Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-04-03
Legislative News
BY c. G. MANN.
Representative from Pine County

The pile of printed bills and House
and Senate journals on our desks grow
higher, until one must almost stretch
his neck to see over them. And still
they come. The flood of proposals
will soon cease, however, as Monday
of next week, of the week you read
this, is the last day for introducing
bills without the Governors permis-
sion. There will then be about 10
days when new bills can be intro
duced only with the signature of the
Governor, and then no more for this
| session. The number will run over
1900 which is about as other sessions.
The last day for passing bills is April
% and the last day of the session,
April "a. However, l presume the
clock will be covered at midnight on
the 23rd and the oath may not come
until day or more later. Three
days later way back in 1887.
Not Felt Until Next Year.
The repeal of the one mill road and
bridge tax on property and the &c
gas tax are being rushed through the
Senate, we understand, and may be
law when you read this. However,
the one mill repeal will not be felt
until next year as the levies have
been made for this. AS far as Pine
county is concerned, we will be about
$4,000 ahead in actual revenue de-
rived, over the Sc gas tax and one
mill which we have had since Sep
TENDER 1st.
Argued about limiting loads of
gasoline on highways, all day Mon
day, under motion to amend COM
mittee report, to kill the measure.
The motion was defeated so presume
the matter will again come up in
regular procedure, although possibly
never will be reached. There has
been a lot of excitement stirred up,
throughout the state, on this meas
ure, 1 think out of proportion to its
Importance.
Pass Out Important Bills.
The Public D o m i n committee
passed out a number of very i'm
pOrtant bills Monday, among them a
new plan of sale of state trust fund
lands, sometimes called school lands.
1t allows for the redemption of this
land sold prior to 1884, the cancel
lation of certificates not redeemed,
and plan of sale on 20 years time,
rather than 40 years, from now on.
This is very important to Pine coun-
ty as so many have this kind of land,
and if you will write 1 will send a
copy of the bill which 1 think will
pass as it now is. We also have some
amendments to the present law on
the classification and sale of tax
delinquent lands and new land
exchange law. 1 will try to make
a special order of business of these
measures soon.
We had an evening session Tues
day night and passed 38 bills large
ly local and non-controversial. Eve
ming sessions will be held often from
now on.
Defeat Lien Measure.
"A repeal of the old age assistance
lien came up this past week, also
on an amendment to committee re-
port, and was defeated, 81 to So.
Close, but as I predicted at the be-
ginning of the session. The modifi-
cation will come up later, however,
which grants greater leniency-can-
collation. of liens.
A bill drastically reducing the SAL
aries of all county officials in Pine
county only has been introduced in
the House and Senate by myself and
Senator c. Elmer Johnson, at the
request of the Pine County Town
ship Officers Association. The Sena-
tor and l are Withholding action on
the bill until we get some definite
and official action from the county
board. The excess levy bill of two
years ago has also been requested,
and here again we would like official
county board action.
| Would Reinstate Wardens.
Mr. Burnap of Fillmore county and
myself tried to pass measure last
Thursday to put two game wardens,
one from Burnap's and one from my
county, back on the state payroll, as
they had been let out by civil service.
We felt that both had served enough
years to come under the blanketing-
in effect which they did not come
under as they were not on the pay
roll when the civil service act was
passed. However, most of the House
felt that it was too much of an evasion