The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-14

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 of
Lac qui Parle county. House bills were
State road from St. Paul to shakopee: to
enable Mcleod county to transfer railroad
bonds; to prevent hunting deer in the eve
nng IN Stearns county; to prohibit the Civ
ing OF public money to schools where secta-
rian religious doctrines are taught; appropri-
ating money for State prison EXPENSES and
improvements; relating to Iowa railroads en-
terlng Minnesota; relating to costs on ap-
Peals The liquor bill introduced for the
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 to
pass.
Bills were introduced in the Senate
on the 9Th tor detatching certain territory
from Goodhue and attaching the same to
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 for
the Insane; regarding the power of judges of
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
oil by vote OF thirty to six. The bill codi-
tying the school law, passed with no oppo-
sitioD. House bills passed submitting the
constitutional amendment relating to stock
holders in corporations, which was defeated
last 'all; making employees preferred credit
ors OF assignors and amending the act incor-
porating villages.
In the House, on the 8th, the reso.
luton that no settlement of the railroad bond
question should be made by this legislature
except 1t De 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 tor 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
lzlng the draining of certain lakes in Mcleod
county,, prohibiting for three years the kill
ing IN OF deer G in Mcleod county; Tor draining
charter of Mortified. The report Of the COM S
mittee OF the whole in favor OF the temperance
pill was adopted, 81 to SO. In committee of
the whole Mr.. Comstock's resolution relating
to the lands tied up by the St. p & P. extern
sion lines, was discussed but not passed
In the Senate on the 9th inst, bills
were introduced to legalize the records OF
deeds and other conveyances; relating to es-
trays; to prevent the sale otpersonal property
under mortgages without notice of the same:
to arend 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
to sheriffs taking indemnity; amending the
act incorporating St. Charles; legalizing wire
fences; and protecting Wisconsin prisoners
passing through this State Houae bills passed:
for the establishment of post route to Crook
ston; extending personal property taxes in
Redwood county; relating to issues of prefer
red stock by railroad companies, and allow
ing them to enter into agreements with bond
holders, ETC.; and relating to applications tor
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-
r pad to appropriate 500, 900 to encourage tree
planting to prescribe the penalty tor MUIR
der in the first degree; and to provide for
new counties. Senate Bills were
passed, authorizing Winona to issue bonds
amending the charter of Worthington; Otter
Tail, Wadena and Wilkin counties, to issue
bonds to aid in building railroad amend
ing the statutes relating to roads. cartways
and bridg es; prohibiting fishing with nets in
the Zumbro; Otter Tail county to issue bonds
tor county buildings; making paupers a town
charge in Stearns county. House bills pass
ed appropriating $75, 900 for seed wheat for
grasshopper sufferers, and S10O,0 Tor boun..
ties for the destruction OF grasshoppors and
their eggs; amending the insurance laws;
quieting titles to real estate; memorial tor a
cheap freight route to the sea hoard for low
ering lake in Mcleod county 81, 900 Tor the
extraordinary expenses of the Northfeld rob-
Der hunt; 1000 to the deaf, dumb and
blind asy lum relating to draining wet lands;
$lo: goo tor the announcement OF fish culture
Laos Indians; and appropriating $4,000 Tor
tree culture. In committee of the whole an
amendment was attached to Donnelly's usury
law which destroys its intended force.
The session of the Senate on the
10th was short but effective. The only new
bills Of interest were these: Authorizing LIE
Sueur to issue bonds, and to make premedi-
tated murder punishable with death The
MALTA law as it now stands has no exemp-
tions, but Mr.. Edgerton intsoduced a bill in
the Senate which if it becomes a law will ex-
empt Mennonites and Quakers. A bill was
presented establishing commission to peri
odically inspect the inmates OF the insane
asylum and discharge all who are no longer
proper subjects for treatment.
In the House on the 10Th, barely
quorum was present. Bills were introduced
to appropriate money for the State Reform
School, and soldiers orphans home; fixing
time of holding court in the 18th judicial dis
trict; and various unimportant local bills.
Senate bills were DaSSe0 renealinp tho law of