The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-03-17

The senate rules committee ap
proved a resolution sponsored by Sen.
ator ]. V. Weber, Slayton, calling for
an investigation Of the state conser-
walton commission.
Farmer defenders of the county
agents were heard by the senate COM
mittee on agriculture. Representa-.
tives of All clubs also appeared to
urge that abolition of the county
agents will mean break down of their
clubs.
Corporations which now Fay no mo-
tor vehicle taxes on contention that
their gross earnings taxes constitute
their entire obligations would be CON-
PEELED to buy license plates for their
cars and trucks under bill passed
by the house, LOT to O..
Counties would be permitted to APP
propriate money to fight grasshop-
pers, under bill recommended for
passage by the house. Because of
present restrictions, only the state ca
lamity board has been able to make
funds available for this purpose.
Opposition to bills for compulsory
grading and weighing of livestock and
the license of direct livestock buyers,
now before the legislature, continues
to grow. Hundreds of letters from
farmers throughout the state are pour
ing in, protesting against the passage
The house concerned in a senate
bill extending the season for northern
pike and pickerel from Feb. to
March Is, applying only to Cook, Lake
and st. Louis counties.
The senate game and fish commit
tee began study Of bill to raise
lake levels, as conservation meas.
ure, the cost to be borne by the state,
municipalities and private property
benefited.
Fishing zones were wiped out by
the house. The houses action in vot-
ing, So to Z, to pass the measure eli
minating fishing zones as provided in
the bill by Representative William A.
Syreen, Ironton, however, must be
concurred in by the senate and later
by the governor before the action Is
final
With the signing of the mortgage
foreclosure moratorium bill by Gov.
Olson, sheriffs were empowered to
postpone mortgage foreclosure sales
for up to 80 days any time until April
10. Although the measure was passed
by both houses of the legislature,
some legislators expressed doubt as
to it's constitutionality.
A new division of the gasoline tax
money is proposed in bill sent out
by the house committee on highways,
without recommendation. 1t proposes
a constitutional amendment, changing
the split so counties would receive
half of the money and the state trunk
highway system the other half. The
counties now receive one-third.
A subcommittee to study the three
proposed metropolitan drainage bills
was announced by Representative
Fred A. Curtis, South st. Paul, chair.
man of the metropolitan drainage com.
mittee. The members are Represen.
tatives E. P. Scallon, Crosby; Dewey
W. Johnson and Burton L. Kingsley
Minneapolis; H. C. LaBissoniere, St
Paul, and G. w. Terwilliger, Red
Wing.
A proposed land exchange bill, de.
signed to permit more efficient use
Of state-owned land and property
found unsuitable for farming was ap
proved by the house committee on con.
servation. 1t mould permit a farmer
owning poor farm land to exchange it
for state-owned property in more
heavily populated areas, the former
going to the state for forestry or re.
creational development
The senate finance committee serv.
ed notice on the University of Mime.
sofa that further cut of $2,80O,000
must be made in its budget request
for the next biennium. A general cut
OF 20 per cent in proposed gross ex.
peuditures Of the university was or.
dered by the committee, which also
asked the university officers to sub.
NIT a revised budget request based
on the proposed new reductions.
Compulsory mixing of ethyl alcohol
with all gasoline used in Minnesota is
provided in bill in the senate. 1t
requires all gasoline to contain 10 per
cent of alcohol, produced in the state,
the mixing to be done under state
supervision. The plan Is to have
farmers manufacture the alcohol In
cooperative distilleries, and propon.
ents say 1t would add only 1 cent a
gallon to the cost of gasoline, but
would mean the use of about 1000, 000
gallons of alcohol.
Candidates for county offices would
be compelled to file 40 days before
the primary instead of 20 as now un.
der bill passed unanimously by the
house. The house also adopted a con.
current resolution urging a suitable
part of public employment to be given
physically handicapped persons, then
voted 60 to 81 to defeat bill by Rep
resentative w. E. Day, Bagley; Minor
Helgeson, Crookston, and Odd Eide
Fertile, that would have permitted
boards Of county commissioners to
spend money for eradication of nests
The senate passed bill which
would outlaw deficiency judgment on
foreclosure of farms by the state rur
al credits bureau. Under terms of the
bill, the bureau is directed, in case
Of foreclosures, to bid the full amount
due on the mortgage. Heretofore
mortgage sales on farms at times
have failed to produce the amount OF