St. Paul daily globe., 1893-02-17
Which Others Urge Is In
tended to Benefit Ag-
riculturistS.
ItemiZed Accounts Called for
ON a 5000 Appro-
priation.
Today the Solons Go Over tt
Saltwater to View
the Prison.

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measures which reach the calendar are
so few that only three were in that
stage yesterday. and they were rapidly
sent through. General orders is grow
ing daily. At present there are ovel
two score house files and q dozen OIL
more senate files on the list. Some one
bill is allowed to consume so much time
in committee of the whole that as a
rule not half a dozen are disposed of at
any one time. The members work hard
enough in committee, and are faithful
as rule in their attendance on the
house, but some feature of bill will
develop so much argument that those
behind it get little show for being
rushed ahead.
II. F. 337, one Of the so-called farm
ers' bills, was the bone of contention
Yesterday, with ii. f. 95 good second.
Further along will he found the discus
sion in detail.
There will be no session of the house
or senate today. Members of both
branches leave on a special train for
| Saltwater from the union depot at 10
a. m. 1t is also understood that arrange
ments have been completed to take the
legislators to Chicago one week from
today. A special train will leave FRI
day evening, Gath inst, arriving in CHI
cago Saturday morning. The worlds
| fair grounds will be visited, the Mime
sofa building examined. and the Solons
| will leave for home Sunday evening,
fA, 0f IN
at the capitol.
In the morning the usual griSt of pc
titions was read and referred. Ihat the
wildly miserable and exceedingly dan
gerouS condition of st. PauFS thorough
| fares has. attracted the attention of the
! legislature was evinced yesterday morn
ing, when Mr.. Even offered resolu-
| tion instructing the janitOr of the capl-
toi to clean the sidewalks around the
| building, in order that the citizens of
st. Paul might follow the good eX-
ample, and thus cease from endanger-
| ing the lives OF pedestrians. The reSo-
| luton was adopted unanimously.
Mr.. Sails offered ii resolution proVld-
| ing that hereafter no bill shall be ell
gble for action by the house unless 1t
| has been considered in a committee
meeting regularly called.
Mr.. Fleming gave notice of debate,
| and the resolution went over under the
| rules.
BeIyea,s Request Denied.
Quite debate ensued over MOTION
| made by Mr.. McDonough to reconsider
| the vote by which a resolution was lost
which directed the employment OF
| Bronson Strain as assistant enrolling
| clerk at a salary of IS per day. The ap-
| pointment was requested by Enrolllng
| Clerk Belyea.
Several members were decidedly OPP
| posed to reconsideration, in blunt Ian
| guage intimating that the Intention was
| to make place for an unemployed he
| publican by ousting a deserving Wom'
| an. This inSinuation was hotly DENIED,
| and on a standing vote Mr. McDon-
ough's motion to reconsider was
| adopted. The question then being On
| the adoption of the original resolution,
it was lost, lacking nearly twenty votes
of the necessary fifty eight.
| Fred c. 1alboys, defeated candidate
| for representative, whose alleged con-
test for the seat of j. V. l. DOdd petered
| out in hollow fashion. thinks the State
| should pay him S295 for his trouble. a
resolution to that effect was sent to the
| committee Oh legislative expenses for
| consideration,
Mr.. Lockwood reported back from the
| committee on temperance ii. f. III,
providing for what may be called coun-
ty local option, without consideration.
Mr.. Anderson, from the committee
on dairy and food products, reported
back Ii. f. 275, amended by striking
out section 10, and recommended its
| passage.
Mr.. Christie, from the committee on
| claims, reported back the bill for the
relief of Margaret Vogle with recon-
mendaton that it be passed. Mrs. NOgle
had an arm permanently disabled in a
mangling machine while an inmate of
| the st. Peter insane asylum. The bill
| carries all appropriation of $4,000.
Mr.. Vansant, from the committee on
normal schools, reported in favor of in
definite, postponement of H. F. 239. to
make good deficiency in the funds of
the Moorhead school. The report was
| adopted. From the same came House
Files IA, 1874, 146 and 179, all relating to
appropriations for normal schools, with
the recommendation that they be re-
| Terred to the committee on appropria-
tiOnS, which was done.
MIR. Fletcher, from the committee on
| judiciary, reported back II. F. 544 with
faV0raDle recommendation.
Mr.. Cotton objected. He said n. F.
113, introduced two weeks ago, was
practically the same as 544, vet it had
been passed over for the later bill. As
both directly affected the village of
West Duluth, he desired that the peo-
pie of that village should have hear
ing. He moved to recOmmit to the COM
mittee on judiciary, and the motion
prevailed.
There we're only three bills on the
calendar, and they were passed as rap
idly as they could be read and the roll
called. They we're: III. F. "a. TO pro-
vide for furnishing Minnesota Reports
to Judges, Greer; Ii. f. $50, relating TO
Intoxicating liquors, Koerner; H. f. ST,
to amend chapter 81, General Statutes
1878, relating to lncorporations, Ives.
Itemized Bills Wanted.
After recess the house resolved itself
into committee of the whole on general
orders, on which were two-score house
files and dozen senate files.
When Ii. f. 195 was read P. Il. Kelly
raised the point that the house should
know Just what the $1,000 was intended
for. There should be an itemized ac-
count submitted, ,and if the large amount
asked was not needed, then only so
much should be voted as is REQ hired.
Mr.. Kelly's objection started a gen.
eral discussion in which Messrs. Flem-
ing. Greer, McGrath, Turrell, Bjorge,
T. Cole. french and Abbott took part.
Mr.. Richardson, chairman of the COM
mittee on legislative expenses. and Mr..
Staples, member of the committee. eX-
planned that the bill was intended to
create a capitol repair fund, which
could be drawn on for incidental ex-
penses in future, also TO pay something
over $1,000 for expenses incurred pre-
ceding the convening of the present
st SIS ion.
But there was "a lingering belief" as
Judge Fleming expressed it, that the
$1,000 item included a good many eX-
orDitant charges. The final decision
was to simply report progress. Then
Mr.. Fleming moved that an itemiZed ac-
count of the items covered be printed
and laid OIL the members desks by next
Tuesday. The motion prevailed, and
later on there will pc some fun.
''Heap Big Talks