The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-03-07
HOUSE BILLS PASSED,

HOUSE BILLS PASSED,
! Relating TO venue in civil actions:
relating to town insurance companies;
deficiency appropriation for INDECENT
insane; memorial to congress to open
the lands of the Fort Ripley reserya-
ton to presumption and homestead
settlement; relating to commissioners
in Hennepim county; bonds for Nc.
Leod county; school district in Belle
Plains, borough of Henderson to issue
bonds; relating TO cattle running at
| large.
IMMIGRATION.
Upon motion of Senator Morton
unanimous consent was granted and
the bill for promoting immigration
was taken up, and after q few words
by Senator Morton III its favor it was
passed: yeas 81; nays Is.
AT minutes past3 O'Clock, the
special committee Of the House aI-
pointed by the House To notify the
Senate that it had found articles of
impeachment against Judge Sherman
Page of the tenth judicial district.
and Mr.. s. L. West. chairman of the
committee, addressig President
Wakefield, said:
Mr.. President: We are the bear
ers Of MESSAGE from the House of
| Representatives
The President-What is the pleas
ure OF the Senate.
Senator Armstrong; move that
the committee from the House of
Representatives present to to the Sen.
ate any communication with the
transmission of which they were
charged.
The motion was put by the Presi-
dent and carried, when Mr.. West pro-
ceeded to read the following message:
Mr.. President. In obedience to the
order of the House of Representative
we appear before you, and in the
name OF the House Of Representatives
and of the whole people of the state
of Minnesota, we do impeach
sherman Page, judge of the tenth jul
dicial district, of corrupt conduct in
office, and of crimes and misdemeanors
in office, and we further inform the
Senate that the House of Representa-
tiyes will III due time exhibit particu-
lar articles of impeachment against
him, and make good the same. and in
their names we demand that the Sen
ate take order for the appearance OF
the said Sherman Page. to answer
said parchment.
With this the committee Iassed
over the order of impeachment, and
retired, wherenpon Senator Nelson
offered the following, which was
adopted:
Resoired. That a committee Of three
Senators be appointed by the Presi.
dent to wait upon the Governor and
inform him that the House Of Repre-
sentatiYes by COMMITTEES of their
body had appeared at the bar of the
Senate and impeached Sherman Page
Judge OF the tenth judicial district
state of Minnesota, for corrupt con
duet in Office and of crimes ard nlisde
meanors in ONCE, to the end tina. such
action may be taken by the executive
as is required by the constitution oI
the state and the exigencies Of the oc-
casion.
The President announced as sncl
committee, Senator's Nelson, Am.
strong and Doran.
Senator j. y. GiIfillan then offered
the following. which was adopted:
Resotred, THAT the message from
House Of Representatives, in relation
TO the impeachment Of Sherman Page,
Judge of the tenth judicial district oil
the state of Minnesota, be referred to
the Judiciary committee to consider
and report thereon
The senate then went into commit.
tee Of the whole and after considering
a number Of bills the committee rose
and the Senate adjourned.
| HOUsE.-THURsDAY, q.
| Mr.. Campbell moved TO take from
the table his resolution submitted
yesterday. as follows:
4 Rssolrsd. that the conduct Of Hon.
&. G. Brandt. in detecting and ex-
posing the effort to bride members of
the House in regard to their action
on the text book bin and amend
ments, meets with the approval Of
the House. and that in the Judgment
Of the House, the same was praise.
worthy in the citizen. and honorable
to him as legislator.
The question being on the adoption
Va III tSaAtPDc1 . t1OttOd. tsft yea
and nays were ordered, and resulted
as follows: yeas 81, nays 30, 70 the
resolution was taken up.
Mr. Morse moved TO indefinitely
postpone.
| Mr. Campbell. w. NJ, regretted
the disposition manifested here to
deny to Mr. Brandt the endorsement
to which he was entitled at the
hands Of the House. Mr.. Brandt
had merely taken TO investigate the
rumcrs he had heard, and with the
intent to expose the bribery il he
found it 10 exist. Mr.. Campbell
read from the printed testimony, and
said he regretted the friends of Lib
eTty Hall On this floor hAd forced the
discussion By seeking to withhold the
the praise to which servant u tie