The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-02
MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE.

MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE.
STATE SENATE, Feb. 23.-Bills Lost: House
bill providing for biennial sessions of the Leg
islatare. Senate bill appropriating $500 tor
survey OF calal route between Lakes Mime
rates of interest. House Bills Passed !:
Amending and consolidating the acts charter
ing Owatonna. Changing court time in Wat
onwan county. Senate Bills Passed: Provid-
ing order of argument on indictments in dis
tsiet courts: Appropriating 500 to o'Dillon
troops in 1863. Allowing tax lists to be pub
lished away from the county seats Making
towns liable for damages from BRIDGES. roads
etc., out Of repair: authorizing Clay county
to fund its floating debt For perfecting chains
Of titles to estates passing through probate:
Of overflow. Requiring 6shways over dams.
Allowing judges to grant divorces out of term.
Providing for inspection of mineral oils.
State Prison: The substitute bill for location
of second State prison by commissioners was
recommended to pass. Railroads.: The House
bill requiring railroad companies to receipt for
actual quantity Of grain and deliver according
was substituted for Mr.. Donnelly's track scale
bill and recommended to pass.
HoUsR-Batts Lost: MIR. Kruger's fer per-
uniting cattle to run at large in Florence town
ship: House bill amending special law of 1872
relating to Minnesota Central railroad COM
pany. Homestead Exemption: The judiciary
committee was instructed to amend the pend-
ing bill and Tx the limit of homestead exemp-
ton at So, 900. Senate Bills Passed: Provid-
ing Tor maintenance Of paupers discharged
from State Prison: Authorizing parties in
Kandiyohi county to drain certain lakes; the
State Auditor to abate penalties for non pay
ment upon swamp and school lands; the legal
voters of Dodge Center to vote upon
! license. Repeating chapter 25 of 1873
relating to spearing fish in northwestern coun-
ties. incorporating Moorhead village. House
| Bills Passed: Authorizing Marshall county to
issue 49, 00o bonds fora wagon bridge at Lit
purposes. Limiting the territory to be en-
braced in school district For preventing the
destruction OF ful bearing animals; the catch
.ng of fish in Lake Ripley. Reimbursing John
A. Jackson and David Benson tor contested
election expenses. Granting swamp lands to
rating Minnesota village; school district in
catching trout st. Paul & Pacific Bronch
Lines: By Mr.. Delano, declaring the forfeiture OF
rights and franchises, was discussed at length
and finally referred to the judiciary committee
for inquiry as to its legal aspects.
Extending to Nov. LIST the time for paying taxes
| in Martin, Jackson, Mobiles, Rock, MUIR az,
| Cottonwood, Watonwan, Renville, Lyon and
Lincoln counties and parts OF Blue Earth, Fari-
! bault and Brown counties. Authorizing
| school district No. Z in Faribault county to fix
| the salaries of district officers. Amending the
act for a special tax in Inver Grove. Author
| lzlng the Stearns county treasurer to pay GER
| tain funds to the town tire asurer of Bursdale
Vacating portion Of the village plat of Albert
Lea. Memorial for increased mail service be-
tween Glenwood and Benson. Senate Bills
Passed: incorporating the borough of Hen.
derson. For judicial purposes detaching Lin
coin county from Redwood and attaching it to
Lyon county Appropriating $500 Tor the sur
| vey of q canal route between Lakes Minneton-
ka and Waconia Amending village charter
OF Spring Valley; statutes relating to
records of mortgage. foreclosure sales.
record lists Of lands in each county Where the
| same are stu tied. Indefinitely postponed !:
Senate bill repeating the exemption from debt
| OF $50 wages, as to single n.en.
HousE.-Frontier relief: In committee Of
the whole the bill appropriating money for
! consideration, communications were presented
! from Gov. Davis and Gen. Sbley, urging that
| immediate relief is necessary. Gen. Sibley
estimates the number of destitute at :, 900 and
those who will need some help at about 10 600.
The appropriation for clothing was struck out.
leaving the bill appropriating $4,000 for seed.
The only objection made in debate to any OF
the relief measures was that in the present
condition of the State Treasury, the general
fund being exhausted, it would be diff
cult to meet the appropriations. Railroads :
Morses railroad bill, a substitute for the gen-
eral law fixing rates, etc.-of last year. was
recommended to pass. House Bills Pa sed
Amending statutes relating to county treas
urers; to clerks fees in district and common
pleas courts, to dismissal OF actions in cases
OF non-residents giving deserted wife the
joyed by the husband and facilitating collec-
ton OF rents Appropriating 500 to pay C.
CARL for use of grounds for State Prison
Changing Austin school district boundaries
Enforcing payment OF taxes delinquent prior
to 1873. Authorizing towns to aid the Sank
Rapids abroad company. Indefinitely Post
poned: House bills--repealing Houston incor-
poration. locating inebriate asy lum at Roch-
ester; 1epealing De Graft x Co. lien Law
railroad companies to determine the width o.
grades and repeating the general railroad law
STATE SENATE, Feb. o5.-House Bills Passed
Relating to Carver county commissioners
Fixing salary of Dodge county treasurer al
$l, 200. Detaching territory from Austin
school district. xtending-corporate limits
! of Mankato and authorizing vacation of Ger.
tain streets therein time of Cannon River I'M
provement Company. Authorizing -Minneapo-
lis to issue bonds for new suspension bridge
Clarke, Faribault county, to issue St, 900 bonds
Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad company tc
extend branch line from Buffalo to New
London. Amending the statutes relating to
| comfy S11rvevOrs and 6ennt;oc lo,c ond Inn,