New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-02-12


We'd in the year one thousand eight
hundred and eighty, and the other
half of said sum to be levied in the
year one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-one (168D, and all money
collected by the county treasurer Of
each county under the provisions Of
this act, without compensation,
shall be kept seoerate from other
State taxes and paid ovel to the state
treasurer.
Provided, That all persons who
shall have received seed grain from
the State under the provisions Of
this act shall, on or before the fif.
tenth (15 day of May, A. D. one
thousand eight hundred and seventy
nine (1679), make affidavit, before
any person authorized to administer
oaths, to the fact that they are then
unable to pay for said seed grain
without great inconvenience and
sacrifice, which affidavit shall be FL
ed in the Office of the auditor of the
county where such person resides:
such atfidavits shall be open to pub.
lie inspection, and any person found
guilty of false swearing under this
provision shall suffer all the pains
and penalties of perjury.
Feb. 5.-But little business was
transacted in either house on this
day, owing to the fact that large
number of the members were attend
ing to committee duty. In the
House the standing committee re-.
ported back quite number of bills
with various recommendations. The
most important were the Senate bill
abolishing the Office of railroad com.
missioner, which was recommended
for passage.
The bill to repeal the law autho.
rizing the publication of the laws in
the newspapers, introduced by Mr..
Bertrand, was recommended to be
indefinitely postponed.
Senate, Feb. 6.-Mr. H. B. Will.
son introduced an elaborate bill
which seeks to prohibit unjust dis
elimination by railroad companies
against persons or places. The bill
is carefully prepared and is calculat.
ed to place all persons and parties on
all equality as regards transporta.
ton, and any railroad company con.
victed of Il violation of this law will
suffer severe penalties. Among the
bills recommended for passage by
the committee of the whole was Mr..
E. M. Wilson's amendment to the
homestead exemption, limiting the
amount of laid to be held as a home
stead exemption, and Mr.. Castles
bill for an appropriation bill for i'm.
provements at the State prison.
House-Mr. Hicks bill abolishing
special order for the forenoon, was
slightly amended and ordered to be
engrossed for third reading. No
quorum was present in the after.
noon, a majority of the members
having departed to visit the asylums
for the insane at St. Peter and
Rochester.
Senate, Feb. Senator Powers
was elected on the greenback plat
form, and as he feels called upon to
do something, he proposes this pract.
ical plan for carrying some Of his
principles into effect. He offered the
following preamble and resolutions
which were adopted ::
Whereas, Legal.tender notes, COM
monty called g greenbacks,' have
been redeemed in gold or other coin
by the government Of the United
States since January 1, 1879, or may
now be redeemed on demand and
Whereas, Such notes now in the
treasury of the United States are held
and treated precisely as so much coin,
as appears from the monthly state.
ment of the public debt by Secretary
Sherman; therefore,
Resolved, LIST, That all assessors in
this State are hereby instructed and
required to- treat such legal.tender
notes, commonly known as green.
backs, not as a debt due from the
United States government to the hol.
ders thereof, and therefore exempt
from taxation, but as evidence that
the holder is the owner of so much
coin, which can be had at the option
and pleasures Of said owner or hold.
er, and to list all such evidences of
coin ownership at the full face value
thereof. .-
Resolved, I'd, That the foregoing
preamble and resolution be referred
to the judiciary committees, with in
structions to report thereon by bill
or otherwise.
TIE House was not in session.