The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-02-19
MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE.

dispositions. r.
Senator Peck has introduced bill BY which
lines into the state may become domestic cor
poratlons. They are to file diagrams of their
entire line with the secretary of state, and
must engage not to remove suits into tho Unit
Senator wilson's bill to tax railroad
lands the title to which has passed came
The roll call was taken, amid an almost SOL
emn silence, and resulted as follows:
Yeas, 80; nays, TO- Senators not voting;
A eeR anas Langd9R lawrence, Peterson ana
Senators Billson, Buchanan, Castle, Glenn
eat, Crosby, Gilfllan, G. D., Gillian, J. B.;
Morrison, Sergeant, Waite.
House. Remonstranc were received from
citizens Of Winona and Saltwater against tho
passage Of the railroad bill in it's 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
= constitutional amendment inhibiting towns,
cities. etc, from issuing bonds in aid of rail.
roads Bills were introduced declaring Gala
booses legal jails; 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 tho day in the
discussion OF the railroad bill
AAo oOo@vo DlOuSus OUT Du5 3 single TACT
cIearly-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-
Identity well arranged programme. All
amendments were noted down, though some
may possibly be allowed before the 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-
palities 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 p. M. House bills were passed, amend
ing charter Of Northficld; 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 a penal code for the state 1.-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 can act relating to the
insurance OF real property and the measure
OF damages in case OF the loss thereof" The
bill reads:
Whenever any policy of insurance shall be
written to insure real property and the property
insured shall be wholly destroyed without GRIM
inal fault on the part of the insured or his as
signs, the amount of the insurance written in
such policy shall be taken conclusively to be
the value of the propertY~hen insured and the
when destroyed.
The Judiciary committee has introduced in tho
senate the largest bill, prob ably, ever laid be-
which the principal features have been given. as
FAR as could be in the limits Of newspaper space,
IN the PIONEER PRESS, It occupies lib pages
practically. reprint Of the New York code Sec.
Rotary Jones did not read it all.
Senator Pil1shnrv has provided q bill giving
the attorney general $500 70 prepare and perfect
an appeal to the supreme court from the district
court of Hennepin county, in tho notable case
recently decided by Judge Young adversely to
the state and affecting the taxation of railroad
lands.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. were offered for congress.
sional action to counteract the Introduction oil
American products by European countries. The
Wilson bond bill was recalled from indefinite
postpon ement. 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 fol
taxes on railroad lands from the per cent tar
on the gross earnings; giving right of way to
railroads over state lands; amending statutes
relating to the sale of personal property to pre-
vent the destruction or injury Of bridges by
traction engines; general law for the removal
Of county seats: amending the school law; pro-
viding for the extension of time for redemption
in certain cases. to license roller rinks
Nearly all day was spent in discussing the
house railroad bill The sections were read
'ne by one and adopted, the deliberation
having resulted in the making of no material
amendments and tho cornnoittoo v.,po opa
reported in favor Of the bill being engTossed
.or it's third reading.
It was obvious from the first that it was
he purpose to pass the bill without amend
nent, and no secret was made of the fact
hat this was in pursuance of an agreement
arrived at by the friends of the measure,
orty-hve of whom, it is understood, signed
IN agreement to see the bill through in it's
entirety, while fifteen or sixteen more agreed
10 stand by the measure. The bill will prob
Contested elections are expensive. Mr. Byrne,
he LIE Sueur county member. who was found to
)e entitled to his seat, has bill In for 1,151
or the expenses in his case.
sENATE-Bills were Introduced providing tof
he Incorporation of loan companies; authoriz-
hg Crookston to issue $50, 900 bonds; authoriz-
ng Albert Lea to vote as to issue Of bonds in aid
4 railroads entering that CITY. Senate bills
passed: Establishing Normal school in Moor
head in 1887; providing for compulsory educa-
Jon; revising the military code; relating to
lumber district and surveyor general in north
'rn 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 bills passed: Amending the
charter of St. Cloud; also of Lake Crystal, Fill
more county; providing for the settlement of
moneys in the hands of.sherifs and deputies.
The senators have introduced 400 bills thus
lar. and OF making many more there seems no
Ind.
The senate finance committee cannot act in
the general appropriation bill until
the house takes some action looking toward an
Increase of the states revenues-if such increase
posed, in the appropriations, that the senate
committee will not act until it is discovered
where the money is to come from. OF course all
measures looking toward increase Of tax must
Soren Listoe, ex-register Of the Fergus Falls
and office, has been appointed by Secretary
Jones Of the senate to assist in comparing en-
crossed bills. Mr.. Listoe will bring his family
20 st. Paul for the rest of the session.
H0UsE-A resolution was offered to investigate
the status of the st. Cloud, Austin & Mankato
railway, and resolution was adopted asking
members Of congress to support measures for
the suppression Of Mormonism. Indefinitely
postponed: McKus1ck's amendment to tax
aw. Bills were introduced for IN appropria- !
ion for memorial tablet at Gettysburg;
statutes relating to the adoption of
,hildren; to provide for the collection of judg-
nents and service of summons upon municipal
corporations; for direct system Of surveys; for
second state prison commission. Senate bills
passed: To provide an additional judge In the
Eleventh judicial district; amending statutes
:elating to sales of real estate by guardians for
The change of the county line between Polk and
MARSHALL counties. House bills passed: Pro-
riding for compensation for change of grade:
statutes fixing the season Of catching
rout; relating to practice in probate court; re-
ating to dams and mills: requiring teachers to
20 paid their salaries while attending county
Institutes: relating to publication of the tax
list: memorials for return Of direct tax for war
purposes and payment Of interest on war loan;
ha hnuea railroad bill-79 yeas. 81 .nava
YEAs-7v.
Becker, Fiddes. Pattee
3jorge, Flynn, Peterson, F.,
3lackmun, Foster, Peterson, J.W.,
Bradford, Haraldson, Pla1sance.
Brown, Hample, Porter,
Bruce, -Holmstr0m, Reese, :. i
3urlingame, Hush, Reinhard,
3yorum, johnson, saettre,
3yrne, Lee, Skinner,
Iaina 1,olaud Srnith +