The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-03-07
Minnesota Legislature.
TUESDAY Fee. %.

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TUESDAY FEB. 20.
SEEATE.-A ter spirited debate, the sem
| ate reduced the number of parasites that
have fastened themselves upon that body.
The useless employees who are thrown out OF
| their positions by this action of the senate
! are Gilbert Martinson and Charles McCann,
| assistant doorkeepers; Rev. William Gray,
keeper OF the gallery, and O. s. Blake, post
! master. The ten committee clerks whose
| heads went into the basket are: C. l.. Hill
ton, banks and banking; o. c. Belyea, grain
| and warehouse; u. G. Farsdale, seed grain;
| George w. Tuosier, institute for the deaf,
! dumb and blind; Alton Crosby, public lands;
| II. +. Ives, towns and counties; G. w. Tay-
| Tor, state public school; j. X. Mertz, corpor-
ations; I. j. Merrill. booms, logs and lumber;
| L. NJ Woodward, claims.
House The interest bill was discussed,
, and that was oil.
Mr. Hompe offered a resolution: That the
| time OF final adjournment ofthe Twenty-sixth
| Legislature be fixed for April at IL O'Clock
| noon.
| Mr. Searle offered substitute resolution
making the final day Friday, April 5, and
! that no bills be introduced after March ID.
| Mr.. Hompe accepted this substitute. Mr..
| Stevens again asked that it be made u special
| order for Tuesday, but the time having ar
/
| interest bill, the consideration of the resolu-
| ton was necessarily put off.
The agricultural committee devoted their
! time to the discussion of Mr.. Estes farmers
| institute BILL There are fifteen members of
| the committee, and but ten of them were
present. They were divided over the bill,
| the opposition to it arising from the fact
! that it places the governing of the Institutes
J in the hands Of the university regents and
because it is designed to make the Institutes
| permanent, some waiting further trial of
| two years ormore. 1t was finally decided by
! vote of to 4 to report it favorably, Messsrs
MeNelly, Grain, Jones and Evenson voting
against it. These gentlemen will present q
minority report.
WEDNESDAY FEB. 81.
| The bill to create board to examine teach
! ers and furnish them with certificates receiV-
/ ed an overhauling in the senate committee of
! the whole yesterday. 1t was opposed by sew
! eral senators. Mr.. Thacker objected to it on
| the ground that it would create u class of
| teachers independent of county superintend-
ents, but Mr.. Daniels, who introduced the
measure. in replying to this point, claimed
| that the county superintendent would be
! deprived of none of their powers, and could
| keel right along giving out their certificates
under the old law.
The early adjournment movement strnck
| the senate in the shape of joint
resolution introduced by Mr.. Brown
| to saw off the session April
| 8. The resolution was referred to the judici
airy committee on motion of Mr.. Edwards
| although the author of it expressed prefer
| ence for having to go to the committee OH
retrenchment and reform.
Mr. Hayden introduced bill In the senate
in amendment to the game law. 1t conforms
| the shooting seasons in this state to the
Wisconsin seasons. SO that the sportsmpn OF
the neighboring state may not have the ad-
vantage by reason OF an earlier opening for
| certain birds. The prairie chicken season is
the one principally affected. This is to be
opened Sept. l instead of Sept. Is.
| HoUsE-Alvah Eastman regards his bill as
! reducing the time of limitation of suits
against land titles to ten years, favorahly
reported yesterday, as one of the most i'm
| portant measures before the legislature. He
| thinks the present limitation of twenty years
is s.n actual relic of barbarism,
! having been enacted in England in 1924. At
| present England has come down twelve years,
| and her American colonies are working under
q ten-year limitation. He argues that the
| present law is not a statute o. repose, so
called, and that his amendment would ma
| terially decrease litigation. The title of land
| for ten years back can be rapidly looked up
| by the purchaser, even ii he be not versed in
| law, while under the present system, facts are
! forgotten, parties are dead and the whole
| thing materially clouded in obscurity.
| The state tax levy is to be increased for the
next two years to two miles, This step has
been rendered necessary by the large demands
upon the treasury of the state for extraor-
tween the governor and the finance COM
mittees of both branches of the leg
| islature resulted in an agreement not to re-
port back any appropriation bill singly, hut
| to wait until all were received, when the
scalping knife might be used more judiciouslY2
0I1r,t ul-oAf NTs Fnfr Ind
bridge bills, for extraordinary uses (asile
| from current expenses) is about 81 500, 900,
| The revenue of the state now amounts to
1926, 900, but that is not more than sufficient
| to meet the ordinary running expenses, and
| out of that sum nothing is available for the
| erection of buildings or other purposes of an
ordinary character 1t was found that it
will be necessary to increase the state tax
| levy for the next two years il any extra ap-
preparations are to be granted.
THURSDAY FEB. %.
SENATE.-Mr. Halvorson in the senate be-
4 held with sadness the practical demolition of
his beautiful temple founded upon the corner
stone 81 retrenrhment and reform. In other
| words, the senate recedesa from it's position
in adopting the report of Mr. Halyorson's
committee discharging certain clerks and
| employees, to the extent of reinstating three
| of the latter in their old positions and at
| the old rate of compensation.
The senate confirmed the appointment OF
John r Parshall to the soldiers home hoard
| in the place of the Hon. a. NJ. Pope resigned.
! A food of petitions from all parts of the
state asking for the passage o. the bill plac-
| ing railroad tariffs and fares under the con-
| troll of the railway commissioners, we're re-
| eeived by the senate.
A resolution was introduced and adopted,
| instructiug the secretary of the senate to as
certain by what authority. the publisher of
the legislative manual had named the lake
! considered to be the true source of the Mis-
| sissippi river, Lake Glazier,
| The senate again spent much time talking
! over the Canada thistle and wild mustard
bill, which has been the subject oisome o. the
| most spirited debates Of the session,
HoUsE,-Mr. Estes sent up a circular, sent
1 out by the executive committee of the Rail-
! road Employees asspciation, asking for sig
/ natures to petitions TO the legislature asking
1 that the Fleming bill. allowing railroads to
i appeal from the orders of the railroad CON-
| missioners be passed. 1t was stated that
| owing to the lack of that right, there are
1,2S7 employees less on the pay roll of one
road than vt the same time yeaI ago. and
! on another road the pay 10 $4,000 per
month less thnn IN 1888. There we're twenty
i two petitions to the effect suggested,
A very important measure viii come be-
/ fore the house judiciary committee. 1t il the
bill to amend the penal code relating to the
i death penalty aud seeks to abolish that
| mode Of punishment in this state, changing
| The penalty for murder to Imprisonment for
/ life.
The defeat in the senate of the bill provid-
| ing for general revision of the statutes oc-
casioned some surprise among the members
| of the house, and O bitter feeling has devel.
i'oped in some quarters, The revision, it Ia
claimed, il solely needed and cannot bemads
| too soon, and the most earnest supporters
of the bill cannot understand on what sub
! stantial grounds the senator's refused to fa-
| yoFahly consider it. There were broad hints
! drqpped that the de eat of the measure was
! mainly due to the efforts of the West Pub
fishing company, who have a large stock of
| the old statutes on hand and are anxious to
| dispose of them before revision takes Mace,