Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-26
BILLS INTRODUCED.

By Senator Sergeant-Amending section
10, chapter l, 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
substitute for S. F. No. 96, 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 postponsment
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 tho charter of the city of
Rochester, Olmsted county.
Authorizing the supervisors in towns in
the counties of Kittson, Morrison, Nor
HAL, IOlh, OAbS &Hu VuAlu, TO lh5ue
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 she village of
Anoka, in respect 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 the village of Browns Val
ley to issue So, 800 in bonds to purchase
fire apparatus.
Changing the boundaries of commits
sioner districts in Winona county.
Allowing Grow 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 excellency 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 G. A. Gilman, Lieut.. Governor
Sir: l herewith return, without my ap-
proval, to the house in which it originated
senate file %, an act to change the rate of
interest upon the sale of public lands from
z to 5 per cent, being al amendment to
section Z, of chapter 80, of general stat
utes of 1878.
withhold my approval upon the advice
of the attorney general, that the proviso at
the end of section l 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 ether disposition of
lands or other property, granted or en-
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 in a particular manner and for spe-
cific 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 it 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
| its terms attempt to dispose of per cent.
of the accrued interest on all outstanding
school land certificates. 1t says, ''thst 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 per cent. per annum." Had it added
from the date of the passage of this act"
it would not be open to the objection
which 1 am now considering.
But, aside from the foregoing considera-
tions, which, so far as the amount of mon
ey involved is concerned, is of but small
| moment, it occurs to me that this entire
proviso 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 tc
S2,910,0O0 in round numbers. The past
wear has been an unusually prosperou:
one, and by reason thereof the payment OF