The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-21

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several millions of Eastern capital
to Minnesota, pay the soldier boy
their due and materially help to ease
up the financial situation. Besides,
they say, the state tax rate in 1922 is
going to be abnormally high without
loading such huge portion of the
bonus burden upon it.
Perhaps the situation will be cir
oned out" by the time this is pub
lished, but a deadlock looms as the
third week of the session opens.
Dividends for Farmers.
The House in the second week OF
the session Immediately began max
ing dividends for the farmers. 1t
passed, with unanimous vote, bin
enlarging the cooperative opportun-
tiles of the farmer 1t does not pro-
vide for state ownership in any
degree whatever, but it is an attempt
to open up every possible avenue by
which the farmer may go about it to
help himself by means of co-operat-
i've enterprises. Strangely enough
the writer, whose knowledge of farm
ing consists principally in knowing a
farm when he sees it, appears as one
of the authors of the bill This
should not occasion any alarm, how
ever, for the bill was prepared by
others who are perfectly competent.
Banks don't bust now as often as
| they used to. In fact, bank failure
in which the depositors lose is grow
ing rarer and more rare. But bills
to guarantee bank deposits are new
ertheless growing thicker and more
thick. Col Wilkinson has one
aimed, probably, to sort of top off
the millennium he is fixing up for the
farmers. Anthony Welch, who, out
side of mean persistency in regard
to tonnage tax, is fine fellow, has
one. W. A. Nolan and some other
senators have one. The bank guar
anty bill vetoed two years ago by
Governor Burnquist was a compul-
sorry measure as are some of those
now before the legislature. Senator
Nolan's bill, however, provides for
a voluntary guaranty.
Frank Nimocks, who got us all
passes to the moving picture shows,
is bound to get us passes on the rail,
roads, too. Sixty-two of US helped
him the other day. He needed every
one of us, too, for sixty-one of us
roted against him. The bill is now
on the house calendar and there it
will stay until Frank gets sixty-six of
us packed, wrapped and tightly tied
up ready for delivery on roll call.
When either chamber goes into the
committee of the whole to consider
bills on General Orders" it is the
custom for the presiding officer to
call some member of the chamber to
the chair and yield the gavel to him.
On the first occasion this year in the
house, Speaker Nolan honored Rep
resentative Hompe of Ottertail, 81
years of age, and veteran of the
Civil War, and on the second occas-
ion he called to the chair Col. R. A.
Wilkinson, who is pressing the four
score year mark hard and who is
also Civil War veteran.
Educational Bills.
Hearings on some seven or eight
bills proposed by the department of
education were begun this week. The
departments principal proposal, re-
vision of state aid to schools, has
warm defenders and bitter enemies.
It's essential feature is a reduction
in the "f1at aid" given by the state
and a distribution so as to help weak
districts and give the state better
schools. Minnesota's lowly rank of
ninteenth in educational efficiency in
the Union demands heroic measures
and the new state aid program is. a
thoroughgoing attempt to supply
them. The program is heartily en-
dorsed by women's clubs, by the
American Legion and by every edu-
cational organization in the state.
1t is misunderstood in the rural dis
tricts, the very places it aims to
serve the most, and opposition is ex-
pected from this quarter.
Flotsam and Jetsam.
Senator Nord of Koochiching has
collected data as to the amount of
work on the new state trunk high
ways undertaken or arranged for by
the various counties. Four-fifths of
the counties have done some work,
the total of their undertakings is over
$20,00O,000 and the refundments
the state will be called upon to make
will reach $13,000,000.
Sherman w. Child of Hennepin,
chairman of subcommittee on auto
fees, has been doing some very val
liable preliminary work. He finds
that three-fourths of all the trucks
in the state are on-ton trucks. Fords
constitute between SO and so per
cent of the states autos.
The collar of the Nonpartisan
League is pretty tight collar and is
making sore spots on the necks of
some of the League members. They
can't even be joint authors of bill
affecting their own home town with.
out the royal assent of the caucus.
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