The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-01-27
The State Legislature.

lne SuD1ect OF state 0O0QS was 0lScuSSeQ IN senate
on the 10th inst, without coming to any conclusion.
Mr.. Bates presented a bank bill that received much
favor, and by recommendation of the select committee
to whom it was referred, $50 copies Of it were ordered
printed.
On tie 10Th the following bills were passed :-Loca-
ting a road from Canon Falls to St. Paul authorizing
the Commissioners OF WabashaW County to borrow
money on their bonds to erect public buildings author
izing the inhabitants Of Faribault County TO vote to
change their County seat nemorializing Congress re-
lative to public lands ; locating a State Road from
Brownsville, via High Forest, Caromona and Albert Lea
to Winnebago City authorizing the Register of Deeds,
to copy from the records of Washington County. A
bill to relieve the creditors Of the State was read q third
time. go oi 5tf s9G 1 0f
A Joint Convention Of the Two Houses met for the
purpose of electing Surveyor Generals for the 3rd and
18th districts. On the first ballot John Valley was
elected for the 3rd district. j. r. Perkins was elected
to the 4th district.
On the 18th, a joint resolution was adopted relative
to the Investigation into the condition of the State
Prison at Saltwater. A bill passed locating a State
road from St. Anthony suspension bridge to the west
line of the State.
Also to locate a State road from Faribault to Wilton
in Waseca county.
Also to lay out a State road from St. Paul, via Lake
Como, to Superior.
On the 2lst a resolution was adopted confirming hi.
Ban6l's claim to a seat from the Oath Senatorial Dis
trict, against that Of Jared Benson.
In the House, on the 10th inst, Mr.. Starkey, from
the Committee on Banks, made the following report
Your Committee would say, that in view Of the pros
trate condition of our finances, and the attempt made by
des gning persons to food the State with a worthless
currency, to the ultimate injury Of the whole people, it
is the bounden duty of this Legislature to at once ma
ture and pass a General Banking Law that will drive
out these abominable frauds and swindles. Your Com
mittee are not prepared to report whether banks could
be dispensed with or not that subject more properly
belongs to the political economist, but your committee
are prepared to say that only two or three States in the
Union have refused to allow any bank notes to be cir
calated, and the inevitable consequence has been that
they were inundated with every description of ~shinplas-
ters, from the Nebraska Bank to the Dubuque Harbor
Currency, and such is the ruinous effect upon those
States, that Louisiana and Missouri are now hastily
retracing their steps, aud have passed banking laws
and the people of Iowa have, in their amended Cousti-
tuition, voted to create a Banking Law. Shall Minue-
sofa, with examples such as these, stand aloof and allow
the wild cat issues of every State or Territory, from
the Atlantic to the Pacific ~seaboard, to come into our
young State and devour the substance Of our toiling
fellow citizens, drive out whatever good money there
may be here and destroy the energy and industry Of
the people? Your Committee believe not az the Rep
resentatives of the people, they demand a law at our
hands. Your Committee anxiously laborcd to perfect
one. They may not have succeeded, but present it for
your consideration, and respectfully ask the imms-
date and attentive consideration of the same that its
importance demands. aasts ef gss
On the 10th lust. a memorial to Congress for a dona-
ton of land for the establishment Of an Agricultural
College was passed. Also an act to locate a State road
from Red Wing to Albert Lea. Also to locate a State
road from Glencoe to st. Cloud.
The Senate Memorial to the President relative to the
public lands, was adopted. Also the Senate Bill au-
thorizing the Clerks Of Courts to grant orders Of pub
LEGATION.
Also the Senate Bill to amend the laws Of the Extra
Session.
The bill appointing Commissioners to revise the Stat
utes was adopted.