The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-03-02
RRTS. GROVER 1[EyELAN2 I


II, committee of the whole voted to inOeH-
nitely postpone Browns bills to repeal the
grain inspection system, and to abolish the
railroad and warehouse commission Canes
torp's bill to make the commission elective
was considered, but no conclusion was reached.
At 2:15 both houses met in joint session and
listened to an address by Hon. j. j. Ingalls, OF
Kansas.
In the house large number of petitions for
religious liberty and remonstrances against
new state capitol were read remonstrance
of the Minneapolis Trades Assembly against
the passage of the bill to provide overcoats for
the national guard was among those presented
The following bills were introduced: Relating
to adulteration of dairy foods: relating to land
surveys and marking meander posts and monu-
ments: making Imprisonment for life the pun
ishment for murder in second degree: defining
newspaper for legal publications.
The speaker presented communication from
the governor transmitting correspondence with
the world 8 fair commission, relative to accept
ing the Minnesota building at Chicago.
The house passed the bill to provide for an as
sistant bank examiner; also the Wyman uni
versity taxation revenue bill and the Boreen
bill for the protection of labor and material
men. Only one bill ON final passage was lost,
that of Fletcher, of Hennepin, extending the
field of operations of savings banks In COM
mittee of the whole, the good roads bill OF I'm
derleak, of Olmstead was recommended to
pass
ST PAUL, Feb 24.-The senate passed the fol-
lowing bills Against docking horses tails pro-
viding that corporations organized under spe-
cial acts may amend their articles the same as
corporations organized under the general law;
providing that in shipping horses. cattle OF
mules by rail only enough space need be pro-
vided for standing ROOM requiring county ON
GERS to make sworn statement of fees; to bring
city officers under the law of punishment: NIX
ing legal weight of farm products: authorizing
county commissioners to aid county hospitals
to the extent of 81 500; passed, all the votes cas'
being in the affirmative; increasing the penalty
of publishing and distributing obscene liter
allure: to make weighmasters certificates OF
weight of grain prima facie instead OF concIu
sive evidence; authorizing county commission
ers to relieve INDECENT non. residents temporary
| ly in the county: requiring the attorney genera
| to embody in his report statements OF opinions
| of interest rendered by him; relating to the
| marriage of blood relatives, declaring all sucn
| hereafter contracted incestuous and void (ac
| ton deferred); to make insurance companies
| responsible for the face OF policy In case o.
| total loss.
| In the house there was long discussion upor
| the acceptance OF the invitation to visit tn
| worlds fair. The senate had accepted, but the
house rejected it by a vote Of So to So. Bills IN
| troduced: To prevent the exhibition OF freaks
i and monstrosities; requiring railway corpora
lions to build, own and operate at all stations
| where grain is shipped, elevators track scales
| etc., (the railroad and warehouse commission j
e. decide whether these improvements are ne