Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-03-07
MORATORIUM
DATE EXTENDED
Large Relief Bill Occupies
Much of Legislators
Time.
Relief Administration is
Aired by Investigating
Committee.
By Hjalmar Petersen, Lieutenant Gov
ernor of Minnesota.

BY Hialmar Petersen, Lieutenant GoE-
ernor Of Minnesota.
week of Feb "a to March p
Continued relief from mortgage
foreclosure has been assured to Min
nesota property owners by the pas
sage of the bill extending the mort
gage moratorium act from May 1,
1895, to March 1, 1887. The measure
was passed unanimously by both
houses of the Legislature late in the
weeh
The act as extended is virtually the
same as the original law, which was
upheld by the United States Supreme
court. Amendments made by the Sen
ate judiciary committee were struck
out as a. result Of fight led by Sem
ator Nels Peterson, Farmer-Laborlte,
of Milan. These changes would nave
required proof that 1.-The mOrtgagor
has a substantial equity in the prop
erty involved" and, according to their
foes, would have worked a hardship
on many property owners whose land
values have dropped greatly as re-
suit of the depression.
The nine senators who voted for
retention of the amendments were A.
]. Rockne, Zumbrota; Frederick j.
Miller, Little Falls; Milton Lightner.
St. Paul; Donald o. Wright, Minneapo-
lis; II. H. Sullivan, st. Cloud; Charles
Adams, Duluth; William B. Anderson,
Minneapolis; and Beldin H. Lofts
garden, st. Paul. and P. w. Morri-
son, Norwood.
Relief Fight Goes On.
Raising of relief funds. particularly
for farmers in the drouth areas, con-
tinues to be dominant issue i'm the
LEGISLATURE. The dire need of the
farmers in the stricken counties was
dramatized when Arthur Spencer, a
farmer at Beardsley, brought in an
emaciated horse, COW, and hog and
placed them in an inclosure on the
lawn of the capitol as evidence of the
damage caused to livestock by lack
of feed.
Senate sponsors of an emergency
100000 feed relief bill, which was
introduced on the same day that the
stock appeared on the capitol grounds,
stoutly affirmed that the presence OF
the animals had nothing to do with
the introduction of their bill. At any
rate the measure was passed by both
houses the same day. The measure
as passed provides for immediate dis
tribution of 100000 in the drouth
oh eft a
council. 1t is estimated that the
money will last for about two weeks,
and it is hoped that by the time it
is gone action will have been taken
toward providing adequate relief for
a longer period.
Pressure for Big Bill.
There is noted an increasing pres
sure for the passage of the $1,000, 600
relief bill, which is now held in the
Senate Finance committee, having al
ready been passed by the House. Sen
ator Rockne. chairman of the Finance
committee. insists that action is being
held up because he has not received
direct word from Harry Hopkins. Fed
eral Emergency Relief administrator
at Washington, as to the amount Of re-
lief appropriations the national Amin
istration expects from Minnesota. l,
will be recalled that when Howard O
Hunter of Chicago. regional relief ad
ministrator and representative Of Mr.
Hopkins, appeared before the Legis
lature in January. he set 100000
as the amount to be furnished by the
state for the next two years.
The impatience over the delay or
the relief measure is typified by ar
editorial in a st. Paul newspaper
which asks why, if the relief bill re-
quires so much study. the senate
Unanimously and in almost indecent
haste" passed the 100000 cattle feeG
bill the same day the starving farm
animals appeared on the scene.
To March on Capitol.
John Bosch. president Of the Min
nesota Farm Holiday Association. has
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