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

competent jurts 1iction, shaii be iine1 not less
than 81 ,OOQ, nor more than $lO;lOO
Sec .: That tho provisions Of this act shall
extend and apply TO every person and corpor::
alton, as we'll as to every officer, agent and
servant thereof.
HoUsE-Petitions were presented for tho ex-
tension Of the right of suffrage to women and for
the enactment Of law regulating the railroads.
joint resolution was passed for the appoint
ment Of joint committee to act with like COM
mittee from the Dakota legislature for the regu-
lation Of the grain trade: ALSO joint resolution
concerning the death of Schuyler Colfax The
house declined to order the printing OF the mes
sage in . number Of languages. A joint com.
mittee was ordered appointed ON the census.
The judiciary committee was directed to draw
up general law for the incorporation of towns
and villages. Bills were introduced-To estab:
lish board Of railroad commissioners; amend.
ing the grant of lands to the Cannon River I'm
provemcnt company; relating to matters Of
practice In justice courts: proposing to amend
the constith tion. removing the sixty days limit
to tho legislative session; providing for the as
sessment Of incumbered property; proposing q
constitutional amendment giving the right of
suffrage to women: extending the term of the
municipal judge in Saltwater. Adjourned unfit
10 a. m.
Mr. Warner presented yesterdays bill in
tho house for the regulation of the railroads
which contains features Of tho laws of Mas
sachusetts and Illinois Its principal pro-
visions can be briefly epitonized It provides
for board of three railroad commissioners,
who shall be elected by vote Of the people,
and who shall not be interested In any way,
directly or indirectly, in the ownership of Q
railroad or shall not have been in the en-
ploy of q railroad Provision Is made for one
Of the three commissioners remaining In
office. SO that the commission shall not be
made up entirely of new members The
commissioners are given general supervision
of the rates, but no arbitrary rates are fixed
In the bl !. If the commissioners find that
wrong or injustice has been or IL being done,
they can recommend to the attorney general
methods OF procedure. The commissioners
are given power to investigate oil accidents.
The bill provides for free transportation and
elevator rights, and amends all the present
laws 50 a. to transfer the powers now be-
slowed on the railroad commissioner to the
commissioners. The bill makes transit rates
elective with the shipper, prohibits the use
and amends the law 80 as to put dining cars
on the same footing as sleeping cars for pur-
poses of taxation.
Mr. Drake offered the following joint reso-
luton, which was adopted without opposi-
ton:
people Of the Territory Of Dakota and State Of
Minnesota that laws should be enacted by each
establishing uniformity of grades in grain and
rules for the inspection thereof and for regulat-
ing warehouses and transportation alike in both
state and Territory, therefore
Resolved by the senate and house Of repre-
sentatives of the State of Minnesota, That any
committee or committees on railroads, grain in
spection and warehouses of the legislature of
the Territory Of Dakota, now in session, be in
vited to confer with the similar committees Of
the legislature Of Minnesota, with the purpose
Of uniform legislation as far as practicable
Resolved. That nothing herein snail be con-
strucd to encourage or to justify delay in legis-
lative action by either of the legislatures.
Resolved, That the governor be requested to
send copy OF the foregoing preamble and res
olutions to tho governor of Dakota, requesting
that the same be communicated to the terrific
rial legislature.