The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-01-26
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81. PAUL, Jan. l6-Tho senate held Z shoya
session. Bills introduced were: Recurring
county treasurers to mako quarterly settle,
ments; requiring railroads to put In track
scales; relating to elevator sites on railroad
right of way and condemnation proceedings IN
reference thereto Ut requires railroads to grant
sites Tor elevator purposes without regard to
tho capacity Of the warehouse and without dis.
examination against applicants); to amend tho
divorce laws; providing for the commitment to
insane asylum persons adjudged insane by dis.
trfct courts; appropriating $4,000 for additional
buildings for the Winona normal school; pro.
h1b1ttng the working in factories Of children un.
der 10 years OF age. Senator Probsneld intro
duced joint resolution memorializing con.
gress In regard to the Pacific railway subsidies.
After some little discussion it was passed by .
vote OF IS to l.
The house met with IL absentees. The follow
ing bills were introduced: To establish state
normal school at Duluth to cost not moro than
SlOOOO to regulate travel on street cars by no
quiring companies to furnish seats and cannot
eject for not paying fare II not SO furnished;
making salary Of supreme court reporter 81, 900:
relating to indemnity insurance corporations
insuring against personal injuries. The indem.
nifty company may be Joined as defendants with
the companies with which the injured may b
employed.
ST. PAUL, Jan. l.-Noth1ng was done in
either branch Of any Importance, save to cast
the first ballot for United States senator. At
noon both houses proceeded to vote. In the
senate the result was: G. X. Davis 20, D. w.
Lawler II, S. M. Owen II, w. r. Merriam 2,
John Lind !, D. A. Dickinson l, Albert Schef.
fer I, C. M. Start l.
The vote in the house was: c. K. Davis g. D.
w. Lawler 81, S. M. Owen IL, Moses E. Clapp l,
G. M. Start l, Albert Schetfer l.
Senator Davis not receiving majority In
each Of the houses. there was no election
ST. PAUL. Jan. 1s.-Tne legislative session to-
day was of short duration owing to the inter
vening OF the joint convention. In the senate
resolution was adopted looking to the taxation
of logs and lumber and of land grants, and q
special committee thereon is to be appointed
A bill was introduced appropriating $l5t 600 for
q building for the State Historical society.
In the house the pending resolution for inves-
tigating tho high price of coal was passed, call
ing for joint house and senate committee OF
nine.
Joint resolutions on the death Of ex-President
Hayes were passed, and after the election of q
United States senator both houses adjourned
for the day. At noon both houses met in Joint
convention for the election Of United States
votes. The details will be found in another
column.
ST. PAUL. Jan. 10.-When tho senate con
vened Senator Crandall introduced resolution
tnquiring of the state treasurer why some rail-
companies pay per cent, others per cent and
still others per cent gross earnings tax, as OPP
pears from his report, and why such gross earn
1ngs tax Is not paid in equal percentages by all
roads. The resolution was adopted. Bills
were introduced appropriating $4,000 for the
normal school at Mankato; appropriating g OOC
to widen and improve the channel OF certain
lakes in Kandiyohi county and Shakopee creek
In Swift county; providing that one-half OF the
money received from liquor licenses by villages
shall be turned into the county revenue fund;
to provide election penalties for township and
village elections making present law applicable
to these elections; to amend the probate law
relating to wards and guardians; to legalize the
detective execution OF deeds, etc. In the com.
mittee of the whole the question OF the income
tax was considered, but no action was obtained.
In the house the following bills were intro.
duced: Relating to the issuance OF liquor Ii.
censes; to regulate elections; to repeal the law
Tor capital punishment and to make murder
punishable by life imprisonment: to repeal the
law Of 1879; to punish drunkenness by fine and
imprisonment: to establish state elevator and
warehouse by the state (nearly the same as the
pending senate bill of Probstield for locating
one market at Hamline and one at Duluth); to
regulate the expenses OF candidates; to regulate
the holding Of conventions and primaries. Al
l1:3O the house adjourned until Friday.
ST. PAUL, Jan. 20.-The senate passed the
memorial asking congress to appropriate SIS ON
to improve the Minnesota river in Scott county
Bills were introduced as follows: Amending the
constitution limiting legislative sessions to &
days. to provide for a revision of the laws; ap
propriating S6S $50 for the state public school at
Owatonna; providing for the organization O
mutual. cooperative and fraternal insurance
companies; to provide for the garnishment O,
municipal corporations; relating to the taxation
OF costs in civil actions. III the committee O,
the whole Senator Leavitt's bill for the taxa
ton of incomes was taken under discussion.
Several amendments were proposed, but were
not disposed of.
A message from the house announced that the
senate resolution of adjournment out of respec,
to the memory of ex-President Hayes had beer
concurred in and Senator Sanborn moved tina,
the senate adjourn until Monday at p m. A
number Of senator's explained that they voted
nay because they were opposed to the adjourn.
ment until Monday, and not out Of disrespect tt
the memory of the lamented ex-president. The
motion prevailed by vote OF . to % and the
senate adjourned until Monday at 3 p. m.
The house spent the morning hour in consid:
ering the report of legislative expenses NJ
bills were introduced. After passing the senate
resolutions on the death OF ex-President Hayes
adjournment was made until Monday.