Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-08

O1AOiC1 GUS JSAlSlOu VI IulSDs
By Mr.. Baker-Relating to the duties of
the trustee of the village of st. Vincent.
Passed under suspension of the rules.
BY Mr.. Emery-Amending chapter 70,
general laws of 1881 relating to the State
horticultural society. Requires the print
ing of 500 copies of its annual reports.
BY Mr.. Collins-Appropriating $500 to
build a bridge over Spunk creek, Stearns
county.
BY Mr.. Cornish-Authorizing the county
of Ramsey to issue bonds in $4,000 to re-
deem other bonds coming due. Passed.
By Mr.. Observation-Disclosures the
publication of legal notices in Sunday
papers.
By the Judiciary Communicable permit
parties awaiting trial to plead guilty and
receive sentence during the vacation of
court.
Recess until 2:30.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
There was good many absentees at
the afternoon session owing to the visit of
the committee on reform school and mem
bers to that institution, and the absence of
others on committee work. For this rea-
son the order of passage of bills was passed
over and general orders taken up.
SENATE BILLS PASSED.
Memorial to congress for the relief of
John Svensky.
Allowing the village of Olivia, Renville
county, to issue bonds for the construction
of county buildings.
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
In committee of the whole, Mr.. Bohland
in the chair, the first bill on the list to be
antagonized was that from the military
committee, increasing the salary of the
military storekeeper to $1,000, to which
Mr.. j. E.Child offered an amendment max
ing the amount $500, Mr.. Collins and
Speaker Fletcher defending the bill, the
latter calling Capt. Burger upon the floor
to show his crippled condition from
wounds received in the war. Mr.. Brown
called the attention of members
to the insidious means by which
salaries were increased. At first an Office
with nominal salary and then it was in
creased to $500, 5000, $500 and then $1,000
as now. He sympathized with Capt. Burg
er, and if the salary proposed could be
taken from that of the clerk of the adju-
tant general-an Office from which the
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learn-he would not object to the bill.
Mr.. Hill and JAS. Smith, Jr., both
favored the bill and hoped the amendment
would be rejected. and Child, J. E., spoke
in support of his amendment and
INDUCED in q general condemnation
of the extravaganza shown in increasing
the salaries of state officials. The amend
ment did not receive more than half a
dozen votes, and the bill as reported was
recommended to pass.
FORFEITURE OF SWAMP LANDS.
The joint resolution of j. E. Child de-
claring the forfeiture to the state of GER
toin swamp lands in cases where corpora
tons have defaulted in the conditions upon
which the lands were voted them was an
tagonized by James Smith, Jr., who said
the legislation proposed was entirely I'M
necessary, as the legislature
had the full power to make
such forfeiture whenever it should
appear to be demanded for the public
good. The lands were given to the state
to encourage internal improvements and
could not be devoted to any other purpose.
He also objected to the resolution because
it provided wholesale forfeiture, placing
ali corporations, no matter how meritori-
GUS or what the circumstances under which
the forfeiture occurred. on the same foot
ing.
Mr.. Collins opposed the resolution be-
cause of its sweeping provisions.
Mr.. Turrell moved the resolution be in
definitely postponed, to which
Mr.. Child moved to amend
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ask to sit again, and spoke at some length
in support of the resolution. He thought
it was time that the corporations having
secured grants of these lands should be
given notice that when such grant was
made, the terms upon which it was secured
must be complied with or suffer forfeiture.
Upon division of the committee the
motion to indefinitely postpone pre-
vailed.
STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES.
When Mr.. Turrells bill, creating a state
board of charities, was reached, j. E.
Child moved its indefinite postpon-
ment. 1t was measure for
new Office and in few years there would
be demands for two or three clerks at high
salaries.
Mr.Brown also favored the motion to in
definitely postpone. The board proposed,
in his opinion, was entirely unnecessary,
and added another expenditure, to be in
creased from year to year, without any re-
turn.
Mr.. Hicks spoke in support Of the bill,
and said if it went no further than to au-
thorize an investigation of the manage
ment of county jails, in which he knew
great injustice was done, the small ex-
penditure it made would be well used, and
operate to the benefit of the unfortunate
classes.
James Smith, Jr., also spoke strongly in
favor of the bill, as 8 move in the
right direction. There was no ques-
ton that great wrongs were often perpe-
trated in public institutions. They grew
up imperceptibly even to the officials in
charge, and the fact of such board as
this, composed of public spirited citizens,
whose visits would be made at unexpected
times, would operate to increased watch
fulness, and the prompt remedy of evils
when ascertained.
MIR. Turrell, author of the bill, called
attention to the fact that similar laws ex
listed in nearly all the Northern states,
and the universal judgment was that they
had proved highly beneficial, and he had
no doubt such board in Minnesota would