The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-03-29

| penitentiary in 1927 for using the mails
| to defraud thousands of people, was
heard Monday afternoon in the house
of representatives, when Representa-
| tive John A. Weeks of Hennepin coun-
ty introduced bill appropriating ST.
| Another attempt to iron out differ
| 100000 for the relief of the victims.
ences between house ana senate on the
manner in which the legislature shall
elect regents Of the University of Min
nesota is to be made at meeting of
conference committee representing
| both houses.
Six bills changing the tax laws OF
the state as to trust companies, invest
ment companies and partnerships were
presented to the tax committees of the
two houses of the legislature in joint
meeting. They were offered as pro-
gram by Attorney General G.. A.
Youngquist and Chairman ]. G. Arm
son of the state tax commission, for
the purpose of making the present sys-
tenn of national bank taxation valid.
Both officials told the committee that
by passing these bills the state will
overcome the objections raised by the
United States Supreme Court, so that
bank stocks can be taxed on the ad
valorem basis.
The bills amend the present laws af.
fecting the taxation of building and
loan associations, trust companies,
capital taxed as moneys and credits,
capital taxed under the mortgage regis
try tax and capital of individuals, COR
porations and investment houses,
where the money is used in competi-
tion with banks. In general, the plan
adopted has been not to discard the
present plan of taxation employed in
these groups, but to exempt from them
the capital engaged in competition
with banks and tax this at the same
rate as banks are taxed.
Minneapolis members of the house
lost their battle for amendment Of
the grade crossing act to give the city
| control of grade separation questions.
A constitutional amendment was
| proposed in both houses to cut the
| biennial legislative sessions from 90
to rs days. Senator Henry Spindler
Of Buffalo and A. A Zech of Howard
Lake are authors.
| One senate committee has yielded
| to the views of the house on the bill
for $1,500,000 state capitol annex, or
| office building, but the bill has yet to
win the approval of the senate fin
| ance committee. In running the
gauntlet of the finance committee, the
office building bill may meet difficult
| ties.
Governor Theodore Christianson
| signing the bill to establish the Birch
Coulee battlefield memorial park in
Renville county, measure which he
vetoed two years ago. The bill car
ries an appropriation of $500.
Progress was made on two fronts
by the trunk highway financing meas
ure. The bill to refund county reim-
bursement bonds falling due by the
end of 1882 was approved by the house
committee on motor vehicles, which
decided to introduce it as commit
tee measure, putting it directly on
general orders. The senate highways
committee report indorsing the same
measure was accepted.
The senate reconsidered the vote
when the bill to consolidate the de-
partments of agriculture and dairy and
food failed to pass. On the reconsid.
Grafton the bill went through, AZ to IA.
The motor vehicles committee of the
house also approved the bill for
trunk highway patrol, but with amend.
ments, cutting the proposed force from
| rs to 80 men, limiting their pay to
$3.50 a month, and limiting police
powers of the corps to infractions of
highway traffic laws occurring on state
trunk highways, except speed laws.
The house group approved 81, 1866, $50
for aid to high, graded, consolidated
and rural schools during the next two
years for which $11,867,44 was al
lowed by the senate committee. The
finance committee allowance was SILL
100000.
The allowances approved by the Big
Three for each year was as follows:
| 1929-30 1930-31
Public school library aid $4,000 $4,000
| Aid to schools under
gross earnings tax law 1000 12O. 900
| Adult evening schools. $4,000 $4,000
Schools in Indian reser-
Vatlons ............. $4,000 $4,000
A 100000 building program for
the University Of Minnesota to extend
over period of 10 years was approved
by the house appropriations commit.
! tee.
The senate tax committee agreed
| to change tactics on the income tax
bill. Opponents of the bill dropped
their plan to submit a minority re-
port, although they had a majority
| of the committee. Instead authors of
the bill will seek special order and
the fight will be fought on the merits
| of the bill.
A split in the ranks of the farmer.
| labor minority in the house of repre-
sentatives is reported to have been a
factor in the losing fight for repeal of
the ks-Coleman streetcar act. Pro-
ponents of the repeal bill lost their
final battle by 10 votes, although in a
test vote earlier in the session they
lost by three votes.
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
daily working hours to 91a. The bill
now merely proposes to limit weeks
work to 81 hours.
The Rosenmeier resolution for a
| joint convention of both houses to