Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-01-18

requiring county auditors to report forthwith
| the amount OF money received in his county
BY each odicer. The following bills were iny
troduced: To extend the time for paymen,
OF taxes In counties devastated by grasshop>
pers TO- appropriate $500 tor postag Sc tn inn
for the immediate relief Of tie destitute il
the grasshopper districts. Rules were susu
pended and bills passed unanimously T.
amend section IL, Article l, of the constituo
ton relating to hemesteads; to amend tina
laws OF 1876 relating to fire insurance by ne
curing all companies incorporated in the
State to have 9lO0, 600 capital and all others
to have 500, 600 capital; to provide uniform
cheap text books for the schools OF this State
and creating commission for their COM
pllatlon; to amend the general statutes ne.
latlng to juries by dispensing with grand
lurles at terms OF court on the ordering Of the
lqdge to define the penalty for murder in
i've to locate second hospital for the insane;
passed under suspension of the rulesE The
bill relating to extension of time tor redemp-
ton OF lands sold for taxes in Dakota and
saoley counties was passed under suspension
OF the rules-yeas s5; nays 8. The memorial
g 1;t Congress Tor the Improvement OF the Red
to Monday at 2o'clock.
SENATE, JAN. l3th.-Senator Hen
rvs resolution favoring only the most neces-
sary and needed appropriations at the present
session was called up and finally tabled, yeas
l8, nays s. Bills were introduced to author
lze the counties Of Becker, Otter Tail, Wadena
and Wilkin to issue bends in aid of the N. Pl
Railroad; to amend general laws OF 1871, relat-
laws Of 1873, relating to the st. Louis River
rails Company; to locate second Hospital tor
the Insane at Red Wing. Senate bill author
izing the Minneapolis Gas Light Company to
issue bonds was passed.
The rules were suspended and the memo-
rial to Congress for the appicarion OF the pro-
eral States and Territories infested with grass
hoppers, to the payment of premiums or
bounties for the destruction of the pests. was
passed. Senator Wilkinson offered the fol-
lowing resolution which went over under the
rules-notice Of debate having been given:
Resolved, That the committee on the iu-
glbality OF the several Presidential electors of
this state, and that said committee in such
inquiry shall have power to send for persons
and papers.
This resolution is aimed at Mr.. Finseth.
one OF the Republican electors in this State
1t IS claimed that he came to this country
when seventeen years Of age and that, not
supposing naturalization to he nece ssary. he
has never taken out his papers.
SENATE Jan. l5th-Bills were intro
duced to provide for the redemption of lands
sold tor their taxes to abate the interest and
penalties upon property OF fgrasshopper suffer-
ers; to provide for the incorporation Of grand
and subordinate lodges OF the order of U1.itca
W0rkmen; to establish and maintain a public
school system in this State Senator Wilkin-
sons resolution in reference to the appoint
ment OF committee to investigate the eligibil-
lty OF the Presidential electors was called nm
when tOney discussion enslled, whenth res
Oiutlon was indefinitely postponed ayes 20.
nays 15. Senator Wilkinson then introduced
q resolution iDstructing the judiciary commit
tee to inquire into the right of Senator Einseth
Of the Senate.
House Jan. .l5th.-Pttitions from cit.
liens OF Stearns and Polk counties pravine tor
the passage OF law prohibiting greater rate of
interest than IL per cent. per annum and ex-
empting growing crops from attachment by
creditors; also from GOO citizens OF Eenyilie
county for bounty from the State for de-
struction Of grasshoppers; also from county
commissioners of Becker county for same OBJ
ject. Bills were introduced rs follows: TO
levy tax of < mills on the dollar for the
ss'0 for payment Of the expenses ot the spe.
clal committee on grasshoppers passed under
suspension of rules to reduce the mileage of
Senators and members from 15 to 10 cents:
to appropriate $4,000 to build bridge across
ShakOpee Creek in town of Pillsburv. Swift
county to amend the statutes relating to the
protection OF game. Sanate bill memorial.
izing Congress ior the setting apart Of the pro-
ceeas OF the sales OF public lands for boa,lties
Tor the destruction OF grasshoppers in the
several States devastated by tile pests was
taken upand passed under suspension of irules.
The resolution providing TOR the printing
OF the Governors message III the Swedish,
Norwegian, German AMI French languages
1000 OF each) was taken up and indefinitely
postponed. In committee Of the whole on
reaching the bill to permit women to practice
sued, when an amendment was crowded
striking out certain terms OF the bill and sub
stitoting the name CT Mrs. NJ. Dorsey, OF Hen
nepin county. The bill was then recommend
ed to he returned to the judiciary committee
for amendment.