Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-03-07
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By Osborne
o Western Newspaper Union

announced that 10000 farmers were
to march on the capitol on March 6
to present demands for graduated
land taxes, legislation permitting the
Rural Credit bureau to scale down
mortgages and sell farms on crop
payment basis, adequate relief, in
creased taxes on incomes, inherit
ances and gifts, and other legislative
reforms.
Several clashes between Senator
James A. Carley of Plainview. chair
man of the Senate Investigating COM
mittee, and Senator Patrick Farnand
of Hibbing, one of the three liberal
members of the group, have marked
the committees recent hearings on
relief administration
A. T. Forsberg, former drouth relief
director for the State Emergency Re-
lief administration, charged that the
relief administration, then headed by
Governor Olson, failed last summer
to make purchases of hay for drouth
stricken areas when such feed was
available at SO ton, and that farm
ers must now get hay costing SIG to
$40 a ton.
Hits FOrsberg Story.
Senator Farnand brought out that
Mr.. Forsberg, who was ousted last
July, left bills totaling 100000 which
the SERA had to pay after he left.
L. P. Zimmerman, acting relief adj
ministrator, questioned by Senator
Farnand, said the bills had been de-
layed because Forsberg had used an
inefficient accounting system. He also
contradicted Forsberg on the matter
of feed purchases, saying the relief
administration had bought $4,000
worth of hay at low prices before the
federal government stopped such buy
ing to prevent competition between
the states for hay.
Senator George H. Lommen of Eve
leth, introduced resolution charging
orders from Washington are holding
up much needed livestock feed at the
Canadian border. Fifty carloads OF
hay destined for drouth counties in
Minnesota, he charged, are being sc
held, the Washington orders being
that they cannot enter Minnesota
duty-free except to be handled
through the Agency of Deficiency Dis
tribution. This agency, according to
Senator Lommen, is owned by private
grain elevator interests.
Adopted by Senate.
The resolution, which was adopted
by the Senate, charged that the prices
of hay handled by this agency are
three to four dollars a ton higher
than those quoted by the drouth re-
lief agency Of the state. Action by
federal authorities to correct this evil
was asked in the resolution.
Two important administration bills
were introduced late in the week by
liberal senators. A bill to raise the
gross earnings taxes on telephone
companies from to per cent was
introduced by Senators B. G. Novak
ST. Paul; Herman Schmechel, Fairfax
and H. F. Sprung. Ada.
Senators Lommen and Joseph A
Kodak. Minneapolis, presented bill
which would raise the gross earnings
taxes of railroads from 5 to Z pei
cent. subject to a vote of the people
Senator Charles N. Orr of st. Paul
one of the conservative leaders, has
introduced a bill under which any
company writing workmen's compen
sation in the state would become vir
tually the insurer of every other com
state. The bill provides that if &
workman is insured in a company
which becomes inSolvent any claim
which he may have against that com
pany must be paid by the other com.
panies. This would be accomplished
these other companies.
Legislator is Dead.
Albert ]. Samec Of st. Paul, one o.
the staunchest liberal members in the
House, died suddenly while he slep
Friday morning. Representative Sam
&c, who was born in Lumice. Bohemia
in 1884, came to st. Paul with his par
ents in 1855. He first served in the
Legislature in 1921. His death is the
second in the legislative ranks thi:
session. Senator George H. Sullivan
having died suddenly about two week:
previously.
IL ~ -
is a new member of the upper house
was chosen by the tax committee as
acting chairman of the group to sue.
coed the veteran Senator Sullivan. II
is seldom that a new member is
chosen to head such an importan,
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