The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-02-11
LEGISLATIVE
ENACTMENTS
AND PROPOSALS

st. Paul.-Minnesota's old search
and seizure law, inadvertently ne
pealed when beer and hard liquor
were legalized, had started back to-
ward the statute books Tuesday af-
ter adoption by the senate.
The measure sponsored by Sem
ators 0. J.. Finstad, Window, and
Frank ]. Sell, Adrian, was amend
ed to specify searchers must poss-
ess written permission to invade
homes and other places, and then
passed.
Also passed by the senate was
the proposal of Senator George
Lommen, of Eveleth, to officially
designate state institutions now
known as asylums as hospitals. The
vote was IS to one.
Seven house Farmer-Laborites
100000 for needy high school and
college students during the next
bienium. Although drafted inde-
pendently, the bill is designated to
carry out the campaign promises of
Governor Benson.
Sponsors of the youth bill include
Representatives Oscar Widstrand,
Hibbing, and George I. Sahlman,
Cloquet. Representative Harold L.
Peterson, of WiNlmar, is expected
to handle the administration youth
bill, not yet introduced.
Advanced to the house calendar,
after some lively debate was Rep
resentative Gustaf Erickson's mea-
sure to permit a ten-day moose
season in the northwest angle every
year. Erickson, of Spooner, found
opposition from several northern
Minnesota solons, including Repre-
sentative Oscar Widstrand, Hib-
bling.
Representative Richard Kelly, Of
Chisholm; Widstrand and Joseph ].
Kraker, Virginia, are authors Of a
bill, advanced to the calendar, to
permit iron range communities to
exceed present per capita and mill
age tax levies in replacing revenues
lost through devaluation of mining
companies by a recent supreme
court decision.
The proposal would authorize will
lagos, towns and school districts to
levy additional taxes to make up for
the reduction Of $16,0000O0 in the
assessed valuation in properties
ordered by the st. Louis county
district court and upheld by the
high tribunal. @
Also advanced to the calendar
was a measure sponsored by Repre-
sentative Kelly to force payment Of
IS per cent Of taxes before a firm
or individual can protest the eval-
uation, instead of so percent as now
required. Kelley's original proposal
calling for FUN payment, was
amended in committee.
An administration bin to increase
inheritance taxes in the upper
brackets 200 percent was introduc-
ed by Representatives John j.
Kinzer, Cold Spring; A. G. Lieske,
Henderson, and H. L. Peterson,
Whitman. It would lower the ex-
emption for adult children from
$40. to $1,000, but would leave
the $4,000 exemption for widows
and minor children.
Representative Sam Prestegarr,
of Granite Falls introduced bill to
tax all liquor advertising receipts
at so percent including newspaper,
radio, billboards and direct mail
advertising.
Legislators were assailed for I'm
terfering with the business man
agement of railroads." by Alex
James, vice president and general
counsel of the Great Northern rail-
road, hast night before a house COM
mittee considering a bin to limit
the length of freight trains to 70
cars and passenger trains to IA
cars.
The measure Is authored by Rep
resentatives A. c. Thompson, Du-
luth; John j. White, Ogilvie; Jo-
seph Kraker, Virginia, and Oscar
Widstrand. Hibbing. The commit
tee decided to meet again today to
consider a companion measure
which provides additional brakemen
and flagmen on trains.