Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-04-18
.DOINGS OF THE
LEGISLATURE
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before the senate, but as it takes 40
votes to make any bill a special or
der, the sponsors of the measure Will
have to do some skillful maneuvering
to accomplish their purpose.
The biggest appropriation so far
considered this session went sailing
through both house and senate last
week, after having been passed upon
by conference committee of senators
and representatives. Reference is
made to the bill providing with funds
the state penal and charitable insti-
tutions during the coming biennium.
The amount agreed upon is $9,910,0OO,
which is $1,292,000 more than was
appropriated two years ago. The bill
provides for two new cottages at the
Cambridge colony of epileptics, to cost
| $4,000, and one at the Faribault
school for feeble minded, to cost $125,-
900.
The readiness of the senators and
representatives to reach an agree
ment when they got together to thresh
/
another setback for the prophets, who
predicted long wrangle.
The carefully worked out program
of the interim committee on reforest-
penny, was hacked and smashed all
to pieces in the senate late last week
and it looks as if there will be no
| forestry legislation at this session.
| The trouble started over the PROPOSE
ton to set up a forestry Gear" with
| full control of the states timber lands
| and other natural resources. Right
| from the start many have seen in this
a dangerous Capitalization of author
ity and the creation Of political ma
chine Besides cutting the depart
ment OF conservation bill to pieces
the senate forced the withdrawal OF
the bill authorizing the use of trust
funds to maintain state forestry
school and the abandonment of the
bill providing for state nurseries.
There is great bitterness in the
house over the senate's action on the
forestry bills, and a couple of days
later, Just to tell the world how the
other branch stands, the Gear" bill
was passed by a vote of so to is. Rep
resentative r. G. Johnson of ForeS,
Lake, member of the interim com
mission, charged that lit was not the
merits of the reforestation program
that brought about its defeat in the
senate; instead it was politics will
reference to the election of the mex
governor of Minnesota"
AS an aftermath of the wreck O
the forestry program, there is a strong
feeling among both senators and rep
reSentativeS that there shall be NJ
more expensive interim commissions
of which there have been SIP many the
past ten years.
| Governor ChriStianSon vetoed thu
Minimum Wage bill, which provided
that wages in the erection of a stat,
building shall be the same as thu
highest prevailing scale in the com
munity where the building is erected
The bill, according to the governor
sets forth "the novel doctrine that tn
highest bidder should be preferred,
and discriminates against men VIII,
work on materials for state building
in favor of men working on the build
ing itself.
The Anti-Loan Shark bill, which ha
been before every legislature for abOu
ten years, was killed in the house
Friday morning. 1t legalizes an in
terest rate on small loans of AZ pc
cent per year. and that, in the opinio
of the country members, who don
/. come into contact with loan shark
(who operate in the big cities only
is dangerous thing to do.
Notwithstanding that two year
ago, Ted vetoed bill raising the pa
of the members of the legislature frol
$1,000 to $500 per biennium, tn
house passed a similar bill the othe
day. Evidently the representative
want to prove they are no gutter
and that they are worth lot.
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