The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-02
LAWMAKERS END
4lST LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION CLOSES WITH
HURRIED PASSAGE OF
MANY MEASURES.
S31,774,949 APPROPRIATED
State Tax Levy for 1920 Fixed at 3.5
Mills and at Three Mills for 1921
Election Bill Fails of
Passage.

ST. Paul-The forty-first session of
th, Minnesota Legislature has finished
IT'S labors and adjourned sine die.
Many important bills died through
lack of attention during the closing
hours. This was the fate of the War
ner-Hompe convention bill, amended
over into the Rockne bill by the Sen
ate. The conference committee threw
UP its hands and asked to be dis
charged. 1t found it impossible to
reach an agreement.
The bills providing for relief for
Minnesota soldiers and sailors met
a no less fortunate fate. The $50
bonus bill passed by the House died
attempt was made to take it out of
committee and pass it, but it met
with no success. The Sullivan-Wold
soldier-sailor loan bill also met it's
end in the same committee, as did the
Nolan-Christianson bill providing for
o state budget commission.
The Senate took action on the plan
for state war memorial by passing
a resolution calling for the appoint
ment of an interim commission COM
posed of members of the legislature
to study the question and report to
the 1921 legislature.
increased Costs Cared For.
Both houses passed the emergency
bill taking care of the increased cost
of maintenance in state departments,
and providing $4,000 for the new de-
partment of agriculture for the next
two years. The increases were all in
cluded in making up the total of the
states appropriations for the COM
ing two years, so the tax levy is not
increased. Some of the larger in
creases are $4,000 for the surveyor
general of logs and lumber; $23, 400
for the dairy and food department,
s23.3S0 for the state labor department;
Sill 900 for oil inspection, and $4,000
for the attorney general, $4,000 for
the public examiner. and $1S,700 for
hotel inspection, and $4,000 for the adj
iutant-general. The other amounts
asked for are small.
Auto insurance Bill Passes.
The Solem House bill providing for
the organization of mutual automobile
insurance companies was passed with
out objection by the Senate, as was
TIE Siegel bill prohibiting automatic
elevators in buildings occupied by two
Or more tenants.
Three bills from the state auditors
office relating to timber permits were
passed. One by Jacobson, regulating
the issuance of permits, another by
Darby, allowing the timber board to
determine the number of sections of
land that may be covered by permit,
and third by Lagerson, regulating
tho extension of permits All were
House bills.
Bulk Sale Bill Fails.
The Senate refused to suspend the
rules and killed the bulk sales bill'
to prevent the sale of merchandise in
bulk to defraud creditors. Every ses-
sion OF the Senate for years has wound
up with an attempt to pass this bill,
which has always failed. Last night,
however, the bulk sales bill did not
end the session. Other senators had
bills they wanted passed
Game and Fish Bill Passes.
The House voted As to 80 to accept
the conference report on the game and
Ash bill, according to the Senate
amendments, and repassed the bill, 90
10 80.
Soldiers Bonus Bill Fails.
Senator James Handlan of st. Paul
tired to bring up the bill already
passed by the House appropriating
s4.500.000 for soldiers bonuses, but the
Senate would have none of it. Sena-
tor James Carley said that the SOL
diars did not want bonus of that
kind Other senators also protested.
The bill was in the hands of the Sen
ate committee on finance, along with
the Sullivan-Wold bill appropriating
SO 100000 for revolving fund to aid
soldiers in need and to make loans
or farms or train themselves for
business.
$4,000 for Forestry Work.
Hurried eleventh hour conferences
over the failure to rush through the
bill abolishing the forestry board and
confering its powers and duties OF
the state timber board, resulted in a
decision to drop the plan.
But the bill carried the only appro-
priation so far made for fire protec-
ton work, so it became necessary for
the conference committee represent
Total Yanks Killed, 1884.