The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-08
The AnI1-Alonopo11st,
Legislative Gossip.

The Legislature ha, come and gone,
and we predict that the people OF the
State will. be able to say well done good
and faithful servants.
Many amusing incidents OF course
TRANSFERRED during the last night after The
business was transacted. but nothing OF
that coarse character that some nre in
the habit Of doing.
4 Joke was perpetrated on Senator
Daniels that produced a good deal Of
merrlment. a bottle OF the ardent was
placed in his desk, and then a resolution
offered to search the Senator'S desks
which OF course had but one result.
whereupon an effort was made to organ.
ganizelha Senate into q temperance 3d.
cietY with Senator Lienau Is President
and Daniels rs the lawful example,
thus Fastening the time prophecied when
the lion shali lie down with the lamb.
Many pet measures were OF course
quietly put through, while AS many more
we're strangled.
Everything was in perfect harmony
and the utmost good feeling prevailed
among the members.
In discussing a bill in committee OF the
whole which provided candidate for
Judge OF Probate should be u man versed
in law---Senator Stacy said that this bill
paid a high compliment to the legal
profession. The lawyers on this floor
had charged that members OF the Senate
had cast reflections upon them, but to
prove that he respected them he would
say that in putting up at hotel in the
country several years ago the landlord
stated that owing TO an unusual arrival
Of customers he would be obliged to give
him u room either with 4 lawyer or a
crazy m4n-and with due respect to the
crazy man he chose the lawyer.
Two bills passed the House changing
the name of several parties and one OF
them making several parties heirs al law,
but when they came in the Senate they
were pretty roughly handled on the
grounds that it was bad policy to spend
the time OF the Legislature in such spec
ial legislation, the law simply changing
the names passed 1.-THE one making heirs
claw was dt tealed.
A bill delraying the expenses Of c. d
Edwards to the amount OF 3 500 passed
both houses.
Mr.. Donuelly's usury bill has fiuall}
become u law by striking out all afts'
the enacting clause OF Mr.. Chlld's ant
substituting the substance OF Mr.. Don
neily's bill.
The House OF Representatives wa
opeaed with prayer Tuesday mornin.
by Mr. Beecher; he draws as we'll Their
as elsewhere Tor an hour before the tim
arrived The gallery and lobby WA
crowded. any one under the gallery wa
constrained to reflect on the probabilit
of his family being provided for by re
ceipl of his insurance policy.
The billappropriatiag money 10 dc
fray the expenses Of the suit agains
: McIirath had only four friends In I'd
: Senate.
t Representative Lunkenheimer perpe
trated COOK joke on his colleagues b
e moving an Amendment TO a pending re:
d olution instructing the sargeaat-at>arm
II to destroy all liquor found about tn
: capitol. 10 refer such destruction to II
y delegation from Ramsey county.
= A bill providing tor biennial session
Il passed, it now remains for the people
say whether that is what they want {
8 not.
u Mr.. Bentley's woodchuck the remov
- !. OF the Mile &c Indians, came up, Wi
J. assaulted the measure vigorously and a
= serted That there was some sinister M
III ,ives behind all his and it was on
as another attempt to get possession OF u
~ :, Pine Lands hy the old Rings.
- Mr.. Folsom repslled tho insinu,tit
and asserted that the settlers were beif
troubled 10 great extent by their de
ag relations
er Mr.. Donnelly was sorry the India
e. were not represented in the LegislatUl
K he was very sure we would hear gu
:. another story.
xo The bill was passed.
T. Senator Yale in order to satisfy
act grudgs he has at newsp ,pers attempt
IN to s.rlke frsm the general appropriate
"a Till. the item oi's9.U 700 for printing la
its in the several newspapers of the ota
lid this.proposui IN diInot receive much ia,
IN IL was claimed by many members IL
ed this was tho only way the people had
an get possess ion of the laws. A nj
II. little tilt took took place between d
it Yale and Mr. Donnelly, Mr.. Yale
fiil simulated that MIR. DonnelIy was lea
NE ing to adsocase Steals very fast, 1
'us DJnnelly remarked that ii this was
Is the four years Of experience he had
this body had not bee. without Iruit-
j resolution rxpunsing from the m
BE utes resu ulion that was adopted [
10y years ago while he was in Canada, Q;
ock ing upon Wm. S. King ~ appear at
bar oil the House Of Representatives |
sou demand m investigation into
TACT charges that were in circulation rehs
ave lug upon his good nasnr,wns voted III
ller thus leaving William in worse fix I'll
it, ..x.r.