Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-28
House.

The morning proceedings of the House
furnished some important committee re-
ports, the chief of which in Importance, was
on the immigration question. The report
was accompanied by bill naming an immi-
grafton commission and providing for the
issue of an immigration pamphlet. A reso-
fusion endorsing Brandt went over under
debate, and that distinguished parsonage
must wait still longer for consolation.
Soon after the meeting in the afternoon
the Page impeachment matter was taken up
with the understanding that members of the
Judiciary Committee could each speak at
length and other members could speak ten
minutes. The consideration of the matter
continued until recess was taken and the
same matter was resumed at the evening ses-
sion. It was emphatically the topic of the
day:
Routine Report.
ST.. PAUL, Feb. 27.-On motion Of Mr.. S. L.
Campbell, the rules were suspended, and the
joint resolution passed, providing for the pur-
chase of seed grain for sufferers from grasshop-
per ravages
The rules were also suspended, and the bill
changing the name of certain parties passed.
The bill consoidates all the various bills intro
duced during the session for a change of names,
into one.
Also the bill constituting certain parties
heirs-at-law of the parties therein named,
which bill is the incorporation of all the bills
introduced for that purpose during the session.
On motion Of Mr.. Hicks, the special order,
the Page impeachment, was postponed until 3
o clock this afternoon.
Mr.. Ladd, from the committee on immigra-
ton, reported back substitute for House file
261, an act to appropriate money to encourage
immigration.
Section of the substitute creates board of
immigration, consisting of the Governor G. w.
Anderson, and Hon. j. 8. Irgens, whose duties
are, by the second section, to do everything
which may enhance and encourage immigra-
ton
Section makes it the duty of the board to
publish 1000 copies of an immigration pamph-
let of at least 20 pages.
Section 4 authorizes the board to ''invite
and solicit contributions from corporations,
manufacturers. merchants, &C., which fund
shall be known as an Immigration fund.-
Section 5 authorizes the board to secure a
discount from the lowest rates of the leading
lines, and to publish the same in the pamphlet
tor the guidance of immigration.
Section appropriates 81, 500 to said board
for the promotion of immigration.
The substitute, with the original bill, goes to
the committee of the whole.
A SECOND STATE PRISON.
The committee on State prison reported back
the bill introduced by Mr.. Kinds some weeks
ago appointing a commission therein named to
select a location for a second prison somewhere
in the LIST or I'd congressional districts, with a
recommendation that it be indefinitely post
poned.
The same committee also reported favorably
upon the Senate bill authoring appointment by
the Governor of a commission Of six for that
purpose of which the Governor er otieio shall
be member.
Mr.. Kinds said the Governor was already
committed to certain locality and that if the
commission were appointed by him the third
district would not only have greater represen-
tation but would be certain to secure the prize.
He moved that both bills be sent to the COM
mittee of the whole.
Mr.. Fulton explained thereasons of the COM
mittee making the recommendation it did.
He said the Senate bill was the most meri-
toriOus, as it provides for the appointment by
the Governor Of commission which would rep
resent all Of the Congressional districts, and
whose duty it would be to select the most desir-
able site that could be found within the
boundary of the whole State. Mr.. Kinds bill,
on the contrary, selects commission of seven
persons named therein, who are nearly all resi-
dents of the Second Congressional district, and