New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-02-19
TILE LEGISLATURE.
North Dakota's SoloRs and
What They are
Doing.
SENATE.

| SENATE.
in the senate the school bill was discussed
and recommitted The issue is the township
system. Barlow's bill to establish boards Of
Cancellation and arbitration passed The
house bill providing for liens upon crops and
Tor the levy of a tax to secure payments for
seed wheat passed.
There was short and lively session of the
house. The lottery bin was the issue. The
opponents of the bill tried to prevent the first
| reading in order to get more time for remon-
strances. Mccullough of Walsh county led
the opposition. There were thirty or forty
motions and roll calls. showing a
strength of thirty-seven for the bill,
twenty-five against, and three absent
Friends of the measure succeeded in having
the bill read the first time, and then the house
adjourned 1t will, therefore be read the
second time and referred to the committee,
and probably be reported back to the house
On Monday The necessary two thirds to
pass tho bill is fortv-two. M. n johnson
OF Lakota arrived to-day and is working
among his friends in the house against the
lottery bill Petitions pro and con were
received
SENATE
This has been day Of excitement and sur
prises in the legislature Shortly. alter the
senate assembled Mr.. Winship introduced a
resolution calling for an investigation: On
| charges that telegraph correspondence was
delayed or suppressed by the Western Union
company or its employees The resolution
was tabled by a close vote
Mr.. Bell offered resolution calling for a
special committee to investigate charges Of
bribery and corruption in connection with
the lottery bill, which was adopted.
HOUSE.
No sooner had this matter been disposed
OF IMAM the clerk OF the house appeared with
message stating that Senate bill No. 167, the
lottery measure, had been indefinitely post
Poned. majority of the members were
completely surprised. though a few on the
inside knew that this course had been
decided on. The senate proceeded with the
third reading of the Walsh revenue bill.
which is expected to pass.
The lottery bill had come to its second
reading in the house. The resolution to re-
turn it to the senate with the information
that the house had voted to Indefinitely
postpone further consideration, was pre-
sented by Mr.. Walsh. There was an effort
to table the resolution, but this failed and
the vote to indie fnitely postpone was una1li-
nous. The senate received the message, but
ook no action.
8, 1t was tame day in the legislature but
the senate Investigating committee has been
running full time. The committee sits with
closed doors. Senator Robinson, the big
lumberman of North Oak ota. is chairman
and ex-Judge Francis is attorney for the
committee. Robinson says he was not con-
suited before he wos appointed on the com
mlttee, and that he will get to the bottom of
the facts in every branch OF the proposed in
vestigation.
The House transacted no business
SENATE.
The senate inveStip atino committees boJG
two sessions, everybody being sworn to Sc
crecy, even the witnesses. Rev. Simmons
OF Fargo was the first witness but he
did not know anything of his own
knowledge. He was, however, satisfied from
the nature of the business that Doodle
must have been used. Banker Lyons of
Fargo was also before the committee, and
corrected some OF his testimony. Mr. Ham
lin, special correspondent of the Pioneer Press,
was summoned before the committee, but de-
chned to appear on the ground that the reso-
luton under which the committee was acting
was notsbroad enough to compel him.
HOUSE.
In the house the Investigating committee
on the lottery bill asked to be discharged for
the reason that it had no power to compel
the attendance of witnesses The house re-
fused to discharge the committee. and vested
it with the power to send for persons and
papers. There will BIZ two committees on
the same subject, and .hey ought to be able
to get the bottom facts.
SENATE.
Attorney General Goodwin was roasted by
unanimous senate Chairman Robinson
of the senate investigating committee, re-
quested the attorney general to draft re-
solution that the senate might adopt giving
its committee plenary power in the matter
of compelling the attendance of witnesses.
1t was found that the resolution under which
the committee was setting was not sufficient
HOUSE.
The Fl ouse passed the railroad committees
bill, fixing maximum rates for the transpor-
tation OF native coal. The rates are rs cents
per ton for each additional SO miles. Will
Jams bill abolishing trustees of public insti-
buttons was reported favorably.