The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-25

passed opens the season for prairie chickens
Aug. 20 and 'or ducks Sept !. 1t does not
permit spring shooting. which was allowable
under the bill us originally introduced.
The legislature has made official declara.
tions against the claims oil Capt. Gluzier. BY
house act which passed the senate by q
unanimous vote yesterday, it declares that
the lake AT the source of the Mississippi
which Gla2ier pretends to have discovered
shall be designated on all official maps and
in oil official documents as eek Lake"
Mr.. Browns bill proposing a prohibtory
amendment to the constitution came up for
final passage in the senate. Mr.. Keller asked
to have the measure re-referred to the com.
mittcc on temperance, but, as that would he
virtually killing the bill, Mr.. Brown would
not, OF course, consent to the carrying out
Of the Keller idea. On the vote there were
10 ayes and 20 noes.
HoUsR.-Speaker Graves was defeated in
bis effort to pass q boom bill for the St
Louis river
The Duluth & Winnipeg matter was given
another whirl in the house yesterday and
again the friends of that road succeeded in
STAYING off the fate which seems to be pur.
suing them. Each time the matter has been
brought up they have seemed to be losing
strength and if the action OF yesterday had
been forced when the house was under dit.
terent order of business, SO that a suspension
of the rules had not been required, II Consid.
cradle step toward settling the matter
would have been taken.
sensation was created in the house
over the disappearance of the bill FORGETTING
the Duluth & Winnipeg land grant, chairman
CTOsSIield, of the Committee on public lands
is unpleasantly situated for he had it last
and says it was taken from his desk
SATURDAY, APRIL 20.
SENATE.-The premonitory symptoms O
the breaking up of the session were apparent
chiefly in the packing up of manuals and
stationery 10 be sent to the homes of the
senator's. Several great square packages
were made up by the pages, decorated with
senatorial express franks and carried away
to the depot. Tuesday the senator's vii
follow their brown paper parcels, having
served out their ninetyday term.
Mr.. Ward OF Waseca posed as the Holman
OF the senate. His stalwart 81 object
rang through the senate chamber with great
frequency, especially alter the submerged
land bill which he had advocated had beef
referred to the committee on temperance.
HOUsE.-Thc house railroad committee or
railroads held two secret sessions and finally
decided to report the Pope bill back with the
recommendation that it be indefinitely
postponed. The committee stood II to 4
in iavor of this report, as follows: Messrs
Sevatson, Comstock, Hoyt, Hoppin, Dunn
johnson, E. {. Savage, Flynn, Crossfeld
Casper and Ives, against Messrs. Shoemaker
Harrington, Temple and Guam. The report
Of the committee ought to he enough to xii
it, but avoid Il long fight, the house adjourn
ed rather than take the billup. The rules o
the house will prevent its consideration OF
Monday. The committee gave ample con
sideratiOn to the bill, hearing delegations
from all over the state besides all the vari
Gus railroad representatives.