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till Nov. 1, 1892, and for 8 per cent.
after Nov. 1, 1892, all this to apply
where no contract Is made. Nothing
is said about interest where no contract
Is made. There is usury clause max
ing it possible to recover all excess paid
tions to amend, and finally Donnelly
moved ITO test the senate to commit to
q committee of one for immediate
amendment, SO that the bill might be
made an 8 per cent. bill with proper for
FIXTURE clause to suit all parties. The
vote on this motion was an anomaly.
Party lines were all broken up and the
motion won by the close vote of 81 yeas
to % nays.
In the house, the introduction of bills
was the principal feature, and after the
usual batch had been sent up the house
resolved itself into committee of the
whole.
House File No. s267, relating to en-
ployers and employees, was considered.
The bill is aimed at corporations who
seek to control the action of their en-
ployes and break up the labor organize
Eons of the country. Reported favorably.
A bill to prescribe the punishment of
murder in the first degree was the spe-
cial order in the house. during the after
noon. N& ~ - 49,
The bill was introduced by Mr.. Bjorge
and reads as follows:
Section l.. Murder in the first degree
is punishable by imprisonment in the
state prison for the offenders natural
life.
Sec. Q. All acts inconsistent with
this act are hereby repealed, provided
such repeal shall not apply to any Of
Tense committed prior to the passage of
this act.
The house in committee of the whole
recommended the bill to indefinite post
ponement.
Mr.. Knudson's bill creating a board
of pardons, consisting of the governor,
the attorney general and the secretary
Of state, was recommended to pass.
... Friday, Feb. 81.
Senate: Interest bills were taken up,
the question being upon Senator Sevat-
sons substitute. Senator Mayo moved
to substitute the committee bill-No.
375-in place of all amendments and
substitutes offered. r
After desultory discussion a vote
was taken on the Sevatson substitute,
which was lost by vote of % yeas to 80
nays. .,yr.ss,. rs-E ~ 81 Ca-.s, ,,
which was the committee bill except as
to the first section, which copied the
present law, simply changing the figures
from 10 to 8.
The debate lasted all the afternoon,
and when adjournment was taken no
!. final vote had been reached.
House: Numerous bills were intro
duced, the principal ones being one by
Bell providing that inmates of the sol
diers' home are entitled to control their
pension money; by Gallagher, limiting
telephone rates to So per month; by
Bell, providing for bounty on Irvine
fibre; by Stevens, for publication of his
tory of Minnesota troops in the war; by
Benner, to compel railway companies to
provide suitable crossings on farms; by
Satterlund to promote timber culture in
the state.
,- N. P. Nelson's bill relating to auto
matte brakes on cars was the first on the
list, and was disposed of by making it
a special order for next Tuesday after
noon.
Saturday Feb. 20.
The first thing to come before the
senate after the approval of the journal
was the amendment of Senator John
Day Smith reducing the interest to 6
per cent, with 10 per cent by contract
previous to July 1, 1891, and per cent
after that date. As the senate was still
under the order for the previous ques-
ton there was no debate, and the
amendment was adopted by vote of 30
to II.
An amendment. offered by Senator
SevatsOn was voted down, and then an
amendment was offered by Senator
Craven which fixed the penalty in in
stances where the usurious interest does
not exceed $50 so the Justice courts will
have jurisdiction. Mr.. Craven's amend.
ment was adopted without division.
The question then came upon the mo.
ton to recommend No. 375 to pass as
amended, and the motion prevailed by a
vote of 80 to5.
No. 375 having now been disposed Of
as special order, No. came up fol
consideration.
Senator Donnelly took occasion te
make hot speech, full of invectives
and denunciations of his colleagues
whom he insinuated had sold out to
bankers and capitalists. He threatened
them with defeat at the hands of Their
! constituents. Senator Craven made 9
| telling reply. .~.@ 1a
"The senator from Dakota, said Sen.
| ator Craven, "has revealed upon this
| floor many of the secrets of that Demo
| cratic-Alliance caucus upon the question
| now before us. But there is one secret
| which he has not revealed, and that
| propose now to tell. 1t was the gentle
| man from Dakota who first rose in thai
caucus and proposed that, for party in.
terests, we should agree to lay aside
! Senate File No. and bring the com
mittee bill up for amendment and pas
sage, He has misled US during thu
| whole fight. He is the man who came
| to the Democratic senators and proposed
combination upon this floor, and now
1 because we do not vote with him, he j,
sending broadcast among our constitu.
ents the charges Of corruption on oul
part. We have stood By him on thi.
floor in everything, And now he repay,
us by saying we are perjqrers and tina
our votes are Influenced by the none.
| lenders"
/ When Senator Craven ceased talking
Senator Donnelly made a conciliator,
speech. He wanted the subject to b
laid over as a special order for nexi
Thursday, but before he could get hi!
motion in shape the senate adjourned
bhd the fight will be continued Monday
/ A short and proftless session wa
held in the house Saturday morning
Mr.. McGrath, of Winona, performed th
duties of speaker in the absence O
Speaker Champlin, who had gone hom
to spend the week end with his family
The scarce attendance of members ind
Gated that many others had "done like
wise" The Stoekwen anti Pinkerto,
bill was killed on the third reading
Mr.. Reyes, of Winona, however, CAV
notice that he would subsequently NOV
to reconsider the measure.
Monday, March 2.
| The session of the senate was wasted
unless, as is scarcely probable, goot
may come of the personalities indulget
in between Ignatius Donnelly on on