Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-01

.he support of the Hospital for the Insane was
AIKEN up under suspension of the rules and
passed; ayes 80, nays none.
MIR. Miller offered the following, which was
adopted:
Reso1red, That there shall not be paid to any |
clerk employed by any committee of the House |
of Representatives, sum exceeding five dol
lars per day dufing this session, nor for long
er period than the time they were necessarily
employed.
THE IMPEACHMENT.
The question of employing stenographer
for taking the testimony in the impeachment
proceedings against Judge Page before judiciary
committee then came up and considerable DIS
cusslon ensued which was finally closed by the
adoption of an amendment offered by Mr.. Eel
Ter of Wabashaw, authorizing the committee to
employ stenographer.
Inc following resolution, offered by MIR.
Campbell, was then adopted:
fesot,ed, That the judiciary committee be
ana are hereby required to cause the testimony
taken before them in the investigation of the
charges against Sherman Page to be returned to
this House with their report
Recess to 2:30.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
MIR. Hyslop offered the following, which went
over under notice of debate by Mr. Rice:
WHEREAS, A bill has been introduced for the
recovery and destruction of the so-called State
Railroad Bonds; and
WHEREAS, Said bonds We're issued at the rate
OF $lO,O0O per mile for the grading done on the
land grant railroads (the light grading only, in
detached portions being done); and
WHEREAS The inhabitants living along the
lines did the work by labor, including team
work, furnishing supplies and materials to the
contractors doing such grading; and
WHEREAS Such labor, supplies and material
have never been paid for.
ltesotped, That the committee on public lands
to whom was referred the above entitled BILL
be instructed to SO amend it as to make provis-
ION for the payment of those debts as they are
the only debts contracted for which the State
received any actual value.
Mr.. Bowler offered the following which,
under notice of debate by Mr.. Purdie, went
over under the rules:
Resol,ed, That the judiciary committee be
instructed to report from day to day, as speed
lily as practicable, the evidence in the Page i'm
parchment case, and that such reports be
printed and laid upon the desks of members.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
By Mr.. Brandt-Prohibiting catching of fish
in Sleepy Eye Lake.
ries of Independent School No. a. in the county
of Meeker.
By Mr.. McCrea-To change name of town of
Partridge in Clay county, to Highland Grove.
By Mr.. Putnam-To protect the people of
Minnesota against the taxation, pauperism and
crime resulting from the manufacture OF lntOX-
icating liquors.
By Mr.. Bohan-Appropriating $4,000 for re-
pair of Normal school building at Mankato.
By Mr.. Understanding school laws, a,l-
| thorizing board of trustees to purchase neces-
sary apparatus--globes. maps, &C., far the use
eff their districts.
By Mr.. Perrin-Amending laws relating to
incorporating of the village of Lake Crystal.
By Mr.. Brainerd-To provide for the election
of County Superintendent of schools in Ram.
sey county.
By MIR. Wiley-To locate road around Lake
1 Phalen.
By Mr.. Chandler -Appropriating $1,000 70,
| bnilding bridge across the outlet of Lake
Elysian near GAINESVILLE.
by Mr.. Edson-Authorizing Mcleod county
to issue bonds to the amount of $4,000 to de
| fray expenses, &c.
By Mr.. Edson-Legalizing action of County
Commissioners Of Mcleod county in issuin,
bonds
By Mr.. Misunderstanding the publ,
school laws of 1877.
By Mr.. Mead-Amending the act of 1876 re
lating to the building of bridge across tn,
Mississippi at Fort Smelling.
By samoa bill in relation to the grading o
| Sycamore and Acker streets, in st. Paul.
By Mr.. Understanding the General Stat
utes relating to bills of exchange and promis
sorry notes.
By Mr.. misunderstanding boundaries o
school district in Rice county.
By Mr.. MISUNDERSTANDING the count,
of Rice to convey certain real estate in tina
! county.
By Mr.. Clarke Changing name of femal
child.
By Mr.. Williams-Appropriatin money TO
building bridge in Yellow Medicine county.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
Detaching certain school district territor,
In Watonwan county.
Prohibiting the running at large of domesti
animals in Clay county.
Prohibiting the running at large of domesti
animals in Chippewa county.
IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE,
the bill for the distribution and furnishing O
grain to grasshopper sufferers was up and cor
sidered by sections. After considerable discus
sion, the bill was finally recommended for pas
sage, unaltered and unchanged.
The next bill taken up the Hastings
Dakota. Mr.. Edison was the first speaker. II
inception, and Of the difficulties under whic
it had labored and struggled. He exhibited
map showing the lands of the company's grant
contended that the people favored the passag
of the bill reported by the special committee
the representatives of that section directl
interested in the road.
After further discussion, the committee ros
and the House adjourned to 9 OF clock to-day
after having made the Hastings & Dakota bi
the special order for to-day at 10 o'clock an
also having accepted an invitation from ID
Fish Commissioners to visit the Matching a
Willow Brook at 3 o'clock tomorrow.