St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-10
LABOR LEGISLATION.
Some Measures That Are
Being Discussed and Urged
for Passage.
Labor Temple Should Be Ex-
empt From Taxation as a
Library.
Railway Employees Think They
Have feen Organizing
Against Themselves.
Several Largely Attended
Meetings Held at Minneap-
oils for Labor's Cause.

Labor legislation is not having boom
this year. AS yet not single measure
in the interest of labor has passed, while
at the last session fourteen such meas
ures were secured with very little
trouble.
The bill extending and amending the
functions of the labor bureau and pro-
vidiug for factory inspection was APP
proved by the Dor committee, by the
house as a committee of the whole, and
is now in the hands of the finance COM
mittee. 1t is expected to come up dur
ing the week for final passage.
The bill providing employment for
convicts at Saltwater is still bone of
contention. Nothing definite has been
settled. and the prisoners are still idle.
The committees on labor legislation are
instructed to use every possible means
in order that the state account may
have fair trial. This matter is also
likely to be settled during the coming
week.
Yesterday the legislative committees
from this city and st. Paul recon-
mended the following acts:
An act making the question whether
injured or deceased persons assumed
the risk of the accident through which
casualty occurred, las one of the dangers
of their employment, question of fact
for the jury in actions for damages.
Be it enacted by the legislature of the
state of Minnesota:
Section /. That hereafter in all ac-
tons for damages on account of per-
sunal injuries or death. the question as
to whether the injured or deceased per-
hf, r.icly IF fhn
through which the casualty occurred,
as one of the dangers of his employ
ment. shall be and the same is hereby
declared to be matter of fact for the
jury to determine, and shall not in any
case be determined as matter of law
by the court.
An act to exempt from taxation that
building in Minneapolis known as the
Labor Temple building, together with
certain designated land on which the
same stands.
Be it enacted by the legislature of the
state of Minnesota:
Section l. That so long as the asso-
citation which owns the Labor Temple
bailding in the city of Minneapolis shall
keep. continue and maintain in said
building, or in part thereof. free pub
lie library, open daily except Sunday,
the property known and described as
the Labor Temple building and land in
said city shall be exempt, and the same
is hereby declared to be exempt from
| taxation.
Sec.2. That the property so by this
act declared exempt from taxation is
| specifically described as follows, to wit:
| The front 80 feet of lots and in block
| 70 of the original town plat of Mime
apolis and the building thereon.
An act to amend section l. chapter 80,
| General Laws of A. ID. 1870. Be it en-
acted by the legislature of the state of
| Minnesota: Section l. That section z,
chapter 20 of the General Laws of 1870,
be amended as follows: By striking cut
the word ''or'' in the fifth line thereof.
| and inserting after the word "agricult-
ural" i'm said line the words "indus-
| trial, educational or building"