The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03
MINNESOTA NEWS.
MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE.
TUESDAY, JANUARY %. &

MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE.
TUESDAY. JANUARY %. f~-i
j., SENATE were introduced to incorporate
the village of DeGraff; authorizing the village
1874 relating to claims for the construction of
the st. Paul & Duluth railroad; to incorporate
the village of Detroit; to amend the gener-
al statues relating to the filing of chattel
mortgages; reports were received from the
railroad and education committees: Bills
were passed to legalize the acts of Allon d.
Ferris, executor; to incorporate the village of
PerhaR1. :, House bills were passed TO author
lze the county commissioners OF Chippewa to
issue bonds; to fix the boundaries Of the village
OF Dundas; authorizing the board of education
of Red Wing to issue bonds. The senate con-
tirmed several executive appointments, rejected
that of D. Burt, as superintendent OF public in
struction, and referred that Of Lathrop +. Reed
as inspector of State prison to the prison COM
mttee -
HoUsR-There were number OF local bills
INTRODUCED, and 4 few passed in the forenoon.
the afternoon was devoted to the discussion of
the joint resolution memoralizng congress for
an appropriation for the reservoir system,
which was passed by vote Of IS to H.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26.
SBNATE:-Iills we're introduced to authorize
the county commissioners OF Mower to levy a
special tax; incorporating the village OF Cannon
Falls; in relation to the erection of party walls;
to repeal the statutes Of 81 relating to swamp
lands; appropriating financial aid to the Mime
sofa Academy Of Natural Science; to promote
moral and social science in the public schools
of Minnesota; authorizing the city of Minneap-
oils to issue bonds to the amount Of $;}O, 600;
to add five sections to article of the constitu-
ton
This bill provides that all railroads construct
cd, or hereafter to be constructed, shall be de-
clared public carriers; the rates of fare and
freight are to be fixed by the legislature; rail
roads may not directly or Indirectly engage in
any other business, and no railroad in the State
or other corporation shall consolidate its
stock or associate with parallel or competing
lires OF railroad, nor shall any railroad in the
State consolidate with any road or roads organ
lied under the laws If another State.
Bills were passed memoralizing congress to
appropriate 81 zoe, 900 for the Improvement
of the Mississippi river; changing the bonnd-
aries of certain school districts; to amend the
general statutes relating to larceny from the
person.
= HOUsE-The speaker announced his appoint
ments to several house and Joint special COM
mittees as follows:
Joint Committee on Investigation of the st.
Cloud Normal Schc o'-Wilson, Denny.
Joint Committee on Railroad Lands Exempted
Fraudlently from Taxation-Wilson, Dunn,
Gomstock, Collins, Smith.
Temperance-Dunn. Putnam, HUM, San
born, Norrish.
Legislative Appo1tionment- Cemstock, Ives,
Kniss Stewart, Van Hoesen. stone, Hayes, Braley,
Churchill, Colquhoun, Wiley, Armstrong, Nc
Andrews, Gardner.
Congressional Appointments Comstock,
Denny, Sabin, Geary, Hicks, Collins, Sanborn,
Allen, Rice, Q. s. Porter, Searles, BooKwalter,
Grazing, Calender.
State Inspector of Wheat-Norrish, Kniss,
Ives, Geary, Game.
Location Of Second State Prison-Hoyt, Moore,
Kneeland, J. Thompson, Jr., Griggs.
Old Railroad Bonds-Daniels, Kniss HUM,
Sabin, Dunn, Baldwin. l.. l.. Baxter, Smith,
McCracken, Donahue.
Mr.: Dunn's bill ma king infringements Of the
liquor laws felonies instead o. misdemeanors,
created quite discussion in the committee of
the whole, and amendments were offered by
Col Baxter, modifying the stringency of the
proposed change, but increasing the present
penalties for certain infringements.
Many bills were introduced, principally of a
local character.
THURSDAY, JANUARY, ~.
SENATE-Bills were introduced to incorporate
the village of Glenwood; to amend the general
laws of 1877 relating to cartways; to encour-
age timber culture; to amend the law lncOrpO-
rating.the city of Austin; to appoint State de-
tective to discover persons selling liquors to-
Indians; to regulate the carrying Of passengers,
and fixing fare.
Bills were passed to incorporate the village Of
Evansville; amending the act of incorporation
of the Hastings Industrial Institute.
Congressional and legislative apportion1nent
- committees were announced as follows:
Congressional-Clement Schaller, Peterson,
Howard. McCrea, Adams, Campbell.
Observation-Disclosures, Rice, Langdon, Gillian,
G. D. Wilson, Simmons, Buck.
Senator Peterson introduced a bill to encour-
age timber culture, providing that every person
who shall plant forest trees on prairie lands,
and take care of them for six years, shall be en-
titled to compensation at the rate of 81 per
acre.
HousE-The bill to amend the constitution
and prohibitspecial legislation was, after a long
discussion in the committee Of the whole, rec
commended to pass
Mr.. Smith introduced memorial asking con:
gress to hasten the passage Of a.bin to prevent
the filling OF the channel of the Mississippi with
sawdust
Mr. Sabin introduced several bills relating to
the Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
railroad company
A joint resolution, offered by Mr. Daniels,
seven representatives, to consider the expedi-
ency Of dividing or. forming judicial districts
was adopted.
The proposed amendment to the constitu-
ton, which was recommended to pass, is as
follows:
Sec 49, The legislature is prohibited from
enacting any special OF private laws in the fol-
lowing cases: First for changing the names of
persons or constituting one person the heir at
aw of another; second, for laying out, opening
or altering highways: third, for authorizing
persons to keep ferries across streams at points
wholly within the state; fourth, for authorizing
the sale or mortgaging Of real estate or personal
property of minors or other persons under disi
ability; fifth, for changing any county seat;
sixth, for assessment or collection of taxes, OF
for extending the time for the collection thereof;
seventh, for granting corporate powers or priv
ileges, except to cities; eighth, for authorizing
the apporhonment Of any part of the school
fund; ninth, for incorporating any town OF vii
lage; tenth, for granting any individual, associ-
alton or corporation, except municipal, any
special or exclusive psvegtsb immunity mn or
road town plats, streets, alleys and public
grounds.
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