Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-01
ROlGtine .ReD0rt.

Senate met at 10 o'clock. Devotional exer-
cises conducted by Rev. Mr.. Stafford.
NO BILLS INTRODUCED AFTER TUESDAY NEXT.
Senator Fl. B. Wilson offered the following:
RESOLVED, That it is the sense of this Senate
that no bills be introduced after Tuesday,
March4th Adopted. F
J BILLS INTRODUCED.
By Senator Hill-To reimburse all persons
who have paid an inebriate asylum tax.
By Senator Bonniwell-To aid in the con-
struction of railroad from Minneapolis to
Hutchinson Mcleod county.
| By Senator PoWers-'Eo change the boundar-
les Of certain school districts in Fillmore coun-
| ty. Passed under suspended rules.
| By Senator e. M. Wilson-To legalize the
ordinance authorizing the manufacture and
| sale of gas in Minneapolis. Passed under sus-
pended rules.
| Minnesota Extension company and the lands
| granted thereto. @.r.%
By Senator Swanstrom-To abate certain
taxes in Cass county.
| By Senator Wedge-To amend the charter of
the village of Albert Lea. Passed under sus-
| pended rules.
By Senator E. NJ Wilson-To change the
name of the Minneapolis Female Seminary to
that of the Bennett Female Seminary of Min
neapolis. Passed under suspended rules.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Page, from the special committee on the
question of the suficiency Of the laws in force
with reference to discrimination in freight on
railroads, reported that the committee find
| that part of section of article 10 OF the State
| constitution requires that railroads shall be
bound to carry agricultural and other produc.
tions on equal and reasonable terms, being a
law without penalties, whereupon MI. Buck
1 Il s,.ln1
ported without recommendation. The bills
seek to prescribe penalties for any violation OF
law. They were ordered to be printed and tc
! be placed on general orders tomorrow.
The points in the bills are that there shall be
q penalty Of $500, to go to any party injured
in consequence of unjust and unequal discrim.
| lnatlon or for refusal Or unreasonable neglect
to furnish means of transportation at all proper
times and places along any line Of road, and
that no corporation shall combine in freight
| rates tending to establish monopolies in the
buying and selling Of produce or merchandise,
and that suit may be brought by the State
against any one offending said law and recover
for the use OF the State fines and penalties not
exceeding $4,000 for each otfense.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED UNDER SUSPENDED RULES
To authorize the village of Moorhead to issue
bonds TO aid in building a wagon bridge and tc
| fund the floating debt.
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county, to issue bonds for the construction of a
| bridge across the Sank river.
| To authorize the town Of Eden Lake, Stearns
| county, to issue bonds to aid in the construc.
tion of bridge across the Sank river.
To legalize the organization of the town OF
| Moorhead Clay county, to define it's limits and
provide for it's division.
! To vacate certain streets in the town of LIE
| Roy.
To incorporate the village of Walnut Grove.
Granting to certain persons the right to erect
a mill dam on the public highway in the town
of Moscow, Freeborn county, and to empower
the supervisors to contribute money to keer
the same in repair.
SENATE BILLS PASSED UNDER SUSPENDED RULES.
Amending the charter of the Cannon Rive,
Improvement company.
| Relating to certain school districts in Ohm
| sted county.
To amend an act granting the Southern Min.
| nesota Extension company certain lands.
EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATION.
! A communication was received from the
Governor announcing his approval of certain
| acts.
FIRST READING OF HOUSE BILLS.
! TO amend title a. chapter "a, of the genera
statutes.
To authorize the town supervisors of thu
towns Of Minneapolis and Minnetonka in tn,
county of Hennepin, to open and lay out
certain town line road between said towns.
To change the name of the town of Honolu.
lu to Hodges, in Stevens county
l To detach certain territory from the village
of Minnesota Lake, in Faribault county.
| To regulate the salary, compensation ano
fees Of county officers, and clerk hire of til.
same, in the county of Olmsted State of Min
/ nesota.
i III. -. -
| the year 1877, entitled San act to authorize
the board of county commissioners of Car
yer county to regulate the salary, compensation
and fees of county officers of said county, ane
clerk hire of the same.
To establish State road from Oronoco vii
lage to Oronoco switch.
To prevent the running at large of cattle O.
other domestic animals in the counties of Mar
shall and Kittson.
To amend the charter Of the city of Roches
i ter.
To amend the act authorizing the Union I'm
provement and Elevator com pany. of the State
Of Pennsylvania, to transact business in thi
State.
i Providing for insuring the State library.
To amend an act for the establishment anc
regulation of the public schools at the city o
| Winona, (being chapter 155, special laws Q
1879
4 2, of chapter 4, of articles incorporating tn
village Of Lyle, Mower county.
To amend chapter 2I4, Of the special laws o
1876, relating to juries in Ramsey county.
To authorize the legal voters of the town O.
Fairmount, in Martin county, to hold election
and transact the business of said town in tn
village of Paramount, said county.
Providing for yacating a street in the villag,
of LIE Roy, Mower comfy.
To incorporate the village of Young America
in the county Of Carver, under the provision: