The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-03-12
MINNESOTA LEGie1ATUjRiE.


ence committee reported the senate bill with
; few untmportant amendments,N with rec
ommendation that the house concur In the
amendments The house adopted The report,
Ind the.bill Wes then passed without debate,
and without hardly dissenting vote The
bill was almost Immediately reported to the
senate, where it met with similar recep-
tiOn, Senator Hall alone voting In the mega
tive. and will be enrolled, and will probably
reach the governor to-day Where the word
srailroada was used @and warehouse" have
been added, and the governor can appoint
tho commissioned without the advice OF the
senate. Part of soc 20, relating to the long
and short hauls, was stricken out and tho
following placed therein:
Provided, that no railroad company shall
per ton per mile for one cal load Of freight than
for greater number of car loads, per car, undor
like conditions or circumstances.
The following is added to sec 20
The oonsiRnor and railway company may. by
contract, signed by tho :hipper or his deliver
Ing agent, limit such liability, but it shall not
be oompetent for tho railroad companies In any
caset exempt itself for liabilities for its own
negligence by any contract The sum of $2O.-
600 IL appropriated to carry out the provisions
After one Of tho most heated discussions Of the
session tho senate last night recommended for
Falls boomage rates to 25 cents Cfrom 45 centsj
The bill. as has been set forth, is the result Of
compromise reached In the house. Senator VIII
and said that the amendments Of the senate
Judiciary committee. by which the Knife Falls
1seysd m dsns
boom limits, made the imposition on the Du-
luth lumbermen greater than the reduction in
with him, insisting that his constituents were
just 20 cents per thousand feet better of, since
. the Knife Falls company never did drive the
logs over the milo and quarter referred to- A.
HousE-Among the bills passed were the
following.
Adding cross ties to tho articles upon which
there mky be lien for labor.
Amending the statutes relating to official
trusts.
Providing for fourth; judge in the1seoond
Ramsey county, judicial district.
For weather station and bureau of crop re-
ports at Northield ~>@ -
Relating to the deposit of public funds
Amending the statutes relating to depositions
1ndigent deaf, dumb and blind.
Amending the charter Of the city Of St. Paul,
= Making Decoration ] day % legal holiday: ' 1 !
Relating to defense by the state In certain
ssa31E@se1stor Wilson called up his reso-
luton sppropriating money for Mersrs. J. j.
Egan, J. W. Arctander and Attorney General
". ]. Hahn, the committee of the State Bar
association who prepared the penal code for
submission to the Judiciary committee. The
amount was fixed At 500 each, and the reso-
luton passed.
The senate has agreed to the bill providing
for military instructor at the state universi-
ty, who is to have the rank Of Colonel
. By vote of IA to II the senate recommend
ed the passage of the house bill which pro-
vides that incorrigible children sent to the re-
form school shall be charge upon the state
The senate has practically killed the house
bill extending the time for completion of the
MSnkato Austin & St. Paul railroad two years,
by laying it on the table in committee of the
whole.
Senator Pillsbury, from the finance commit
Offices were created by this Legislature. by ap-
propriating So, 500 each per annum, for pay
ment of their salaries.
In committee of the whole, the senate recon-
mended the indefinite postponement of the
house bill creating an additional Judge in the
twelfth district. 1t was stated by Senator Cas-
tie that Judge Brown was authority for the
statement that another judge WAS not needed
in that district
The house bill levying an additional half
mill tax for state purposes, and thus securing
$20o GOO additional revenue for the state, was
called up and passed by the senate. Senate:
Rice being the only opponent Senator Pills
bury, chairman of the finance committee,
tersely put the necessity for the bill in the
words 'You have danced this session. Now
you must pay the piper"
at s., 600 or less from taxation passed the SEN
ate and has gone to tho governor for signature
HousE.-The long and intense contest over
he bill proposing to transfer 10 the st. Paul,
Brainead & Northern the land grant of the
Duluth l. Winnipeg road, if not earned by the
latter road at the expiration of it's grant, cul-
minated in the house when the bill came and
finally passed.
The governor returned the act legalizing the
incorporation of the Chaska Dairy association
without his appro val, because the incorpora-
ton was private one and the act therefore in
conflict with the special legislation prohibition
in the state constitution
In the house on the 4th at II o'clock, Mr..
Durant called attention to the fact that the hour
had arrived At which Democratic president
had been inaugurated as the president of 50-
O0o,coO people. he thought the occasion was
an auspicious one and therefore moved that
recess be taken for five minutes to permit the
Republicans to congratulate the few Democrats
in the house op the event The motion was car
ried, and Messrs. Edmond and Drake took Mr.
Durant On their shoulders and carried him to
the front of the hall amid considerable hilarity
Then speeches were made by Mr.. Durant, Mr.
Valentine and Mr.. Hendrickson, and MI: Naoh-
which was carried. DR.. Pratt offered q concur
rent resolution that the congratulations of the
legislature be telegraphed to the chief execu-
tive Of the United States, which was unani-
mously carried by both houses, and business
WAS resumed
SENATE. The last day of the session was
busy one though there was not much to re-
port. Bills were continually passing through
their several stages, and there was almost in-
cessant OF ayes and nays. -"
While. tho grad Z license license bill was on IN the
Senate was almost deserted, and great
F~tiitf Guilty was experienced in securing enough
votes to pass bills Calls of the senate were
ordered three times in quick succession, but as
soon as the door was opened Senator Wilson,
Doran and others would slip out and resume
their occupation of listening to the house vote.
Finally Doran came into the chamber, and in
stentorian tones announced, "High license has
just got it's death blow"
Cut of twenty-six senators voting on the
house bill to increase the governer's salary
from So, 800 to S., 1000, Senator Wheat was tho
only one voting no.
Routine business was gone through within "a
hun drum fashion, and by II at night not =
thing was left to do until the house sent in
furthur patches of bills. There was a recess
taken therefore of half an hour.
The senators reassembled at II As, and desul-
torily moved and talked for half an hour, when
it was learned that the house had adjourned
with eighteen senate bills before them unacted
upon. This made the upper members; mac,
and although there were several shonse bills
(glven IN fOutne repOrt) 70 % acCeo upon, sen
ator Pillsbury moved to adjourn, and BY &c to
IL the senate at 124O agreed to this proposition.
This was the last day for passing bills but on
Friday the Senate met and passed compliment
ta-y resolutions to officers, etc., and then ad-
journed sine die
HousE.-The secretary Of the senate re-
ported the high license bill passed by.
the house as amended by the senate,
together with other bills that had been
amended in the senate After sharp
debate, the question t en- being on the
passage of the bill, and tn, roll being called
there were yeas "A and nays 43, as follows:
YEAs-44
Lot