The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-11-24
MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE.
Proceedings Of the Extra Session

MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE.
ProccedtnssOf Of the Extra Session
MONDAY, NOV. IA.
SENATE-A considerable amount Of routine
business was transacted, An immense number
Of house bills having been passed through their
first reading and placed in position for early
passage, for it is fact that scarcely one bill
out Of twenty that is introduced fails to get
through.
Mr. Wilson offered = resolution which sought
to limit tho time for the introduction OF bills to
Wednesday noon, but some opposition being
manifested to this stoppage Of the wheels Of
Legislation, it's consideration was postponed
Not far from 500 bills have already been born
in the two houses, and it is singular fact that
large proportion Of them entirely repeal or
ular session which adjourned only eight short
months ago.
Senators and representatives have = special
liking for getting up bridge bills, nearly every
MEMBER having one or more which have either
passed, or are in the hands of clerks or CON-
mittees.
HoUsE.-No less than sixty-fivo bills passed
the house and seven new ones were introduced
Aside from This but little business was trans
acted. OF the sixty-tive q large number are
local woodchucks in tho shape Of road and
bridge bills, the whole amount appropriated
therefor out of the internal fund being Sc, ,675,
and lot OF counties to hear from.
The amendment to the capitol bill, by which
the 5 100000 is made sufficient to furnish the
building, as we'll as 70 complete it, cupOla and
all, passed without the faintest opposition.
TUESDAY, NOV. Is.
SENATE.-The house civil service reform
resolutions, which look to q remodellng of the
Iederal constitution and an improvement in
the administration Of the affairs Of the govern
ment, passed the house unanimously. The
swamp land grant to the St. Cloud, Mankato 4
Austin road was amended to death in the house
and the senate refused to bury the corpse. The
house bill appropriating $160,OOO to finish
ana furnish the capitol passed through COM
m,ttee OF the whole with but slight opposition.
The senate, by an almost unanimous vote,
agreed to take pay fer services after the
expiration Of 80 days
HousE.-Another day Of routine work and
scores Of bills passed. The bill allowing sav
ing banks to invest in Dakota securities was
tabled. The usu~l number Of local bills
were introduced and there seems
to be no let-up in this business All 90 through
without questions. 1t member is struck bv
curious or mischievous provisions, and crises
to remark, This mouth is shut at once by some-
body shouting ':local bill"
WEDNESDAY, NOV: IS.
SENATE among the appropriation bills
passed were $4,000 for the expenses Of the
extra session; $25, 900 to pay for the Cox i'm
peachment trial; SIS, 600 for improvements at
the Wlnona Normal school; So, 900 for grad
ing grounds of state prison; So 600 for clerk
hire in the sdjutant generals Office last year
and the year before, and seven or eight bridge
bills, running from $500 to So, 800.
s law. This, with s rs, 900 appropriated at the
last session, will make q very respectable struc-
ture.
HOUSE Articles Of impeachment, twenty
IN number, charging Judge E. St Julien Cox
with drunkenness and lewdness, we're adopted
Dallas improvement company bill was prac
tically killed by recommendation for indef-
nlte postponenlent from committee of the
whole. A number Of local and one or two gen.
eral bills were introduced aud several house
and senate bills passed. The usual routine of
first and second readings was carried through
rapidly.
THURSDAY, NOV. II.
SENATE-The senate organized itself into q
high court of impeachmer the articles pre-
pared and adopted by the house having been
duly presented with the usual formaiities and
solemRities.
The bill to separate the Office of Land COM
missioner from that Of state auditor was then in
definitely postponed by the crushing vote of
20 to 2 |, was looked upon as drive at
Capt Braden, the new auditor:
"A Adt6c uumUoI VI OllAS were passed ana pushed
forward to final passage The Duluth and
Winnipeg land grant was favorably considered
The senate refused to concur in the house ap-
preparation bill, which reduces, the amount es-
t1mated to be necessary to pay the expenses Of
impeaching Cox. The senate decided that S25,-
to try the late Judge Sherman Page, and as not
enough money Was available the members and
s cempeed i'rs to s the state 'Gns Warrants. were
The Sc nate concurred in the house amend
Ments to the bill granting swamp lands to the
St. Cloud, Mankato & Austin railroad company
and that bill is consequently again ready for the
governors approval, at which its friends are
again jubilant after several days of despond-
ency. whole raft Of local bills went through.
House The day was devoted to Industrious
work III passing local bills. and large number
were disposed Of. Three sessions were held and
The calander was materially :e,!uced
FRIDAY, NOV IL.
s1NATE. This body, acting as court Of i'm
peachment, has decided to meet on the 18th of
December at 10 o'clock, to hear the prelimina-
~ arguments on the exceptions or objections
the counsel OF Judge Cox, after which an ad
journment will be had to the second Tues
day OF January, when the trial will begin The
house came over gracefully and agreed to vote
all the money the senate is likely to require to
ascertain whether Judge Cox is guilty of the
charges preferred against him. The Murray
senate passed bills appropriating money to
build bridges in from twenty 70 thirty counties
HoUsE-Representative Rice's bill which
sought to relieve the settlers in the various
counties where seed was distributed after the
srasshopper invasions, from all claims by the
majority. 1t was soon called up again and
desperate fight ensued. Messre. Sanhorn
Hicks, Fletcher, Norrish. ''r: BraleS evD'nl and
Collins were the leading opponents of the bill
on the ground that it was unjust ard
discriminating, and that in the ma ajority of
competent to pay their debts. Those who sup
ported the bill took strong grounds in favor Of
the claims OF humanity, and urged the poverty
OF many poor men, who, from continued mis-
to' tunes were unable to meet their obligations
to the state Messrs. Wilson, Smith. Dunn.
Rice and Baxter championed the bill. After
a hitter and most exciting fight Of the session.
The bill was finally lost by vote Of yeas 48,
nays 81. Attorney General Hahn informs the
house that Minnesota will not be deprived of
representation in the house should congress
fail to pass an apportionment bill Nearly all
the e. ollls before the house were pulled through
The forty-day session has been an industri-
Gus one, the house records showing that 333
house and POI senate bills. a total Of 534. have
been through the mill. At the last regular
session there were ,OS1 bills, 6S8 originat-
ing In the house and 393 in the senate
The Minnesota State Election.
The vote Of Minnesota at the late general
election will not be fully returned for some
days, perhaps week. The vote for governor
is the only one full enough for footing, aud
even in the some twenty counties are incom-
plete. The total vote for governor in the pre-.
cincts returned is 80, ,598, Of which Hubbard
has 81 1904 and johnson 33, 534. Hubbard's
majority so far il %, $50 In the much small
er number of precincts returned for the other
officers, Braden has 50,712 votes to 29,-
763 for Lehmicke, and Vanderburg, 81, 1873
to rs, 331 for Clark. Fo the bond PROPOSE
ton Is, 800 votes were cast in the precincts
reported to q ,S95 against it. Probably there
are as many more unreported, but even if this
Is the case the measure is lost for lack of a
majority OF all the votes cast at the election.
Death of Prot. Allen Whitman
Prot. Allen Whitman, who for some time
e,oss ho1 80