The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-05-03


ernor Theodore Chrisitanson signed
the bill authorizing erection of ST.
100000 state office building adjacent
to the state capitol. The bill was
subject of differences between the two
houses. the house finally yielding to
the senate's idea of seven-man build
ing commission. The governor held
the bill for the legal limit of time. Il
is to be financed by certificates of in
debtedness paid off by a special tax
levy at the rate of $4,000 year.
The University building program
calls for 100000 a year, this is re-
duction in taxes for the university,
which has been getting S56O,OO0 year
for the last 10 years. Another special
levy is provided for the Red Lake
Game Preserve, but it is only about
100000 for the first year, and other
special levies are decreasing.
Three state appropriation bills to-
falling S1116S,745 were among the
scores of measures still awaiting &C
ton OF Governor Christianson Thurs
day night following the adjournment
of the 1929 session of the legislature.
There was no indication as to what
the governor will do with these bills.
The largest of the money bills car
ries SS,69S,690 for state departments
and agencies. Another appropriates
S2,294,O55 for semi-state activities, and
the third carries total of $4,000 for
paying damages to persons injured in
various activities for which the state
accepts responsibility.
The governor has three days in
which to act on the measures for.
warded to him at the close of the ses-
sion. Those which he does not sign
by Monday night are automatically
vetoed.
Approval of the executive is ex-
pected of the highway refundment
bill, under which more than S13,000,-
600 in county reimbursement bonds
would be refunded for 1880, 1881 and
1882, releasing for immediate road con-
struction purposes some $3,15O,OOO of
the present sinking fund
Total appropriations of the session,
still awaiting the governors sigma
ture, amount to $42,43O,037, according
TO an estimate by Matt ]. Desmond,
deputy state auditor. This is 1885,
391 more than the appropriations re-
commended by the governor and the
state department of administration
and finance.
Salaries of the attorney general, his
deputy and the assistant attorneys
general are increased under a bill
signed Thursday by the governor.
The attorney generals salary Is raised
from $4,000 to $1,000.
1.-The highway patrol bill was also
signed Thursday by the governor. 1t
provides for a force of 80 men who
will be charged with the duty of en-
forcing laws relating to registration
and operation of motor vehicles.
approximately 100 bills were auto
matically killed because adjournment
left them without being acted upon.
All had been recommended by COM
mittees for action. The legislature ac-
tually produced a total of close to 400
new laws. In the house, 1850 bills
were introduced, and in the senate,
1880, but most of them were killed
by committees.
Minnesota's efforts at farm relief
will go over for another two years
because bills to provide a sounder
system of county agents, with the
necessary appropriations, failed of
passage by the legislature.
One joint interim committee and
one house interim committee were
created at the final session of the 1929
legislature.
The one joint committee authorized
will make a study of the University
of Minnesota and, state school aid.
The committee will consist of five
senators and five representatives with
a limit on expenditures fixed at $1,000.
The house authorized continuance
of its 1927 interim committee which
was devoted to a study of local in
debtedness and taxation.
One of the forestry bills which man.
aged to find its way through both
houses fell at the last hurdle, when
the governor interposed his veto. 1t
was the second time he has killed the
bill, which provided for payment of
five cents an acre in local taxes on
state forest lands.
The Minnesota house and senate
finally adjusted their own differences
over university and school aid appro-
priations, and made their peace with
Governor Christianson and prepared
to bring the forty-sixth lawmaking
session to close at noon Wednesday.
After conferees had agreed on the
senate bill to move the fishing zone
farther north, the house rejected the
bill, leaving the present arrangement
of two zones for opening the season,
the dividing line being at st. Cloud
At the request of its sponsors, the
so-called anti-loan shark bill was killed
by the Minnesota house, after the
measure was amended to reduce the
rate Of interest on small loans
The session continued we'll past
midnight and both houses adjourned
sine die shortly after the passage of
the compromise educational bill.
The 1929 legislatures appropriations
for the next biennium will total $42,-
430,037, This is new high record.
The 1927 legislature voted s41,S76,-
99S and Governor Christianson by We
toes cut it to S4O,63O,334. These ap,
preparations are those made out of the
general revenue fund and do not in,
clude any issuances of bonds or Ger.
tificates of indebtedness which are re