Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-04-25
OMNIBUS BILL
PASSES SENATE
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ing fer $245,OOO on condition that he
give the Party" $4,000. the COM
mittee should have been on guard.
1t should have known that my office
had no authority or jurisdiction in
the letting of contracts for the state
office building. The matter was en-
tirely in the hands of the state build
ing commission.
IAN investigation of a state depart
ment or a subdivision of government
by a legislative committee can serve
no public good unless such investiga-
ton is grounded in honesty and In
integrity. At the time that the Clark
story was told, we made an offer to
the committee to submit proof that
it was a mass of perjury. The same
documentary evidence which has now
established this perjury was offered
to the committee at the time but it
was not received.
'My attorney, Roy A. Macdonald,
requested that certain witnesses be
called and this reasonable request
was declined. We could have estab-
lished by at least two witnesses that
Clarks claim that he and l met at
a contractors office was false.
Nov that the Carley committee,
after two months of effort on the
part of my attorney, accepted as part
of their official records the docu-
mentary evidence disproving Clarks
story. it will be interesting to observe
whether they will be as keen in the
interest of the truth to give publicity
in their report discrediting Clark as
they were in receiving the false re-
port in order to discredit my office"
Two Nominees Rejected.
Two of Governor Olson's nominees
to the state Board of Education were
rejected by the Senate after one of
the hottest debates of the week. Mrs.
Marion LIE Sueur of Minneapolis, and
Miss Florence Rood, st. Paul, were
turned down, while the nomination
of Peter ]. Seeberger of ST. Cloud
was confirmed by a large margin.
Miss Rood. long prominent edu-
Gator in st. Paul, and Mrs. LIE Sueur
were attacked by various extreme
conservatives who charged them with
radicalism. Leaders in this attack
were Senator A. O. Sletvold of De-
troit Lakes, and Senator Carley.
Liberal members fought for the
confirmation of all three nominees
and assailed charges made against
Mrs. LIE Sueur and Miss Rood. Sena-
tors Charles A. Hausler, Victor Law
son, Herman Schmechel, J. L. Nc
Leod and Joseph A. Kodak led in the
defense of the governors nominees.
A. H. Hoffman of Hibbing, named
| by Governor Olson as actuarial Sec
rotary of the State Workmen's Com
pensation Insurance Board, was con-
firmed by the Senate by a vote OF
4S to 1, Senator Milton C. Lightner
st. Paul society man, casting the only
dissenting vote. Lightner spoke at
length in opposition to Mr. Hoffman
Vote Power Extension.
Advocates of the extension publicly
owned electric power lines won a vic
tory in the Senate when that body
passed Senator Lommen's power ex-
tension bill by vote of 40 to g.
This permits municipal power plants
to extend their lines for 80 miles in
stead of 25 miles, the limit under the
old law. 1t also reduces from three
fourthS to two-thirds the majority on
the municipal governing body re-
quired to authorize such extensions
A bill, which, it is estimated, would
save the state more than $S,00O.O00
year has been introduced in the
upper House by Senators E. L. Tung-
seth, Thief River Falls, and Senator
Hausler 1t provides for the levying
on all bonds and other written obli-
cations of the state and it's subdivis-
ions a capital tax equal to all the in
terest on such bonds in excess of 3
per cent year. The tax would be
retained by the state and the sub
divisions which issued the securities
The total Indebtedness of the state
and it's subdivisions now is set at
S328,822,274. Estimating the average
+ interest on this at 80 per cent, which
the authors of the bill contend is a
fair figure, Senators Tungseth and
Hausler assert that the 21a per cent
in interest which would be saved
would total $S,22O,556S5 a year.