St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-28
SENATORIAL DROPPINGS.
Daniels Will Make 1t Unlawful
for Minors to Carry Firearms.

for Minors to Carry Firearms.
Senator Day secured the passage of
his resolution authorizing, the pubiica
ton of 5000 more legislative manuals.
Ten thousand copies have already been
disposed of, and the demand is still UNI
supplied. A special appropriation bill
will have to be passed before the MANI
uals can be printed. y.
There was so much chattering in the
senate, President Rice declared a recess
would have to be taken if the noise did
not cease. Business could not be prop
erly conducted with so much loud talk
ing. =
Attorneys deSirouS of establishing
uniform standard of admission to the,
bar of the state are doomed to deep
and bitter disappointment. The finance
committee recommend that the bill be
indefinitely postponed, owing to the
lack of funds to pay the expenses of the
examining board created by the meas
ure.
Senator Eaton has had passed through
the senate bill fixing the salary of the
treasurer OF Wright county at 81, 40Oper
annum.
The mayor and aldermen of the city
of Hastings do not now receive any re-
muneratiOn for their services. Senator
Truax put through the senate a bill
creating salary of 500 per annum for
the mayor and $50 for each alderman.
Kandiyohi county desires to erect new
court buildings, and Senator Johnson,
NJ, secured the passage of bill au
thorizing the levy of tw0-mill tax to
meet the expenditures necessitated.
Senator Daniels is seeking to amend
| the law relating to saving associations,
70 ry1
ness outside the district they are ipcOr-
porated.
The law now requires the city clerk
of cities of population of 100000 and
upwards shall collect the vital statistics.
| Cities below that status are dependent
upon the state board of health for the
| collection of these statistics, and Sena-
| tor TruaX proposes to alter the law
| whereby in cities of $1,000 inhabitants.
| the clerks must collect the vital Stats
| ties.
Relating to uses and abuses" Is the
| title of bill introduced by Senator
| Scheffer, amending the law to give the
| district court full power to appoint a
deceased. resigned or removed.
Senator Daniels has SignaliZed HIM
| self by the excellent legislation he has
| suggested this session. He is now at
| tempting to pass bill making it I'M
| lawful for any minor under the age of
fourteen years to handle or have in his
| possession, except under the charge of
| his parent or guardian, any firearm of
| any species whatever.
| This legislature has been troubled
sadly by certain submerged lands in
| the county of st. LOUIS" and Senator
| Truax has introduced a compromise
hot 10, "A
Lying between the shore line and the
| point of navigability upon any naviga-
| BILE waters is hereby granted to the per-
| son entitled to reclaim, improve, occupy
| and use forever such parcel"
Senator Buchanan put through bill
| authorizing the town of Morrison to
| issue s., 600 bonds for the construction
| of bridge.
| Senator Wood has before the senate a
| bill protecting bona-fide purchasers Of
| real estate.
Mrs. Ward, wife of Senator Ward,
| and daughter, Miss Florence L. Ward,
yesterday visited the senate "
The senate chamber has been granted
| to the colored citizens OF the state on
he evening of April l. y
| FL. F. No. 756, regulating the catching
| of fish in Ramsey, Hennepin and Wash
| ington counties, Taft, was indefinitely
| postponed by the senate, on the prop
| ositiOn of Senator Dnrant.
Representative Morgan's bill to pre-
| vent blackliSting is to be emaciated in
the senate. Senator Durant is very out
spoken against it. The bill was on gen.
eral orders yesterday and reeommitted
| to the committee on labor.
| DR.. E. S. Wood, of st. Paul, is son
| of Senator Wood, and the reason OF his
| resignation from the state medical board
| is owing TO increased professional du-
| ties making it impossible for him TO
properly carry on the work connected
with the board. DR.. Wood was the sec
| rotary of the board.