The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-04-18
CIGARETTE BILL TO
DIE IN THE SENATE
Legislative Bodies Enter Last
Week of Session with Hop
pers damned
SALARY RAISE VOTED
Three-Cent Gas Tax Probable
House and Senate Wag-
ing Battle Royal
BY Martin w. Odland

Special to Sank Centre Herald
st. Paul, April 16-lf a prophet
values his reputation, he'd better
not do too much prophesying as
to what the present Minnesota Leg
islature will do, for that extraor-
binary body is apt to do just the
opposite of what is generally tax
en- for granted. For instance,
some weeks back all indications
pointed to a four cent gas tax, yet
last week, when the house took up
the gas bill for final action, it fix
ed the tax at three cents per gal
lon and the senate has fallen into
line.
Again, it was generally assumed
that the Dunn cigaret tax bill,
which passed the house couple OF
weeks ago, would go through the
senate, but on Friday, when the
bill was reported out by the SEN
ate committee on taxation, only
33 senators voted to make it a
special order and it had to take
its place at the foot of General
Orders means it won't be
reached before adjournment. The
roll call on the motion to make the
bill a special order was:
Ayes: Adams, Arens, Blanchard,
Bridgeman, Carley, Christgau,
Hanson, Hougen, Johnson, H. A.
Larson, Lawson, Lee, Long, C. A.
Lund, McCubrey, Naplin, Peterson,
Putnam, Pulitzer, Richardson,
Rockne, Romberf, Schmechel,
Serline, Sharpe, Suindler, Stem
srud, G. II. Sullivan, j. D. Sui
livan, Thwing and Widell, 80.
Noes: Anderson, Besette, Bonni-
well, Cannon, Child, Duemke,
Hausler, johnson, A. S. Larson,
Lenm, Lennon, Lilygren, Lommen,
MacLean, Mcknight, Mangan,
NORM, Nelson, Nordlin, Olson, Orr,
Ribenack, Rollins, Saggau, Sol
berg, Swenson, Traxler, Turnham
and Zamboni, 20.
Of course, all voting "aye" were
for the bill; all voting "no" against
it. Failure to pass this tax meas
ure will mean about 100000
less revenue for the state each
year. There will be further efforts
to bring the bill before the senate,
but as it takes As votes to make
any bill a special order, the spon-
sors of the measure will have to
do some skillful maneuvering to
accomplish their purpose.
The biggest appropriation bill
SO far considered this session went
sailing through both house and
senate last week, after having been
passed upon by a conference COM
mittee of senators and represen-
tatives. Reference is made to the
bill providing with funds the state
penal and charitable institutions
during the coming biennium. The
amount agreed upon is $9,91O,O0O,
which is 81 $4,000 more than was
appropriated two years ago. The
bill provides for two new cot
tages 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
agreement when they got together
to thresh out their differences was
surprising-another setback for
the prophets, who predicted a long
wrangle.
The carefully worked out pro-
gram of the interim committee on
reforestation, which cost the state
a pretty penny, was hacked and
smashed all to pieces in the senate
last week and it looks as if there
will be no forestry legislation at
this session. The trouble started
over the proposition to set up a
forestry "Czar," 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
authority and the creation of 9