The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-03-09

UlH lor au acG felaLlVe 10 the extension
of Fort street, Ramsey county.
APPROPRIATION BILLS.
Mr.. GREENE, of Steele, introduced
two bills for appropriating money for the
expenses of the session, and to pay arrear-
ages of 1858. Adjourned.
SENATE.
TUESDAY, March 6. 1860.
RESOLUTIONS.
The resolution offered by Mr.. Petit, yes
terday, was adopted. 1t was that the inves.
tigating committee to inquire into the charges
of fraud and corruption in the management
of the Land Grant Railroad Companies be in.
structed to make full and explicit report
as to whether or not at this session of the
Legislature any ex-director or other officer
of the Minneapolis and Cedar Veley Bail
road Company, or any other company, has
received any bride for resigning any Office in
said company, and if 80, who has been so
bribed, and by whom.
-s RAILROAD MATTERS
The concurrent resolutions introduced into
the House yesterday and passed, came up
this morning in the Senate. A point of
order was raised about the character of the
resolutions. The Senate was in doubt
whether they were joint resolutions, requir-
ing only one reading.
Motions we're made to send them back to
the House for explanation, for reference to
judiciary committee, to committee of ways
and means, all of which were voted down.
The question recurring on the adoption
of the resolutions, and the yeas and nays
being called for and ordered, there were
yeas Is, nays Is, as follows:
YEAs-Messrs. J.F. Baldwin, Bartholomew.
Hodges, Holley, Kennedy, King, McKusick,
McLaren, Nelson, Norris, Robinson, Rogers,
Stannard, Stevens and VIM.
NAYs-Messrs. Adams. Andrews; F. E. Bald.
win, Rishop, Clark, Cook, Cowan, Edgerton,
Galloway, Hall, Heaton, Mackubin, Petit.
Stewart, Watson and Wells.
So the resolutions were lost.
Mr.. HEATON moved to reconsider the
vote by which the resolutions were re-
jected, and the yeas and nays being called
for and ordered, there were yeas rs, nays 9,
as follows:
YEAs-Messrs. Averill, F. E. Baldwin, ]. F.
Baldwin, Bartholomew, Bishop, Cook, Evans,
Galloway, Heaton, Hodges, Holley, Kennedy,
King, McKusick, McLaren, Nelson, Norris,
Robinson, Rogers, stannard, Stevens, Stewart,
Watson, Wells and VIM.
NAYs-Messrs. Adams, Andrews, Clark
Cowan, Cruttenden, Edgerton, Hall, Mackubin
and Petit.
So the motion was carried.
Mr.. HALL here raised point of order
that the resolutions being concurrent, and
not relative to the business of the two
Houses, should 60 through its several read
ings and be treated as bill, and could only
become effective upon receiving the sgna-
ture of the Governor.
The President decided that point we'll
taken, and that the treatment of the resolu-
tions in any other manner, would place the
Senate in a ridiculous position. The Senate
then took recess for the purpose of meet
ing the House in Joint Convention, for the
purpose of electing Directors of the Nor
NAL School. See House proceedings.1
MORITZOUs wEIsBERGER.
Mr.. STANNARD, from the committee
appointed on the petition of the above named
gentleman, to investigate certain charges
made against him, reported that they had
examined into them, and found that they
were unfounded.
NORTHERN BRITISH AMERICA.
The resolution offered by Mr.. Mackubin,
that 300 copies of the Governors Message
of the Sd of March, sent to the House of
Representatives, and of the report which
accompanies the same, by Mr.. j. w. Tay.
lor, upon the resolutions of the State of
Minnesota to Northwestern British Amer
ica," be printed for the use of the Senate !;
and that two hundred copies of the same be
printed for the use of Mr.. Taylor, came up.
Mr.. HODGES moved the indefinite
postponement of the resolution.
Mr.. HEATOM and Mr.. ANDREWS
spoke in favor of the resolution.
Mr.. ROBINSON opposed the resolution.
He though they had ordered enough of this
kind of printing. He said the Senate
printed 100 pages last year of the same
kind of stuff. The same thing had often
been published, and there was no use of
printing it over and over again.
Mr.. MoLAREN opposed the resolution.
He objected to printing all these kind of
pamphlets. The newspaper was the proper
channel for spreading all this information
before the people.
Mr.. HEATON moved that the resolution
lay on the table. Yeas 18, nays 18.
The President voted nay, SO the motion
was not carried.
The adoption of the resolution was then
moved and carried, yeas %, nays Ii.
A large number of the House bills were
read, amendments concurred 10, etc. Sew
eral of the new bills which were important,
had second reading.
RELIEF BILL.
On motion of Mr.. McKUSIOK, the bill
concerning mortgage and Judicial sales was
taken up.
A substitute was offered and rejected, and
the question being on ordering the bill to a
third reading, the yeas were II, nays l8, SO
the Senate refused to order the bill to a third
reading.