The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-02-22

and meaning were subjects for spe-
cial hearing of the house and senate
elections committees. One is the par
~ designation" bill restoring members
OF the legislature to the party ballot
The other proposal would wipe out
party lines in the state entirely, except
in the election of members of the fed
eral congress. 1t would add to the
"without-party-des list the
elective state officers. from governor
down.
A substitute bin for the one now
pending calling for repeal of the Brooks
Coleman act, which placed control Of
the streetcar companies in the three
large cities under the railroad and
warehouse commission, appeared in
the senate with 20 authors.
Sixteen country members of the sem
ate joined with four from the cities in
presenting the new bin. The original
repeal bill would become effective i'm
mediately upon its passage, but the
new bill offered now would not go into
effect until Jan. /, 1880.
Coincident with the issuance Of q
report by the state highway depart
ment measure was introduced in
the house calling for a reduction Of
taxation on such vehicles.
Under the bill the minimum tax on
all passenger cars under 5000 pounds
and not engaged in commercial pas
senger transportation, is set at SIS, and
the tax on all such vehicles over 1000
pounds would be $3.50. Passenger and
class T trucks would be taxed 2 per
cent of their value
The reduction would become effec-
tive January /, 1880. The measure
was referred to committee.
The field day expected in the sem
ate over the border dam controversy
was postponed by agreement. The re-
ports of the public lomain committee
on the resolution by Senator E. L. Mac
Lean, approving the Shipstead-Newton
bill, and on the resolution of Senator
Fred Bessette, asking congress to wait
for the report of the international
Joint Commission, were made to the
senate, but were laid on the table.
The report on George II. Lommen's
resolution, asking amendment OF the
Shipstead-Newton bill, was adopted,
however, and the resolution killed.
The senate public domain commit.
tee voted approval of the Shipstead.
Newton bill, 20 to 2. by its action on
the MacLean resolution.
City members of the legislature viii
confer on amendments to the gasoline
tax diversion bin before the bill is
called up for action in the house.
The house passed the resolution call
ing for appointment of a joint com
mittee to determine whether the trunk
system is rs per cent completed. The
senate has passed the resolution.
Another proposed addition to the
trunk system is sought by Represen.
tative ]. E. Therrien, who would add
road from Hinckley to the Wisconsin
state line.
Attacks on parts of the reforesta.
ton program Of the interim forestry
committe developed at hearing. OBJ
lection to the present plan for a com
missioner of conservation were voiced
The house election committee, after
a public hearing voted to kill L. E
Brophy's bill putting members of the
legislature back under party designa
| ton.
The house killed bin which would
have wiped out the 500 exemption
from taxation OF personal property.
The house passed the resolution de
handing action by congress to permit
state taxation Of national banks, and
voted to appropriate $4,000 to carry
the fight in Washington. The two
measures have already passed the sen
ate and now go to the Governor.
The senate elections committee de
clined to pass on either the party de
signation bill or its opposite, the bill
taking state officers out from under
the party label.
The house bill cutting down poll
hours on election day was recon-
mended to pass by the senate com.
mittee, but with an amendment to
make the closing instead Of p. m
For the third time since the legis
latfve session started the house of rep
resentatives were entertained by Min.
nesota musical talent. The house re
cessed to hear the st. Olaf College
choir.
Neither approval nor disapproval OF
the Shipstead-Newton bill, which would
prohibit private Industrial exploitation
of specific areas in the north country,
was voted at mass meeting of nor.
them Minnesota property owners at
Grand Marais.
The senate crime prevention com
mittee listened to a discussion of the
sterilization bin but decided to take
no action.
A legislative effort to halt efforts to
remove Mayor w. Foster of Columbia
Heights from his office was defeated
before the house elections committee.
For the first time in the history of
Minnesota, woman presided over
the senate. Mrs Laura E NapIin, of
Thief River Falls, senator from the
sixty-ffth district, was called to the
chair.
tion OF adding two associate justices
to the Minnesota Supreme Court. The
house passed a bin proposing an
amendment to the constitution. II has
already passed the senate.
Persons pardoned from Minnesota
penal institutions because OF reason