The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-04-24
STATE LEGISLATURE
House COncurs in Senate Amendments
to Warner Education Bill
and Repasses 1t.


facture and Sale of Gig
arettes is Passed.
The house on Friday morning con-
Cured in the amendments of the SEN
ate on the Warner board of education
bill and repassed the measure without
opposition. The senate amended the
house bill by changing the name of
the superintendent Of education and
fixing the salaries of the department
as follows: Commissioner, $4,000;
deputy commissioner, $4,000; four de-
partment heads, $500 each; five de-
partment assistants, $4,000 each; four
assistants, $4,000 each; two assistants,
$1,000 each; members of the board,
$40 per day of time spent in perfor-
nance of their duties with necessary
expenses.
The house passed the Larson senate
bill codifying the laws regulating the
manufacture and sale of cigarets and
making the laws easier of enforce
ment. Representative Elias Nordgren,
author of the companion bill in the
house, had the senate bill amended to
give the municipalities the license fee,
instead of the state, as provided in the
senate bill. The sale of cigarets to
minors under IS years old is made
punishable by a fine of $40 or i'm
prisonment for not more than 20 days.
Vigorous opposition from the labor
representatives in the house defeated
the Solem bill giving the state insur-
ance commissioner power to fix rates
of workmen's compensation insurance.
The bill was beaten by vote of 70
to 3.
The senate was victorious over the
house in the conference on the senate
amendment to the prohibition enforce
t,nent bill, and if the house agrees to-
the conference report there will be no
statutory prohibition in Minnesota
during the next two years, at least, in
case the federal dry amendment should
be declared invalid. The senate
amendment provided that if the fed
eral prohibition constitutional amend
ment should be declared invalid, the
enforcement act in Minnesota should
be of no effect. The vets insisted that
without the amendment the bill would
mean statutory prohibition in Mime
sofa if the federal amendment should
be declared invalid. The drys main
tanned, and they procured an opinion
from former Chief Justice Start to
support their contentious, that the
adoption of the amendment might in
validate the law, as in a measure it
delegated the authority of the legis-
lature to the courts. The drys also
contended that the adoption of the
amendment might throw the law into
the federal courts. The house rejected
the amendment when the bill was first
before that body, but the senate re-
stored it and the appointment of the
conference committee followed. The
dry conferees finally decided that to
hold out against the senate amend
ment might mean the enactment of no
enforcement law at this session, and
that'it would be better to take a chance
on throwing the law into the federal
courts than to have no enforcement
law at all, so they yielded. (The house
,Aater accepted the conference report
After defeating amendments to the
Warner-Hompe convention bill Of
fered by Senator Arch Coleman, the
senate adopted the committee amend
ment, which substitutes the Rockne
senate bill for the house measure. The
Rockney senate bill provides for con-
vention prior to the last primary filing
day to endorse candidates for state,
congressional and county offices, and
to adopt party platforms. The War
ner-Hompe bill passed by the house
provided for maintaining conventions
for the selection of candidates for
United States senator and state
officials only, the delegates to be
elected to the state convention at wide
open primaries. Senator Arch Cole
man proposed an amendment to the
house bill providing for county con-
ventions. This was defeated II to So.
The bill will now go to the house,
which probably will reject it and a
conference committee will be appoint
ed.
The Welch bank guarantee bill was
buried by the senate late Monday un-
der an adverse vote of II to As on the
motion of Senator Olof Gjerset that
-She minority report of the banking
Committee, favoring placing the bill on
the calendar, be adopted.
Governor Burnquist on Monday
signed AZ bills and vetoed one to
prohibit the use of oleomargarine in
state institutions.
After hard-fought battle in the
house Monday afternoon the Nord
senate bill, creating the state COLOMBIA
ton commission, and providing for the
operation of colonization companies to
assist settlers in buying farms in the
state, was defeated NY vote of 48 to
g. "A1l I can see in this BILL" de-
clared Representative John Kelly Of
Wright county, els a scheme to turn
the land business of the state over to
the land sharks"
!. The house on Tuesday passed the
Ss te bill permitting counties to
d Y noxious weeds and charge the
expvdse to property owners.
BY a single vote the Parker royalty