The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-17
Groves House Measure Would Compel
Telephone Companies to Con-
meet With Rural Lines.


bill which provides that the Minneap-
oils chamber of commerce, the Duluth
board of trade, and the St. Paul Live
stock Exchange shall be made public
markets and open to membership for
cooperative marketing associations.
Very little paving on country roads
will be done this year, C. M. Babcock,
state highway commissioner, told
members of the house highway COM
mittee. The roads must first be grav-
eled and graded and allowed to settle,
he said. One strip of road between
Minneapolis and St. Cloud will be COM
pleted in 1921, and other short strips
in the>state are now ready, but, on the
whole, paving this year will be regli-
gible, he announced. .~
If fire occurs in your house and
the fire chief finds it was due to your
negligence, you will have to pay the
city fire department for fighting the
blaze if bill intl duced by Theodore
Christensen becomes law. The bill
is recommended by the National Fire
Marshals' association and is now law
in some states.
Every state or county officer,
whether elected or appointed, must &C
cept the same salary all through his
term, no matter how long he or she
serves, under, the proposed constitu-
tional amendment introduced in the
house by Representatives Spindlcr
and Kelly. To us this has the APP
pearance of foolish measure.
Stafford King, adjutant Of a ST..
Paul American legion post, and George
Campbell of the Eveleth .legionaires
told the senate military affairs COM
mittee that they favored provision be-,
ing made to pay bonuses to aliens who
served hoaorably in the army and
navy. Senator A. o. Devoid has intro
duced bill allowing payment to this
class Of soldiers.
A measure has been presented by
Representative Grove compelling tele-
phone companies which operate ex-
changes to furnish physical connec-
tons and service to rural lines.
Three departments, hotel inspector
! boiler inspector end the minimum
wage commission would be abolished
by series of bills put into the house
hopper. The duties of these depart
mcnts are transferred to the commits
sioner Of labor.
A bill, introduced by Senator Bes-
settle, would allow school boards tc
lease OF build structures to house
teachers and another measure per.
mits school boards to hire attorneys
when necessary and pay them by the
month or year.
A bill in the senate provides that
counties of less than 100000 popula.
ton may appropriate $4,000 or less
for a memorial to be built in the court
house square or public park of the
county seat, or, if the county seat has
no park, at some other location in that
town or city.
Bills recommended for passage 10y
the house markets committee author
ize the railroad and warehouse com
mission to order installation Of track
scales at terminal warehouses, at the
!. | cvnansa If 4ho wa 1.aho,1co and r.
, regulate distribution of cars to ship
) pers in periods of shortage.
!: Wolf bounties will be raised if {
, bill recommended for passage by tn
house committee on towns and countie:
7 becomes a law. The measure fixe:
, bounties at SIS, SIS to be paid by tn
!; county and $40 by the state, and pro
vision is made for higher bountics il
r certain counties.
kilograms flooded senators and rep
resentatives protesting passage of tn,
full crew act, recommended for pas
l sage by the house railroads commit
t tee by 9 to A vote. Farmers ant
Z merchants organizations, claimin.
, freight rates are too high now, an,
! that extra expense should not be add
ed, sent them. Friends of the bill
countered by. saying the message
Ewere railroad propaganda, sent at tn
behest Of corporate friends. r..