St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-01
COMMITTEE DOINGS.
subcommittee on Reapportion
ment and Little Else.

subcommittee on Reapportion-
ment and Little Else.
Representative R. G. Dunn has been
elected chairman of the joint committee
OH reapportionment Senator Day will
act as secretary. The matter Of basis
for reapportionment OF senatorial dis
tricts will he considered and reported
on by subcommittee composed of SEN
ators Lienau, DaughertY, TaWney and
Hompe, Representatives BOggs, Shell,
Benner, Cole, T.. and Horton. SubcOm-
mittee OH congressional and judicial dis
trictS: Senators Hompe, Day and Nc
Hale, Representatives Greer, Markham,
Tyler, Roach. Rodger and Cairns. Be-
cause of question as to the powers of
the committee to change congressional
districts, Messrs. Boggs, Greer and
SevatSou were named as committee to
investigate and report OH the legal pow
ers of the committee in the premises.
House File 95, Mr.. Wyman's factory
inspection bill, will be recommended
for passage by the committee on labor
legislation. The antl-ironclad bill will
likewise be recommended to the house
for passage. On the eight-hour bill no
action was taken. and the same may be
efficiency Of the labor burea.
The committee Oh military affairs will
recommend favorably Mr.. Horizons bill
to put the national guard formation on
the same basis as the United States
army. The bill to provide overcoats
and blankets for the militia will be re-
ferred to the committee on apprOpria-
tons. The bill creating a commission
to erect monuments to Minnesota troops
ON the battlefields of Chattanooga and
Chickamauga has been deferred for fur
ther conside ration. MI. JacObson's bill
appropriating $1,000 to erect monll-
menr at Camp Release, in Lac qnl Parle
county, will be recommended for pas
sage.
Meetings we're held by the committees
on education, public lands, roads and
bridges, public accounts, legislative eX-
pendtures and one or two others; but,
beyond informal discussion Of bills pro-
posed, nothing definite was decided Oh.
Dates have been set for hearings on
various bills next week. Tuesday the
public lands committee will hear MI.
Kellogg, Senator Davis partner, in OPP
position to FORGETTING the Hastings &
Dakota land grant.
The bills of Representatives F. M.
Wilson and Blocker were under con-
sideration last night by the committee
on interpretations other than municipal.
G. ID. O'Brien, of st. Paul; Lawyer
Morgan, of Minneapolis. and the super
intendents of telephone exchanges in
st. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth, APP
peared to argue against the passage of
the bills, and did SO in vigorous fashion.
The committee went into executive ses-
sion, but adjourned without action, the
members desiring more light OH the
question.
When the committee OH education re-
ports back Mr.. Wyman's bill 10 provide
a permanent fund for the state univer-
sity out of the yearly tax levy the
amount first proposed will be almost
cut in half.
Representative Markham's bill for the
taxation of unused railroad lands will
be recommended for passage by the
committee on Judiciary.
The committee on municipal leglSla-
ton did not meet last evening, having
deferred consideration of measures be-
fore it to next Thursday evening.