The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-02-16
MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE.

MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE.
Ehs DoinGs q the stats Law Makers %
St. Paul
ST. PAUL. Feb 6-Tho senate al not NEE
until ; p. m Most Of the time Was spoat Il
committee work. Only two bills OF general In
terest were introduced One was to amend tn
laws relating to state lands, reserving miuera
rights to the state, and the other to amend thu
Law relating to state lands In relation to ny
ments for Pine lands. -...-- r. : -
In the house Mr.. Cairns introduced . resolu
tion to investigate charges Of whipping and cru
city In the St. Cloud reform4tory: . joint com
mitteo OF i've Of the house and senate to be %
pointed, three from the house and two from tn
senate Adopted. The chair appointed % house
members Messrs. Cairns. Fuller and Skinner
The chair appointed the following members Of
the joint committee on Itasca park: Messrs
Markham. Abbott, Farlow, Greer, Turrell
Fleming. Schotield, German and Moore.
Tho following bills were introduced: Relsttnl
70 mutual building associations. making once ri
subject to control Of state examiner: tncreas.
Ing the bouatv ON wolves; relating to roads and
highways
ST. PAUL, Feb SIN tho senate Mr. Mchtl
journment Of the legislature March q. No 90
ton was takenc Senator Leavitt's measur t.
TAI fnherttanses -" .s passed by . vote Of 81 t.
3. Sanborn's bill providing that certain costs
In civil cases shall be taxed against adverse
parties was lost by q vote Of IS to e.
In the house the following bills were intro
duced: Relating to forestry fund tax and appro'
priatine 20 600 for state forestry: relating Ia
settlement between state treasurer md county
auditors; changing the penalty Of delinquen,
real estate taxes from 10 to / per cent Dol
month: to prohibit the spraying Of fruit bear.
Ing trees while in bloom and being worked BY
honey bees: to encourage bee keeping; to apply
liquor license money to construction OF roads
and bridges; to regulate horse racing at county
fairs.
McGuire's bill relating to railway sidetracka
and switches was passed; also tho bill by Mark.
ham taxing railway lands.
ST PAUL, Feb. SIN the senate the follow.
ING bills were introduced: To prohibit attorneys
taxing cases on shares: to regulate the or9ani-
sation OF school districts; requiring railways to
build sidetracks to elevators; regulating the re-
seapt OF grain ut terminal points; to purchase
e,4b2 acres OF the Northern Pacific railway in
ttasca state park; relating to the formation OF
farmers mutual IRE insurance companies, COM
pell1ng street railway companies to protect en-.
ployes from the weather.
Davis bill reducing tho time which actions
Tor the recovery OF real property may be begun
rom u to Is pears was lost, Craig's swamp
land bill was passed without dissent.
The house, under suspension OF rules. passed
the joint memorial to congress for popular elec-
hon Of United States senators. Bills were in.
Produced creating IN additional Judge in the
18th district; making the salaries of ofncials,
city and county, subject to garnishment. Also
several bills sppropriating small amounts for
bridges. In committee Of the whole, Horton's
NJ a a N~A &C.,
nended for passage
ST. PAUL, Feb. 0.-The senate did not have 4
very lively session. The first matter Of interest
to come up was Sanborns silver resolution.
Two amendments were defeated and the origi
NIL o a~s"'' Donnelly's county elevator
resolution was also sent to the house. The fol.
lowing bills were introduced: AUTHORIZING
counties, towns or villages to refund their out.
standing 1ndobtedness amending the boiler In.
spection law, providing for seven instead of i've
deputy inspectors; amending the school laws;
amending the law relating to appeals In Justice
cases; . bill to provide for memorial medals for
the defenders OF Fort Ridgeley; creating . CON-
mission to distribute them.
In the house but four bills Of Importance were
introduced. The principal ono was to appro-
pirate 10, 600 for seed grain to farmers whose
crops were destroyed by hail or storm in 1892
Other bills were: TO allow villages to separate
themselves from township government; to per.
init dve-sixths OF jury to return q verdict in
civil cases; to prevent blindness in children
Mr.: Underleak called for q report of the ex.
penditures by the worlds fair commission of
the state appropriation.
Mr.. Fleming offered joint resolution to e.
anime into the reason why tho state geological
reports have not been delivered to the score.
tary OF the State Historical society.
1t called for joint committee of three from
each body. The resolution was adopted Tho
chair appointed Fleming, Nelson and Williams
Is members from the house.
Mr.. French, Is a personal request, asked to
take up and pass, under suspension OF rules, II.
F. No. l49, to refund money assessed by towns
IN certain cases. The rules were, on his motion
suspended, and the bill was passed
ST. PAUL, reo. lu-Tne senate had . very
prosy time this morning. There was . little
Ute over the bill relating to limitations of
actions for the recovery Of real property, lost
yesterday, which was reconsidered and referred
to the committee on judiciary, but nothing more
OF note occurred until Leavitts income tax
proposition was taken up in committee Of tho
whole. After hard fight tho bill was left In
tho committee undisposed OF. But few bills
were introduced, the important ones being: To
appropriate eeooo for improving the state re-
form school; amending the marriage law de.
claring all prohibited marriages incestuous;
authorizing towns and school districts to re-
ieve their treasurers from liability where
money is lost through deposits in good faith in
tnsolvent banks; authorizing the formation Of
societies to procure homes for orphans and PRO-
vtdtng rules for their government.
In the house, sundry additional petitions for
passage Of the railway ticket and anti.scalper
bill: also against new capitol and for state
grain warehouses instead, were presented and
referred. Mr. Greer sent up . bill to prevent
the destruction Of timber on leased mineral
lands; to establish state elevators ut Duluth
md st. Paul. The session was enlivened BY
the member from St. Paul, p. H. Kelley, when
he introduced bill prohibiting tho smoking Of
cigarettes. The bill was passed. Tho rest Of
the day was spent In committee work.
ST. PAUL, Feb 1.-THE senate was in q kill
ing mood today and disposed Of two measures
that have been hanging fire since the early days
II the session. They were Sanborn's silver
coinage resolution and Leavitt's proposition &c
amend the constitution by providing for an in
come tax. Both were defeated. There was
hard fight over the income tax proposition and
It died hard. The vote which killed it stood -
to q.
Senator Smith introduced q bill to permit
women to vote and be voted for at municipal
elections and Senator Donnelly gave notice that
be would introduce, Monday, bill to provide
tor the trial by jury Of questions on issues Of
asury.
The house, in the morning hour, took another
swing at the anti-pool room bill, on an attempt
to reconsider the vote by which the Horton bill
was defeated Thursday. The result was that
the bill was tightly nailed down in its coffin.
Reaching the calendar, the Walsh bill relat
fig to rights Of citizenship commonly known
IS the anti-ironclad, was passed, and also the
Wyman factory inspection bill. But the bill Of
Wsllblom, to indemnify for damages by mob or
not, was defeated.
The house also passed the Boggs bill to Legal
lie certain assessments upon private property
The Markham bill to protect workmen, in suits
to recover for wages, by preventing unfai,
changes Of venue, was passed; also Rodgers
bill for classification Of steam boilers.
Mr. Wilson Of Goodhue lost his measure tt
Increase the salary OF supreme court reporter
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