Morris tribune., 1891-04-15
STATE LEGISLATION.
RECORD OF WORK DONE BY Min
NESoTA SoLONS.

NESoTA SoLONS.
| A omprchensive Summary of the Pro-
ceedings for the Week Giving List of
Important Bills introduced, Referred,
and Passed.
Tuesday, April Z.
The senate indulged in a brisk debate
over the state prison investigation re-
port. A motion to reconsider the reso-
luton to publish 5000 copies of the
report was lost.
The house worlds fair bill appropriat-
ing $50, 900 for an exhibit from this
state was amended to read 100000 and
sent to committee of the whole.
Donnellys bill making combina-
| tion TO prevent competition in food
products" criminal conspiracy and
providing punishment therefor was
passed without opposition.
Senator Donnelly objected to Mr..
Barr's bill authorizing the refunding of
moneys paid at tax sales on state and
school lands, but it went through by
vote of 80 to l4.
The Currier house bill providing for
the assessment and taxation of telegraph
and telephone lines, was passed.
A quorum was present in the house by
8 o'clock and business was proceeded
with at once. A large number of COM
mittee reports were received and
adopted, and then came another long
discussion over the Minneapolis patrol
limits. The bill to extend was defeated,
and notice of reconsideration given.
| On motion of Mr.. Gildea, Mon
| days calendar was taken up and bills
passed to permit foreign live stock COM
panies to do business in Minnesota upon
compliance with certain requirements;
amending divorce laws; regulating the
business of building associations;
| Stockwells bill to regulate the labor of
railway employees; Stivers' bill to regu
late the labor of railway employees.
came up and after a lively, but short
skirmish, the bill was passed.
| The house went into committee of the
whole on railroad bills. A motion to
substitute the Hompe bill, which passed
the senate, for the Searle bill was lost,
and nfter considerable discussion it was
| decided to report progress on the Searle
bill.
There was a good attendance at the
evening session. After voting to indeti-
nitely postpone the municipal woman
suffrage bill the house went into COM
mittee of the whole on the land grant
forfeiture bill. introduced by Mr.. Bell.
The discussion lasted until 9:45 when a
vote was taken upon a motion to indeh-
nitely postpone. The vote was tie,
leaving the matter just where it was.
Wednesday. April 8.
Resolutions occupied some little time
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Senator Sanborn's resolution providing
for the payment of $5S9.30 for the ex-
penses of the state prison investigation
was passed. A resolution providing
that salaries of doorkeeper, assistant
doorkeeper and keeper of the gallery be
raised from So to So from the beginning
of the session was passed.
| On motion of Senator Sanborn it was
decided to make all bills relating to the
state prison special order, Snd next
Monday evening at 7:30 was chosen as
| the time.
A portion of the Minneapolis delega-
ton reported on the veto of the charter
and favored its passage over the veto.
The ], he discussion laste3 all the forenoon.
The vote resulted "a yeas, % nays, so
the veto was sustained.
In the house the bill prohibiting the
sale of liquors within twenty miles of an
Indian reservation was placed on gen.
eral orders.
House File 904, regulating the rate of
interest, introduced by Mr.. Reeve,
which makes the legal rate of interest 6
per cent in the absence Of any contract,
was also placed on general orders.
The report of the minority committee
en- separating the university from the
agricultural college was submitted.
There are fifteen members on the COM
mittee, nine of whom favor separation.
A motion to lay the minority report on
the table was lost and the bill was
placed on general orders.
tuted for the Searle bill by vote 81 to
81, and progress reported.
Mr.. Longs bill providing for eight
hours as days labor on all public
works in this state was considered
aud recommended to pass. ii
Thursday, April 9.
Senate: McHale's anti-tight bill was
passed after a sharp discussion, the vote
being 81 yeas, IL nays.
The next thing to claim attention was
the Pickerel lake, West ST. Paul, mat
ter. The lake occupies about 120 acres
and is dry at some seasons of the year
and sometimes covered with water II
is claimed by the abutting property
owners, the Great Northern railroad
senators, Messrs. Sanborn, Dean and
Stevens, fought the bill as an unwar.
ranted interference with private rights:
they held that the courts must settle the
matter. Senator Day claimed that the
bill was for the interests Of the state al
large; the land was valuable and the
attorney general wanted the assertion
of the state right made as an aid In
pushing the claim. I. ~ was finally rec
commended for passage.
In the house the bill in relation to the
license term was recommended to pass;
bill prohibiting Iniaors playing pool ol
billiards was placed on general orders;
bill providing for removal of screens
from saloon doors and windows was in
definitely postponed.
The committee On banks reported tc
indefinitely postpone two bills relating
to the interest and usury laws, and thf
reports were adopted
The COMMITTEES on rsapportionment
, reported unanimously in favor of Sen
! ator Craig's bill, dividing the state into
seven congressional districts.
McHale's anti-tights bill was referred
to the committee on education, though
not until temperance, printing and Other
committees had been suggested as proper
resting places for it,
The eommittea on education held i:
. meeting almost Immediately and decided
to recommend that the bill be referred
to the judiciary committee for them tx
pass upon it's constitutionaIity.
The calendar was then taken up, and
there being forty bills thereon, it oaeu
pied the remaining part Of the Afternoon
: session. The most important of the bill
passed was Mr.. Trips bill, House Fill
i41, to prevent crimes against the cleo
tive franchise. The bill had been prett,
7 well discussed and amended and
passed with but little discussion by
vote of "a to 25.
, Mr.. Feig's bill amending the lazy ra
! lating to the weighing Of grain wa
/ passed BY vote Of rs to 6.
, Mr.. Longs bill, House File 688. to es
tablish the hours on public works b
{ making eight hours constitute q day
iahor was rassed-T0 to "a.