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

In the Senate, on the 5th, the entire
| time of the session was taken up with the res
olution to grant Senator Finseth leave of alb
! sence to go to Washington to appear before
the House committee on privileges to testify
| regarding his eligibility as an elector. The
committee to whom the resolution had been
referred reported in favor OF granting the
leave OF absence to the Senator should he re-
quest it. The debate was very admitted. and
was participated in by many OF the Senators.
At last a resolution was adopted granting Mr..
Finseth leave OF absence.
In the House on the 5th, a large
number of bills were introduced among which
were the following; relating to exemptions !:
relating to the title OF real property; OF suits
concerning real property; and various local
bills OF n" general interest. Mr.. Crooks in
tr0duced joint resolution providing for rails
ing money to carry out the provisions CT the
two bills for the relief OF the regions infested
by grasshoppers: Senate bills was passed
punIshing the abduction of unmarried temales
and asking Congress for grant of land and
right of way tor railroad from Taylors
Falls across the State OF Wisconsin; appropri-
ating 500, 900 for the Insane hospital; for an
annual tax OF l-2 mills for school purposes.
In the Senate, on the 9th, bills were
introduced relating tn the compensation OF
Judges of Probate and county attorneys; pro-
viding for the destruction of pocket gophers,
dence OF the contestant in he case of William
Meighrn against Senator Edwards, was re-
ceiv' d and laid on the table. The bill intro
duced by Senator Stacy. providing for gen
eral reduction OF salaries of county officers,
was discussed at length and without action
was put over. No other business was trans
acted except to receive reports of several
special committees.
In the House on the 9th, Mr.. Com
stock introduced resolution calling upon
lands to the St. Paul Il Pacific railroad com
pany, but notice OF debate being given it went
over. Bills were introduced tor the location
OF highways in certain cases; repeating the
inebriate asylum act; and for various unim-
portapt local matters. A Senate bill was pass
ed locating state road from Becker station to
Sank Rapids. House bills were passed pro-
viding Ior State board of equalization;
appropriating money for the Insane and Deaf
Dumb and Blind asylum; amending the con-
stitutiOn relating to homesteads; powers of
attorney in transfers of real estate; relating to
sh"riff's fees; to writs of habeas corpus; to re-
ligious corporations; authorizing Renville
county to issue bonds; authorizing the State
Auditor to abate penalties on unpaid interest
| in certain CASTS; to abate taxes in counties
lavaKed by grasshoppers; to extend the time
for the completion CT the Hastings & Dakota
railroad.
The usual number of bills were intro
duced in the Senate on the 18th, among which
was one providing for the assessment and adj
justment OF taxes due the State; amending
the laws OF 1874 relating to roads !; the vaca-
ton OF judgments attorneys at law; doing
away with the visits of county treasurers ex-
cept as ordered by the commissioners, and
one appropriating 1884, for charging the
University grounds. Mr. Donnelly had read
an extract from a daily paper charging him.
sell and Senator Wilkinson with 6row-beat.
ing and bulldozing the majority, and said
he thought the attack unjust and uncalled
for. Senator Wilkinson did not suppose
anybody ever read the paper. Senate
bills were passed to prohibit lewdness; chang
ing school district boundaries in Dodge and
Rice counties to refund certain stumpage to
the l.. s. Il M. R: R. company, and allowing
Owatonna to appropriate money for highways
Stacy's bill tor regulating salaries OF county
officers, was p .ssed unan mously. The House
bill approp1iating $15, QUO annually to the Nor
NAL schools was passed. The bill repeating
the law exempting $50 of laborer's wages, wa
defeated in committee OF the whole. -
In the House, on the 9TH, after an
animated discussion OF the bill known as Don
nelly's usury bill, the bill was referred to the
committee OF the whole. Bills were intro