The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-24
invest 800, 900 in U. S. bonds, and the com.
mittee recommended the repeal.


mittee recommended the repeal.
The Senate on the 18th voted each
member $40 tor postage Senator Donnelly
introduced a bill to prevent usury. 1t limits
interest at IL percent. and provides for PEN
atty OF three times the rate charged, tor vio-
lation of the law; if also provides that any IN
strument OF usurious character shall be de-
clared void in the courts. Mr.. Daniels with
drew his motion to include Senator McDon-
aid in the investigation regarding citizenship,
he having been assured that Mcdonald had
become naturali1ed.
Bills were introduced in the House
as follows: To appropriate the sum of e25,-
GOO Tor repairing and furnishing the State
Normal school at Mankato F.; to provide for the
swamp land grant for q railroad from Fergus
Falls to the N. P. railroad to establish State
board of equalization relating to religion in
the public school, by amending the consti-
tuition and several local bills. The bill re-
moving the investment qualification regarding
State was passed. In the afternoon an inter-
esting exhibition OF classes from the deaf,
dumb and blind asylum was given in the
hail.
In the Senate on the 10Th, bill was
passed admitting women to practice law. also
the bill for the sale OF the Dodge county poor
farm; also the bill exempting benevolent so
ClCtCS lIOu luc OptIdtlOu VI Tic INSURANCE
laws. Senator Donnelly's memorial to Con-
gress tor the passage OF the reconciliation
bill was passed. Senator Wilkinson's bill
giving judges discretion as to the necessity
OF summoning grand juries, was also passed.
In the House, on the 10Th, Mr.. Kee-
nan Introduced bill forbidding religious ex-
ercses in the schools OF Waseca county. The
Judiciary committee, to which was referred
the bill to admit Mrs. Dorsey to practice law,
reported back a substitute allowing all persons
Of 81 years Of age and over to practice law.
bill was passed incorporating the village of
Delavan. Mr. Childs usury bill was the sub
ject OF extended discussion, it being CALAMITY
chamPoned by Mr. Child, while it was as
bell, and others. Mr.. Phelps and Mr. G. A.
Gilman supported the bill. The interest in
the discussion exceeded that in any measure
yet before the House, especially while Mr..
Child was hurting his invectives at the money
loaners.
On the Goth, in the Senate, Senator
Folsom offered aconcurrentresolution request
ing our members in Congress to use their best
endeavors to obtain a preliminary survey Of
the proposed route for canal connecting the
manageable waters OF the St. Croix river with
Lake Superior. Senator Stacy introduced
bill regulating the salaries Of county officers.
4 bill was introduced by Senator Robbins au-
thorizing the formation Of Mutual Assurance
associations. Senate bills were pass~d relat-
ing to dams and sluicing logs; establishing the
county Of Sumner; and amending the statutes
relating to civil actions The usury bill in
troduced by Senator Donneliy was discussed
in committee of the whole. but action post
poned.
In the House, on the 2Oth, an extend
ed debate was had on prohibiting sectarian
practices in the public schools Of Waseca
county, the discussion taking general turn;
the bill went to the committee o. the whole
The resolution for committee to report bill
for Reproducing the Legislative representa-
ton Of the State, was passed and the following
comm tee named: Mes>rs. Comstock,
Fletcher. Huntoon, Campo II, Bert and,
G. K. Smith, Worst, James, Amundson and
Mills. Bills were introduced to amend the
law OF 1876 relating to the destruction ofwolves;
to repeal chapter %, art. IL, title of Bissells
statutes, relating to planting trees; and
amending the law of 1875 relating to the incor-
poration of villages. Mr.. Crooks introduced
bill again proposing the amendment to the
constitution relating to corporations, which
was defeated at the last election. The Senate
bill relating to poll tax on car:ways was passed.
House bills We're passed appropriating money
for postage on immigration documents, and
exempting sl0fro attachment for debt.