St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-06
WITH A KEEN BLADE
Legislators Propose to Lop
Off the Appropriations for
State Departments.
Propositions to Cuptail the
State National Guards to
One Regiment,
And Reduce the Dairy Com
mission Biennial Haul
by $4,000.
Days Doings in the House
Chponicled for the Gen.
eral Reader.

The railroad commissioners have evil
IDENTIFY been working late and early dur
ing the past few weeks. for they yester-
day turned in to the secretary of the
senate half bushel of manuscript con-
tanning information called for in the
Mayo resolution adopted some time ago.
The information is far from full, nearly
all of the railroad companies answering
only such questions as they deemed
best. Inc query as to the official sal
aries was generally disregarded. Sew
eral of the roads, notably the Omaha,
seat full lists of stockholders, among
whom the name of Chauncey NJ. Depew
is set down opposite 200 shares. Many
other prominent men are also upon this
list, as we'll as surprising number OF
ladies'. The matter was referred to the
railroad committee. The companies re-
porting were:
The Burlington Cedar Rapids & Northern
Wlnona & ST. Peter, Chicago Milwaukee &
ST. Paul. Chicago. st. Paul & Minneapolis,
Kansas city line, Duluth d iron Range, Du-
luth, Red Wing 4 Southern, Duluth Il Win
nipeg.. Duluth Terminal, Duluth & Manitoba
Duluth, Crookston d Northern, Little Falls
& Dakota. Minneapolis Eastern. Minneapolis
IL st. Louis, Wisconsin, Minnesota & Pacific.
Northern Pacific. Northern Pacific. Fergus
Falls & Black Hills st. Paul & Northern Pa
cific and st. Paul & Duluth. The report of
the Great Northern is nearly ready, but was
delayed by the absence of President j. J.
Hill and Vice President Clough from the
city.
Petitions.
\ number of petitions were presented
at the opening of the session, some ask
ing for reduction i'll the legal rate of
interest, and others for various local
measures. At the request of Senator
). ID. Peterson, Senate File No. $50 was
then taken up. This bill is designed to
allow the judges of Probate in Ramsey.
Brown and Winona counties to publish
probate notices i'll papers published in
other than the English language i'll those
counties. Senator John Day Smith Oh
iected to this and made several vigorous
speeches on the subject. Senator S. d.
Peterson and Senator Stevens favored
its passage, and won the battle, Secur-
ing, % affirmative votes in its favor.
Suppressed.
Senator John Day Smith started
mild sort of sensation by moving that
the secretary of the senate be instructed
to take charge of all copies of the testi-
mony taken by the bribery investigat-
ing committee two years. and hold them
this. he stated, were that the testimony
of several witnesses had been sup
pressed. This motion was carried, and
for the purpose of finding out how this
came about, Senator Smith offered the
following resolution, which was
adopted:
Whereas, 1t is charged that portion of
the testimony taken in the investigation by
the senate and house TWO years ago relative
to charges of bribery in the senatorial can
vas has been suppressed in the publication
OF that testimony recently ordered by this
body; therefore,
Resolved, That committee of three
senators be appointed by the president of
the senate to investigate and report to the
senate at the earliest day practicable. through
whose conniyance such testimony has been
suppressed such committee shall have
power TO send for persons and papers and
compel the attendance of witnesses.
Bills Introduced.
The special order was deferred until
II O'Clock, and the introduction OF bills
commenced, which was interrupted long
enough to allow Senator John DaV
Smith to explain that he was satisfied
that the secretary of the senate. Mr..
Van DuZee, was in no way responsible
for the suppression of testimony in the
published report, and then proceeded as
follows:
MI oteNellS, > T. 49--fteiiliilS 10 eNemp-
tons.
Mr.. sevatson, S f. 47S- Establishing
land titles court
Mr.. Nelson, 5. F. 479-Proposing a prohi-
bition amendment 10 the constitution.
Mr.. Hammer, s. f. 4S0-Authorizing the
city of Chatfield to issue. bonds.
Mr.. Peterson. S. D., :. f. 4S1-TO prevent
fraud in sale of dairy products.
Mr.. Peterson, 6. D.. ). F. 4S2-Making in
surance companies liable for the whole
amount of policies.
Mr.. La Due, s. f. 4S3-Making the board of
education elective.
Mr.. o Brien, s. F. 4S4-Authorizing the
town of Denmark TO issue bonds.
Mr.. . Brien, 5. I. 4S5-AuthOriZing Cot
tage Grove to issue bonds
Mr.. McHale, s T. 4S6-Relating to road be-
tween counties of Scott lie Sueur and Rice.
Mr.. McHale, : F. 4S7-Regulating charter
elections in towns and villages.
Mr.. Streissguth, :. f. 4SS-Amending acts
relating to cruelty to animals.
Mr.. Donnelly, s. f. 4S9-Joint resolution
relative to postal telegraph.
Mr.. Dedon, $. F. 490-Restraining cattle
from running at large i'll a certain town in
ChisagO county.
Mr. bay, :. f. 461-Regulating commercial
agencies.
Mr.. Dean, 5. f. F. 492-ReorgNnzing board
OF education OF 81. Paul.
The Interest Bill.
The hour Of II O'clock having arrived.
the chair announced the special order,
and Senator Donnelly moved that Sem
ate File No. l, the Davis bill, be taken
up. He argued that the majority of the
senate had the power TO take up any of
the measures OH the special order. In
this he was sustained by the president.
Mr.. Donneliy then recited the passage
of an interest bill by the house. He
thought that body stood very near the
people, and should be so regarded by
the senate.
Senator Leavitt thought the senate
was quite as close to the people as the
house, both being elected by the same
people. Little more than a majority of
the house were present when the inter-
est bill was passed. Senator Davis took
the other side. He wanted a good bill
passed, whether it was his or not. He
favored the passage of the house bill as
an easy way out of the difficulty.
The matter finally came to square
vote, losing by the close vote of "a to 81.
a number of the senators being absent.
The vote in detail follows:
Allen, Crandall, Crate,
Ayers, Davis Kelly
Borchert, Day. Kiester,
Brown. Donnelly McHale
Burkhardt Eaton, Nelson.