The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-04-04
CICARET TAX BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE
Supporters Believe They Have
Enough Votes in Senate
Governor Will Sign
TO RELIEVE SUCKERS
State Income Tax COnstitu-
ti0nal Amendment Killed
in the Senate
By Martin w. Odland
Snecial IN the Herald

st. Paul, April AFTER wab-
bling back and forth for a week
on the Dunn cigaret tax bill, the
Minnesota house made final dlspo-
sition of the proposed law Wednes-
day afternoon by passing it with
five votes to spare. Six members
who voted against the bill the week
before, but supported it Wednes-
day are John B. Hompe OF Deer
Greek, J. D. Lever, of Waseca,
Charles J. Salmonson, of Clinton,
William Schneider, of Albany, Louis
Spellbrink, of New Ulm, and Matt
Sanger of Mankato.
Those voting yes were: Adams,
Aldrich, Dahl, DAZZLE, Dahlmeier,
Davidson, C. L. Davis, Day, Dunn
Eide, Emerson, Erickson, Escher,
Gilbertson, Helgeson, Hofstad,
Hompe, C. M. Iverson, l. G. liver
son, George w. Johnson, II. A.
johnson, Jordahl, Keller, Kemp
fer, Kern, Knudsen, Kolshorn'
Kramer, Lager, Logerstedt, Lever,
Lightner, Lowe, Melby, Merrill,
Morton, Naylor, N. J. Nelson, Neu-
man, Nordine, Norton, Odegard,
Olson, Opsahl, Paige, Parks, Ret
trum, Rohne, Rosetter, Salmonson,
Sanger, Scallon, Schmitz, Schneid-
er, Spelbrink, Standemo, Sweitzer,
Thorkelson, Wahlstrand II. H.
Weeks, White, Zech and J. A.
Johnson.
Those voting no were: "A. G.
Anderson, Atwood, Berg, Blodgett,
Blum, Campbell, Christensen,
Cornell, Cullum, Dammann, r. r.
Davis, Deming, Dilley, Enstrom,
Gehan, Hastings, Herfindahl,
Hitchcock, Holm, Hubert, c. john
son, D. w. Johnson, R. G. johnson,
Kennedy, Herman, Kodak, Lamb,
Lewis, Loftegaarden, Lundeen,
McDonough, McNuity, Masek, Mer-
rift, Moser, Mullin, Mum. j. A.
Nelson, Nolan, Payne, Peterson,
Peterson, Dunlivan, Reed, Renick,
Richards, Rodenburg, Samec,
Scribner, Starkey, Stockwell,
Swenson, Therrien, J. A. Weeks,
Wright, Youngdahl and thinner
man.
Speedy action on the bill by the
senate tax committee is promised.
"A public hearing will be held in a
day or two and the bill will come
before the senate within a couple
of weeks. 1t stands an excellent
chance of passing and the COVER
nor stands ready to sign it. 1t
would impose a tax of two cents
on each package of twenty cigarets
and would, it is believed bring into
the state treasury over $2,OOO,OOO
per year. -,
And money is what the state will
need the next few years, judging
by the enormous appropriation to-
tails that the present legislature
will pile up before it adjourns
three weeks and two days from
today. Even Representative Hitch
cock, the tight-wad chairman OF
the appropriations committee, ad-
mits that the total will be over
$43,OOO,000, the biggest in the
history of the state.
There was quite a furry at the
capitol the other day when Repre-
sentative J. A. Weeks, of Mime
apolis, who doesn't love Governor
Christianson and some of his Min
neapolis friends (like w. I. Nor
toni, introduced a bill to appro-
pirate 100000 for the relief OF
the unfortunates who invested a
part of their savings in the "Gold
Notes" of the celebrated Mr..
Cochrane a couple of years age
Mr.. Weeks contention is that in.
asmuch as A. E. Nelson, mem
her of the state securities commits.
sion, was in the conspiracy with
Cochrane and was instrumental in