Morris tribune., 1891-03-25

| for expense of murder trials held therein
and the report was adopted. The COM
mittee on elections offered resolution
to pay contest expenditures OF .. y.
Bowman, E. E. Price, r. G. Dunn, John
Daily and e. w. Durant. Referred to
committee on elections.
The limit of time for introducing ap-
preparation bills was extended one day.
Fifty-six bills were introduced during
the day. AS usual, some were impor-
| tant. but much the greater portion were
not, except to certain localities. Among
the most important were the following;
To amend the constitution, by Mr..
Champlin. This bill makes it the duty
of the railroad companies and common
carriers to give all private persons the
same facilities that are given companies
and corporations, and requires them to
weigh or measure grain at points where
| it is shipped and receipt for the full
amount. and shall be responsible for the
delivery of such amount to the owner or
consignee at the place of destination,
less an amount not texceeding onc-fourth
of per cent for wastage. Railroads are
declared public highways, free to all
persons, under the provisions prescribed
by law. Stock shall not be issued at
less than par and no watered stock shall
be issued. Competing lines shall not
consolidate. Their property shall be
subject to the public necessity the same
as the property of individuals. Thepro-
posed amendment shall be submitted at
the next general election.
To provide for the levy of taxes for
state purposes for the fiscal years end
ing July 81. 1892, and July 81, 1898, to
| raise S975 900 for the former year and
| 81 900 900 for the latter.
Bills were passed extending the Aus
tralian ballot law to the whole state; a
new charter for Mankato; amending
Sauk Center charter, and several other
minor measures.
Saturday March FL.
In the senate the special order, the
two mortgage taxation bills of Mr.. Taw-
new. were postponed till Monday.
Senator Sanborn then called up his
concurrent resolution fixing upon Fri
day, April 10, as the day for final adj
iournment, and Wednesday, March 20,
as the last. day for the introduction OF
bills. -T1ere was little or no discussion
on the resolution and it passed by an al
most unanimous vote.
The order of introduction of bills came
next. and among those introduced was
one by Senator McHale, of Scott county,
authorizing the state high school board
to hold summer training schools at the
state university.
TWENTY-FIVE local bills were passed,
the senate adjourned till Monday.
House: Resolution. offered calling
for a committee of five to investigate
whether or not the public warehouse at
Duluth and other places did not ship out
wheat without having it inspected, and
explained that it was charged that the
elevators sold great deal more wheat
than gave account for and that this
wheat was stolen from the farmers.
Adopted.
A resolution to appoint committee
of five to investigate the recent junket-
ing trip to Fergus Falls was adopted.
Several important bills were intro
duced, among them being the following,
To enforce the liquor laws, by Mr..
Stevens. This bill fixes severe penalties
for selling liquor without license.
To establish state signal service for
the benefit of agriculture. Roach.
To create the officeof commissioner of
sssss''iaIlltnre. Zelch.
70 appropri la 2 oney for the erection
of new state capitol at st. rs9ul.
In committee of the whole the Bill to |
amend chapter 20, General Laws of 1887,
was recommended to pass. This is sub
stitute for the John Day Smith law, and
provides that all executions shall take
place in the penitentiary at Saltwater,
upon permanent gallows, and shall be
witnessed by such reporters as the board
of prison managers shall decide to ad-
NIT.
Monday, March 2a.
t. 4bo eaoo4o Eha c,,aoio1 or5ar ~,
mortgage taxation was postponed an
hour to dispose of regular business.
Mr. Donnelly's bill repeating the libel
law came up and was hotly debated.
The bill was defeated by a vote of %
to IL.
OF dozen bills handed in the most
interesting was Senator S. D. Peterson's
for the regulation of charges of express
companies in the state. Senator Lienau
had couple of bills for the regulation
and taxation of insurance companies,
and Senator Sevatson proposed a scheme
for securing a uniform system of insur-
ance policies.
The special order was then taken up,
being the Tawney mortgage taxation
bill After an Intellectual attempt to
refer the bill to the judiciary committee,
and the adoption OF two or three amend
ments making minor changes in the bill,
a vote was taken upon Senator San
born's motion to indefinitely postpone
the measure. The motion prevailed by
vote of % to Is. A motion to recon-
slider was lost.
The house held no morning session
Monday, the adjournment being until
| D. IN. The usual number of petitions
| were read.
| The various committees reported
large number Of bills back, among the
| bills recommended to be indefinitely
| postponed being FL. f. 874, relating to
| the taxation of corporations, and three
or four bills providing fer free text
| books, it being the intention to intro
| duce substitute bill to cover the whole
| question of text books. The local bills
committee reported thirty or forty bills
| back, and 1t was almost 4:30 before the
| reports were all received,
Under thu order of introduction of
| bills, eighteen new bills were read, the
only important measure Of the batch
being one by Mr.. boyd, Of st. Lou;s
| county, who introduced a bill which
will have an important effect upon the
larger villages Of the state, The bill
grants common law municipal powers
| to Oil towns over a,000 inhabitants, and
defines other specific ,>1-eers ~ :. ers anu auties.
] Ma. Lag waid's bill to publish the tax
rolls Of the city of st. Paul was indefi-
nitely postponed upon recommends
of the Ramsey county deiegation.
IN 0OuLD,S Grasp.