The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-01-22

SENATE.-The house joint resolution in ra-
spect to the memory of Schuyler Colfax pass
I'D; also the senate bill authorizing Swift coun-
" to take care of its own poor. Bills were in
roduced by Senators Clarke, Van Hoeson, and
IF wheat, and in the Van Hoesen bill provid-
ing for board of warehouse commits
sioners, a chief and deputy inspectors;
by Senator Knudson, changing tho date
IF school meetings from December to Au-
gust; by Senator Craig, amending the roads
changing the time of holding court in Good.
hue county; by Senator Sackett, to prevent the
abandonment of insane persons en- route to an
asylum.
Senator Van Hoesen's Dill to establish q
board of railroad commissioners and to regu-
cording to his own statement embraces the
main features of the plan proposed editorially
by the Pioneer Press some weeks
ago. 1t is lengthy document includes
thirty nine sections, and both houses
are deluged with grain, elevator and railroad
on those subjects. When they have been d.
gested the reports of the respective committees
will possess vastly more interest than the bills,
many of which are for boncombe.
Senator Clarke int reduced his bill relating
to tie duties of railroad companies in the re-
y
The bill is practically the same as the one in
troduccd by Senator Clarke, by order of the
railroad committee, two years ago, and the
first section is practically identical with that
introduced by Senator Greenleaf, except tor q
proviso which prohibits the erection of any ell
evator or warehouse within 100 feet of one al.
ready constructed.
The Judiciary conaAlittee reported = substi-
tute for Senator Steenerson's bill, relative tc
legalizing the incorporation of villages. Sena-
H. Al A..
cure positive eviD, that the rules be suspend.
ed and the bill passed. The substitute which il
much like the original bill except that it is moi
80 radical, was read and thon passed by vote
of yeas 20, nays none
The normal school committees of both
branches of tho legislature are to leave for
Wmona Monday afternoon, and will visit the
Winona school on Tuesday and the Mankato
school ON Wednesday, returning to the capital
for the Thursday session. With the insane
asylum and normal school committees absent,
business promises to be dull this week.
HoUsE-The bill appropriating $2S, 600 for
the Minnesota exhibit at New Orleans was pass
ed. Bills were introduced, reducing the rate
of interest on land sales from to per cent;
proposing an additional article to the constitu.
ton, declaring all grain warehouses public
warehouses; extending the time normal scboo
graduates must teach in Minnesota to four years
and prescribinga penalty for failure to comply
with the requirements; in reference to eummont
in Justices courts amending the game Law; reg.
ulating the charges for the transportation Of
freight and passengers by railroads; providing
for the taxation of railroads, sleeping car lines
telephone lines etc: !; providing for the ap:
pointment of an assistant attorney for Henne.
pin county; changing the law regarding thu
appointment OF notaries; regulating the in
spection of grain. The principal committees
were given clerks.
Capt Joseph E. Osborne has been appointed
clerk Of the house committee on finance, anG
E. F. Lane clerk Of the senate judiciary com
mittee.
Mr. Turrell does not get discouraged. HI
introduced the bill proposing to reduce thu
rate of interest on the sales Of state lands from
6 to per cent, which was before the leglsla
ture two years ago. It proposes to cover saiea
already made or which may be made.
Leland's amendment to the game law propos.
shall not be commenced until Sept l. instead
of Aug.15. It is the same as that introduced BY
christensen in the senate