The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-02-03

recount OF these two boxes gave Hilton
net gain of Is votes, so that even If
these boxes were disregarded, Hilton
was still a winner by A votes. Inquiry
fails to disclose any other case in the
history OF the state where anyone cleo
ted to the legislature by a clear ma
Jor1ty, without allegations of fraud in
the part of the contestee, has been re-
FUSED seat. Hilton's opponent, DR..
LaBlssonaire, was elected on the face
or returns and received certificate of
election from the Ramsey county audi
tor, but a recount, unanimously agreed
70 by the referees, showed Hilton a. |
winner by 81 votes. LaBissonaire voted
for Mum for speaker and the organi-
cation stood sohdly behind him not
wtthstanding the recount.
He's Got Hot Potato
Lester Ulrich of Anlboy, Blue Earth
county, is the baby of the house. He
Is some baby, for he stands six feet
four even though he is but "A years old.
MIR. Ulich is one of the new members
who drew a Craftsmanship. The COM
mittee that he got is the public welfare
committee. To it is referred a great
variety OF matters which concern the
public veal. Many of these matters
are highly controversial and the public
welfare committee occasionally stages
hearings that attract large numbers of
excited partiSans. Now and then they
put on a real show. There have been
times in this committee when the bar
bers and beauticians have threatened a
ha1rpulhng match and other occasions
when the two factions of the blind
sought to tear each others eyes out.
We think the young man, MIR. Ulrich.
Will get along, but he will likely learn
about human nature from his COM
mittee.
New Institution In Prospect
Minnesota has Is state institutions,
aside from the university and the
teachers colleges. Three of them are
penal-the peniteniary, at Saltwater,
the reformatory at st. Cloud, and the
reformatory for women at Shakopee.
The Board of control informs the
legislature that Minnesota must shortly
(not during this biennium) establish
new state reformatory, the plan being
then to make the present reformatory
at st. Cloud second states prison.
Both of these institutions are now
greatly overcrowded. July /, 1892,
there were 1,108 inmates at the re-
formatory capacity $3.50, and 1853 ait
the state prison Capacity 1244). Bad
women are not so bad in Minnesota, il
seems; at least the state reformatory
for women at Shakopee, with capacity
for 81, has only IS inmates. 1t Is the
only state institution which is not over
crowded.
For sixteen years the Minnesota state
prison has not cost the taxpayers of
Minnesota one penny. Profits on the
manufacture of binding Irvine, not
withstanding losses on the manufacture
of farm machinery, pay all the cost
No, say the farmers, we pay it; and
thereon hangs a controversy which
breaks out in every session of the legis-
lature. The Minnesota state prison Is
the only one in the United States that
pays it own way. It is unique, also, in
that it is one of the few, if not the only
i state prison, that pays its inmates
wages. No man ever leaves the Mime
sofa state prison without money in his
pocket. This policy was inauglrated
by Senator A. D. Stephens of Crookston
at the first session of the legislature held
in the present state capitol
What does it cost Minnesota to main
tain its Is state institutions? A very
pretty penny. ed,-about $1,000, 900
la year. But investigation by Rep. E. P.
Scallon of Crosby shows that the cost
for food at the institutions runs from
IA to 81 cents per day per inmate
and they are all well fed at that. Min
nesota's charitable and penal institu-
lions are a model to the nation and
their fame extends beyond the seas.
| Highway System Hard Pressed
| The Minnesota state highway system
is sore beset. The legislature proposes to
double its burden and the executive
goes that body one better and offers a
triple treat. Bills pour in by the dozens
to add additional trunk highways and
the Governor says, why not take over
the whole secondary system?
at the same time the air is fun Of
proposals to stiu further divert the gas