i-i't INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS E OF ... Pepartments of Waterways, Department of State Lands. sanitary Inspection of cities, schools id pai« :nto the state i.\ asu, last year,, syeis One consists fifteenth of Minnesota's surface Tha necessity of amending our present hotels, IB planning and constructing city the-sta.j ceflecteU mora than as iha j, rJS!»fi ci s. Cii is-justl/ in ihnzo of iakess anu streams. Our-water area, 'water"' and sewers systems, and in the iseepii-Sr t-rie laouern iuca oi po±uiar yovjiniiieiit. laws and methods of handling state lands, much, or §14,300.000 form sources, approximates 4,000,000 acres.. It is-estimated' analysis of drinking wat^r the university distributed 09 follows: $3,20 0, tiVO, S®".eral application to tne present with the. organization ..to that end of a avail-able "that the aggregate power 'of. known1* oonaitiGns. has- not been satisfactory, and separate state land department, is now genrally should- furnlfcfh large alhount ©f expert taxes $5,5*0J-000', special taxs -", such. as falls and rapids in Minnesota is about -help, and the benefits resulting from taxes on corporate-earnings and inhertSances the legislature should make every enort to admitted. If the State of Minnesota THE GOVERNOR 500,000 horse power, of which ^considerably expects to sell its land, and induce sottlers to such co-oparation would be mutual. The $2,500,000, earning®"of departments Sad. institutions remeclyt existing defects. To permit the to the than one-naif is now utilized for industrial function.of a great University is not mertely voters of a -minori-ty party determine iuy the same, in my opinion the law should KISS and' $$,-410,000, receipts f-rom purposes. In other words, the available •ye so amended as to permit of sales being academic. It": provides scientific aid and lands, royalties, stumpage, investrrfsrits, nominations of tne majority party is conceded waterpower of the state, as at present means of 'development" ih: every phase of to be unjust and requires no furtber riade every day in the year by the respective interest, and miscellaneous. Accordingly, surveyed, is equivalent to over tons is a county auditors, and upon terms, that, 8,000,000 vocational, business and professional life. in return for the $3°,£50,40$ contributed by comment. As long as our government of coal per annum, developed isto industrial The- state health department should be party government, the- fundamental principle vhlle fair not only to the state and the settler, general taxpayers, the state government reimbursed power. authorized to inspect and control sanitation this amount tfnd collects $11,550,000 that each party should be permitted to make will also be in the nature of inducement Besides the resources of our' water, powers, its own nominations cannot be disregarded. the latter, and a separate land department of hotels in the state. Under the present additional from other4 sources. In disbursing That the of problem is there are the resources of our waterways'. statutes, hotel inspection has been very unsatisfactory. solution thie' difficult, organized. these collections, the state government The Mississippi River as a water power developed The inspection service in hotels, distributes to genera:! taxpayers in the no one win ueny, but it is the duty of this Before reforms in our land laws can be EXHAUSTIVE TREATISE ON STATE Minneapolis,' Little Falls and other as elsewhere, should be on a salary basis and legislature to give the maitter most careful 85 counties $5,200,000 for education, $3,400,000 carried into legislative effect, however, it and milling towns. The Mississippi as a waterway the fees collected for the state treasury. for institutions of correction charity, consiaeration, and I have confidence in ita appears wise and apparently legally necessary AFFAIRS BY THE MINNESOTA created St. Paul, St. Cloud,' Red Wing, ability to reach a successful solution, in But this •'department can accomplish little while the three main division# of state government, to submit the proposition to the people aU'd vVinona and a score of other.river towns. when handicapped by such lack of support legislative, judicial executive, order that the law may operate more justly. in the form of a constitutional amendment. EXECUTIVE. Reapportionment. But the greatest waterway asset of the as in the past. Thevimportance of the department require' for support only abou£ $1,200,000, In order that the state lands may be state is Xake Superior. The cheap and warrants larger appropriations and Of all /the important questions to be decited or less than 10 uer cent of the aggregate sold to best advantage it is very desirable easily available transportation facilities of no member of the legislature can justify himself collections. by the present legislature, that of reapportionment that sales should be made at all times on the Great Lakes system are wholly responsible assessed will be watched with the in refusing to appropriate the necessary The total valuation of° Minnesota, a basis similar to the handling of private for the development of our iron ore funds- for protecting the health and life of greatest interest by the people of the state. a legal as equallized by the tax commission for 1910, lands, but this involves question, and MAKES MANY RECOMMENDATIONS wealth and for the larger chare of our logging, Our government was^founded upon the principle, his constituents. I therefore earnestly recommend is $1,222,400,000, an increase of $13*0,780,000, also one of public policy. lumber, coal, wheat, Hour and general that taxation without representation is for your most careful consideration the or 12 per cent, over 1909. Of this valuation, It is not necessary that the policy of .lobbing business. As compared with the needs of this department. approximately $210,000,000 is personal', an increase unjust, and every step forward since has been public sale, as required by our constitution, average rail charge of $7.80 per ton for Dairy and Food Department. in defense of that great principle. Since of nearly $17,000,000 over 190'9. ,-Keal should be entirely abolished. When the is a haul of one thousand miles, the Great One of the most effective departments in property assessed for 1910 at $1,012,400,000, the organization of our state there never public lands have been properly appraised, Lakes route transports ton of iron ore existed greater inequalities as to representation. the state service today is the dairy and food an increase of $113,800,000. Increases in real A the commissioner should be authorized to URGES NUMBER OF REFORMS one thousand miles for 80 cent* and brings department. Its inspection service is uniformly values ever 1908 were $44,400,000 on mineral In some sections of Minnesota 12,000 make sales to bona fide settlers at all times back a ton of coal for 30 cents. This is the people elect a senator, and in Other sections good and this is unquestionably its properties, $44,900,000 on city property and and still continue to make smaller public IN THE SYSTEM, TENDING TO miracle of transportation, which has been strongest element of success. This success it requires 62,-000 in some sections 5,000 people only $24,400,000 on acre property. sales at more frequent intervals, say, every perhaps the greatest factor in northwestern elect a representative and in other sections .has not been confined merely to the dairy Iron ore valuation for 1910 is $224,66if,ff00',. thirty or sixty days, when in his judgment GREATER EFFICIENCY development. It is our great transportation interests, but has stimulated to a considerable an increase of $20,100,000 over 1909 and $'4'4:,.400,000 it requires 32,000. Section 2, Article IV of the public interests can best be subserved asset, Lake Superior,' that places Duluth our Constitution guarantees to the people degree many food industries within the state, over 1908. In 1906, before the organization thereby. AND LESS EXPENSE. for all business purposes as near as Chicago the canning industry. The enactment fair representation in the law making bodies, notably of the tax commission, iron ore valuations a Neighboring states, owning only small and that guarantee should be sufficient authority to the Atlantic seaboard, while situated five and enforcement of strict pure-food were $64,400,000. In four years taxable fraction of public domain as compared with hundred miles nearer the markets of the for legislative action at this session. In laws are essential in the interests of public iron ore valuations have been increased by ours, have separate land departments, while Pacific and the great trade empire which health and this department should be accorded the tax eommission over $180,000,000, or 280 addition thereto, both political parties have in Minnesota the land commissioner for lies between Lake Superior and Puget pledged themselves in the strongest terms hearty co-operation in its efforts. per cent. Omitting reference to the much fifty years has been his own auditor, with St Paul—The annual message of Sound. Department of Labor. larger revenues which iron mines turn into possible to carry the will of the people into no direct and systematic daily check upon effect as expressed by their representatives in Closely associated with our waterways It has become a recognized principle by local, county, city, village, township and" Gov. A. O. Eberhart was read to the his land, timber, and mineral transactions problem is that of drainage and reservoirs. both conventions and to- give the people of employes and employers alike, that the greatest school district treasuries, than into the state such as the auditor himself gives all other the state a fair reapportionment law at this The problems of waterpowers and waterways degree of mutual success can be secured treasury, the latter alone now receives from legislature. In brief he said: departments and business, except the one and drainage are alike a subject for session. With these conditions confronting only when the responsiblity of protecting the steel company and other iron interests, or two examinations by the public examiner the hydraulic engineer. The waterway is as the state's share of the 1910 tax, over us there cannot possibly be a valid excuse for The people of Minnesota in the election of labor and those dependent thereon is made in recent years which cover only a limited the trunk of the drainage system the (any member to oppose the enactment of a 1910 have seen fit to place the control of a charge upon industry itself. The best interests S618.000, as against $180,000. in 1906, an phase of our land business. No one realizes drainage ditches which reclaim millions of law supported by every principle of right all branches and departments of state of both require that industry shall contribute increase of $438,000, or 240 per cent, in fouryears. the public wisdom and necessity of amending acres of wet lands are the small veins and and justice, secured to the people by the government in the hands of the Republican in the first place to the safeguarding Farmers and other land owners of the old system improvised in pioneer capillaries which articulate with the main constitution, and definitely promised by both party, thereby charging that of labor so as to prevent the occurring of an Minnesota may be interested iri' the fact, that, days, more keenly than the state auditor arU..y system of which the principal trunk political parties through their representatives party with a double responsibility. accident and in the second place, in case of the total assessed valuation amounting to himself, as shown by his report. is the great navigable waterway. The total in convention. Nothing but purely personal This act of confidsnce on the part of the such accident occurs, it shall contribute a $593,000,000 on lands exclusive of city and and selfish excuses can- be reasons for people confers upon the legislative and executive Department of Forestry. public ditches dug by the state and counties village lots, $224,600,000, or not' quite 40 per reasonable conpensation to the injured, of Minnesota approximate 8,000 miles in opposition to this measure. It is true, small branches of our state government, and in case of death, to those dependent upon cent, represents mineral land values. All The original forest area of Minnesota is districts are unwilling tO'give up their present length and have reclaimed about 5,000,000 things considered, Minnesota under present not only the opportunity, but the solemn him. For this purpose, the last legislature estimated at over one-half of the total land acres at a cost of $10,000,000. The average ration of representation, but there is no way •duty and mandate of helpful and responsive authorized the appointment of a commission laws and administration appears to be making surtace of .the state, or approximately 28,000,000 in which that ratio can be maintained without- cost of drainage per acre is therefore about good in the direction of scientific and just co-operation to the end that the will of the to report to this legislature a workmen's acres. The present forest a*ea may very large increase in both the senate $2 whereas the average benefit is from compensation act. This commission has taxation. people and their highest public interest and be estimated as covering less than one-fourth and house of representatives. No increase $5 to $10 per acre. welfare shall find a prompt and hearty labored diligently and will unquestionably Your honorable hodv will receive from the or of the state, approximately 13,000,000 should be made in the senate or house of It goes without saying, that a department tax commission an exhaustive report on state response in wise and progressive legislation make a thorough and comprehensive report. acres. representatives, especially in the former. •as well as vigorous and efficient administration. in charge of at least one commissioner, devoted In accordance therewith, I recommend the taxation, one of the ablest and most comprehensive Of our total wooded area 1,204,486 acres The Minnesota senate is already too large to the conservation and development of ever submitted on that subject and In this cause I pledge you the most enactment of such a law, believing it to be are set aside as a national forest reserve a as compared with other states in the Union. earnest and effective co-operation within our water resources will earn its cost many contains number of excellent recommendations. for the best interests of both employes and and nearly 2,000,000 acres more represent fold. In the interest of better legislation, as well as my power as chief of the executive department. employers as well as the state at large. unsurveyed government forest lands largely Department of Agriculture and Immigration. adequate representation, Minnesota would be Telephone taxes for the two years ending and to you I look with the utmost Department of Education. in the Indian reservations, making a total Minnesota possesses the greatest agricultural better off with a constitutional limitation of •confidence and expectation for support in Forty per cent of the entire volume of July 31, 1910, were $284,000, compared with of over 3,000,000 acres of national government fifty senators and from 120 to 1'25-representatives? resources of any state in the Union, and carrying into legislative enactment the practical revenue collected and disbursed in Minnesota 8195,000 for the two years ending July 31, holdings in Minnesota. The state forest That number would be sufficient for all reforms which the needs of our commonwealth yet it is one of the few states which have no during the past year for state, county, 1908, an Increase of $89,000, or 45 per cent. reserves aggregate about 40,000 acres. purposes,' and, as applied to the senate, as centrally organized department. of agriculture. and the progressive thought of city, village, and township government, approximately, Examination by the public examiner's deoartment, The total standing timber in twenty-one Of her 45.000,000 acres of agricultural great' as other state in the Union: our time demand at our hands. $16,000,000,—was expended for pursuant to suoreme court decisions, counties now partly covered by forests is Belief of Forest Fire- Sufferers. lands, less than 50 per cent are under cultivation, I believe that the time has arrived jn public education. The state appropriations recovered $22,854 of net revenue. Under the estimated by the forest commissioner at Reference should be made at this time to the history of this state, when the public and this 50 per cent should yield, under authority of the 1909 gross earnings act. the for education were |5,200„000, being twothirds about twenty billion feet, nearly one-half proper methods of administration, from 50 the effects of the forest'fire disaster in northern good, or, to use the language of the constitution, of the net cost of state government. joint administration of the tax commission of which is supposed to be pine. At the to 100 per cent greater returns than are Minnesota, and the necessity for relief when the security, benefit and protection Almost exactly 22 ner cent of our population, and public examiner's department, relative present average lumber cut of a billion feet of the settlers who lOst their homes and personal of the people demand a radical modification now realized. or about 441,000, is enrolled in .our high and to telephone accounts and taxes, resulted in a year, it would take about twenty years, As showing what other states are doing effects in that disaster. and reform in certain phases of our graded, semi-graded and rural schools, as adding to the tax list for the year ending without the help of forest fires, to complete The prompt and generous response of the state administration. in this line, Missouri has one of the best July 31, 1910, as compared with 1909. a total compared with 17 per cent for New England, the denudation of a state which once had people' of Minnesota' to my call for relief has organized departments of agriculture, in We have just completed the first half and 16 per cent for New York. As showing of 187 new companies. $1,047,680 of additional one of the greatest and most varied forest a charge of ten officers aj|d specialists. This so far provided means for meeting the temporary century of our development as state. We gross earnings, and $31,360 of increased taxes. the per capita Investment for education in areas. department works in harmony with the agricultural needs of this situation, but I am advised are no longer dependent upon pioneer experiments our various schools, the superintendent of Further legislation Is now desired giving It would seem as. though the necessity of schools and colleges, the livestock by the Red Cross Relief Committee that statutory form to the executive rules and and ancient makeshifts. We are prepared public instruction finds that we paid last year placing the public forest under scientific breeders, corn growers, state dairy association. something in the way of further aid must be to establish our system of state government $18.79 per capita for 222,000 pupils in semigraded decisions construing and aoplying the gross and business like administration were so extended to these people. I would therefore swine growers and breeders, sheep on the most scientific and progressive and rural schools, $34.72 per capita for earnings act, especially with reference to cooperative. plain to the general public and to the members urge the legislature to consider this matter at breeders, highway engineers, and home-makers mutual and rural telephone lines principles of civics and economics. 218,000 pupils in high and graded schools, of this legislature, that argument should an early date and conference. The Pennsylvania department extend such relief as shall Before the installation of any reform, however, and telephone accounting, in order that all $81.30 per capita for about 3,600 in normal be unnecessary. The state has just experienced be adequate and equitable. appears to be modelled somewhat after we wish to assure ourselves that it schools, and $177.39 per capita for 5,369 classes of companies may be dealt with another chapter of horrors in connection that of the general government, with a secretary can stand the test of experience as practical justly and in accord with their respective Conclusion. attendants at the state university and agricultural with the Rainy River Valley forest *1 of agriculture, and such special bureaus, It is not difficult to anticipate that there and business like, that it conduces to schools and college. The investment business conditions. fires, which should be sufficient to demonstrate as dairy and food, livestock, veterinary will be considerable opposition to many of public economy and efficiency, and that it in our 8,600 school houses exceeds $28,500,000, State Finances. the necessity of improved forest administration. science, agricultural chemistry, and specialists the reforms herein advocated. Be that as it represents the true interests, welfare and there having been "constructed during the At no time in the history of the state were But the Hinckley, Chisholm in all the various branches of agricultual may, I wish to impress on the members of •prosperity of the people as a whole. past two years 5-20 buildings, at a cost of the finances in better condition. The and Beaudette fires, with their losses aggregating science and industry. Before the organisation the legislature that my only grouna for urging Importance of Efficient Administration. $.4,200,000. Our permanent school fund today revenue fund Is greater by nearly a million millions of dollars worth of property of that department in 1S95- there had this reorganization is to secure greater exceeds $21,000,000, an increase-of $1,293,000 dollars than it was a year ago. I fully agree The Governor is the chief administrative and many human lives, tell only a part of the been a steady decrease in the value of the efficiency in the administration of state arlairs from proceeds of timber, mineral and agricultural the the-investment with state auditor and •fflcer of the state, and is rightly held responsible sad story. To this we must add losses by state farm production for over, twenty years, and to enable the people of the state to better lands during the past two years. The by the people for the enforcement board that $850,000- shculd be appropriated trespass and depredation, and loss by neglect the value of the 1890 product being orte-third safe-guard their great heritage of natural teachers number over 15,000, and the school of for the purpose of retiring state capitol certificates. the laws and the efficient administration of growing forests as well as loss of less than that of 1870. The wonderful results resources. I would particularly urge upon libraries contain 1,200,000 volumes. of the business affairs of the state. Under This will reduce the interest-bearing opportunities for reforestation. It is estimated of this organization appeared immediately the legislature with reference to the creation No state department has more important debt of the state and place this amount in our present laws the Governor is by law constituted that the aggregate forest resources of in the-census returns of 1900 when the of any new offices, that special fitness and functions to perform than that of education, be the school fund where it can loaned to an active member of sixteen boards, Minnesota are worth $100,000,000, which is farm products of Pennsylvania showed a qualification be the only requisites for appointment, and yet there is perhaps not a department of counties and municipalities for public improvements. some which administer business affairs the strongest possible argument for ade~ gain in value over 1890 of 70 per cent. and that scientir.c and business today rwhich is handicapped in its efficiency A large number of loans approved during the year running into the millions. quate methods of protection, development Minnesota in 1909 turned out an agricultural principles be applied as in private business. tty such complicated executive machinery. Anyone can readily see that it is absolutely by the Investment board are still and administration. product estimated as worth over $427,000,000, To place the control and management of The expansion of the public school system pending for lack of funds, and since it is a physical impossibility for the governor to our great public resources and tne management The state also has a large area of cutover or about $215.00 per capita. and the Increasing multiplicity of educational unquestionably poor, business policy to sell be advised with reference to the details of Minnesota is the first state in the Union of. our institutions in the hanus of a lands that are valuable chiefly for reforestation, institutions call for greatiy increased administrative bonds owned by the -state on a depressed such enormous business transactions that and the same applies to a considerable in wheat production, with a record yield of political machine is a proposition wnich no forCe and greater specialization of bond market, I would respectfully recommend he may act intelligently for the best interests 94,000,000 bushels but the 1909 average of patriotic citizen in these progressive times can area of our swamp lands. When of work. Thirty-three states have enlarged the of the people the state. As prominent that the legislature immediately authorize 16.8 bushels per acre, though above the endorse. we read the reports of European state forests scope and powers of the state department of the retiring of capitol certificates in examples I would mention the drainage and note what earnings are derived average for the country at large, is only half All the recommendations herein are made public instruction by creating state boards- of and timber boards. The state of Minnesota the amount suggested, so that the pending that of the best wheat sections of Europe from forest lands, we begin to appreciate after most careful and earnest consideration of education. Arduous demands upon our state applications for municipal and county loans spends large sums money every year for or even that of Minnesota in the earlier days. and without any reefrence whatever to any that timber is one of the most valuable crops department of public instruction in supervising can be granted to that extent. drainage, and I have every reason to believe that soil may produce and that land of little The state has done much- to encourage political future. I am fully convinced that a school system which calls for the expenditure that the expenditure of this money by the *Railroad and Warehouse Commission. scientific agriculture what we now need is to or no value for farming may be made a they are right and whether they may be popular of nearly $16,000,000 of local taxes 'drainage board of this state has brought The important service rendered the state generous revenue producer by scientific forestry. make co-operative and effective under a and state appropriations annually, suggest or not is immaterial. I shall leave tnem the best results, but as a member of the by our railroad and warehouse commission well-directed central organization the many tO your fair and free consideration without that the time has come in our educational 'board I cannot of my own knowledge assure is becoming more and more recognized, and lines of agricultural activity now in progress In scientific forestry administration Sweden history, when the administration of all educational any interference on the part of tne executive the people of the state that the best results there is no one today who seriously' questions for example has made wonderful progress. in the several directions. We have one of department, believing that your conclusions affairs should be placed in the hands have in all cases been obtained. the effective work of this commission. One the greatest agricultural colleges and farm Her net revenue over cost of administration with reference thereto shall be just of a strong state board of' education. This Under the present system of organization of its most importa-nt acts in the past has schools in the country, with three fairly and for the best interests of our beloved state. increased from $300,000 in 1880, to $2,000,000 board should be non-partisan and removed as with a large number of nominal and perfunctory been the valuation of state railroad properties a well-equipped experiment stations, and a year at the present time. In 35 years, The great state of Minnesota, the richest far as possible from politics by giving the boards in charge of the affairs of state with a view of determining what shall constitute farmers' institute or traveling lecture course. Sweden by purchase and reforestation has iriembers six-year terms, terminating alternately and most progressive commonwealth of otfi' there is no way of securing such co-opera•tion a fair rate, and the commission is now The several state institutions, commissions, increased its state forest area 45 -per cent, country, now calls us to a new career,, a career one every two years. The board members as is essential in efficient business administration. investigating express companies for'the same departments and agricultual societies, each 600,000 acres thereof being acquired by should have specialized training and of such material, industrial, and intellectual The boards are uniformly too purpose. in its own line, have performed a vast service purchase. During a similar period Minnesota development as will result in tha duties one a specialist in common and industrial large. The members reside in every portion In the Minnesota rate cases, the master is in our educational and industrial development has received nearly ten times that schools, another in higher education, greatest blessings to all our people. That of the state, and even if they could be assembled chancery seriously questions the authority of a but the greatest efficiency and we shall be successful is certa.n. We are amount in government grants, without and the third in school finance. To this at any one time and place it" would the commission to make a general investigation economy have not been realized because of dollar of expense for investment. Minnesota not a product of material forces. We have board should be entrusted the management "foe extremely difficult to agree on any single and determination of what shall constitute lack of co-operative organization. already passed through one of those great today consumes about double the proposition and to secure uniform support in of all aducational affairs and institutions of a reasonable rate. If there is, in fact, That greater organization in agricultual internal moral struggles which becomes at amount of lumber which it produces, while the state with the exception of the normal the execution thereof. any doubt e.a to the authority given to the education and industry is absolutely essential,' Sweden, next to Russia, is the greatest exporter once the best test of citizenship and stability Perhaps the only remnant of the theory schools and the state university. It should commission by the statute. It should at once is well known and generally admitted. An of government. We have outgrown the old of lumber in the world. appoint the state superintendent, the state librarian, that purely political considerations are sufficient be remedied by appropriate legislation. appalling annual loss of soil fertility from ruts and are opening new highways along The forest problems of our state have been and all inspectors in the entire for reward at public expense in the The speedy development of our rural communities unscientific methods of tillage has been every field of throught, and action, political, present fee office. There Is no possible defense sadly neglected. For protection against forest school system, all of whom* should be likewise and the building of suburban electric demonstrated to a mathematical certainty. industrial and social. Every public question fires, Minnesota spends less than onefourth selected with reference to educational, for the existence of this office today. lines opens up another field of regulation. The late federal census returns show an actual has become one of right, of fairness, of honor",' Fees collected do not belong to the officer, of what is required for effective qualifications and without regard to political f. Thc«e electric lines will soon become active decrease in number of farms in several of affiliations. These considerations seem to and of a "square deal." "but to the state, and the state owes the results, and in the way of practical forest factors in the transportation business, and our older counties, amounting to as high as At no time in our history have the rank .officer a sufficient compensation for his work, administration conducts only a few scattered me sufficient to urge upon the legislature their operation should, therefore, be subject 200 to 300 farms per county. As many as and file of men and women been imbued with including necessary expenses, and no more. experiments with nothing like a. comprehensive, the establishment of such a board and the to the railroad and warehouse commission, twenty-eight Minnesota counties, located a higher and nrmer moral determination: No state officer should be dependent for scientific and businesslike system of submission to the people of the necessary similarly with the railroads. Again, until not only in the older southern districts, but in with a truer instinct and more intelligent ~his support upon the amount of fees collected. forestry. The cost of forest fire protection constitutional amendment. A similar provision Minnesota secures the services of a public the central and western sections of the state, Perhaps no offices in this state can should be made with reference to county comprehension of the highest needs of society should be borne by the benefitted forest utilities commission, the control -of telephone show less population in 1910, than in 1900. with a stronger grip on what makes illustrate this more forcibly than those connected property on the basis of an insurance risk, boards of education, so that the county superintendent and telegraph lines should also be As a business investment, the census of with the oil and boiler inspection, and can be selected purely with reference for the enforcement of law and good government private timber holdings paying their pro rata placed under this commission, for it is important 1910-values our present 155,759 farms at with a higher aspiration for the surveying of logs and lumber. The inspec-tion share of the cost. On this basis, the cost of to merit and qualifications. If the that these essential factors in state $1,259,510,000, not including farm machinery, moral and material uplift of the masses of illuminating oils could be turned fire protection need not be materially increased legislature deems this inadvisable, there development, upon which the public at large livestock and products on hand, which would with a truer recognition of principle and personal over to the dairy and food department with against the* general taxpayer, and should be submitted for adoption by the people.- lis Ht all times dependent, should be under the perhaps swell our total farm investment to worth in public life with, a stronger v, practically no additional expense, which then only as he gets liberal returns for insurance a constitutional amendment requiring control of the state. approximately $1,500,000,000. The state effort to uphold the purity of the home, the 'would result in saving the state in fees disbursed against loss. county superintendents to possess specific Department of Public Examiner. stands in the relation of a direct proprietor efficiency of the school, and the sancity of for the inspection of oil approximately As showing that our timber lands justify educational qualifications. As a check upon irregularities in accounting and manager, and has duties as such in the the church against the domination of evil $40,000.00 annually, the total amount"qf on business grounds reasonable expenditure The advantages of the consolidated school and illegal expenditures, the legislature way of improvement, drainage, forestry, and with a more earnest desire to abolish fees collected during the fiscal year ending for administration, I present herewith the system are so well known as to make anything of Minnesota many years ago created the roads and general agricultural management. special privilege and secure equal rights to •i- July 31, 1910, being $53,560.60. The total auditor's statement of pine lumber cut from but a mere mention unnecessary. The department of public examiner, to whose Not only in the interest of our educational all. Such conditions should enable us to •cost ol! boiler inspection for the year 1910 Minnesota, state lands for the past six years: principal argument used against the consolidation scrutiny the great volume of financial operations institutions, but also in justice to the struggling solve all problems successfully, to establish .as nearly as can be ascertained from the Average of the rural school is that of expense. by the state are rubjected. The public settler whose claims are surrounded by the highest ideals of civic righteousness in incomplete returns filed, was about $32,500, No. of ft. Amt. obtained per The experience of eighteen hundred completely examiner is also required by law to check public lands exempt from taxation, we cannot public and private life, and to secure an an amount greatly out of proportion to the 1905 52,518,325 $352,992.23 6.72 consolidated schools and two thousand partially and verify the statements of all corporations conscientiously neglect longer our plain :flervice actually rendered. But conceding for honest and efficient administration in every 1906 63,849,250 430,505.34 6.74 consolidated schools in thirty-two states paying gross earnings taxes, which implies duty as chief land proprietor. -the sake of argument that efficient services branch of our government. 1907 54,244,810 446,539.70 8.23 of the union, has completely demonstrated the examination of about $150,000,000 of corporation immigration. have been in all cases rendered, the system 1908 70,360,550 549,559.97 7.81. that the average expense is very little above earnings annually. He also exercis^ is still radically wrong in principle. It is the function oi cne department of 1909 25,692,170 217,011.26 8.45 that of the best district school, and when the HERZAN HEARING CN JAN. 11. •es supervision over school districts, township, In the case of oil Inspection, this department immigration to bring to our lanus the population 1910 14,255,600 116,732.05 8.19 items of transportation of pupils to and from and village accounts, upon request of should be entirely abolished and ita and our immigration commissioner The above receipts are from pine logging the consolidated schools, and the study of a the county board. The law creating the department nas maue a record in performing uie junction. work performed by the dairy and food department. only. Expert forestry administration would large number of branches not taught there, is fully justified by results, and In the case of boiler inspection, ine $70,000 expended by tne commission largely pay for itself in utilizing grades and as well as the greater efficiency, are taken Case of Slayer of Mrs. Fiman* Signs other states jare following Minnesota's example. this work should be performed by expert durmg four years in advertising. Minnesota classes of timber, pulp-wood and fuel, jjito consideration, the consolidated school From a financial standpoint, this inspectors in the labor department, who have prouueed several hunured thousand which the state as yet makes little attempt becomes the cheapest school in our entire educational His Confession. department has been an exceptionally good •should be amply compensated for their work inquiries Iiom lnteuuing settlers, increaseu to market. Revenue from wise and scientific system. investment, as it has recovered into the «nd who should travel throughout the state tne saies ol state, feueral aim private lautis, cuttings and sales, and the removal Department of State Institutions. state treasury enormous sums of money, but in the performance of their duties, devoting brougnt investors anil larru tenants, raised of dead and down timber, would pay for cost During the past biennial period there has even though it could not discover one mistake all their t'me thereto. The fees collected of administration, .while at the same time larm values, increased business, and materially been no occasion to criticise the management Glencoe. —The case against Joseph in a year's transactions, its existence as an •should bo based on boiler capacity and paid aiued state development. 'Ine special aiding the growth of young timber of desirable of our state institutions and the state board accounting office is fully warranted. Herzan, the alleged murderer Into the state treasury. With reference to Minnesota immigration car, recently classes. I believe that, even from the of control is entitled to great credit for its State Banking Department. -the inspection of IOTS and lumber, this could naulea througn the states south of us uy tne beginning, Minnesota, will find scientific forestry work. of Mrs. Joseph Fiman, of Silver Lake, :be performed by inspectors under the forestry generous co-uperauou of one of our railway The last session of the legislature, in compliance a source of revenue, instead of expense, The hospitals and asylums are crowded commissioner, and the fees collected with the general request of the bankers and that, if we stop the present loss and depletion _oinpanies, and visited by twelve hunurea beyond capacity, and the legislature should who made a complete confession after •therefor turned over to the state as in other iarmers uaily, is an example of the eiitcrprisa of Minnesota, created a separate state without further delay, we shall each provide for the necessary extensions. Perhaps cases. backing department by taking the supervision being in the sweatbox 24 hours, was a with wnich the state is now being advertised. year find our state forest growing source the greatest neglect on the part of the a of these institutions from the department Bureau of Public Domain. of public revenue, and blessing to the state is in failing to provide a reformatory continued until Jan. 11. Herzan wrote a In order to secure the best results, there of public examiner and placing them people instead of, as today, source of peril An examination of government land office for women. The suggestion made by the under a superintendent of banks. The nev.department must be a radical reorganization of our administrative and signed a full confession. It was to life and property. records from the date of the first homestead board of control that a new institution be began business August 1, 1909, metnous, so that there will be act nown to June 3, 1909, indicates Department of Geology and Mines. provided with two separate departments, one in Bohemian. The salient features en.ecti\e co-operd.uon between the immigration and has been in operation one year and five that something over one-third of our -total After mining and shipping to the furnaces a reformatory and the other a prison for months. The result from every point of view department, on the one hand, and trie •state domain, or approximately 18,000,uu0 254,000,000 tons of iron ore, the world's women, should be adopted, as it is essential of the confession are as follows: land, forestry, agricultural and other departments justifies the wisdom of the legislature and of •acres, has been patented to settlers under record of production, Minnesota has now in the proper treatment and reformation of the bankers association in creating the new on the other. these inmates. Herzan says he borrowed his brother's the several homestead acts. Timber culture definitely located a body of ore, amounting ox Jt'ublic Highways. department, which has at all times had more ci arimeiit entries in Minnesota, under the act of 1877, to 1,347,596,000 tons, which is one-third of Another question of considerable inportance revolver the day of the crime with We have maue a modest beginning in the than sufficient work to occupy the attention aggregate approximately 2,100,000 acres, ft the available and~ merchantable ore of the with reference to the care of criminals of the entire official force. An exceptionally development of a state highway system, •and timber and stone entries, under the act is the enactment of a law authorizing the United States and upon which taxes are paid the intention of going to the Fiman ^uu aie moving slovriy the rignt direction, gratifying showing, botl\ as to the growth •of 1878, account for 1,275,000 acres additional. into the state treasury. Minnesota iron ore court, .except in case of murder, to impose of prosperity in the state, and the success in four years, under the 1-20 of a mill levy, home to secure the monfej' which ho an indeterminate sentence. I am firmly shipments this season exceed 30,000,000 tons, $264,000, or an average of $66,000 a year, haa of banking enterprise under the new regime, The amount of unappropriated lands belonging which is 72 per cent, of the total production convinced that there would be more convictions knew was kept in the house. He told is made by the records of this department. been available as state aid and distributed to the general government open to for murder in the first degree if either of the Lake Superior region, about 60 per During the year ending Nov. 10, 1910. ther' among the counties on the basis of $1.00 paid settlement in Minnesota, as shown by the capital punishment were abolished, or imposed of entering the Fiman home after having cent of that of North America, and perhaps was a net increase of 40 new banks, of oy the state as against $2.00 by the county, land ouice report of 1909 is 1,450,955 acres, one-fifth of that of the world. And yet Minnesota only in extreme cases," and then only $20,000,000 in deposits, and of $22,900,000 spent the afternoon away from his and neany all the counties have avaned •of which 187,000 are unsurveyed. upon the order of the court or the unanimous has no state department of mines, in total bank resources, a gain of 22 per Minnesota State Lands. themselves of this allotment and complied and not even, in operation at this time, the recommendation of the jury. own home, and of demanding it from cent for the year. On that date there were with the regulations of the State Highway Under the various acts of Songress granting For the purpose of paroling prisoners confined usual geological survey, found in most of in Minnesota 686 state banks with deoosits Commission, iinder^the 4 of a mill tax, lands to the several states, Minnesota the states of the Union. in the state prison and reformatory, Mi. and Mrs. Fiman. aggregating $108,000,000, and total resources which is available under the Constitutional is entitled to 9,600,118.47 acres, as follows: Our educational institutions, notably the there should be established a state board of in the sum of $126,240,000, which is more The aged couple gave him some acres Amendment, on the condition of the State parole consisting of the chairman of the public schools, university and agricultural than three times the number of banks and paying one-half the cost of the state roaus, •School lands 2,977,523.39 colleges, lead the world in wealth and income board of control of state institutions, a citizen money, but he wanted more. The old volume of deposits and resources represented Agricultural college lands 124,439.28 it is possible for this legislature, on the from these mines. It has long been of the state versed in criminology, and by the state banking system in 1800. A present state valuation, to provide the state gentleman, he said, declared he would Internal improvement ." 500,000.00 apparent that mineral resources which promise either the warden of the prison or the superintendent state banking growth of 200 per cent in ten highway system with an annual appropriation Swamp lands 5,853,520.68 our schools and university a future income of the reformatory, as the case may go upstairs to find it, but instead of years certainly bespeaks progress. Including of $300,000. This provision will place Public building lands 6,395.12 be, constituting the third member. cf more than $100,000,000 require detailed national banks there has been an eight-fold Minnesota in the rank of the eight leading Salt spring lands 46.0S0.00 expert administration. Our state The Minnesota state prison is recognized doing so broke a window and jumped increase in 25 years until today there are states in good-roads legislation. University lands 92,160.00 geological survey, created from the proceeds as a model institution of its kind, and the 970 banks in the state, with deposits aggregating out. As he did so, according to Herzyn's Doubtlessly there will be laid before you Up to July 31, 1910, patents' had been of the government salt spring land grant, construction of new buildings is progressing $340,000,000. during this session a bill for a greatly Improved received from the general government for was discontinued over ten years ago, at the rapidly. In the manufacture of farm machinery story, Mrs. Fiman held a lantern The federal comptroller of the currency isby and strengthened state highway act. the several classes of state lands, as follows: height of its usefulness, and before it had the state has taken an advanced law authorised to exercise his discretion One of its purposes is' to serve as an enabling uj. io the robber's face and said she acres completed its work. step and the output of 231 mowers and 70 in issuing a charter to a bank where the School lands 2,950,060.77 From the standpoint of good business act to put into effect the new constitutional binders during the past season will undoubtedly amount of local business does not justify its knew who he was. Herzan then tired Agricultural college lands 94,439.28 amendment. Another provision will authorize demonstrate the importance of this management there can be only one thing to organization, and in cases where the application is a Internal improvement land 499,652.51 do and that to establish new geological the county board of each county to appoint work. the fatal shot, which entered the aged is prompted by local spite or jealousy. a competent road builder as county iSwamp lands 4,493,941.48 survey and department of mines, and, following Some conflict has arisen- with reference In this state there is a demand for similar woman's superintendent of highways, who shall act head and resulted in her Public building lands 6,395.12 the example of Wisconsin, Michigan to the investigation of complaints made by authority on the part of the superintendent of under the supervision of the state highway Salt spring lands 44,930.60 and Missouri, make such appropriations from Inmates of state institutions. The taking of banks with reference to applications for death. as commission, in harmony with the plan successfully testimony1 by the board ef control and the University lands 91,682.96 year to year are necesssary to maintain state charters. Such restrictive pow~r, then adapted by some of the Atlantic a denartment of geology and mines worthy state board of visitors separately is a duplication properly to appreciations for state charters. Herzan then fled from the scene, States. The act may likewise authorize the of our great mineral industry and resources. of time and expense, and the legislature 8 181 102 72 Such restrictive power, then properly exercised, of This leaves a balance 1,419,015.75 acres, state highway commission and its engineer should estabfish some»co-operation between The expense of such administration will be and, after wandering about some time is of value in safeguarding the interests of to name district engineers for the various :according to the record the state, yet to returned !n revenue to the state many fold. the two boards that would .make duplication of depositors, but the exercise of such to confuse the officers who might try he approved and patented. sections of the state in accord with New Mine royalties and leases this year earned of work unnecessary. discretion may in .many instances work a Approximately 2.800,000 acres of school, STork, -Massachusetts and Connecticut plan. The population of Soldiers' Home is 37 for our state institutions over $325,000, and to follow his footprints, went home. hardshit).- I would sufr'rrst that the grant of Certainly, the proposed act should give our university, agricultural, college, internal improvement, in twenty years the state treasury has realized greater than a year ago and 112 greater than poweF be carefully saf"-ru^rded. swamp and salt spring lands state engineer a salary more nearly commensutpte two years ago. Nevertheless, the. total expenditure from its mines $1,850,000, noi including were the Detectives employed by Department of insurance. with his responsible expert duties. •have been sold, and the proceeds invested for maint^nance^for the fiscal year caxes. The state tax on iron ore this year Our Insurance laws, ""hieh were enacted is According to the report of the state board of 1909 was $101,805.17 while the cost for "for the various educational and other perma-' •s $618,000. which over thirteen times the county and worked for weeks on: the largely in the 1907 session of the legislature, nent trust funds, which on July 3, 1910, are of health, there occu-rrcc* in this state 8,075 1910 was only $98,957.68, a reduction of rtate tax from iron ore. in 1900. In the past and which have been so ably and rigidly administered c::se. Several clues were run down deaths frmo preventable disease during the reported by the Auditor, as Jollows: four years, since the organization of the Minnesota'tax S2.847.49. ever since, have placeij insur^nc ... "Permanent school fund' $21,002,571.37 year 1908, and 8,426 deaths during the year Recent appropriations have not been sufficient commission.' the state treasury f.ud suspects were placed under surveillance, on a. sound basis in our state. In the year 1909. Permanent university fund .... 1,448.798.97 alone has realized $2,450,000 from iron mine to keep the institution in the best of 1900 the total amount of nrc-niuma collect-'1 Internal improvement land fund. 2,944,597.87 The great problem to be solved is one of reoair and nothing should be left undone but in every instance were taxation, not to mention the still larger revenue for fire insurance were $4.2333.409: in 1909 orevention rather than cure, an (J consists -•Swamp land fund 1.581,255.20 contributed by the"mines to the support which would add to the comfort and happiness able to prove an alibi. Herzan was the total amount received was $7,632,023, largely in' the enforcement of sanitation laws of those to whom w«-owe so.-nrnT^b. of town, county, village and city government our cities, schools, and homes.- That the showing an increase of $3,398,614. The total j? $27,077,223.41 TAXATION AND COST OF. GOVERNMENT. ind for roads, bridcres, and schools in the among the men watched, aad' bit by amount of premiums collectcd by legal reserve present board of health has_been efficient and Cost of government in Minnesota for the The Auditor, as ex-offlcio state land com"mlssioner, iron-producing counties. life insurance companies in 1900 was bit a strong case was ma.vfe against reports on hand unsold in the possession Department of Game and Fish. rendered the state inestimable service there last fiscal year, ending July 31, 1910, as estimated RS.879.103.97 in 1909 the amount aggregated richly "an be no doubt, but the possibility of the of the state and its institutions at Nature has endowed the state of by the state tax commission is as follows: him. His shoes fit exactly the footprints $7,503,360, showing an increasing of 53,634.256.03. game and It. future cannot be' measured by the achievements !this time 2,486,405 acres, as follows: Minnesota with fish. is one of A similar growth is also shown by resources*. of the past. In this department, perhaps Year ending Total Per the acres our natural in the conservation made by m^derer. He the easnalty insurance companies. In thyear has more than in any other, it is absolutely net cost. Capita. •"School land 940,570.54 cf which the state been most fortunate.. July 31.. 1010. his the 1903 the total amount of premium collected borrowed brother's, revolver University land 22,1-70.95 disbursements the essential that there should be co-operatJon ^$7,527,000 $3.36 The total of deoartment State government .. for the year amount to with other departments. Scarcely a question 19.nrR.030 was $1,151,987: in 1909. S2.248.017.7S, Internal improvement land ...... 7,757.71 1910 $95,407.17. Out County and township 8.75 of the day crime and ps not at home 13,259,000 "Showing an increase of $1,090,030.78. there cf any importance in the departments City and yjilage .. 7.26 Swamp land 1.515,906.14 of 504 prosecutions, have been only of Since the pernicious fee system was abolished In to the above holdings, the the sum total education and labor comes up for consideration all tbe afternoon and, evening. He was addition "2 acquittals, and of fines for the state has received considerable -auditor estimates that there is still due from the year -amounts to that does not also involve some question, 19^0 $8,624.45. Total $43,392,000 $20,00 revenue, from this source. traced a farm heme near the Fiman. Curing the yea1904 to .»•' the general government 600,000 acres of One of the best investments made by the of public health. Under the present system making .an-iapproximate- average per capita. In selected and Indemnity school lands, the state received $29,999.35 fees. In swamp state is the Improvement of our fish hatcheries of organization, this co-operation is very So far as the general taxpayer is concerned, heme, where h« had supper, and left 1»05 of the insurance commissioner bringing the total up to approximately 3,000,«oo so as to increase the supply of fish. state the fee privileges {•*v difficult. The should encourage closer the state government cost last year between, its abolished with result acres, as the total publlo domain to be The total distribution of fish-fry for the relations educational institutions were the that there shortly fe$for§ the crime wa® !i^ only $3,250,000, or about $1.50 per capita, in- the department collected t?},693.31. administered In the interest of onr public and the administrative service, thereby not one-fifth this, was borne the 1910 years IMS and 1910 amounts to 19MM.M7, ana of by steel Biilia showing-fen increase Of $41,434.01 during a hools and other state la well only Insuring better service to the public company aad iron ore Interests. As com»area__wlth--l3.aitt.MA_gtteh. which ls an increase of 190,60S,617 over the wnmit-ted, ..mm naaiaL a«Mi& «ea*a IMf and Jill br* «*nrr**'"Vw" thrinitllattflna tot.. Bfijtoi st S S W E