The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-01-27

| for the state board of control for the
next biennium, acted upon by the
| senate finance committee.
The requests for the Is state insti-
| buttons were acted upon, and the COM
mittee neared completion of it's work
with only three division requests re-
naming.
The committee slashed $754,SO0
from the requests of the state board
of control, which previously had cut
| $1,446,583 below the appropriations of
the 1881 legislature.
One action of the committee, how
ever. was to allow the Willmar state
asylum an additional cottage for pa
tients after it had cut that request to
only one. A total of $4,000 was
| granted by the committee for con-
| struction of the two cottages, which
will provide accomm odations for 200
| patients.
The request of the state prison at
| saltwater for S269,250 was left UNI
! touched, and no cuts were made in
| the budget for the Gillette hospital
for crippled children in st. Paul, ex-
cept for per cent reduction of So
| 600 for maintenance for the second
| year of the next biennium beginning
July The committee granted the
hospital $4,000 for the next two
| years.
One Of the most drastic cuts was
made in the budget presented by the
board of control for the state colony
| of epileptics at Cambridge, where
| only two cottages for inmates were
allowed with a request of three. The
committee granted $4,000 for con-
struction of the two cottages, reduc-
| ing the request of 100000.
Another cut of $77,500 was made
for the school for the feeble minded
at Faribault, for which a budget Of
SSSS,OOO had been requested.
The requests for the school for the
| deaf at Faribault were cut $29,55O,
and those for the state public school
at Owatonna s33,500.
Requests of s354,500 for the next
biennium for the training school for
boys at Red Wing were reduced S24,-
| It's.
| The committee Topped off another
$6S,15O in the budget for the St. Cloud
| reformatory, requests of the board of
control totaling s959,200. The COM
mittee allowed $4,000 for repairs, in
place of $4,000 requested; $4,000 for
vocational equipment in place of $4,000
asked, and $4,000 for new cell block,
compared with $1,000 asked.
| The committee also cut $28,S50
| from the requests from the state
training school for girls at Sank Gen.
ter; $500 from requests from the
state reformatory for women at Sha-
kcpee; $3.50 from requests for the
state tuberculosis sanatorium at All.
Gwah-Ching, and s7,075 from the bud
| get asked by the board for the state
school for the blind at Faribault.
Three bills, having run the gaunt-
let Of committees, were turned into
the house for action. They would
provide for party designation of all
candidates in elections. for holding
primary elections the second Monday
in September instead of the third
Monday in June as now, and for con.
solidated primary ballot with all
names on one ballot but grouped by
parties.
Attempts to scale down salaries of
all public service employees struck a
snag in the house committee on civil
administration. The committee voted
to table both senate and house bills
temporarily because several members
felt the measure would infringe too
greatly upon local self government.
The house bill provides for cuts Of
10 per cent to 80 per cent while a
senate measure provides for salary
cuts Of from 10 to 20 per cent.
An effort to place a tax on pipe
lines was made in the senate in a bill
offered by Senator William Roepke,
Faribault. 1t provides that such pipe
lines be assessed at 40 per cent of
their full and true value at the tax
rate prevailing in the counties where
they are loacted. One-half the pro-
ceeds of such tax would go to the
county school fund and the other half
to the state general fund.
A rs per cent reduction in motor
vehicle license rates and so per cent
slash in minimums were recommended
to the house of representatives by
its motor vehicles committee, with
the suggestion that action be speeded
up on the program. In detail the bill
approved by the full committee, pro-
vides:
Light cars now paying the minimum
rate of $40 will pay SIS.
All other cars paying the minimum
of $3.50 will pay $e.25.
All other pleasure cars will have
the present rate of "a per cent Of
value cut to Is per cent. This rep.
resents rs per cent reduction.
Glass T trucks VIII be reclassified
to make sure the bill applies only to
farmers trucks, the minimum cut to
| $3.50 and the rate from "a per cent
to Is per cent.
Trailers with pleasure vehicles uu
to 1,000-pound capacity to pay no tax
whether two or four wheelers. Cars
converted to trucks, to pay the S.
and 1925 minimum. No change in
trucks and bus tax.
Ratification of the treaty between
Canada and the United States permit.
ting construction Of the Great Lakes.
st. Lawrence waterways was urged
by the house in adopting a concur.
rent resolution memorializing con.
gress to approve the pact.
Action on the proposal to. shorten
| fho 1929 session baJd - - N