The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-04-05

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breeding purposes were presented in
a bill introduced by Senator Henry
Arens of Jordan. The bill sets up
plan whereby either the township or
bred sire area" and the use of scrub
sires prohibited within this area.
A new bill aimed at the ambulance
chaser was introduced blythe senate
judiciary committee as committee
bill. This gives promise of favorable
action by the senate on the measure,
as all senate attorneys are members
Of the committee. The new draft is
practically identical with the latest
form of the bill as framed in the house,
where it is awaiting action on general
orders.
Travel on trunk highways in Mime
sofa will be safer and more pleasant
if the legislature puts its final o. k.
on the trunk highway patrol bill recon-
mended by the house committee on
motor vehicles. 1t is a very conserva-
tive sort of measure, carefully avoid
ing any appearance of a state police
bill
1t makes start, toward enforcing
and has more teeth in it than one
would suppose from a casual reading.
The bill authorizes the commission
er of highways to employ not more
than 80 men ito enforce the provisions
OF the laws relating to the use and
operation of motor and other vehicles
upon trunk highways, except as to
speed of such vehicles" To make sure
that this force shall not carry the faint
est scent of "constabulary," the first
section goes on to say that these en-
ployees shall for these purposes, but
for no other purpose, have the power
of peace officers
A restriction in the amended bill
holds the salaries of highway patrol
men to $500 a year, except for the
head of the force. Their pay would
come out of maintenance funds, if not
covered by fines. Under the BILL all
fines collected as the result Of arrests
by the patrol force would go into a
fund, out of which counties would be
reimbursed for costs OF prosecution and
punishment of persons arrested. The
balance is to go into the trunk highway
maintenance fund. None of the cost
of the service, at any rate, would come
out of state appropriation.
There will be little done to expand
the state bureau of crimal investiga-
ton, either. One bill by Senator Fred
Bessette to enlarge the force and give
it additional powers of arrest, is being
allowed to die. Another Bessette bill
has passed the senate and has been ap-
proved by committee in the house,
amending the 1927 law in one respect.
The present law allows sheriffs to
call on the state bureau for help. The
Bessette bill adds this language: "In
any case when the sheriff in any coun-
ty fails to act, the superintendent when
requested by the county board of said
county may cause the employees of the
bureau to investigate violations of the
laws of the state" ....-
One more effort to iron out differ
ences on the metropolitan sewage dis
posal plan will be made at a meeting of
the house committee on metropolitan
drainage, announced by Chairman R. P.
Morton. Delegations from Minneapolis
and st. Paul will be asked to appear
and the session will determine whether
the committee finds it possible to make
any move on the sewage disposal plan
at this session.
Senator Fred Bessette of Orr intro
duCed bill for division of st. Louis
county, and Representative George D.
Reed of Hibbing was to place it before
the house. 1t contemplates setting up
the iron range and the northern part
of the county as separate unit, and
is drawn to apply only to st. Louis
county. The division must be ratified
by so per cent of the voters in the por-
ton to be detached after filing of the
petition for division. The portion de-
tached must have 400 square miles and
a population of $4,000.
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The bill shortening voting hours in
Minnesota, after passing both houses.
fell into danger again. 1t was found
the language of the bill as passed left
some doubt as to whether it covered
alt elections, so it was reconsidered by
the senate and some verbal changes
made Then it was put on roll call
for repassage and failed. The vote was
80 to 25, with "a votes necessary to
pass bill.
Legislative Sidelights.
Under rules Of the house no bill can
be introduced after the sixtieth legis-
latiVe day without suspending the
rules. The sixtieth day was Wednes-
day the goth, and 35 bills have been
introduced since that day without sus-
pending the rules.
Steps will be taken later to
clear the record, to make the action
legal and proper. The procedure prob
ably will be to adopt motion in which
the permanent journal of the house
will show that the rules were suspend
ed when the bills were introduced. It
will be sort of curative act.
st. PauPs bond program, approved
by the voters but requiring valuation
by legislative act, was step nearer
realization with passage of the batch
of the bills by the senate. The SEN
ate cleared up long list of bills by
conducting a special night session for
non-controversial measures.
The 81 hour week for women bill,
already approved by the house pub
lie welfare committee. now has been
amended again by the committee. tax.
ing out the provision limiting the