Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-04-09

80 by the adoption OF an amendment
submitted by Senator Fowler which
put the State in competition with
private Casualty companies The or
iginal bill made the business q prac-
tical State monopoly. though Mutual
companies were allowed to- operate.
Several test votes showed the friends
and opponents of the measure were
equal in number, 33 to SO with Sena-
tor Anderson sick and absent. Fin
ally Senator Madigan of Wright
switched over and helped kill the bill.
The defeat of this measure is part
ly due to the failure of Labor forces
in Saltwater to loyalty support Will
cox, League, against Geo. H. Sulli-
van, the City giving Sullivan a majori.
ty of nearly 600 including the votes
Of many laboring men interested in
the Workmans Compensation Bill.
Increase In Salaries.
Some time ago test vote was TAX
en- in the House which indicated that
there would be no general raise in
the salaries of public officials but
some skillful log rolling has been
done and it now looks as II about
everybody's salary will get boost.
District Judges salary will be In.
creased from $4,000 to $4,000 per year
and nearly all other State and officers
in the same proportion. An amend
ment to the constitution is to be sub
mitted providing that no persons
salary may be Increased while he is
holding the Office. This is a good
amendment and should be adopted.
No Division Of the State.
A bill to make a new state of Lin.
coin out Of the Northern half Of Min
nesota was returned to its "author"
Charley Bouck of Morrison. It's
introduction was generally regard
ed as joke although Mr.. B. assures
everyone that he was in real earnest.
New Offices and Commissions. (
Every legislature is called to es-
tablish some new office and provided
fat salaries for some super-patriots
who long to browse at the family
circle. This legislature is no excep.
ton to the rule. In another article
I will give list of the new positions
created by this very accommodating
General Assembly.
Department Of Agriculture.
A bill creating Department of
Agriculture with head commission
er and provision for all necessary
assistants has passed the House and
is pending in the Senate.
Wide sleds.
Commencing in the winter of 1921
it will be unlawful to use draft sleds
on the public highways of less than
48 inches between the runners. It is
intended by this act to make sleds
track with automobiles.
The Military.
The so-called Military bills calcu-
lated to make Minnesota an armed
camp are all having hard shedding
in the Senate. The people want
peace and many Senators seem to
realize this fact. The Home Guards
must disband and the special colored
regiment idea has gone glimmering
along with the military code that
would practically make every citizen
a soldier. The special pet of the
Governor, the Motor Corps, bill while
dead has not yet been buried butt
there is but little hope of it's resur;
rection. It has been placed in a.
receiving vault with Senator Wldell
sitting on the lid and stubbornly re-
fusing to get off.
Notes. |
The most unpopular man around
a Legislature is the member who
seeks to protect the public treasury
or safeguard the taxpayers. About
every lobbyist he meets, and they
come here by the hundreds, both men
and woven-wants a little appropria-s
ton for something. AS soon as he
listens to one and the bars are thrown
down the whole herd make a break
and firm and stubborn indeed must
he be, the member who refuses. If
he holds out to the end, he is a
cheese parer, a tight wad, and very
undesirable law maker.
Great lawyers will differ. Rep.
Parker, chairman House Judiciary
committee, says that any one who
favors the bill now pending to pro.
tect the great constitutional rights
of free speech, and free press, and
free peaceable assemblage, is an an