New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-04-03
Minnesota L eglslatuIe.
SATURDAY. MARCH %.

t ue 6eIStC0 put III announcer DOOi
bill. 1t permits pool selling on horse racing
within and without the state, and prohibits
1T SO lar as all other contests of skill, speed.
/ endurance or political ambition are con
cerned.
i Mr.. Edwards presented in the senate the
report OF the Joint committee on final adj
/ journment. The committee has fixed as the
i date OF adjournment Tuesday, April l6
and recommends that the time for intro,
/ ducing bills be closed next Saturday, March
80, The gentlemen also introduced reso-
luton providing for final adjournment on
the day named, and it was adopted unani-
mously. The same resolution was also
adopted without objection i'll the house:
Among the bills introduced into the senate
was one put in by Mr.. Halverson to prohibit
the manufacture, sale and secretion of dyna-
mite bombs. Any person making or having
IN their possession the deadly missiles, or
| dynamite in any form, with the intent to
destroy human life Herewith, the bill de
clares, shall be guilty of murder in the third
/ degree in case the death of any human being
( results from having the stuff around, and
/ will be punished accordingly
/ HoUsE.-The house spent most of the one
session of yesterday on the general orders,
with Mr.. Stebbins in the chair. House bills
| were first taken up, but when consideration
OF the first ten had been postponed for one
reason or another, it became evident that
not much could be accomplished, and the
senate bills were taken up. Here they had
/ better luck, disposing OF some thirty of
them.
Quite lively debate sprang up in com
| mittee of the whole Of the senate over the
house bill eXempting from process the wages
of working men to the extent of $25 for any
one month. Mr.. Keller opposed the bill
quite strongly, claiming that it is not in
ingmen. 1t bbed them of their independ-
ence, to have their wages exempted, he
| claimed and also it lowered their credit. If
a man acted rightly in his dealings that was
/ enough. He would thus be able to keep up
1 his credit without the aid of a legislative
enactment. He was opposed to the exemp-
ton of any mans property, too, as wrong
in principle. Mr.. Crandall also considered
the exemption acts as wrong in principle,
| whether they exempted the property Of a
man or OF newspaper. Mr.. Goodrich
| championed the bill.
/ MONDAY. MARCH 25
SENArE.-In the senate there was barely a
| quorum of members present, and the body
| did not rem ain very long in session. few
| bills were introduced, including some of a
local nature, but the senators who put in
the local bills wisely had them referred in
stead OF attempting to put them through
! under a suspension of rules. Mr.. Keller sent
| to the clerks desk a series of resolutions
| adopted by a meeting OF the farmers of Sank
| center denounclng in unmeasured terms the
! ubiquitous trusts and asking for legislation
| against them.
! HoUsE.-The judiciary committee has rec
/ commended that the bill relating to hote
| and boarding house keeper and the protec-
| ton OF their guests be passed, but minority
| report recommends it's indefinite postpone
| ment. The bill gives a lien on the goods of
| permanent boarders like that now applying
| to transient guests.
! The bill to tax mortgages has been report
ed adversely by the judiciary committee on
the ground that it is unconstitutional.
| A bill was introduced by MIR. Ives provid-
ing for constitutional amendment regard
| ing the sessions of the legislature 1t stat S
that no session shall exceed ninety days, in
stead OF ninety legislative days, as in pres
| emit constitution. 800.
The scheme to obtain an informal ballot
I on submitting constitutional prohibition
amendment to the people was submitted by
Mr.. Smout in the shape OF a bill providing
Tor a separate box for that purpose at each
voting precinct at the election in 1890.
TUESDAY, MARCH &C.
! SENATE.-The measure for which the pray
| ers and petitions of prohibitionists have
/ been coming in since the session opened was
/ submitted in the senate Mr.. Brown intro
| duced a bill proposing to submit to the peo-
! pie the question of constitutional prohibit
! UiOll. w Oe POued Of DIT Ule lex u elect1OQ.
A bill was put in by MI. Schetfer which eX-
empts homesteads to the value of So, 900
| from seizure for debt. It provides for the
| appraisal OF the debtors homestead by duly
| appointed appraisers, and ii they find it is
worth less than $4,000 it need not be sold
| lit is worth more than that amount the
creditor is entitled to the surplus after a
| sale has been made
Mr.. M. Johnsonss bill amending the cleo
! ton laws prescribes that where vote is to
/ be taken on q constitutional amendment
the ballots. shall either contain both the
/ words Yes and NO so that the voter
4 may scratch out one or tile other, or sh all
/ be entirely blank.
The senate, having kicked itself out over
the bill Of expenses Of the Doodle investiga-
| ton committee decided in committee of the
/ whole that the secretary may draw his war
/ rant for the amounts named therein
/ HoUsE.-The House declined to concur with
the senatein its resolutionto adjourn on April
10, only 33 representatives passing the res
olution and SO standing out for the last
/ day allowed.
The house railroad committee decided to
recommend for passage the bill subjecting
union depot companies to the same laws as
affect common carriers Mr. Diments bill
| liking the maximum freight rates to be
charged on all railroads in the state was
considered, and it was agreed to report
substitute.
| WEDNESDAY, MARCH 81
SENATE.-The final struggle over Mr..
Ives bill prohibiting pool selling occurred
| IN the senate The measure is lost. and lost
| beyond recall, for it has passed through
every stage OF parliamentary privilege to
which bill is entitled and cannot be taken
up again.
Mr.. Crandall introduced in the senate a
bill proposing q constitutional amendment
providing for eighty day sessions of the leg
islature, no bills to be introduced after the
sixty fifth day
county option bill was introduced in the
senate by Mr.. Hoard. 1t provides that
when one-f tn OF the voters Of any country
shall petition for an election to determine
whether liquor should be sold in that coIin-
try. an election shall be ordered. Mr. Dodge
/ ofDodge county also came forward with a
| little county option bill, which as it applied
to Dodge county alone, he had passed under
a suspension of rules, on the ground that it
was a local measure. There were few votes
against the bill. 1t is the second bill grant
! ing local option to single county that has
passed the senate