The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-04-11
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bill was hard fought, the final adjourn
ment of the house not being taken until
7:30 All the bills were recommended to
indefinite postponement by the commit
tee of the whole. Mr.. Williams bill.
governing the business of plumbing, was
recommended to pass. 1t applies only to
, cities of more than II, 900 Inhabitants.
Mr.. Morgan's bill. relating to roads.
cartways and bridges, was also recon-:
mended.
Among the other bills recommended
were the following:
To amend the General Statutes relat
ing to corporations; to validate certain
conveyances: to amend the General
Statutes relating to lien of taxes; reiat-
ing to meetings of county commission
panies; relating to interest on money;
relating to challenge of grand jurors; re-
lating to actions in municipal and JUS
tice courts.
Mr.. Hays bill providing that grand
jury shall consist of seven to eleven
jurymen will have to be repealed. 1t
passed both houses and received the gov
ernors signature some time ago. But
now, having been put all the way
through the legislative mill, incidentally
receiving the Endorsement of several
lawyers, it is found to be unconstitu-
tional. 1t is understood that the gov
ernor has been interviewed in relation to
the matter and that, under his recon-
mendation, a bill will be introduced re-
pealing the new grand jury law and re-
storing the old provision that grand
juries shall consist of from sixteen to
twenty-three men.
Mr.. Keller presented his report on the
Irvine trust in the senate. The gentle
very thorough investigation, that the
Irvine trust is a myth; that it has no ex-
istence except in the imagination of
people. The rise in the price of binding
Irvine he finds Is due to natural causes
chiefly to the scarcity of the raw mate
rial. The gentleman gives interesting
facts and figures, and in conclusion calls
attention to the new process for manu-
featuring Irvine from the fibre of certain
weeds. The encouragement by the far
mers of this state of the new industry,
he suggests, may result in securing
lower prices.
SENATE BILLS PAssED.-To define the
legal status of the national guard in
times of riot.
To establish uniform standard of ad-
mission to the bar of this state.
To reimburse Arson Northrup for ex-
penses incurred by him in the Sioux
war.
To license peddling.
HOUSE BILLS PAssED.-To change
boundaries of school district No. 45,
Traverse county.
To consolidate and amend the charter
of the City of st. Cloud.
Saturday, April 6.
| HOUSE.
The dressed meat bill created consider
| able stir in the house. 1t came in by re-
port of the judiciary committee just be-
| fore the recess. There were two reports,
the majority report favoring indefinite
poetponement. and the minority report
| favoring the passage of the bill. There
| was long debate over the question of
putting the bill on general orders or
making it special order. A vote to
place it on general orders was lost and a
vote to make it special order was also
| lost. 1t therefore went on general
| orders.
The house spent the whole afternoon
| on general orders. There was not a
| quorum present at any one time, and
before they were through, at o'clock,
CuClO "C1C ohlJ dbOuO U"CuUy 1.-Two Luclu-
bers present. They worked faithfully,
however, and disposed of thirty five bills
most of which were of local or technical
nature and caused little or no debate.
The only bill indefinitely postponed was
the Sevatson bill to punish the corrupt
use of money at elections. This was
killed on the ground of impracticability
The bill which caused the longest debate
was the Red River Valley drainage bill,
which was recommended to pass.
SENATE.
The bill recognizing the Third regiment
as member of the national guard was
only one on the calendar. Gen. Pope
moved it's reference to the military COM
mittee, and proceeded to read extracts
from the adjutant generals report to
prove that the national guard, as at
present constituted, is unprOvided with
the necessary facilities and opportunities
for becoming trained and efficient. There
was a debate, participated in by the
same gentlemen who talked over the
measure when it was up in committee of
the whole few days ago. The motion
to refer was lost by vote of "a nays to
II ayes, and then the bill was passed by
a vote of 81 to II.
The ways and means committee re-
ported back favorably the bill providing
for the issue of 100000 bonds for the
extraordinary expenses of the state, and
the bill making the tax levy 10 mills.
The house bill separating Beltrami
from Polk county was passed.
The bill giving railroads the right of
appeal from orders of the railroad COM
missioners, introduced by Mr.. Fleming,
came back from the judiciary committee
with two substitutes. The essential por-
tons of the original bill are retained.
The house bill fixing the bounty for
killing wolves at s. per wolf was recon-
mended to pass.
MIR. Pope's bill repeating the law pro-
viding for the taxation of railroads on
their gross earnings was acted on favor
ably by the senate in committee.