The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-11
Minnesota Legislature.
MONDAY, APRIL /.

MONDAY, APRIL !.
SEEATE.-fhe senate judiciary committee
will again tackle the Duluth & Winnipeg
question If present plans are carried out.
The forfeiture bill comes up in the committee
as special ORDER
The delegation OF senators that made O
friendly call on the Badger state legislature
last week have not finished talking over the
incidents of the trip yet. According to nll
accounts they had right jolly time on the
way down to Madison and while i'll that
capital were the recipients of every possible
attention at the hands of the Wisconsin
lawmakers.
DEMONSTRATIONS were presented from
Red Wing, Winona and other places remon-
strating against the passages of the meat
inspection bill. while two petitions were pres
ented praying that it be passed.
The senate amendment to the bill requiring
each town in Stevens county to support it's
own poor, by applying it's provisions to
Grant county, was concurred in by the house.
Judge Jennings bill prohibiting the play
ing of pool or billiards in saloons by minors
came back from the senate with an unim-
pOrtant amendment, which was concurred
in, and the bill was then passed.
TUESDAY, APRIL 2.
SENATE.-The senators had their say and
vote on Mr.. Scheffer's inspection before
slaughter bill The measure came up in the
senate as a special order and was tackled
vigorously and with n determined will on
both sides OF the question. And the bill as
amended was passed by a vote of 33 to 7.
The announcement of the vote was received
with round Of applause by the lobby, and
the sergeant-at-arms was called on to re-
store order. The debate had taken oil the
time, recess excepted, from 1890 in the
morning until 4 O'Clock in the afternoon,
and while it was going on the galleries and
floor were filed with spectators.
When the Red river drainage bill came up
for debate in the senate, Mr. Day moved it's
reference to the committee on roads and
bridges, to be considered in connection with
several other measures appropriating
money. The bill gave rise to general debate,
and was then referred to the financial COM
mittee.
HoUsE-.The question of abohshirg CAPT
tai punishment bobbed up again yesterday
when the house went into the committee OF
the whole, and the bill was finally lost, yeas
81, nays Al.
The House votes by large majority to
indefinitely postpone the bill extending the
terms OF county officers.
Mr.. Reyes election law came up at the
conclusion of the capital punishment debate
and after some debate, we made the special
order for Thursday.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8.
SENATE.-The senate finished tinkering up
the general appropriation bill and carried it
through it's final passage. The amendments
that have been agreed upon increase the to-
tai amount of appropriations for state in
situations from $260,750 to 1895, $50, and
miscellaneous apprOpria tiOns, q trife- be-
tween 5000 and $500 while the current ex-
pense list is not disturbed.
The bill to prevent the adulteration of
dairy products was passed atter an amend
menr had been tackled on providing that
skim milk offered for sale shall be labeled
and sold as skim milk.
HoUsE.-The apportionment bill came up,
was argued and discussed and fin ally passed
by a vote of IS for to 20 against.
Mr.. Stebbins' bill fixing the salaries of
members and employees of the legislature
came back from the judiciary committee wit h
an unfavorable report, but on the motion of
the author it was placed on general orders
with the report. Mr. Shouts bill to provide
q ballot box at the next election for an in
formal vote on the prohibition and high
license question was treated in a similar
manner. by the committee on cleo.
tions, but the same course was pursued
in the house. The bills to organize Sheridan
county and to detach Cass county from
county, were indefinitely postponed, as was
the bill to organize Itasca county. The bill
to regulate the election of the clerks OF
courts was recommended to pass, as was the
bill introduced by Mr. C. r. Davis, allowing
liquor licenses to be transferred. The East
man bill, calling for commiss Oners to report
a simpler method of dealing in land, was
indefinitely postponded
THURSDAY, APRIL 4.
SENATE:-Mr. Durant's civil service bill
had an inning in the senate but will be fur
ther considered before it is acted upon. The
bill enacts a law similar to that in force in
Massachusetts and New York
A Skirmish and pitched battle took place
over the third regiment appropriation bill,
which was finally recommended to pass.
Mr.. Hixon put in resolution in the SEN
ate providing for the appointment OF COM
mittee of three to call on the regents of the
state university and ascertain from them
what disposition has been made of the
Hatch fund The president appointed as
such committee Messrs. Hixon, Lende and
Gibson. The Hatch fund is fund amount
ing to 100000, received from the national
government to aid in the maintenance of an
agricultural experimental station. Mr..
Hixon, interviewed in relation to his resou.
ton, stated that he had heard that por-
ton OF this money had been expended in the
erection OF the school house on the agricul-
tural farm. He knew nothing about the
matter personally and had no charges
to make but he believed the people of the
state had right to know what disposition
had been made of the money.
HoUsE-The bill reducing the fees of the
clerks of district courts was recommended
Tor passage, with an amendment excepting
the counties of Ramsey, Hennepin and st.
Louis. The bill to except the Labor temple
at Minneapolis from taxation was recon-
mended Tor indeinlate postponment as
unconstitutional.
The house judiciary committee decided
last night by vote O: to 6 to recommend
that the Scheffer meat inspection bill be in,
definitely postponed, on the ground of its
unconstitutionality.
minority report will be presented to tho
house, recommending that the bill be passed
and asserting that tit is contsitutional and be,
ing police regulation is intra wires of the
state legislature.
FRIDAY, APRIL 5.
SENATE-Mr Keller presented his report
on the Irvine trust in the senate. The gentle
man domestic the conclusion, after a thorough
investigation, that the Irvine trust is a
myth: that it has no existence except in the
imagination OF people The rise in the price
of binding Irvine he finds is due to natural
causes-chiefy to the scarcity OF the raw
material. The gentleman gives interesting
facts and figures; and in conclusion calls at.
tention to the new procession manufacturing
Irvine, from the fiber of certain weeds. The
encouragement by the farmers of this state
ofthe new industry, hesuggests, mauy result
insecuring lower prices.
HoUsE.-Mr. Hay's-bill providing that a
grand jury shall consist of to IL iurymen
will hive to be repealad II noaSel hOth
houses and received the governors signature
some time ago. But now, having been put
all the way through the legislative mill, in
cidentally receiving the endorsement of sew
eral lawyers, it is found to be unconstitu
tional
The Keyes election bill came up In a new
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