The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-02-17
MINNESOTA LEGISLATURES.

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In the Senate, on the 9Th, bills were
introduced: authorizing certain towns to IL
sue bonds for the Minneseta Southern Mime
sofa railway; relating to the purchase Of chat
tel mortgages; prohibiting religious exercise
In the public schools. A resolution was intro
duoed inquiring u to the propriety Of State
celebration the coming 4th Of July. Senate
bills passed-memoriA to open the Black Hills
to settlement; amending law relating to in
suranoe companies; legalizing the so-calied
Beard deed; and amending the constitution
relative to corporations.
In the Honse the bill for reimbursinx
counties for destruction Of grasshoppers was
reported for 43o, ,262 50 to pay 60per cent A
hill was introduced to restzain the sale Of in
toxicatiny liquor. The Senate joint resolution
or opening up the Black Hills was coucurred
IN. The Centennial bill was was taken up
and after several attempts to reduce the
appropriation to $4,000 had failed the bill
was summary ''killed." The inebriate Asylum
repeal bill was discussed At length in COM
mittee Of the whole, where vote to ipdeti-
nitely postpone was lost by IS to 46. A
melton before the House to indefinitely post
pone was also deteated-46 to Gland the
House adjourned amidst much confusion.
= In the Senate, on the 9th the following
bills were introduced: relating to the appoint
men: Of county superintendent of schools re-
lating to sales under mortgage foreclosure and
execution; amending scale Of ices Of justices OF
the peace; to abolish solitary confinement in
the State prison, to authorize the st. Paul T.
Sioux City railroad company to build tour
branches, one via. New Ulm to west line of
State, one to south line of State, one from
Mobiles county to west line of State, and one
from Cottonwood county through Murray,
westward; also, memorial to Congress regard
Ing bridges across the Mississippi. The in
ebriate asylum bill was indedoitely postponed,
also bill to FIX pay OF members Of the legisla-
ture a! $500 year. Senate bills passed: for q
canal in Pope county; appropriating q, 900 for
the maintenance Of an insane person in an
eatern asylum since 1863 by vote OF Al to 2.
In the House bills were introduced
for State road from Willmar to Minnesota
Falls; relating to the issue OF bonds encour
aging the use ofsleds tracking four feet wide !;
relating to the redemption Of lands sold tor
taxes fixing the time in which cases in State
courts shall be decided; amending laws re-
garding taxes for acommitte t. select site for
the inebriate asylum. Bills passed for paying
Co. E. Third regiment; relieving poor; pro-
viding for biennial sessions-62 to -; relat-
ing 70 civil actions enabling towns to levy =
3mill tax when the valuation exceeds 426. .O(,O
and four mill tax when under that amount,
and amending the school laws, authorizing
districts to hold four months terms.
Thursday the 10th inst. was the 3oth
day OF the session, and tie 2eth working day
sfthe Senate. The State railroad bond ques-
tion was referred to a committee of five. Sen
ator Williston introduced bill for establish
ing an inebriate asylum At Redwing. Er.
Graves offered bill providing tor judicial de-
cision on the validity Of the old railroad
bonds. A bill was passed amending the gen.
eral school law so AZ to apportion the school
fund according to the schools actually en-
rolled. A bill was also passed authorizing the
voting Of aid to the Southwestern railroad.
1t was the 9th working day in the
House. Bills were introduced--to amend the
inebriate asylum act by locating the institu-
ton at Redwing; to legalize the levy of taxes in
Polk, Big Stone, Rock, Swift, Wadena, Grow
Wing AID Morrison; also bill to regulate the
pay Of judges ofprobate F.; relating to inspection
OF mineral oils; and relating to schools. The
bill making county superintendents Of schools
elective was rejected. Bills were then passed,
amending the highway laws; for the relief of
settlers upon the Hastings l. Dakota and
Southern Minnesota railroad lands and Great
ing safety insurance funds.
In the Senate on the 1lth. the Presi.
dent announced that he had appointed Sena-
tors AeiRhen, Butler, Folsom, Wilkinson and
doughty, the special committee on State Rail-
road bonds Bills were introduced providing
for the adoption OF children; providing 1or
plaintiffs being responsible to sherifs for SER
vice OF executions attachments, &C., for relief
OF claimants occupying lands; authorizing St.
Paul to expend 99,0OO on roads in Dakota
county; providing for equalizing taxes in RAM
sey county; amending charter # St. Paul, so
as to aax interest on assessments; extending
to the Hastings and Dakota railroad company
the privilege Of completing its line and receiv-
Ing Its grant within five years, twenty five
miles to be built each year; appropriating
$36l, 30 to Senator Durfee for expenses of con-
tested election; amending the highway
law OF 1869 A memorial to Congress
was introduced for the extension to the State
OF the Hastings and Dakota land grant for six
years. Bills were PASSED fixing salary OF the
probate judges of ST. Louis county At $4,000;
incorporating the village of LIE Roy, Move,
Co.; exempting editors and publishers' ma.
terial to the amount Of $4,000, and stock to
the amount Of 900; authorizing Olmsted Co
to levy = tax OF q, 700 for fitting tair grounds
The bill locating second Safe prison At Owa.
tonna was discussed at length, but no conclu'
sion arrived at. The lill providing for th,
election Of county superintendent was indefi.
nitely postponed. Mr. Smith introduced .
bill amending the tax law. The bill lorbiddin,
sectarianiem in public schools was reported
favorably with an amendment fofbidding tn,
teaching Of foreign languages. In committe Q
the whole the House bill to amend the consti
tuition 50 that homesteads shall not be exe mp
for debts for labor, and material for their i'm
provement, was discussedat length.
In tho House bills were introduced t,
establish . clerkship in Secretary Of States of
fee; authorizing Eyota to hold:general or spec
ial elections; for mail route from Chaska t
Rxcelsior. Bills were passed providing boun
ties for destruction Of wolves nrevAnt;no IL