The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-05-03
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arising from increased appropriations
and failure Of the omnibus tax bill
This was the appointment Of a Joint
interim committee TO study the states
tax structure and report back TO the
next legislature. Senate members
named to this group were F. ]. Miller,
Little Falls; Charles y. Orr, st. Paul;
Claude Mckenzie, Gaylord; Walter
Wolfe, Minneapolis, and w. L. Dietz,
Montgomery. There was a great deal
OF talk, as the legislature prepared
to depart, about the possibility of
special session being called to frame
tax structure that would relieve real
estate from some of the burden neces-
STATED by the 1895 mill rate set.
Major accomplishments of the 1885
legislature were the passage Of the
following legislation:
Taxation
s23, 1000, 900 omnibus tax revision bill
with 8 per cent sales tax provision,
designed to bring relief to real estate
owners. Vetoed by Governor Olson.
Constitution amendment eliminat-
ing all but l mill road levy from state
assessments against real estate.
Agreement with national banks to
pay rs per cent of their tax assess
ments despite invalidation Of law
under which they were taxed.
Fixed automobile licenses at % per
cent base rate with $3.50 and S. min
imums, and Is per cent depreciation
on cars at least two years old.
Exempt all household goods and
farm machinery from personal proper
" tax assessments, together with the
property other than household goods
in the home.
Relief
$4,000 600 bond issue to finance
preliminary work necessary to obtain
$22 100000 allotment from federal
government for highway building and
grade separation.
s10.O0O,000 for state wide relief, a
similar amount to be supplied by
counties if financially able.
100000 seed loans for drouth
stricken farmers.
100000 for livestock feed in drouth
areas.
S1.5O0,0OO bond issue for improve
ment Of Red Lake game refuge and
assuming ditch bond Indebtedness Of
northern counties, and improvement
OF Mud Lake game refuge.
100000 for veteran relief.
Agriculture.
Established three grades Of cream
to improve quality of dairy products
and fixed a price differential.
Establishment Of state weighing
and grading Of livestock at all points
Of concentration, including South St.
designed to eliminate direct buying.
Permitted farmers to store grain
on farms and use 1t as collateral for
loans.
Required grading Of all potatoes
shipped out Of the state, designed to
raise standards of Minnesota pota-
toes.
Machinery for scaling down pay
ments in rural credit farms by per-
hitting conseryator and tenant TO
arrange new terms with the conduct
Of the Ramsey county district court.
Conservation.
Creation Of II new state forests in
volving approximately 100000 acres
in northern Minnesota counties.
Authorization OF state conserva-
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maintain water levels in Minnesota
lakes on petition Of abuting property
owners.
Withdrawal from sale, all state
owned land containing peat deposits
of commercial quantities.
Law enforcement
Requiring physicians, nurses, drug
gists, to report injuries from gunshot
wounds.
Revising criminal procedure, allow
ing prosecutors to proceed on infor-
nation in cases not involving life i'm
prisonment, requiring advance notice
of an alibi defense.
Making it a gross misdemeanor to
jump a bail bond.
Compelling attendance Of out Of
state witnesses.
Full police powers for highway pa
trolmen. whose personnel is increased
from 20 to 100. Provides for cooper
alton Of highway patrol with local
enforcement officers.
Increasing personnel of crime bu-
reau from "a to 40 men, and provid-
ing for purchase Of machine guns,
bullet proof vests, and other equip
ment, from an appropriation of $780,
600 for the next two years.
Authorizing the court to require an
investigation before suspending SEN
fences in criminal cases and increas-
ing the number of probation agents
from one to three. This bill carries
an appropriation of $4,000.
Establishment Of a state wide "a
do system under the crime bureau
with $4,000 appropriation for the
biennium
Creation Of a board Of classification
for prisoners to segregrate the hard
ened criminal from the first offender
Provision for a modern security
type Of prison for first offenders.
A bill which would have changed
the biennial primary election day
from June 10 August, was killed at
the closing session. During the day
the senate passed an amended bill
setting the primary election for the
last Monday in August. Then the
house, in approving the measure,
changed the date 10 the third Monday
in September. The new date was