The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-03-01

st. Paul-Climaxing a month of
political pickering in its history,
the state senate passed the MacLean
resolution urging congress to pass the
Shipstead-N Newton conservation bill, af-
ter engaging in a heated controversy
In which retorts new thick and fast,
charging organized lobbyists and
vested interests with Interior motives
in attempting to balk the will of the
upper house. The final vote on the
resolution was SO to 6.
Detailed planh for election of a new
board of regents for the University Of
Minnesota by the legislature have been
approved by the senate committee ON
university.
Affairs Of the Minnesota Rural Credit
Bureau, the biggest venture of the
state OF Minnesota in the field of pri-
vate business, are coming under scru-
tiny of the legislature in the next few
weeks. There are no charges of mis-
management against the present adj
ministration.
EEN 1O1AO VI thC oCudtOIS i IdlSllS q
question whether it is not time to put
a stop to further placing of loans on
Minnesota farm land.
The house. approved the bill to give
the county attorney the closing g
ment in trial of criminal cases. Ac-
ton came over objections of several
attorneys in the house, who wanted the
bill sent to the judiciary committee.
Amendment of the teachers tenure
law in effect in the three large cities,
to permit the school board to fix an
age for compulsory retirementjof teach
ers, is proposed in a bill by Represen-
tatives L. e. Brophy and Milton Light
ner.
A second conviction on charges of
drunken driving would automatically
bar the driver from using an automo-
bile for a yea or more, according to
a bill by Representatives D. W.. John
SON and H. A. Johnson.
Proposal for a joint conference of
legislators from Minnesota, Wiscon-
sin and Michigan to consider game
and fish laws in an effort to develop
uniform practises in the three states,
was before the house on an invitation
from the Wisconsin legislature.
Setting aside a Sunday early in July
each year as Independence Sunday"
to provide an occasion for proper OBJ
servance of American independence,
is proposed in a bill by Senator August
Saggau.
The senate passed Henry S~pindler's
bill creating a state revisor to make
biennial revisions of the status after
each session.
In the face Of vigorous opposition
by a hopeless minority who called it
a pork barrel arrangement" and pre-
dicted that 1t would prove absolutely
unavoidable" the house of representa-
tives passed a gas tax diversion bill
by a vote Of SO to 26. The bill pro-
vides the method for apportioning to
counties the fund ia accrue under a
constitutional amendment passed last
November.
AsSPASoShtoI4sO L. DIdTh6Y OI
St. Paul presented an amendment to
allow counties to expend their fund
not only according to mileage, as pro-
vided in the bill, but according to- traf-
fc needs and conditions. The proposal
was adopted.
Another amendment approved would
permit the state auditor to draw his
warrant on the state road and bridge
fund of each county on August 1 and
February 1, instead of September 1
and March l..
The measure would apportion to
each county not less than three
fourts of / per cent nor more than 8
per cent of the moneys accruing in
the state road and bridge fund from
the gas tax.
Representative Dewey w. johnson
Of Minneapolis introduced a bill pro-
posing a constitutional amendment. to
extend the trunk highway system
through the boundaries of the three
large cities.
Reducing the tax rate under the &C.
cupational and royalty taxes on iron
ore from 6 to 4 per sent was recon-
mended by the house tax committee.
This is the first action on various pro-
posals for relieving the tax burden on
the mining industry.
The first appropriation bill has come
before the senate for final nascapa
The board of control budget, allowing
the board approximately 1000, 900
more than was appropriated two years
ago. was approved with some amend
ments agreed to by the finance COM
mittee.