The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-03-07
Minnesota Legislature.
TUESDAY FEB. 26.

TUESDAY FEB. 26.
SENATE-A ter a spirited debate, the sen-
ate reduced the number OF parasites that
have fastened themselves upon that body.
The useless employees who are thrown out OF
their positions by this action of the senate
are Gilbert MartinHon and Charles McCann,
assistant dOorkeepers; Rev. William Gray,
keeper of the gallery, and o. S. Blake, post
master. The ten committee clerks whose
! heads went into the basket are c. l.. Hill
ton, banks and banking; o. c. Belyea, grain
and warehouse; o. q. Farsdale, seed grain;
George W. TuOsier, institute for the deaf,
dumb and blind; Alton Crosby, public lands;
II. f. Ives, towns and counties; G. W. Tay
lOr, state public school; J. X. Mertz, corpor-
ations; r.J. Merrill. booms, logs and lumber;
L. NJ. Woodward, claims
House The interest bill was discussed,
and that was oil.
Mr. Hompe offered n resolution: That the
time OF final adjournment orthe TWENTY y-six tn
Legislature be fixed for April at II O'Clock
noon.
Mr.. Searle offered a substitute resolution
! making the final day Friday, April 5, and
that no bills be introduced alter March 13.
Mr.. HOmpe accepted this substitute. Mr.
Stevens again asked that it be made IL pecial
order for Tuesday, but the time having ar
rived for the consideration of the Sevatson
| interest bill, the consideration of the resolu-
| tiOn was necessarily put off.
The agricultural committee devoted their
time to the discussion of Mr. Estes farmers
institute bill. There are fifteen members Of
the committee, and but ten of them were
present. They were divided over the bill,
| the opposition to it arising from the fact
that it places the governing of the institutes
in the hands of the university regents, and
because it is designed to make the Institutes
permanent, some waiting a further trial of
twoyears ormore. twas finally decided by
vote of to to report it iavorably Messsrs
MeNelly, Grain, Jones and Evenson voting
against it. These gentlemen will present a
, minority report.
WEDNESDAY FEB, 27.
| The bill to create board to examine teach
ers and furnish them with certificates receiv-
ed an overhauing in the senate committee of
the whole yesterday. 1t was opposed by sew
eral senator's Mr.. Thacker objected to it on
| the ground that it would create u class of
| teachers Independent of county superintend-
ents, but Mr. Daniels who introduced the
measure, in replying to this point, claimed
that the county superintendents would be
deprived OF none Of their powers, and could
kee p right along giving out their certificates
! under the old law.
The early adjournment movement struck
the senate in the shape Of u joint
resolution introduced by Mr.. Brown
| to saw off the session April
| .. The resolution was referred to the judiri-
Gry committee on motion of Mr.. Edwards,
| although the author of it expressed prefer
ence for having to go to the committee on
retrenchment and reform.
| Nh Hayden introduced O bill IN the senate
| in amendment to the game law. 1t conforms
| the shooting seasons in this state to the
| Wisconsin seasons. SO that the sportsmen OF
the neighboring state may not have the ad
| vantage by reason OF an earlier opening for
certain biz ds. The prairie chicken season is
| the one principally affected. This is to be
opened Sept. l instead of Sept. Is.
HOCsE,-Alyah Eastman regards his bill as
| reducing the time of limitation of suits
against land titles to ten years, favorably
| reported yesterday, as one of the most i'm
portant measures before the Legislature. He
| thinks the present limitation of twenty years
is s.n actual relic of barbarism,
! having been enacted in England in 1924. At
! present England has come down twelve years,
! and her American colonies are working under
q ten-year limitation. He argues that the
| present law is not a statute o. repOse, so
| called, and that his amendment would ma
terially decrease litigation. The title of land
| for ten years back can be rapidly looked up
| by the purchaser, even il he be not versed in
! law, while under the present system, facts are
forgotten, parties are dead and the whole
| thing materially clouded in obscurity.
| The state tax levy is to be increased for the
next two years to two miles. This step has
been rendered necessary by the large demands
! upon the treasury of the state for extraor-
! dinary expenditures. A conference be-
tween the governor and the finance COM
mittees of both branches of the leg
isature resulted in an agreement not to re-
| port back any appropriation bill singly, but
| to wait until all were received, when the
scalping knife might be used more judiciously.z
The amount now asked for, not including
bridge bills, for extraordinary uses (asile
| from current eXpenses) is about 81 500, 600,
| The revenue of the state now amounts to
| 1926, 900, but that is not more than sufficient
to meet the ordinary running expenses and
out of that sum nothing is available for the
| erection of buildings or other purposes of an
ordinary character. 1t was found that it
| will be necessary to increase the state tax
levy for the next two years if any extra ap-
preparations are to be granted.
THURSDAY FEB. %.
| SENATE.-Mr. Halvorson in the senate be-
| held with sadness the practical demolition Of
his beautiful temple founded upon the corner
stone of retrenchment and reform. In other
| words, the senate recede,l from it's position
in adopting tho report of Mr. Halvorsoq's
committee, dscharging certain clerks and
employees, to the extent of reinstating three
Of the latter in their old positions and at
| the old rate Of compensation.
| The senate confirmed the appointment OF
| John r Parshall to the soldiers home hoard
in the place of the Hon. p. NJ Pope resigned.
food of petitions from all parts of the
state asking for the passage o: the bill plac-
ing railroad tariffs and fares under the con-
| troll of the raj way commissioners, we're TO-
ceived by the senate.
A resolution was introduced and adorted.
instructing the secretary of the senate to as
certain by what authority the publisher of
the legislative manual had named the lake
| considered to be the true source of the Mis-
sissippi river Lake Glazier,
The senate again spent much time talking
! over the Canada thistle and wild mustard
bill, which has been the subject OF some O: the
most spirited debates Of the session,
HoUsE;-Mr. Estes sent up circular, sent
| out by the executive committee of the Rail-
road Employees association, asking for sig
| natures to petitions to the legislature asking
| that the Fleming bill, allowing railroads to
| appeal from the orders of the railroad com
| missioncrs be passed 1t was stated that
owing to the lack of that right there are
| 1887 employees less ON the pay roll of one
road than at the same time yeaI ago, and
! on another road the pay is $4,000 per
month less than IN 1888. There were twenty.
two petitions to the effect suggested,
a very important measure will come he
fore the house judiciary committee. 1t is the
| bill to amend the penal code relating to the
/ death penalty. and seeks to abolish that
mode OF punishment in this state, changing
| the penalty for murder to Imprisonment for
| life.
The defeat in the senate OF the bill provid-
| ing for general revision of the statutes oc-
casioned some surprise among the members
of the house, and O bitter feeling has devel.
'oped in some quarters, The revision, it Ia
claimed, is solely needed and cannot bemade
| too soon, and the most earnest supporters
! of the bill cannot understand on what sub
] stantial grounds the senator's refused to fa-
| vorably consider it. There were broad hints
! dranped that the de eat of the measure was
mainly due to the efforts of the West Pub
fishing company, who have a large stock of
the old statutes on hand and are anxious to
dispose of them before revision takes place,
FRlnAY, MARCH /.
SRNATE.--The senate session upon the
| whole was rather tame affair, and ad-
| journment was finally necessary because
| there was not n quorum present. Senator
| Whiteman's bill for floating logs down the
St. Louis river wns lost because there were
not votes to carry it through, although tho