St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-04

pany. The subject has, probably, occupied
as much time as any one measure before the
present Legislature, excepting alone the grain
and railroad bills. So important was the bill
considered that it was referred to special
committee of the senate, which, after many
meetings, compromised upon bill which
met the warm approval of all except few
Minneapolis lumbermen. BY mistake an
other bill was introduced in the
senate and passed. That bill,
when it reached the house Sat-
urday last, was referred to the Hennepin and
Ramsey delegations. Yesterday DIR. Murphy
offered resolution calling upon the delega-
tons to report, but under the plea of Mr..
Snider OF Minneapolis that the delegation had
not had time to examine the bill the house
refused to order the report. In the mean
time the senate had taken up and passed the
bill without negative vote, agreed upon and
sent 1t to the house, and during the after
noon and evening the delegations with others
interested held two meetings, but failed to
convince the Hennepin delegation the bill
should pass, and SO there will be two reports.
Ramsey county favoring and Hennegin OPP
posing the bill. The bill fixes a rate Of 30
cents per thousand for logs be
low the falls, when handled and put into the
chute at Minneapolis by the boom companp,
and 20 cents where owners take their logs
when turned out of the booms. AS said
above, the bill meets general approval, a fact
that is shown by the uuanimity with which 1t
passed through the senate. The house should
follow the example set by the senate.
DR.. MURPHY's wooDoHUCK.
DR.. Murphy, ''the gentleman from Ram
sey," had to sup the bitter cup last evening.
He had a bill in com mttee of the whole re-
curing physicians arriving in the state to
submit to an examination by board of five
physicians before being allowed to practice,
the fee for the examination being S15. The
bill met with considerable opposition by
gentlemen from the backwoods district, and
finally Mr.. Teubert secured the adoption of
an amendment that two members should be
homeopathists This broke DR.. Murphy's
heart, and he appealed to his friends to de-
feat the bill, which was done by an emphatic
vote in favor of indefinite postponement
OIL INSPECTOR.
The long-expected blow at the Office of
state oil inspector fell last night, or rather it
was on the program to fall. The bill reported
to the house proposed to cut down the fees of
the ONCE received from SG. raul anu Mluue-
apolis-the business of the two cities fur
nishing the inspector and his deputy their
salaries-about one-half, leaving the compen-
sation of deputies at other points untouched.
Mr.. Hendrickson offered an amendment that
the law should not 60 into effect until Jan. l,
1887. In explanation of his motion Mr..
Hendrickson said the circumstances sur
rounding the bill proved that it was aimed
directly at Capt. Castle as a matter of spite,
and as investigation showed the salary of the
inspector to be far from princely
he did not think the legislature
should be party TO such a
warfare. Messrs. Collester, Pattee, Durant
and Turrell also spoke against the bill. and
on the latter's motion it was indefinitely
postponed.
The house enjoyed little sport last even
ing discussing the bill Of D. Downs, pro-
hibiting males and females skating in COM
pany in skating Kinks. Time was too press.
ing to devote much time to it, but it was
dallied with long enough to attach an amend
ment prohibiting the young man FROM seeing
his girl home from such Kinks, and then a
motion to indefinitely postpone was defeated
and report Of progress adopted, which keeps