The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-02-15
Minnesota Legislature.


over. Bills were introduced tor the location
OF highways in certain cases; repeating the
inebriate asylum act; and for various nnim-
pOrtant local matters. A Senate bill was pass
ed locating state road from Becker station to
Sauk Rapids. House bills were passed pro-
viding for State board of equalization;
appropriating money for the Insane and Deaf
Dumb and Blind asylum; amending the con-
stitution relating to homesteads; powers OF
sherif's fees; to writs of habeas corpus; to re-
1igious corporations; authorizing Renville
county to issue bonds; authorizing the State
Auditor to abate penalties on unpaid interest
in certain cases; to abate taxes in counties
ravaged by grasshoppers; to extend the time
for the completion ci the Hastings & Dakota
railroad.
1 The usual number Of bills were intro.
duced in the Senate on the 7th, among which
was one providing for the assessment and ad-
justment OF taxes due the State; amending
tion OF judgments; attorneys at law; doing
away with the visits Of county treasurers ex-
cept as ordered by the commissioners, and
one appropriating $4,000 for enlarging the
University grounds. Mr.. Donnelly had read
an extract from daily paper charging him
sell and Senator Wilkinson with brow-beat-
ing and bulldozing the majority, and said
he thought the attack unjust and uncalled
anybody y ever read the paper. Senate
bills were passed to prohibit lewdness; chang
ing school district boundaries in Dodge aud
Rice counties; to refund certain stumpage to
the L. S. Il NJ. R. R. company, and allowing
Owatonna to appropriate money for highways
Stacy's bill for regulating salaries of county
officers, was passed unanimously. The House
bill appropriating 9l5, 600 annually to the Nor
9f.h0 vvoo ho inn
the law exempting $50 Of laborer's wages, wa
defeated in committee of the whole.
In the House, on the 7th, after an
nelly's usury bill, the bill was referred to the
committee of the whole. Bills were intro
duced: to repeal the tax law OF 1874; q me-
mortal to Congress for cheap transportation tO
the seab0ard regulating the inspection of il
Illuminating oils; to detach certain portions Of
Renville county and attach the same to Nc
Leod., Senate bills were passed prohibiting
the sale of liquor in the town of Kenyon, and
legalizing the acts OF the commissioners ol
Lac qui Parle county. House bills were
passed amending the charter of Madelia fol-
State road from St. Paul to Shakopee; te
enable Mcleod county to transfer railroad
bonds; to prevent hunting deer in the eve
ming in Stearns county; to prohibit the Civ.
ing OF public money to schools where secta.
A1saA uOCGIlucS uEc taught, dpprOVIl.
ating money for State prison expenses and
improvements relating to Iowa railroads en-
tering Minnesota; relating to costs on ap-
peals. The liquor bill introduced for tile
State Temperance Union was considered in
committee of the whole, and was championed
by MIR: W. A. Bentley in an able speech of an
hour that was listened to by crowded lobbies
and gallery. The bill was recommended tc
pass.
Bills were introduced in the Senate
on the 8th for detatching certain territory
from Goodhue and attaching the same tc
Dodge county; creating the city of Duluth
out OF the city of Duluth, and amending the
acts relating to the hospital for the insane
Senate bills were passed relating to assign
ments of judgements; amending the statutes
regarding the duty of Surveyor General
amending the law relating to the Hospital fol
the Insane; regarding the power Of judges o
probate; allowing judges in district and com.
mon pleas courts to employ stenographers
relieving certain secret societies from the gen.
eral insurance laws, also Lineau's text book
tying the school law, passed with no oppo
sltion. House bills passed submitting the
constitutional amendment relating to stock.
holders in corporations, which was defeated
last fall making employees preferred credit.
ors of assignors and amending the act incor-
porating villages.
In the House, on the Sth, the reso
luton that no settlement of the railroad bond
question should be made by this legislature
except it be referred to the people, was taken
up and discussed at some length, and laid
over without action. Bills were introduced
as follows: relating to county superintend'
ents of schools amending the statutes relat-
ing to guardians authorizing Wright county
to issue bonds, besides number of bills
strictly local in character. House bills were
passed to reimburse A. McCrea for money
wrongfully paid as taxes; amending the stat.
utes so that costs in justice court appeals
must be paid in advance changing the name
of Marian Lake township to Perham: author.
izing the draining of certain lakes in Mcleod
county; prohibiting for three years the kill.
ing of deer in Mcleod county; tor draining q
lake in Becker county; and amending the
charter of Mortified. The report of the com.
mittee of the whole in favor of the Temperance
bill was adopted, 64 to 80. In committee o.
the whole MIR. Comst0ck's resolution relating
to the lands tied up by the st. P. & p. exten:
sion lines, was discussed but not passed.
In the Senate on the 9th inst, bills
were introduced to legalize the records O
deeds and other conveyances; relating to es.
under mortgages without notice of the same
to amend the constitution so as to prohibit
any town or other corporation from voting
bonuses: and appropriating lands to the Min
nesota Temperance Union for the support Of
INDECENT children of inebriates. Senate bills
passed: relating to county treasurers' bonds
to civil actions; legaliZing conveyances of real
property subscribed by one witness: relating
to sheriffs taking indemnity; amending the
act incorporating St. Charles; legalizing wire
fences; and protecting Wisconsin prisoners
passing throug gh this State. Houae bills passed:
for the establishment ola post route to Crook.
Redwood county; relating to issues of prefer
ing them to enter into agreements with bond
holders, etc.; and relating to applications to1
pensions. The present session is proving to
be the most active the State has had for years;
the members having already devoted more
hours to actual business.
In the House, on the 9th, the usual
number of bills were introduced, among
which may be mentioned to aid in the con.
struction of the st. Cloud and St. Peter rail-
rad to appropriate $2O, 600 to encourage tree
planting; to prescribe the penalty for MUIR
der in the first degree; and to provide for
establishing new counties. Senate Bills were
passed, authorizing Winona to issue bonds ;
amending the charter of Worthingon; Otter
Tail, Wadena and Wilkin counties, to issue
bonds to aid in building railroad amend
ing the statutes relating to roads, cartways
and bridges prohibiting fishing with nets in
the Zumbro; Otter Tail county to issue bonds
tor county buildings; making peupers town
charge in Stearns county. House bills pass
ed appropriating $76, 900 for seed wheat for
grasihopper sufferers, and $780, 900 for boun.