The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-03
STATE LEGISLATURE
Ne!lermoe Bill. Providing for Payment
of Bonus to Men Who Sought
to Evade Draft, Killed.
House Passes Bill Authorizing County
Boards to Appropriate Money
to FafM, Bureaus.

Boards to Appropriate Money
to Fafs, Bureaus.
By vote of sc to % the house last
Thursday indefinitely postponed a bill
introduced by Otto D. Nellermoe, a
Minneapolis socialist, to permit consci-
entious objec5ors and slackers who
sought to evade the draft to partake
of the benefits provided by the SOL
diers' bonus act. Debate on the meas
ure brought a denunciation of the at
titude of socialists during the war and
there were7clashes which set the house
in an uproar.
Laws licensing livestock dealers and
bringing them under the railroad and
warehouse commission, memorializing
congress to pass the fourfold compen-
sation act for former service men, and
establishing boys school in connec-
ton with the St. Louis county work
farm, have been signed by Governor
j. A. %. Preus.
The house, in committee of the
whole, last week passed bill author
izing boards of county commissioners
to appropriate not less than 81 600 and
not more than 5000 to farm bureaus,
but, after a spirited debate, refused to
make the provision mandatory.
Dsteopaths must attend recog-
nized school for four years to practice
as osteopathic physicians in Minneso-
ia" arid study six years to be osteo-
pathic physicians and surgeons, and
report births and deaths within their
practice as regular physicians do, un-
der a bill recommended for passage
by the house committee on public
health.
Settlement of disputed points in the
highway bills will probably be the
legislatur's most difficult task. Doz-
ems of different ideas have been adj
vanced regarding the method Of rails
ing money, the administration plan,
1efundment to counties and other dis
puted points, and this legislation may
be last to be finally passed. Subcom-
rnittees still are at work on the bills.
Election reform Legislation was dis
cussed last week in joint committee
meeting and the senate already has
passed the Benson bill prohibiting 4
candidate, who has been defeated in
the primary to file by petition for the
same office at general elections. The
j. house committee killed the Lauderdale
bill prohibiting any candidate from
going on the ballot through petitions
A joint subcommittee is drafting a
:, new primary convention bill.
Capital punishment imposed by the
jury, with The judge relieved CT the
duty of even pronouncing sentence, is
new idea in legislation being worked
out by Senators J: H. Hall of Marshal,
and John D. Sullivan of St. Cloud.
Three bills, sponsored by the Ameri
can legion, have been recommended
for passage by the house bonus com
mittee. One makes improper use of {
legion or war veterans button, or us'
of the prestige Of the organizations fo1
gain, misdemeanor. Another allows
county boards to appropriate none!
for the legion and the third make
November II, Armistice day, lega
holiday. The latter measure ha
passed the senate.
Adjustment of the state board TO
potato inspection and transferring tn
department to the commissioner o
agriculture, and transfer of seed test
ing activities from the agricultural ex
pertinent station Of the university t.
the agricultural department, arc pro
posed in senate bills 272 anu FITS b:
Senator p. "A. Gandrud.
Repeal Of the wide sleigh law '}a
been recommended by the senate COZ
porations and cosnmerce committee.
Grand and petit jurors in all coun
ties but Hennepia and Ramsey woul
receive 81 day instead of So unde
<the Gooding bill, passed by the senate
Town road oversecrw, except in Her
.ncpin, Ramsey and St. Louis counties
would receive 81 day instead of S:
under bill passed by tgbte house, 10
to %.