Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-04-24

the unity of the various departments of
that the college Of agriculture and the
mechanic arts will continue to be part
of the university. A call of the senate
was then ordered pending the adoption
of the resolutions. They were passed by
vote of 80 to 0, the senators voting in
the negative being Messrs. Bowen,
Brown, Hixson, M. johnson, Nachbar,
Pope, Sampson, Thacker, Whiteman.
Mr.. Goodrich moved the reconsidera-
ton of house bill amending the corpo-
ration law, which had been killed at the
morning session. The measure was re-
ferred to a special committee consisting
of Messrs. Goodrich, Ives. Eaton, Bowen,
and Pope.
The bill forfeiting the St. Paul street
railway franchise, was reported in the
senate by the Judiciary committee, and
was placed on the calendar.
Monday, April l5.
HOUSE.
The longest and hardest fought battle
of the present session ended in the ln'
definite postponement of the bill forleit-
ing the grant of the Duluth and Winni-
peg. The committee on public lands,
after further investigation, found that
the act of 1885, transferring the grant to
the Brainerd and Northwestern, gave
them eight years to fulfill the conditions
of the transfer, and the repeal of the act
before 1898, would be a violation of con-
tract. They accordingly receded from
the amendment, which they had agreed
upon on Saturday, and the bill was in
definitely postponed.
The Pope bill was killed by an over
whelming vote.
The house had lively row over the
passage of the omnibus roads and bridges
appropriation bill Mr.. Dunn and Mr..
Fleming protested in vain with others.
The rules we're suspended when the
house was in great confusion and the bill
passed.
The house spent large portion of the
day in finishing up odds and ends or bus
mess, and in packing up. AS result
the house looked as if cyclone had
cleaned it out. Later in the day the
calendar was tackled and twenty senata
bills were passed.
A bill forbidding any corporation,
heretofore or hereafter organized, from
building a road on any street in st. Paul
until authorized by three-quarter vote
of the council, and until the consent of
the owners of one-haf of the frontage
Der mile for each mile of the road is OBJ
tanned.
The house spent the evening on the
calendar, and at about II o'clock cleared
| I'D all the bills on file for third reading.
Mr.. Diment moved that the senate bill
providing for state board of pardons be
taken up, and it was lost by a vote of 5O
to IA. There were several bills on the
general orders that no one desired to
reach. and the house consequently re-
| fused to go into committee of the whole.
but attempted to take up bills here and
| there. 1t didn't work very well, how
ever, and they settled down to wait for
some amended house bills from the SEN
| ate.
When the secretary of the senate ar
! rived he bore the riparian rights bill,
| with an amendment making it apply to
any navigable bay in the state. The bill
was passed. The house adjourned ex-
actly at midnight.
There were not many more than fifty
bills left over, There were fortV-three
| left on the printed general orders, in
Guiding the following: Regulating pas
senper fares between the Twin Cities; to
| provide for recording and indexing Or
| ders and decisions of judges; proposing
an amendment to section 2, article 4, of
| the constitution; creating commission
| to relocate the capitol; providing for the
sale of the capitol lands.
SENATE.
The bill to repeal the act granting the
| st. Paul City Railway permanent and
exclusive franchise was up and created
an excited debate. The bill was voted
out of sight, only eight favoring it,
while twenty six voted on the other
side.
It only remains for the governor to
put his signature to the Keyes bill and
then it will become law. Both branches
of the legislature have passed the meas
ure, thereby declaring that the Austria
lian system of elections should be I'm
! vogue" in Minnesota in cities of 10, 900
or more inhabitants. The senate acted
on the measure at the afternoon session.
| Mr.. Durant's civil service bill was
among the measures that went down on
on the final vote.
| Among the numerous house bills
passed was the one making Wasnlngtons
birthday and Memorial day legal hol
days, But Washington's birthday is
alreadv in that category,
| In the bill relating to the protection of
the whitefish in Lake Superior, the office
of fish warden is created, and the munifi-
cent sum of 5000 is named as such fish
warden's salary.
A resolution was introduced by Mr..
Burkhart and adopted, authorizing the
ioint committee appointed to inquire
into the expediency OF introducing the
manufacture of twine at the state prison
to sit after the adjournment of the legis-
lature and report to the governor.
Nearly 100 senate bills, mostly of a
local nature, were taken from the calen'
dar during the afternoon and passed.
The suddenness with which the senate
closed its session almost took some of the
members off their feet. The reading
clerk was in the midst of his reading al
11A5. Gen. Pope moved to adjourn
sine die, and in spite of the protest Of
several senators it was carried. 1t is un
derstood that there were several commu
nications from the governor awaiting
the action of the senate when the ad
iournment was precipitated, and it ii
definitely known that there was large
number of bills, both local and genera
in their nature, left lying in the files tt
die natural death. Some of these haC
been acted on favorably in the commit
tee of the whole and were recognized a!
meritorious measures. Of senate bill!
that mad been passed by that body anc
had been returned from the house
amended, there was at least an equa
number, including several that were OF
the calendar.