St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-13

with Mckenzie and others in Westover's res
olution charging bribery and attempted
bribery, sent a communication to the coun-
ell representing that he had been ready to re-
spond to the call of the committee of inves-
tigation, bat the committee had done moth
ing. He demanded, therefore, that the com
mittee be required to report, or the resolu-
ton be expunged. No action was had on his
communication.
Both houses worked most all day at bills
on the third reading, with nearly half the
members of each house engaged in compar-
ing enrolled bills.
The council passed house bills providing
for compilation of agricultural and
other statistics; providing for struck
juries; creating board of education
OF Alexandria; vacating park in the
town of Sterling, Burleigh county;
vacating Cherry street in Memo, Hutchin-
son county incorporating city OF Alexandra;
providing that west of the Missouri in North
Dakota four congressional townships may De
united in civil townships; vacating parts oil
additions to Mandan, south OF railroad; Gre
citing BrightwoOd independent school district
No. /, Richand county; amending laws re-
lating to town bridges; regulating caucuses
or primary meetings, makes mlsdemeanor
in person pot qualified eiector to partici-
pate in such caucus or meetings.; creating
independent school district of Plankinton;
authorizing Stark county to issue bonds
1878 000) for building court house and
Jail at Dickinson; legalizng tax levy of
Andover school township, Day county; max
ing Sargent county a judicial subdivision :;
incorporating town of Bridgewater, McCook
county. The council indefinitely postponed
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normal school at Groton.
In the house Blakemore led an attempt to
vote an exoneratiOn of Wells, Prentice and
Pierce, implicated in the house bribery in
vestigation In the discussion Steele of
Kidder said he would vote to exouerate Rep
reseutative Pierce, but wanted the members
first to read the evidence just placed on their
desks. The subject was referred to general
orders. The house passed the following
council bills: Appropriating funds to pay
for fuel used in heating the capitol; al
lowing supervisors of townships to issue
bonds; creating joint school township in the
counties of Griggs and Steele; vacating North
Tyndall and Bonhomme counties; creating
new subdivision of the Third judicial district
consisting of the counties of Ramsey and
Towner; fixing the fees Of sheriffs and dep
convicts; authorizing the formation of
county mutual insurance companies;
authorizing Lawrence county to issue bonds
for jail; authorizing a special election in the
county of Steele; creating the Office of county
auditor for the counties of Sphinx, Stutsman,
Barnes, Morton, Burleigh, Nelson, Brookings
and Minor; authorizing the directors of the
penitentiary at Sioux Falls to rent a wing Of
no nan itcptiarv bplOuoiup IN the limited
States, and to contract with the United States
for the care of United States prisoners; at
taching certain townships to McHenry
county; providing a charter for the city Of
Pembina; repeating the law creating grain
and fish commissions; excepting Fall River
and Battle counties from the act relating to
taxes in the Black Hills; making Minor
county a judicial subdivision; fixing
terms Of court in the Sixth district;
lcgaliZing Sphinx county reward for
court house rioters; authorizing judge to
determine the penalty on plea of guilty Of
murder; amending the law creating the
Office of district attorney; establishing indie
pendent school district No. 2, Bonhomme
county: Benson county funding bill, pro-
viding special election in Rolette county;
creating the county of Stanton from Suits
man and Kidder counties, with county seat
at Tappan; dividing Trail county into com
missioner districts; for repairing govern
ment bridge across Chateau creek at Border,
YaDkton reservation; establishing independ-
ent school district No. !, Hutchinson county;
prohibiting vacating town plats under GER
tain circumstances; vacating old post of
city of Canton; vacating Odessa and Wan
duska towns and LounsberrY addition to
Bismarck; incorporating Volga village.
The house passed the following bill: Re-
apportioning legislative districts.
District No. THE counties of Union,
Clay and Lincoln shall constitute the First
council and representative district, and
Union county shall be the senior county.
District No. 2-The counties of Yankton
and Turner shall constitute the Second coun-
ell and representative district, and Yankton
county shall be the senior county.
District No. 3-The counties of Bon
homme, Hutchinson, Douglas and Chase
Mix shall constitute the Third council and
representative district, and Bonhomme
county shall be the senior county.
District No. THE counties of Mime
haha, McCook and Hanson shall constitute
the Fourth council and representative dis
trict, and the county Of Minnehaha shall be
seuior county. This district shall be allowed
three representatives,.
District No. 5-The counties of Aurora
and Brue shall constitute the Fifth council
and representative district, and Dawson
county shall be the senior county.
District No. 6-The counties of Moody,
Lake aud Minor shall constitute the Sixth
council aud representative district, and
Moody county shall be the senior county.
District No. THE counties Of Brookings,
Kiugsbury, Hawlin and Deul shall constitute
the Seventh council and representative dis
trict, and Brookings county shall be the
senior county.
District No. S-The counties of Beadle,
Sauborn and Jerauld shall constitute the
Eighth council and representative district,
and Beadle county shall be the senior
county.
District No. 9-The counties of Sphinx and
Clark shall constitute the Ninth council and
representative district, aud Sphinx county
shall be the senior county.
District No. 10 The counties of Hand,
Faux, Walworth, Potter and Campbell shall
constitute the Tenth COUNCIL and rep
sentative district, and Hand county shall be
the senior county.
District No. 1.-THE counties of Hyde,
Hughes and Buffalo shall constitute the
Eleventh council and representative district,
aud Hughes county shall be the senior
county.
District No. 12-The counties Of Coding-
ton, Grant, Roberts and Day shall constitute
the Twelfth council and representative dis
trict, and Grant county shall be the senior
county.
District No. l3-The counties of Marshall,
Brown, Edmunds aud McP lersou shall con-
stitute the Thirteenth council and representa-
tive district, aud Brown county shall be the
senior county.
District No. 1.-THE counties Of Fall
River, Custer, Pennington. Lawrence aud
Butte, and all that country living west
OF the Missouri river and south OF the forty
sixth parallel, not included in the above