St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-16
THE HOUSE.
1t Lets Loose Flood OF Important
BILLS.

''Keep and guard US, o Father"
prayed Chaplain Harrington; but few
of the members of the house heard him.
From Bob Dunn, who was sick, to Jared
Benson, who had a new suit of store
clothes, there was hardly a member
who looked amiabIe or pleased to be IN
session again. The weather, the sena-
torial fight, late hours and bad health,
all cOnspired to make the members short
in temper and ugly in looks. Repre-
sentative Benson came back to the leg
islatiye ring as pugnaciouS as June
bug. and with his mantle of economy
snug upon his shoulders. Representa-
tive Flynn called up the resolution au-
thorizing seven daily papers for the use
of the members of the house. Repre-
sentative Ives prompt y amended to
make it ten dailies. Here was Repre-
sentative Benson's opportunity. He
rose and moved to amend by making it
three dailies and ten weeklies. He did
this not alone on the ground OF economy,
but to secure the dissemination of in
formation among the people of the state
too poor to subscribe for papers.
''You are strictly parsimonious," COM
mented Representative Ives, but Mr..
Benson hung Oh until the house defeat
ed his amendmentan and passed that made
by Representative Ives. Then Mr..
Benson went into the outer courts and
wept.
The committee on rules handed in its
report, document as long as Cleve-
land message, and which contained a
dose of discipline for the members suf-
ficient to remind them of their school
days. Very few of the rules differ from
those of the house of 1857. There are
forty-tWo committees instead of thirty
four, and the finance committee is re-
solved into tWO-wayS and means and
appropriations. The list of the commit
tees and number of members in each are
as follows:
Appropriations IL, ways and means z,
judiciary Is, railroads 10, public accounts
II, public lands Is, education II. agricult-
ural Is, towns and counties IL, military
affairs z, interpretations 8, state prison 8,
claims z, grain and warehouse 10, insurance
9, emigration z, normal achools ., hospl-
tais for the insane 8, temperance 1egisla-
lation g. labor and labor legislation g.,
schools for the defective Z, state reform
school ., roads and bridges z, printing q,
banks and banking z, elections D, commerce
S, public buildings D. rules and joint rules o,
state library 5, mines and minerals z. en-
gros sment 3, enrolment D, forestry D. Iegls
latiye expenses Z. soldiers home IL, state
public schools z, logs and lumber 5, prison
labor 7, state park z, taxes 5, state univer
slty z.
The clerkship trouble was settled by
authorizing the speaker to appoint
clerks for the appropriation, judiciary,
railroad, engrossing, enrolment, grain
and agricultural committees at COM
pensation of S. day. The salaries of
the employees OF the speaker were fixed
at S. day; of the speakers clerk at So;
three doorkeepers, IS; gallery keeper,
So: cloak room guardians, IS; pages,
$3.50, and assistants in committee
rooms, So.
IMPORTANT BILLS.
Representative Benson's state uni
yersity bill appropriates $4,000 an
nualIy for the use of the agricultural
college and medical and law depart.
ments. Representative Ravens bill