St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-31
FLOOR TIPS.

Mr.. Benson paralyzed the house by
favoring the resolution to give the COM
mitteeS on state institutions each day
to visit them. Furthermore, he desired
that the entire legisture should 60 on
these iunketS to see, as he said, ''the
magnificence and grandeur of the states
buildings" Nay, he went further still,
and urged that the legislature do this in
a body; but the house, with fiendish de-
light, decided that only committees
should junket.
Representative Lane got in his work
on the libel law yesterday by introduce
ing bill to repeal the act of 1887 en-
tirely. He gives his reason for this on
the ground that the courts of Michigan
have held a similar law to be uncons I'll
tutlonal. The libel decision filed yes
terday by the Minnesota supreme court
may induce him to withdraw this bill.
The question of the appointment of a
special committee on railroads to ascer-
tain the cost of the state roads was
made special house order for Tuesday
next at noon. Representative Sevatson,
as chairman of the railroad committee,
desires the investigation made, although
a similar one of two years ago was a
humbug, as Eric Olson can tell.
House bills passed the senate yester-
day: Amending the charter of the city
of Brainerd; increasing the powers of
the district court; a bill relating to the
village elections of Litchfield, Meeker
county; an act empowering Brown
county to issue bonds for new court
house with an amendment.
Representative .Willrich introduced,
yesterday, bill to amend the act re-
lot TO hn Of Of rt,
a bill to amend the penal code, making
the punishment for abandonment of
children penitentiary otfense and of a
wife misdemeanor.
To prevent debtor defrauding his
creditors, by removing somewhat be-
yond the jurisdiction of the Justice of
the peace that issued writ against him,
is the purport of Senate File No. l37, in
troduced by Senator Chapman.
The manner in which William Pitt
Murray haunts the house suggests
either an addition to the area of the city
or new issue of bonds. Perhaps it's
an extension of the official term of the
city attorney.
Representative Smiths sensational
bill of the day was one which Furnishes
opium joint keepers with six months
imprisonment or $500 fine, and makes
the dive owners amenable to the law.
The bill introduced by Senator Mach
bar to exempt from taxation parsonageS
up to the value of $1,000 has a second
time been ''indefinitely postponed by
the senate judiciary committee.
THAT all appropriation bills be intro
duced within the next twenty days"
was a resolution introduced by Repre-
sentative Flynn yesterday, and which
was passed without delay.
To reimburse the county of Renville
for the money spent last year in stamp
ing out leprOsy and smallpox, Senator
Hall introduced a bill appropriating
$1,000.
The Graves bill blouse File 1857.
which passed the house yesterday,
makes all of the records of register Of
deeds prima facie evidence in court.
Those state officials! Senator Hay
den is the author of bill for the APP
pointment of state veterinarian in
Spector OF contagious diseases.
A bill giving power to municipal cor
porationS to condemn private property
for the use of waterwOrkS, was intro
duced by Senator Smith.
Speaker Graves has appointed as
special committee on game and game
laws. Bickel, Wing. johnson, E. c.,
Davis, G. r., Forbes.
Senator Oswald, looking very pale,
occupied his senatorial seat.
Hon. John S. Pillsbury spent yester-
day morning in the house.
Yesterday was the fifteenth working
day of the senate.