Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-12

mately $7,500,000. He argued that in
his village of Crosby the per capita
tax is but one-sixth of that i'm Hfb-
bling.
Pleads Property Owners Case.
Representative Frank E. Starkey
made the final plea for the acceptance
of the minority report, the bill having
been voted down in committee. He
| argued in behalf of the property own
ers, the residents of Old Hibbing, and
said he was voting for the minority
| report not because of the authors but
rather in spite of them, bringing out
that the Hibbing representatives had
so recently pleaded in behalf of the
mining companies when an attempt
tax from $40 to 1919 but now when
it was matter of creating more
money locally at the expense of the
mining companies, then the mining
companies were all wrong. The mi
nority report was voted down, SO that
ends the matter as far as this legis-
lative session is concerned. 1t was
that they thought this was a local
matter that should be settled on the
Iron Range and not "a matter for the
state legislature to be spending time
and money upon. Representative John
R. Beach of Olmstead county, was the
member who brought out this point so
forcefully.
"Inmates"-Distaste
A public hearing was held in the
House Chamber Thursday morning be-
fore the Soldiers Home State Bonus
and Ex-service Men committee, con-
corning a bill to remove the manage
ment or control of the soldiers home
on the banks of the Mississippi river
in the city of Minneapolis from the
present Soldiers Home Board to the
State Board of Control. One of the
speakers against the move was for
mer Governor Samuel r. Van SAINT.
He brought out that Institutions under
the supervision of the State Board of
Control are such as the feeble-minded
and the prison and others where they
have inmates, and if there is anything
that ex-service men detest it is to
be called inmates. The governor of
thirty years ago, despite his eighty
seven years, spoke clearly and was
accorded very close attention. He is
a Civil War veteran and argued that
politics should be kept out of the
soldiers home management The
board now supervising the home is
appointed by the governor. Petitions
have come in from all parts of the
state protesting the proposed transfer
to Indefinitely postpone the bin after
the public hearing.
Miss Emily Green Balch, formerly |
professor of economics at Wellesley |
college, was introduced by Represen-
tative Harriet H. Weeks of Detroit
Lakes, on Wednesday and spoke for
about ten minutes on World peace and
the conference to be held at Geneva
in February 1882.
Gandhi HOnOred.
On Friday, an editorial from the |
Duluth Herald, on the victory gained |
by the great Indian leader, Mahatma |
Gandhi, was read by the reading clerk |
at the suggestion of Representative
StockwelL 1t was brought out in the
editorial that the victories or gains |
made in behalf of the people on this
occasion were without force of arms
and without bloodshed and that Mr.:
Gandhi is an outstanding example of
gaining his desires and the rights of
the people in a peaceful manner.
At the suggestion of Governor Olson,
the Senate voted N. ]. Holmberg, COM |
missioner of agriculture for the past |
- years, out of office. The vote was
4S to 19. Several candidates are being |
mentioned in connection with the ap-
pointment of commissioner.