Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-25
FILLS INrHoDrCED.

BILLS INTRODUCED.
By Senator Sergeant section
TO- chapter I, special laws Of 1873, relating
to the charter of the city of Albert Lea.
Passed under suspended rules.
By Senator Waite-Authorizing the
council of st. Cloud to grant certain rights
to street railroads, telephone and telegraph
companies in the streets of said city
Passed under suspended rules.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
The committee on education reported a
substitute for S. F. No 90, authorizing the
superintendent of public instruction to is
sue state certificates to teach in the pub
lie schools The substitute was adopted.
A number of bills Of minor Importance
were reported for indefinite postponement
by the Judiciary and other committees.
The senate bill authorizing the town of
Canton, Fillmore county, to issue bonds
having been recalled for that purpose, was
amended and passed.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
Amending the charter of the city of
Rochester, 0lmsted county.
Authorizing the supervisors in towns in
the counties of Kittson, Morrison, Nor
man, Polk, Cass and Wilkin, to issue
bonds not exceeding $4,000, for public i'm
provements.
Authorizing the city of Saltwater to is
sue $38,500 in bonds for public improve
ments.
Authorizing the city Of Waseca to issue
$4,000 in bonds for the improvement of
streets.
Amending the charter of the village of
Anoka, in spect to road districts.
Relating to the fees and salary of the
abstract clerk of Ramsey county.
Providing for the incorporation of cham
bers of commerce and boards of trade.
Authorizing tho village of Browns Val
ley to issue $500 in bonds to purchase
fle apparatus.
Changing the boundaries of commits
sioner districts in Winona county.
Allowing Crow Wing county to issue
$4,000 in bonds to build court house and
jail
Fixing the salaries and compensation of
the auditor and treasurer of Blue Earth
county.
Amending the charter of Minneapolis
regarding the municipal court
Amending the special laws of 1870 relat-
ing to the public schools of Lake City.
EXECUTIVE VETO.
The following message was received
from his ezcellency the governor, the
points Of which were published in yester-
days GLOBE, communicating his disap-
proval OF the senate bill reducing the rate
OF interest on money due from the sale of
school lands and the reasons for his disap-
proval:
Hon @. A. Gilman, Lieut.. Governor
Sir: [ herewith return, without my ap-
proval, to the house in which it originated.
senate file IS, AZ act to change the rate OF
interest upon the sale of public lands from
10 5 per cent, being an amendment to
section 7, Of chapter 80, of general stat
Gjes OF 1878.
j withhold my approval upon the advice
OF the attorney general, that the proviso at
the end of section / thereof is, if not in
conflict with the strict letter, at least OPP
posed to the spirit of that part of the con
stitution relating to school funds. By sec
ton of article of the constitution it is
provided that the principal of all funds
arising from sale or other disposition of
lands or other property, granted or en-
trusted to this state III each township for |
educational purposes, shall forever be |
preserved inviolate and undiminished. and |
the income arising from the lease or sale !
Of said school land shall be distributed to |
the different townships throughout the !
state, in proportion to the number of |
scholars in each township between the |
ages of five and twenty-one years, and |
shall be faithfully applied to the specific !
objects of the original grants or applica-
tions.
It will be seen by this section, that not |
only is the principal of the so-called
school fund to remain inviolate but the IN
come arising from such fund is disposed !
of III particular manner and for spe-
cifc purpose. Being so disposed of by the |
organic act itself, such income at least, as
soon as it accrues, if not before, is as
much beyond the control of the legislature
as the principal is, and it can make no
difference, as il seems to me, whether such
accrued income has or has not reached the
state treasury. In either case 1T is beyond
the power of disposal of the Legislature.
The proviso under consideration does,by /
IS terms attempt TO dispose of 2 per cent.
II the accrued interest on all outstanding
school land certificates. It says, that on
sales of such lands heretofore made upon
which any part of the purchase money
thereof shall remain unpaid at the passage
of this act, intetest upon which purchase
money shall only be collected at the rate
OF 3 per cent. per annum." Had it added
''from the date of the passage of this act"
1t would not be open to the objection
which am now considering.
Bat, aside from the foregoing considera-
tlons, which, so far as the amount of mon
ey involved IS concerned, is of but small
moment, 1t occurs to me that this entire
proylso Is at least opposed to the manifest
spirit OF the constitutional provision. The
state school fund now holds land certif-
Gates, the principal of which amounts to
S2,9l0,0O0 in round numbers. The past
year has been an unusually prosperous
one, and by reason thereof the payment on