The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-02-28

Orr, Richardson, Rockne, Roepke,
Rollins, Romberg, iSaggau, Schme-
chel, Serlino, Sharpe, Solberg,
Stensrud, 'Swenson, Traxler, Turn
ham and Zamboni.
The house had quite a field day
of oratory on the bill to divert one
third of the gasoline tax from the
state highway fund to the counties
for use in improving county and
other local roads, which have re-
ceived no attention from Commits
sioner Babcock. The bill passed
by a vote of 1876 to 26. The af-
firmative votes were cast by:
Aldrich, G. A. X. Anderson, Ar
vik, Atwood, Berg, Blodgett, Blum,
Brophey, Chilgren, Christensen,
Cornell, Dahl, DAZZLE, Dahlmeier,
Dammann, Davidson, C. L. Davis,
r. r. Davis, Day, Dilley, Dunn,
Eide, Emerson, Enstrom, Erickson,
Echer, Finstuen, Gilbertson, Glen
de, Green, Hart, Hastings, Hazel
Helgeson, Hernfndahl, Hofstad,
Holm, Hompe, Hubert, 1. G. liver
son, C. Johnson, d. w. johnson, r.
G. Johnson, Jordahl, Keller, Kemp
fer, Kern, Herman, Knudsen, Kols-
horn, Kramer, Lager, Lagerstedt,
Lower, Lewis, Lodin, Lowe, Melby,
Merrill, Merritt, Merton, Moser,
Mum, Neylor, j. A. Nelson, N. j.
Nelson, Neuman, Nordin, Odegard,
Olson, Opsahl, Parks, Payne, Peder-
|, son, Reed, Renick, Retrum, Rohne,
Rosetter, Salmonson, Sanger, Seal
lon, Schmitz, Schneider, Spelbrink,
Stockwell, Strandemo, Swenson,
Therrien, Thorkelson, Wahlstrand,
H. H. Weeks, White, Youngdahl,
Zech and Zimmerman.
The negative votes were those
Campbell, Cullum, Deming, Ge-
han, Hitchcock, G. w. Johnson, III.
A. Johnson, Kennedy, kodak,
Lamb, Lightner, Loftsgaarden, Nc
Donough, McDonough, McNulty,
Masek, Mullin, Nolan, Norton,
Paige, Richards, Rodenberg, aimee,
Scribner, Sweitzer, J. A. Weeks
and Wright.
The opposition to the bill came
from the counties of Hennepin,
Ramsey and st. Louis. The fight
for the bill was led by Oscar "A .
Swenson, of Nicollet county, one
of the sponsors of the gas diver
sion, adopted last fall. Represen-
tative WI. H. Campbell, of Mime
apolis, took the lead in the fight
against the bill and offered an
amendment which struck at the
very heart of the measure-namely
that all the money for the highway
fund, raised in the three big cities,
should be spent on state roads and
not scattered throughout the state
on local roads. The Campbell
amendment received no support
outside of the big counties.
AS an aftermath of the message
of the gas tax diversion bill by
the house comes an appeal by a
group of Minneapolis citizens, who
style themselves as the Municipal
Recapture League" to the United
States District Court to declare the
states trunk highway financing
system and the new gas tax diver.
sion plan contrary to the constitu.
ton of the United States. The
suit attacks the validity of the
states act of assuming S33,O00,00C
in county reimbursement bonds
which the state is paying out oil
the trunk highway fund.
The gasoline tax amendment anC
the act establishing a 2-cent gas
oline tax; the new constitutions
amendment which diverts one-thirc
of the gasoline tax revenue to &
| new system of local roads; any
legislation, such as House File sc
now pending in the legislature, tt
carry out provisions of the diver
sion amendment.