Daily globe., 1879-03-07
Routine Report.

Routine Report.
Senate met at 10 o'clock.
Senator Wheat moved that the vote by which
the bill appropriating lands to State institu-
tions, railroads and public improvements be
reconSidered.
Senator J. B. Gilfllan moved to indefinitely
postpone the motion to reconsider. Carried.
yeas ~, nays 8.
Senator Reaney moved to reconsider the
vote by which the memorial to Congress, ask
ing that stumpage on Indian reservations be
sold was lost. Carried, and the bill was put
upon Its final passage aud passed.
STATE PRISON ooMMITTEE.
Senator Wedge, from the committee appoint
ed to investigate the charges of or uelty and
mismanagement in the State prison, etc., re-
ported, asking that the committee be discharp-
ed from further consideration of that subject.
So ordered.
EXECUTIVE SESSION.
The Senate went into executive session and
confirmed the appointment of W. Il. H. Tay-
lor as State librarian; A. J. Edgerton as a re-
gent of the State university, and Geo. P.
Johnston, of Waseca county, as a member of
the State board Of equalization for the Fifth
district, and a long list of notaries public.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED UNDER SUSPENDED RULES.
To abolish the Office of superintendent of
schools in Dakota comfy and confer it's duties
upon the judge Of probate.
To provide for the levying of tax for gem
eral State expenses. ssss
70 regulate tho compensation of officers of
Mower comfy.
To authorize the register of deeds of Mower
county to record deed without the auditors
certificate.
To provide for the compensation of TAILOR
IN Mower county.
To amend the general laws relating to roads
and cartways.
To amend the general laws of 1876 relating to
foreclosures of railroad mortgages.
10 regulate compensation of officers of Ohm
sted county.
IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE,
Senator Macdonald in the chair, Senator D.
Bucks bill relating to chattel mortgages was
recommended to pass. sharp debate took
place relative to the repeal of special law re-
lating to the election Of commissioners of
Anoka county, participated in by Senators
Ihacher, II. NJ. Wilson and Page, who favored
the bill, and by Senator @. d. Gilfilan, who
opposed 1T, and the bill was recommended to
pass. large number of other bills were acted
upon and reported back with various recon-
mendations.
SENATE BILL PASSED.
Providing for the removal of Insane and i'm.
beetle persons.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
To amend the charter of the village Of Ma
pleton, Blue Earth county.
TO change the name of the village OF Homo
lulu.
To provide additional security for money paid
into district courts.
TO amend the general statutes relating to
bastards.
To amend the general laws of 1876 relating
to right of way over State lands.
Recess till 2:S0.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
THE APPROPRIATION BILLS
amended in the House were taken up and
amendments concurred in whereby the State
prison appropriations were reduced S17.OOO:
the appropriations for the repairs was reduced
slightly and some changes made in the manner
OF expending the same; the bill for the general
expenses of the State government was increas-
ed to provide for sewer; for the payment of
State officers was amended making it more ex-
plicit; for the payment of interest on State
bonds was increased in consequence of an ex-
tension of time on the seed wheat loan; for the
promotion of immigration was amended in
oreaslng the appropriation $4,000 was non-
concurred in.
PRESIDENT PRO TEN OF THE SENATE.
Senator A. E. Rice, of Kandiyohi, and Sen
ator O. D. dilfillan were nominated for presi-
dent pro TEN of the Senate. Senator Rice re-
ceived ~ votes, and Senator Gilfllan received
votes. Senator Rice was declared to be duly
elected and Lieutenant-Governor Wakefield
called to the chair the new president pro tenn
who returned his thanks to the Senate for the
honor conferred upon him, saying that it was
an honor peculiarly gratifying to him at this
time.
The proposition. to put on a third reading the
bill proposing an amendment to the constitu-
tion relating to the State swamp lands was
voted down, yeas Is, nays %.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
To establish court in the city of Faribault.
To repeal the laws of 1877, relating to rail-
road aid by municipal corporations.
To authorize the draining of Neilrs lake,
Hennepin county.
To authorize the Soldiers Orphans home to
pay money to the State treasurer, and to pro-
vide for the disposition of the same.
Relating to town insurance companies.
10 authorize the commissioners of Mcleod
county to use revenue funds to build Jail.
To change the boundaries of Minnesota lake,
Faribault county.
To regulate the grading of wheat.
To prepare and print official bonds of county
officers.
Regulating insurance companies at large in
Kandiyohi. 90
To change theaname of the town of Hodges,
in Stevens county.
10 amend the charter of the village Of ST.
James, Watonwan county.
To establish the independents school district
of Granite Falls.
JOINT resolution to Congress for the relief of
D. W. Seeley.
To incorporate the village of jackson, in
Jackson county.
To amend she laws of 1872 relating to insur-
ance.
HOUSE BILL LOST.
Relating to the sessions of the legislature
and providing for new superintendent.
Relating to the commissioners of Anoka
county.
SENATE BILLS PASSED.
To authorize the city OF New Ulm to issue
bonds to aid in the manufacture of sugar.
To prevent the running at large of cattle in
Kandiyohi county.
Relating to judges of district courts.
To enable certain towns in Mcleod county
to transfer certain bonds.
To suspend provisions of the general tax law
to grasshopper sufferers.
To prevent the martgaging of exempt per-
fonal property, it married man, without the
consent of the wife.
Recess till 1880 P. NJ
EVENING SESSION
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
Relating to the purchase of the general
statutes of 1878.
To amend the general laws of 1877 relating
to cartways.
To legalize certain roads and highways in
Pope county.
TO amend the special laws Of 1876 relating to
Justices Of the peace in st. Paul.
To enable Benton and other counties to issue
bonds to aid railroads.
To amend the charter of the village of
Glencoe.
To locate a State road in stearns and Nicollet
counties.