The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-04-18
MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE,
Wednesday, April 10.

D Adlu lOukub UotUl0 LII tllc IlOuSSs i lit
champions of the bill urged but the one
argument of justice, that there might be
no discrimination in favor of the daily
papers over the weekly press. 1t was on
these lines that the battle was fought,
though it at times wandered far from
them, into personality, or the realms of
pure inventive Imagination.
When the bill was reached Mr.. Nor.
gan offered an amendment providing
that the act should net apply to any
ISLANDERS upon females. This was &C
cepted. A vote was taken on the bill
which resulted in its passage, 81 to IS.
Speaker Graves, with some able assist
ance, won big victory for Duluth in
the passage of the famous riparian rights
bill by vote of DO to 10. ~
The house went into committee of the
whole, with Mr.. Smith in the chair. The
Sevatson bill to punish the corrupt use
of money at elections was killed the Sec
ond time, and then MIR. Dunn moved
that the Scheffer meat inspection bill be
taken up, which was done and the bill
recommended.
The committee then arose. Mr.. Sevat-
son called for the ayes and noes on his
bill and it was put under the sod by
vote of SO to 30.
The banking committee sent in two
reports on Mr.. Poe's bill reducing the
legal rate of interest from 10 to 8 per
cent. The majority report recommended
the bill to indefinite postponement.
SENATE BILLS PASSED.-Relating to
weights and measures.
To enlarge the state normal school
board.
HOUSE BILLS. PAssED.-To regulate
grain and warehouses.
Relating to interest on money and
usury.
Relating to actions in municipal and
justices courts.
To punish the counterfeiting of labels
and advertisements.
SENATE.
When the Duluth and Winnipeg for
fixture bill was reported on favorably in
the senate by the judiciary committee,
an attempt was made to summarily kill
it, Mr.. Buckman moving its indefinite
postponement. The motion was lost and
the bill goes on general orders.
The bill bringing country elevators do
ing business for compensation under
control of the railroad and warehouse
commission and providing for their IL
| Censing was recommended for indefinite
| postponement. Notice of Consideration
was given.
The house bills at present in the hands
Of the senate committee number sixty
nine, of which about forty are on the
files of the judiciary committee.
Another bill was put in under the
sanction of the governor. 1t provides
that the St. Cloud reformatory board
may employ the inmates of the institu-
ton at such trades and employments as
they are best adapted for, and prohibits
the board from establishing system of
contract labor.
SENATE BILLS PAssED.-To provide for
the taxation of telegraph and telephone
companies.
HOUSE BILLS PAssED.-To provide Tor
the publication of the military history
of the Minnesota volunteer regiments in
the late war.
To amend the charter of Duluth to au-
thorize the appointment of railroad
commission by the mayor.
To amend the charter of Minneapolis
with respect to the police commission.
Thursday, April IL.
HOUSE.
The house was ia session two hours
and fifty minutes IN the forenoon and
when the noon recess was taken it re-
quired very close investigation to find
out in what respect the business of the
session had been in the least furthered.
The house worked on the calendar in
the afternoon. The Red River drainage
bill was the first on the list. The bill
was lost by vote of sc to Al, but Mr..
Kreis gave notice of motion to recon,
slider. When the Willrich prison bill
was reached Messrs. Willrich, Seymour
and Diment INDUCED in little debate,
but the bill was lost by vote of 81 to 50.
The friends of meat inspection tried to
20 into committee of the whole, but
Judge Fleming demanded the ayes and
noes, and the roll call found Sc in favor
of the motion and 20 against. So the
motion was lost.
The house committee OH railroads re-
ported back the Williams bill making a
one and one-half cent rate on the short
line trains without recommendations,
and it went on general orders in that
shape. The Vollmer bill, fixing freight
rates, was indefinitely postponed by rec
ommendation of the same committee.
HOUSE BILLS PAssED.-Legalizing acts
of county auditors in certain cases.
Providing for incorporation of savings
associations.
Ceding exclusive jurisdiction to the
United States over Fort Smelling reser
walton.
To amend General Statutes relating to
auctioneers.
To amend General Statutes relating to
legal holidays.
To regulate employment of convicts.
SENATE.
There was great difference between
the vote on the Hixson bill to divorce
the agricultural college from the state
university, taken IN the senate on the
question of final passage and the vote
taken in committee of the whole two or
three days ago, whereby the measure
was recommended to pass. The vote in
committee stirred up the regents and
other friends of the university to a con-
siderable extent, for it did look as if Mr..
Hixson might possibly scare up votes
enough to pass the bill. The votes were
not there when the roll was called, how
ever, nor were there half as many regis
tered in favor of the measure as would
be required to carry it.
When MIR, Days bill amending the
libel law came back from the house, the
house amendments were adopted. The
senate failed, however, to concur in the
passage of the bill as amended, the vote
standing 81 ayes to 8 noes The bill
was declared lost, for the reason that not
q majority of the entire senate voted in
the affirmative: but Mr.. Day bobbed up
with notice of reconsideration and the
measure has yet a chance of life.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED. To establish a
board of public works in the City of
Winona.
To authorize the judges of the Second
judicial district to fix rules of evidence.
| SENATE Bills PAsSED.-To amend Sec
ton 2, chapter 4. General Laws of 1885,
defining the duties of the surveyor gen.
eral of the First district.
Friday, April IL.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Day Annort's bill nrnnnsinc a con-