The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-07
Minnesota Legislature.

Minnesota Legislature. i
In the Senate on the Goth, bills were
introduced appropriatiug s..4ss.65 to reim-
burse G.. G. Edwards Tor expenses OF contested
election amending general statutes relating
TO executions; to punish the misrepresentation
OF public funds passed unde. suspension.
The Senate, by 4 vote Of % to s, accepted the
invitation to attend the opening Of the House
OF the 26 h. House bills were passed relating
to treasurer OF Stearns county; incorporating
horristown, Rice county; incor poratinR
village OF Duprey, lie Sueur county: House
bills were passed relating to civil actions;
to abolish the remedy by distress for rent;
= transferring certain miscellaneous books in
the State library to the State University; re.
lating to the catching OF fish in the town of
Woodville, Waseca county; changing the
name of the townste OF Douglas, Stevens
county, to Donnelly; amending the act in
cooperating the Western Express Company;
retunding certain taxes in Dakota county.
In the House, on the 28th, Senate
bills were passed, relating to town Of Albert
Lea; providing Tor water supply at State Re-
torn School, House bills were passed, appro.
priating $500 tor iron fence around grave OF
Mrs. Enza Muller at Fort Ridgeley: granting
swamp lands in aid of Minnesota and st.
Louis Railway; proposing amendment to con-
stitutiOn allowing women 10 vote on license
Or no license; Reproducing Wincna county
into commissioner districts; relating to Cattle
running at large in Dakota county; relating
to voting on license or no license IN Wa>eca
county; relating to foreclosure OF mortgages;
tor the establishment and maintenance III
towns Of public libraries and reading rooms;
vacating part of village OF Brown dale; relat-
lrg to the printing and distribution of laws
and public documents; relating to ices OF
sheriffs; relating to Oaths and acknowledge
nents The bill relating to grasshopper
bounties was recalled from the Governors
possession and referred to the committee on
grasshoppers tor amendment.
In the Senate on the 9th bills were
introduced amending charter OF Belle Plsine
passed |; relating to judgment OF debtors;
authorizing Benton county to issue bonds for
county buildings; legalizing certain publica-
tons; authorizing Ovatouna to vote upon the
purchase OF mineral spring property tor bank
purposes; facilitating collection of judgm- Mt
Senate bills were passed, prescrib ng punish
ment for three-card monte players; author
jzing the conveyance OF school lands in St.
Louis y;au,horizinga ferry across theMis-
sssippi river at Clearwater; relating to execu-
tons; borrowing 3lUO, 900 tor bounties for de-
struction OF grasshoppers; amending the ine-
briate asylum at; repeating the law giving
bounties Tor the destruction Of wolves;tor State
Dad from Lake Superior to the British Pos
sessions; authorizing St. Louis county to issue
bonds; payment OF damages Tor right of way;
appropriating 81 ,245 Tor repairs OF State pris
on; reiating to cattle guards and fences along
railroads; incorporat ng the village OF Prince
ton; amending the charter OF Mankato; amend
ing the charter Of Austin; relating to the
general insurance law; relating to school
district III LIE Sueur county. House bills were
passed, making the legal rate OF interest II
4nkhnriZinO
sioners OF Pope county to issue bonds to fund
certain other bonds.
In the House, on the 9th, Senate
bills were passed allowing women to practice
law relating to hospital Tor Insane and treat
ment OF insane persons reducing the test OF
illuminating oils to 10 degrees. A bill was
to take the place OF the Bill recalled from the
Governor. The bill guards more strictly
against imposition in the measurement of thu
insects ana also authorizes the Governor te
appoint the measurers A resolution was in.
troduced expungiDg the resolution of censure
passed in 1875 against Hon. w. S. King, which
was laid over one day. In committee OF the
whole, the two bills relating to the payment
OF the Minnesota State Railroad bonds were
discussed and recommended to pass.
In the Senate, on the 28th, a bill wa:
introduced to consolidate Stear .,s and Benton
counties, but it was referred to Mr.. Mays, o
Benton, who is opposed to the bill. Senate
bills were passed to reimburse Senator Ed
wards Tor his contested election expenses
levyiDg tax, by towns, cities and villages, t
destroy grasshoppers; aiding State Agricul
tural Society; granting swamp lands to new
rail roads House ills were passed permitting
registers of deeds to record deeds WithOu
repayment vi current taxes to proven
hunters from trespassing on private lands
prescribing the RI Enumeration Of jurors in Jus
tees courts to reimburse Carlton county to
expenses incurred in the trial OF murderers
to provide for the purchase of cheap text book
by towns. villages, or cities. Mr.. Gale Offered
resolutions approving the action OF the Elect
oral Commission. They went over under no
tice OF debate.
In the House, on the 28th, larg
number of local bills were passed. The Sen
ate bill providing for the payment of she oil
railroad bonds was passed by 20 to 81. TIL
bill setting apart the 0,O0O acres of land 70
the payment of the bonds was also passed H.
II to Ia. This latter bill is to be submitted t
the pt ople on the 10th Of June. Senate bill
were also passed, to abate the penalties an
interest in certain counties that have suffere
from hail storms and grasshoppers. Author
iziDg the counties OF Mcleod, Hennehi1
Stearrs, and portion OF Carver to issu
bonds Tor railroad purposes.
In the Senate, on the 1st, the Hous
bill providing for an amendment to the cor
s.itution so as to have biennial sessions of tn
Legislature Was passed year 81, nays l6 ais
the bill proposing constitutional amend
ment giving women the right to vote on cues