The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-01-30
THURSDAY, JANUARY 81, 1885.

uniform oath To be used at elections.
By Mr.. COOK. A bill prohibit ng the Sa'c
OF intoxicating liquors. ,.
By Mr.. SKINNER: A bill TO locate
State road from Faribault to intersec' the
'Dodd read"
BILLS INTRODUCED.
Rv Mr.. LINDSLEY: A memorial to the
Post Office Department, for mail route from
Chatfeld 10 Austin.
By MIR RIDPATH A bill regulating the
duties of Reporters of Supreme Court. Re-
ferred TO committee on Printing.
The ii. of r. file was then taken up.
UFNo 81, a bill to authorize the Coun-
ty Commi>s toners of 'ennepin County to
levy tax to build bridge acros Nine Mile
Creek.
II. F. No. Al, for an Act to lay out and
establish a State Road from Shakopee, in
Scott county, to Kasota, in lie Sueur county
\. F. No 81, a bill for an Act to provide
for defraying the expenses of the Constitu-
tonal Convention of MINI. sofa, Held in ST.
Paul in July and August, A. d. 1857.
III. +. No. 9, memorial to Congress for
the establishment of a mail route from Min
neapolis to Kandiyohi by the way of Way
zata, Watertown, Winsted, Byron, and &C.
dar City.
ii. F. No IL, memorial to Congress for
the establishment of mail route from
Brownsville, in the State of Minnesota, to
Winona in the State of Minnesota, by way
of La Crescent, Eagle Bluff, Dakota, Rich
mond, Homer and Winona.
Ii. F. No. -, memorial to the Post
master General for a Mail Route from Min
neapolis to Henderson on the West side of
the Minnesota River.
H. F. No. Is, Memorial to Congress for
the establishment Of a mail route from Ellio-
IA. in the State of Minnesota, to Blue Earth
City in the State of Minnesota, by the way
of Granger, Uxbrdge, Forest City, Lime
Springs, Chester in the State of Iowa. Le-
roy, Six Mile Grove, Cedar Valley, (Otranto,
in Iowa. Shell Rock City, and Walnut Lake
III. F. No. IA, Memorial to the Congress
of the United States for the establishment of
a Mail Route from the town Of st. Peter, in
Nicollet County, to the Sioux Agency. in
Brown County, by the way Of Fort Ridgely.
All the above bills were read first time.
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
Eleven o'clock having arrived, the Senate
took up the Homestead Exemption Bill,
which was ma e the special order for this
hour. and went into Committee of the Whole,
Mr.. Ridpath in the Chair.
Mr.. NORTON made lengthy speech
against some provisions CT the bill, claiming
that the true design of Homestead Exemp-
ons was to save home to family, where
they could be kept together, and saved from
want, and not to maintain a merchant or
banker in splendid style Of LIVING as well as
before his bankruptcy. lie did not want to
see IA fortune exempted, but what the name
in,licatcs-a mere homestead.
Mr.. HALL thought that the value of such
homestead exemption lof an area OF 1000
square feetl i'll cities and towns was overrat-
ed 1t would be no more than fair eXemp-
ton.
Mr. VAN ETTEN also advocated the
ameniment,an thought 1t afforded no chanc
es or inducements to fraudulent bankruptcy.
Mr. LINDSLEY opposed the amendment,
and all such provisions Their object was to
defeat the BILL All he wanted to see ex
empted was enough to support family, edu-
cate them. and keep them from want and
vice To 60 beyond this is wrong: it opens
the way to vllainy, and is an injustice to the
creditor, who may perhaps be forced through
the failure OF the eXemptor to live IN poor
and humble style. He was in favor of allow
inc only as much land in acres as was neces-
sary, by honest labor to support family, or
if the person awaiting himself of the exemp-
ton was a mechanic, to have comfortable
home on q lot in a city or town. which he
thought half the amount proposed would COW
err. He deemed the bill one of SO much i'm
pc~toncc be could not willingly see engrait
ed in it any provisions that would defeat 1t
or cause its future repeal.
Mr.. STREETER thought that 40 acres
dor fbaf inc
TOO much. He favored liberal exemption
He first made the amennment OF l6O acres IL
Mace of 50 acres 1t afforded no incentive
to dishonesty: if man was disposed te
swindle lie could manage it any how. Th'
possibility of some uuprincipled debtor max
inr an improper use of the exemption priv
ilece was no argument against passing Law
which would confer blessing on Thousands
OF the worthy and truly unfortunate,
Mr.. HUDSON thought that the exemp
tiors proposed were enormous lie woul'
Ike to be turned out on the world, as SOM
of the members had termed it, with $1,000
worth of property-it would make mai
feel so independent that he wouldn't remem
Der that he was a poor debtor to whom thu
law had secured 4 remnant of his fortune a!
a home for his family.
weigh every provisi' well before passing tn
BILL He wanted to see it fully discussed
and thought the matter was one of so mucl
Importance that the Senate could afford tt
sDend considerable time on its consideration
The Speaker then spent some time in re
viewing the history of the condition of tn,
debtor, mentioning the old rule OF imprisOn
ment for debt, and when that was finally don
away with, the power of the creditor to stril
the unfortunate debtor Of everything he had
and turning him, without friends, means
home. or business, on the ''cold charities q
the world.
He spoke Of the humane idea of grantin!
a homestead exemption, and the great goo'
it would do, if wisely framed. He thought
however, that 160 acres of land was to,
much.
One or two more short speeches were
made-when the question was put, ant
the amendment carried.
After some further discussion on amend
ments proposed, on motion,
The G 'mmittee rose, and reported prog
ress, asking leave to sit again.
The report was adopted, and the bill was
made the special order of tomorrow at elev
en- o'clock.
ne Senate then adjourned.
UOUSE.-The House was called to orde
by the Speaker pro tear.
REPORTS.
Mr. KINGSLEY irom the Committee O,
roads reported back the bill for road from
St Cloud to Breckenridge, and recommends,
its passage.
Mr.. CRCTTENDEN from the Commute
on interpretations reported back the bill TO
the incorporation of the towns of Albion an
Osseo, and recommended their passage.
PETITION.
By Mr.. WAY: OF $40 citizens of Dodg
county for the passage of bill authorizn