The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-01-19
LEGISLATIVE SIDELIGHTS.

The shores of many Minnesota
lakes now being bought up by private
parties would be saved to the public,
and county commissioners would have.
authority to open roads around them,
Senator c. W. Gillian and George A.
Turnham said, if the bill they intro
duced into the legislature is passed.
The bill provides tina. the county COM
missioners can build road around
any lake which lies within a mile Of
public road
An appropriation of $4,000 for
financing the exploration of. limestone
mari deposits in Minnesota in order
that a decision may be reached as to
the advisability of a state cement
plant was asked by the interim COM
mittee appointed by the 1921 legisla-
ture to investigate the matter. mill
would cost $2,100,000 and a working
capital of s1,000,0O0 would be required
in addition, according to information
of the committee, and further investi-
cation is required, it is said, to deter
mine if the amount of deposits in the
the expenditure.
Representative Otto C.. Neuman of
Wheaton, proposes to change the date
of the primary election from June to
September, which was the time used
up to 1914. The date was changed to
June on the ground that farmers are
too busy in the fall to go to the polls.
Mr.. Neuman, however,g believes this
argument no longer holds good. The
change would mean a shorter cam
paign both for candidates and the
coined generally.
When once a mal has fallen into
the clutches of the loan shark he
never gets free. Melkeor Kjorlaug,
counsel for the Legal Aid society of
Minneapolis, told the members of the
house public welfare committee of the
legislature today at its hearing on the
uniform small loan bill. The bill linn
it's the interest that may be charged
to 31a per cent a month, and puts
loan agencies under supervision of the
state. W. /. Nolan, speaker Of the
house and one of the authors of the
bill, said loan agencies are charging
10 per cent a month and up, that that
he knew of one man who borrowed
s25, had not been able to pay at ma
turity, and the debt has accumulated
in a short time to $780, Moreover.
Mr.. Nolan said, the s25 was discount
ed in the first place.
Fraudulent real estate deals are at
tackled in a bill brought before the
senate by Sherman w. Child of Min
neapolis, requiring persons selling
real estate to state their true interest
therein, and making persons who fail
to do so guilty of embezZlement from
the time of failure to convey as agreed
or to comply promptly with demands
for return of the consideration paid.
Restoration of telephone rate con-
troll in corporate limits of cities to
city councils is proposed in a bill in
troduced in the senate by Senator Al
len j. Furlow, Rochester The bill
does not undertake to disturb the SUI
pervisory powers of the state railroad
and warehouse commission over tele-
phone rates outside cities and on toll
lines, but, if passed, would upset the
effect of the Minnesota law, now in
effect, under which the railroad and
warehouse commission exercises con-
troll over all telephone rates. The bill
gives city councils the right to con-
troll rates within the cities if they
elect to do so.
The house committee on dairy prod.
ucts and livestock has unanimously
recommended for passage the WEIGH
house bill prohibiting the use of
butterfat in the manufacture of oleo-
margarine.
Under the provisions OF bill intro.
duced by Senator H. L. NORM of Du-
luth, funeral benefit associations for
merly limited to $3.50 insurance on a
single life would be permitted to in
sure in the sum of $500 on single
life, if their license had been operative
for three years.
Present wolf bounties would be
doubled under terms of bill by sew
eral northern members, recommended
for passage by the house committee
on game and fish.
Fourteen bills were introduced in
the house Monday night BY rising
vote the house unanimously adopted
the resolutions paying tribute to John
Daubney, Minnesota pioneer and CEN
tenarian who died at Taylors Falls
Sunday. The resolutions were offered
by Representative H. r. Berg OF Chi
| sage county.