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

This week the Miner is presenting
its readers with supplement- con-
tanning the full text of the several
laws passed by the legislature which
closed its deliberations on Thursday
of last week. While the legislature
practically went out " business dur
ing Wednesday night, it required up
to Thursday noon to get things IN
shape after which bills duly engrossed
and read and reread were submitted
to Governor ChriStianson for his
signature or veto. The governor nm
ished his part Of the work Saturday
and the printers at once fastened TO
get the supplements out to the news
papers of the state.
And, we wish to state here most en-
phatically that Governor Christensen
is not so slow with his pen. He can
see a flaw in bill about as rapidly
as anyone and in particular can he see
measures that conflict with has econ
omy program. The educational ap-
preparation measures were hard hit
consistent with business ability. The
University budget was somewhat slash
ed but not enough to hurt and only
Just enough to make the Board OF
Regents just little more particular
in spending the taxpayers money.
We don't know just how true it is
but were informed while In Minnea-
polls last week that every time the
legislature appropriated just a little
more, the salaries Of the higher ups
IN the "U'' management were in
h. 30,
professors in this beehive of knowl-
edge failed to share in the increase.
Notwithstanding the fact that the SUI
preme court has held that the Uni
versity was not accountable to Gov
ernor Christensen and The Big
Three" in the economy program, these
officials and the legislature are Of the
opinion that somebody should have
something to say about how public
funds should be spent. Millions were
asked for a building program wherein
a dormitory was to be erected. Those
residents in the vicinity who are
renting rooms for students feel that
they were losing their bread and but
ter and that the dormitory was lux
ury which would result in putting the
rooming houses out of business.
Anyway, we advise you to save the
supplement and carefully look it over
inaSmuch as you might run afoul of
provisions and !'do-nots" adopted by
the last legislature. As all the legis-
latures Of every state in the Union
and the United States Congress are
writing about 10000 new laws into
the statutes every year or two, it
might be well to try and get ac-
uuainted with a few Of them. You
will at least know what you were
pinched for out of the millions of
chances Of getting that way.
Another valuable piece of printing
IN the Miner this week is the official
map of state highways. This also is
well worth saving The map is pre-
pared by the State Highway Depart
ment under Commissioner Babcock
and is up to date with every road in
the highway system marked as to its
condition and accessibility. We would
advise the merchants and garages to
have a bunch Of these printed with
their advertising to pass out to their
patrons.
However, we are a little at outs with
the reports sent out every Friday in
the press of the country regarding the
condition of highways. One particu-
lar popularity of this report is the
weekly condition of Highway No. IS.
In looking at the list during the past
few weeks, the road from Aurora to
Ely and especially from Tower to Ely
is always given as good" There
might be chance for an argument ON
this report. The Commercial Club at
the last meeting decided to ascertain
where they got that good" report.
Those who have occasion to travel this
piece of road (about 900 daily ac-
cording to traffic figures) are con-
siderably of the opinion that this is
standing condition in the Office where
these reports are compiled and are not
the result of a weekly look-see.
Somebody has suggested that ex-
presidents be pensioned $4,000 year
That's a good one. A man who can
not lay up a few shekels on a salary