The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-01-26
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
lesms Regarding tAe Doings Of Legisiatosl
-. ut thu Ganlk0l.

lessns Regarding mo Doings OF Iesislatosl
ut the Capitol.
MIR. Wacek's attempt to cut the
mileage of the members from Is cents
to cents failed. When it came up in
committee Of the whole, Mr.. Wacek
recommended its passage.
Mr.. Turrel was in favor of q reduc.
ton OF the mileage. but not in favor
after most of the senate and house had
drawn the mileage at Is cents. It was
unfair to do SO to the members IT the
next house. He saw no way but fol-
members, in supporting this bill, to pay
back the difference into the treasury.
Mr.. Turrel moved to indefinitely post
pone.
Mr.. Young favored the present mile
age Tor it does not pay the trips made
necessary during the session to and
from home. unless members have passes.
He had none, he said.
Mr.. ONeill corroborated Mr.. Young.
He had to pay for his transportation
with wheat at so cents bushel.
Mr.. Turrel urged the inconsistency OF
the measure.
Mr.. Lockwood opposed the bill. He
had drawn his mileage, he said, and
spent it.
The bill was recommended to be post
poned by a very large majority.
Senator Tawney has bill under way
which, IT it becomes a law, will place a
tax of 50 per 500 on all legacies, provid-
ing the estate is valued less than $lO,-
QUO. In such cases the estates are free.
The bill further provides that the tax
is due at the time of the death of the de-
cedent, and if paid within 1s months
thereafter shall be exempt from inter-
est charges. A penalty of 10 per cent
per annum for non-payment is charged,
unless it is not possible to settle an es-
tate IN the Is months, in which case
only 4 per cent is charged. The pro-
bate judge shall have power to appoint
appraisers to fix the value of disputed
estates and the value shall be fixed I'M
der his personal supervision. Each
county treasurer shall receive a COM
mission Of 2 per cent on the first S., 900
collected by him under the provisions
OF this act. l per cent on the next $15,-
600, and one-quarter of per cent on all
sums collected in excess of $4,000.
The bill introduced by Senator Probst-
held contemplates a heavy undertake
ing. 1t orders the establishment of
two places for exhibits, wholesale mar
kets and storage rooms for the farm
products of the state. The grounds of
the State Agricultural society are fixed
as one of these places, and commits
sion consisting of the president of the
Farmers alliance, mayor of St. Paul.
presidents of the State Agricultural and
Horticultural societies, State Dairy
mems association, mayors of Duluth and
Minneapolis, the ex-president of Mime
sofa State Farmers alliance, George w.
Sprague, 7. A. Barrett, E. H. Atwood
and r. j. Hall, is created to locate the
second place somewhere in St. Louis
county on the shore of St. Louis bay or
river, where there is navigable water
and where docks can be established.
The committee is authorized to procure
necessary land and erect buildings,
build spur tracks and terminal yards to
and at both elevator sites and to COM
mence work at once, so that the build
ings will be ready to receive grain on
the first day of September of the pres
ent year. The bill requires that the
Hamline elevator shall have capacity
of 1000, 600 bushels and the Duluth ele-
vator 1000, 0C0; also facilities for weigh
ing, clearing, ETC., and separate bins
for quantities of one car load or more.
There is desire to make the sleeping
ear companies pay share of the taxes.
TO this end the senate adopted the fol-
owing:
Whereas, The supreme court of the
United States in the case of the COM
of Pennsylvania against
Pullman's Palace Car company, report
ed in al U. S., Rep. page IS, has de-
cided that the property of sleeping car
is subject to taxation by the
several states in which its cars are
operated, without regard to whether
the same constitutes interstate traffic;
therefore,
Resolved, BY the senate, the house
that the committees on iu-
dietary of the senate and the house be,
and they are, hereby instructed at their
earliest convenience jointly to examine
and report whether any constitutional
Dr. legal obstacles exist to placing such
upon the tax roll for the cur
rent year, and if, in their opinion, any
is necessary, to report a
proper bill for that purpose.
The committee made favorable re-
port on Jacobson's bill for the erection
IF public grain warehouses and ele-
vators on the right of way of public
railroads and the condemnation pro-
in connection Herewith. The
bill was amended little, the clause
the erection of elevators
within 100 feet of any other structure
and within close proximity to a rail-
road station being stricken out. The
bill is almost an exact copy of bill
that was passed by the house two years
ago, and provides for railroad compa-
MES giving permission to any corpora
lion for the erection of grain ware
houses along its road without any dis
or regard to capacity.
When the report came before the house
Mr.. Bjorge wanted his bill of the same
considered at the same time, so
,he measure was recommitted.
Senator Smith defends his Legisla-
i've Gazette idea by saying that the
printing of the the laws will be en-
bodied in the Gazette. thus saving a big
Very true, but accord
ng to his estimate he provides for only
about 1000 copies of the Gazette each
lay, whereas before every subscriber
If every country paper received copy,