Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-02-09
MINNESOTA NEWS.
MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE,
SATURDAY JANUARY. %

lating to public examiner; to amend statutes
IN relation to taxes On telegraph lines; to amend
the statute relating to retrial of civil actions;
TO amend the general statutes of 1878 relating
to uniform textbooks; authorizing the county
commissioners of Mile Laos to construct
dams
Bills were passed relating to the construction
of party walls; distraining animals doing dam
age: relating tie the formation of corporations
tor certain purposes.
HOUSE.-Not i'll session.
MONDAY, JANUARY, 81.
SENATE:-Five huud red dollars is asked to
build a bridge over Snake river, in Marshall Co..
81 900 is also required to bnild bridge over
Otter Tail river, i'll Wilkm county, and 81 200
more is wanted for another bridge in Wilkin
county, over the Bots de Sioux river. Mr. Nc
Crea introduced bills to cover these apprOpria-
tons.
The bill making legal days labor, when not
otherwise specified, to consist of ten hours, was
passed.
Mr. Castles bill to regulate the practice of
medicine and surgery in this state, with q view
to distinguishing the brood Of itinerant quacks
that are driven to Minnesota from the other
states in which they are prohibited from
practcins their frauds and peddling their nos
trums was discussed. Mr.. Castle moved al
amendment which establishes astate examining
board Of five members to be appointed by the
governor, which shall consist Of three practi-
TONERS Of the alopathc school, and one each Of
the homeopathic and eclectic schools Messrs
Castle and Wilson furnished strong and cogent
reasons why a bill of this sort should pass.
HoUsE-.rhc bills authorizing the city of st.
Paul to issue bonds to purchase the water
works, establish work house, increase the
sewerage fund, repair and build bridges, were
passed. A resolution empowering the commit
tee appointed to investigate the charges against
the MANAGEMENT of the St Cloud normal school
to send for persons and papers, and employ
stenoSrapher was adopted. joint resolution,
requesting the committee on congressional APP
portonment to prepare bill dividing the State
into five congressional districts was adopted.
A senate bill, authorizing Minneapolis to issue
bonds to the amount Of S3O, 900 to raise the
the lower bridge, was passed.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY l.
SENATE-A grain inspection bill is about
ready for consideration The ladies of Austin
petition for the right to vote on laws relating to
the liquor traffic The bill which Furnishes
the ruttns who render themselves disagreeable
in railroad and street cars, and other public
conveyances and also the bill for appropIiating
$4,000 to repair the state normal school at
Mankato passed the senate.
HoUsE-Mr. Tether explained that he intro
duced the resolution censuring the speaker for
his appointments to the apportionment COM
mittee, which caused so much excitement last
Friday, wholly on account of Goodhue county,
which was omitted from the committee, and
not on account of the Scandinavians. A reso-
luton was adopted instructing the Legislative
apportionment committee to base the appor-
tionment on a senator for each 20, 600 inhabi-
tants of the State, and a representative for
each 5000, on the ma Or fraction of each Mr..
Hicks prohibitory special legislation bill
passed the house yesterday. The bill increas-
ing the pay of district Judges is also recon-
mendcd for passage
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 2
SENATE.-The senate in executive session
yesterday confirmed a number of appointments,
as follows:
Superintendent of Public Instruction-O. V.
Tousley of Hennepin county.
Directory Of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum
Geo. e. Skinner of Rice county, reappointed.
Members of the State Board Of Health-D w.
Hand of Ramsey county, c. N. Hewitt of Good
hue county, Y. Smith Of st. Louis county, e. J.
Davis of Blue Earth county, G. Gronvold of
GoOdhue county.
Members of the State Board of Equalization
Rudolph Lehmicke of Washington county,
First district, reappointed James G. Lawrence
of Wabasha county, Third district, reappointed;
George P. Johnson of Waseca county, Fifth dis
trict, reappoined; 4. B. Page of Dodge county,
Fifth district, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Hon. Geo. p. johnson, appointed:
James Compton of Otter Tail county, Seventh
district, reapponted; VIM. G. Hayden of Nicol
let county, Ninth district: f. w. lrask of Hous-
ton county, Tenth district, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Hon. A: j. Stevens; Al
bert N. Scip Of st. Louis county, Eleventh dis
trict.
The apportionment committee are furnished
with some data by Mr.. Kinds, which may help
it i'll dividing the State into senatorial and legs-
lative districts. A large number Of local bills
were passed, including one to enable st. Paul
to purchase and operate its water works and
another to furnish st. Paul with a workhouse.
HOUsE-Thc day was spent in the committee
of the whole. Fifty bills were considered. The
bill to appropriate swamp lands to aid the con-
struction of the Little Falls 4 Dakota railroad,
Mr.. Fletcher's two educational bills. and the
memorial to congress in regard to sawdust in
the Mississippi river, were reported upon IA
vorably The bills endorsing the purchases of
railroads by the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis
K Omaha railroad company were passed.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY3.
SENATE--Several hours were spent in dis
GUESSING the Legislative apportionment scheme,
and some interesting facts were brought out in
q speech by Mr.. Kinds, but no progress was
made towards q satisfactory solution of the
problem. The Minneapolis& st. Louis railroad
is authorized to constructa branch road to the
west. The railroad bonds were the subject of
discussion in the afternoon, when Mr.. Chamber
lain made his liberal proposition to burn his
bonds if they were declared worthless, or to
take half of whatever value the State fixed upon
them.
HOUsE-Whcat's usury bill was peremptorily
disposed of in committee of the whole
Mr. A. G. Lounsberry failed, for the fourth or
fifth time, to obtain an appropriation for his
crayon portraits of the governors, which pic
lures now hang in the executives reception
room.
Bills was passed to incorporate the village of
Rush City; to incorporate the village of Perham
to incorporate the village of DegraH; to prohib-
it catching fish in a lake in Brown county,
Many new bills were introduced and referred.
Minnesota News by Telegraph and Mail.
Theodule Merchant of st. Paul. has received
otant for erriD6inu mill