The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-01-13
STATE LEGISLATURE
Kamer, Serline and Enger Receive
Their Share of Important Com
mittee Assignments.
Soldiers Bonus Bill Strikes Snag-Bill
to Put All Candidates on Par
ty Basis Introduced.

to Put All Candidates on Par
ty Basis introduced.
In his assignments Lieutenant Gov
ernor Collins appointed Senator Rich
ard Hamer Of this, the fifty fifth dis
trict, on the following important
standing committees: Public domain,
soldiers home, taxes, temperance, and
towns, counties and municipalities, ag-
riculture and agricultural markets. In
the house Speaker Nolan appointed
Chas. F. Serline chairman of the state
and county fairs committee and
member of other committees as fol-
lows: Appropriations, marketing,
state development, taxes, and towns
and counties. w. s. Enger was ap-
pointed on these committees: Com
merce, manufacture and retail trade,
drainage, public highways, and towns
and counties.
The $3,ooo,o0o soldier bonus bond
bill, already passed in the house,
struck snag on Tuesday, when it
was considered by the senate finance
committee. Severe criticisms Of the
soldier bonus board were voiced by
several senators. The practice of per-
hitting banking companies to take as
signments on bonus claims was called
violation of the law by one senator.
AS result of the charges and the
questioning Of certain features of the
bill as passed by the house, it was de-
cided to hold hearing on the meas
ure at p. m. on the following day.
A bill to put all candidates, from SUI
preme court justices down, back on a
party basis, was introduced in the SEN
ate on Tuesday by W. A. Nolan and
was referred to the committee on cleo
tions. This is the second election re-
form bill to be introduced in the SEN
ate at this session, Senator Benson
having fathered similar measure.
Senator Nolan's bill provides that all
candidates for office must file both be-
fore the primary and general election
under legal party designation. If
his bin becomes a law, supreme
court justices, legislators, county and
municipal officers and lower court
judges will have to seek offices as
members of the republican, democratic
or some other regular party instead of
as nonpartisans. This possesses every
appearance of being good measure.
Representative Otto D. Nellermoe,
socialist and nonpartisan Lacquer,
Minneapolis, introduced a bill in the
house to let down the bonus law bars
against the draft evaders. He would
accomplish this by simply amending
the section defining the word "sol-
der" in the bonus law passed in the
1919 special session. This is, on it's
face, a pernicious bill and will doubt
less be killed.
The expected fight on Minnesota's
highway affairs did not develop when
the house committee on public high
ways conducted it's initial meeting on
Tuesday. A report was received from
a preliminary subcommittee declaring
that the best road systems are those
under q single commissioner as cp-
posed to the more common form of
administration by g board of three or
more members. .....
Public hearings on the various ton
mage tax bills introduced in the house
Of the state legislature will begin next
Monday at 10 g. ~. it was decided by
the house tax committee yesterday.
Delegations representing different
viewpoints on the tonnage tax will be
heard. Representative C. NJ. Ben,
dixcn explained his tonnage tax bill
to the committee and said the bill
differed in three respects from the
measure which was passed by the last
special session. His present bill, he
said, provides that the tonnage tax
shall be in lieu of all other state taxes
in accordance with recommendations
made by the tax commission and the
governor. His bill also adds royalty
as expense Of operation and provides
for an 8 per cent tax on the net earn
ings instead of per cent as proposed
at the special session.
Representative c. H. Warner will
introduce a bill within two or three
days that will provide that revenues
derived from the tonnage tax on iron
ore be turned into trust fund for the
benefit Of the state in the future, when
iron shall be exhausted. At present
the tonnage tax money goes into a
general revenue fund. His bill will
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