Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-02-20

lines into the state may become domestic cor
poratons. They are to file diagrams of their
entire line with the secretary of state, and
must engage not to remove suits into the Unit
ed States courts
Senator Wilson'S bill to tax railroad
lands the title to which has passed came
TO vote after many postponcments.
The roll call was taken, amid an almost SOL
emn silence, and resulted as follows
A 4Esas ST. nayd 10 S sapntSre pd ass xons
Senators Billson, Buchanan, Castle, Glenn
ent, Crosby, Gilfllan, G. D., Gilfllan, J. B.,
Morrison, Sergeant, Waite.
HOUSE we're received fr om
citizens Of Winona and Saltwater against the
passage of the railroad bill in its present shape
and against an appropriation for the Duluth
harbor until the canal had been bridged Bills
were indefinitely postponed amending statutes
relating to COSTS and Senator Wilson'S bill for
a constitutional amendment inhibiting towns,
cities. ETC., from issuing bonds in aid of rail-
roads. Bills were introduced declaring GALA
booses legal jais; requiring the attorney gen.
eral to defend persons holding lands under the
homestead laws The house went into COM
mittee of the whole, and spent the day in tho
discussion Of the railroad bill
The debate brought out but single fact
clearly-that it is the purpose upon the part OF
the friends Of the bill to pass it without mate
rial amendment, and on this subject there is ev-
idently we'll arranged programme. All
amendments were noted down, though soma
may possibly 0e allowed before tho final vote.
sENATE-Bills introduced: Authorizing Free
born county to levy tax to build court house
(passed under suspension}: to provide for SER
vice and collection of judgments against munic-
palties which have no officers: fixing measure of
damages in cases of loss by fire; relating to ware
houses and shipments Of grain (railroad commit
tee substitute bill made special order for FRI
day at 3 D. M. House bills were passed, amend
ing charter Of Northtied; allowing mortgagors
to bid at chattel mortgage sales. Senate bills
passed: Continuing the laws relating to tree
planting; creating the Thirteenth judicial dis
trict. In the afternoon bills were introduced
providing for penal code for the state (the New
York code) and for boomage rates and privileges
On the upper Mississippi and Rum rivers.
Judge Wilson has introduced the following
bill, which he entities "An act relating to the
insurance of real property and the measure
of damages in case OF the loss thereof" Tho
bill reads:
Whenever any policy of insurance shall ba
written to insure real property and the property
insured shall be wholly destroyed without GRIM
l1al fault on the part OF the insured or his
signs, the amount OF the insurance written In
such policy shall be taken conclusiyely to be
the value OF the property when insured and the
true amount OF loss and measure OF damages
when destroyed.
The Judiciary committee has introduced in the
senate the largest bill, probably, ever laid be-
tore that body. 1t is the penal code bill, Of
which the principal features have been given, as
lar as could be In the limits OF newspaper space.
In the PIONEER PRESS. 1t occupies 113 pages
rf the usual size Of printed bills, and is,
practically, reprint Of the New York code. SEQ
rotary Jones did not read it ALL
Senator Pillsburv has provided q bill giving
hhe attorney general $500 to prepare and perfect
In appeal to the supreme court from the district
sourt Ut Hennepin county, in tho notable case
recently decided by Judge Young adversely TO
The state and affecting the taxation Of railroad
lands.
HoUsE-ResOlutA ms were offered for congress
sional action to counteract the Introduction of
American products by European countries. The
Wilson bond bill was recalled from indefinite
postponement. Bills were introduced, amend
ing statutes relating to county surveyors; limit
ing the hours that locomotive engineers and fire.
men may be employed; amending the statutes
relating to protection of life; amending statutes
relating to boards Of trade; amending statutes
relating to actions to acquire title; amending
statutes relating to publication of lis pendens;
amending statutes relating to repression OF dep
'ositions for the reimbursement Of county for
taxes on railroad lands from the per cent tax
on the gross earnings: giving right Of way t.
railroads over state lands; amending statutea
relating to the sale Of personal property; to pre-
vent tho destruction or injury Of bridges BY
traction engines; q general law for the removal
cf'county seats: amending the school law: pro
.viding for the extension Of time for redemption
In certain cases; to license roller Kinks.
Nearly all day was spent in discussing til,
'heuse railroad bill The sections were reat
pne by ONE and adopted, the deliberation
having resulted in the making of no material
reported in favor of the bill being eng1Osset
for itS third reaflinp
1t was obvious from the first that it wat
the purpose to pass the bill without amend.
ment and no secret was made of the fact
that this was In pursuance of an agreement
forty-tiye OF whom, it lis understood, signed
an agreement to see the bill through in 1T
entirety while fifteen or sixteen more agreed
to stand by the measure. The bill will prob
Contested elections are expensive. Mr., Byrne
the lie Sueur county member, who was found t.
be entitled to his seat, has bill in for 81, Isl
for the expenses in his case.
sENATE-Bils were introduced providing for
the incorporation Of loan companies; authOriz-
ing Crookston to issue $50 900 bonds; authoriz-
Ing Albert Lea to vote as to Issue Of bonds in aid
Of railroads entering that city Senate bills
passed: Establishing . Normal school In Moor
head in 1887: providing for compulsory educa-
ton: revising the military code: relating to
lumber district and surveyor general in north
ern part Of state; to prevent transfer Of suits to
federal courts by foreign corporations: provid-
ing for discharge OF seed grain debts due the
state. House bfl1s passed: Amending the
charter Of St. Cloud: also OF Lake Crystal. Fill
more county: providing for the settlement OF
moneys in tho hands OF sherfns and deputies.
. The senators have introduced 400 bills thus
Kar. and of making many more there seems DO
and.
The senate finance committee cannot act in
DzeDaring the general approximation bin until