and
will also, it is expected, reduce the
premiums that must be paid by the
employer. It promises to be one of
the most important pieces of legis-
lation of the session.
Representatives McGrath, Murphy,
Burrows and Fawcett are joint
| authors of bill to increase the med
ical attendance which an employer
must furnish to an injured employee.
Part of Road Program.
| My bill to increase the automobile
license fee was introduced Monday.
1t provides for registration fee of
40 cents per horsepower each year.
This would make the fee for Ford
about $9-other cars in proportion.
It is estimated that the law will pro-
duce $3,0OO,O0O a year-enough to
finance state bond issue of over 80
millions. A bill in preparation by
the State Highway Commission
makes the fee much higher. My bill
was introduced in the senate Monday
by Senator Bessette.
/ Land Clearing Bill.
Senator Bessette will introduce
his land clearing bill this week. 1t
will undoubtedly pass. 1t provides
for the clearing of five acres of any
40 acre farm by the county on pc
tition of the owner and the owner is
given 20 years in which to pay back
the county with interest at per
cent. Senator Bessette also has a
bill to make it radically easier for
the settler in Northern Minnesota to
buy dynamite for land clearing.
Both these bills will be introduced
in the house by Representative Bur-
rows and myself
i Not Making a Hit.
The Governors recommendation
that the state go back to the party
system of nominating and electing
senator's and representatives is pop
ular in some quarters but it is not
making hit with the members from
the Goth district.
i L. c.. Peltier of Mountain Iron is
in st. Paul and will be one of the en-
ployees of the senate.
Il Senator Mike Boylan has seat in
, the front row in the very center OF
. the senate Senator Bessette is seat.
/. ed in the third row from the front
slightly to the right of the center OF
, the chamber.
, Among the notables in st. Paul
this week is DIR. Cook, who did, OF
did not, discover the North Pole, as
, you please. DIR. Cook is most in,
teresting talker and entertained May.
or Power of Hibbing, the writer and
a number of other range men fol
some time in the lobby Of the St
Paul Hotel
Senate Hard Hit.
Since the opening of the session
the senate has lost two of its mem
Ibers by death-Senator Harry Weis
and Senator Carl Wallace.
i There will be morning sessions
only of the legislature for the next
| two or three weeks. Afternoons
will be given over to committee meet
ings until a large number of the bills
introduced have been discussed in
committee and reported back to the
, senate and house.
Fun in the House.
; When the mileage report was adj
opted Tuesday paying each member
Is cents per mile, Rep. Briggs of
Pipestone moved the following res
olution: praise God from whom
all blessings flow"
Thos. E. West is member of the
house from Minneapolis. The Min
neapolis Tribune Tuesday morning
published a story of the theft of five
automobiles by zone Thos. E. West
| so Rep. Lennon introduced a res
olution reciting the confidence of the
house in Rep. Vests integrity and
, declaring that he would not steal five
automobiles least not so early
, in the session." and asking him what
he expected to do with the other
, four.