The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02
MINNESOTA LEolsLATuRR,

MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE.
rAe Dsa.es & sAe staee Law Majors -
| sG Resl
d. PAUL, Fob. 21.-1n the senate the follow.
Ig bllls W0Fo introduced: To provide punish
mont by hard labor for violation Of village or
finances: to authorize cities and villages to up.
propriate money for worlds fair exhibits; to
authorize cities to aid in the improvement Of
canals and waterways; to provide for the pay
nent Of taxes, assessments, etc., upon property
sold on mortgage sale; amending the interest
| law; proposing an amendment to tho constitu-
ton regarding jury trials.
When tho third reading OF senate hills WAS
reached, S. F. No. 81, which has headed the cal
oudar for number Of days, was taken up and
resulted In lengthy discussion. This Is Canes.
tcrp's bill providing for the election of rairoad
ond warehouse commissioner. Senator Morse
objected to it because its effect would be to leg
islate Judge Becker out OF offlce. After consid-
cradle discussion the bill was made q special
order for Thursday.
The house was In excellent working trim,
with only eight absentees, and within an hour
reached its list Of bills for final passage. Tho
| Horton Chicamauga and Chattanooga battle
| monuments bill was among those passed, with
but four negative votes. The Richardson (H.
NJ bill relating to uses and trusts, was also
passed. Mr.. Andersons bill to require all trains
| to stop at county seats was defeated. lacking
| five votes Of passage. Another bill passed was
the Wilson bill for the incorporation of villages.
Tho Cotton bill, to prevent tnterfe :ence with
| steam boilers; the Fleming veterinary surgeon
bill, and the Horton act to establish . medical
| eorps for the natioaal guard. also passed.
ST. PAUL, Feb. 2s-The senate passed one
BILL that being Sanborn's measure to exempt
parsOnages from taxation The following were
| introduced: Making per cent the legal rate OF
interest and limiting it to by contract; relat-
Ing to appeal from boards Of county commits
sioners: apportionment of school money; to
validate the bonds issued by county commits
sioners; re-assessment for the construction of
bitches, drains and water courses.
Majority and minority reports on the Mark
ham bill for the taxation of railway lands were
presented. The consideration of the reports
was made the special order for next Wednesday.
In committee of the whole voted to indeh-
nttely postpone Browns bills to repeal the
grain inspection system, and to abolish the
railroad and warehouse commission. Canes
torps bill to make the commission elective
was considered, but no conclusion was reached.
At 2:l5 both houses met in joint session and
listened to an address by Hon. J. ]. Ingalls, of
Kansas.
In the house large number Of petitions for
religious liberty" and remonstrances against
new state capitol were read. A remonstrance
Of the Minneapolis Trades Assembly against
the passage OF the bill to provide overcoats for
the national guard was among those presented.
The following bills were introduced: Relating
to adulteration Of dairy foods: relating to land
surveys and marking meander posts and monu-
ments; making Imprisonment for life the pun
1shment for murder in second degree; defining
newspaper for legal publications.
The speaker presented q communication from
the governor transmitting correspondence with
the world fair commission relative to accept
Ing the Minnesota building at Chicago.
The house passed the bill to provide for an as
sistant bank examiner; also the Wyman uni
versity taxation revenue bill and the Boreen
bill for the protection of labor and material
that of Fletcher, Of Hennepin, extending the
field OF operations Of savings banks. In COM
mittee Of the whole, the good roads bill OF I'm.
derleak, OF Olmstead, was recommended to
pass.
ST. PAUL, Feb. 24.-The senate passed the fol-
lowing bills: Against docking horses tails; pro-
vid1ng that corporations organized under spe-
cial acts may amend their articles the same as
corporations organized under the general law
providing that in shipping horses, cattle or
mules by rail only enough space need be pro-
vided for standing room; requiring county off,
GERS to make sworn statement of fees; to bring
city ofdcers under the law of garnishment; tx
ing legal weight OF farm products: authorizing
county commissioners to aid county hospitals
to the extent of 81 ,50O passed. all the votes cast
being in the Affirmative; increasing the penalty
OF publishing and distributing obscene liter
ature; to make weighmasters certificates of
weight Of grain prima facie instead Of conolu-
sive evidence; authorizing county commission.
ers to relieve INDECENT non residents temporart.
ly In the county: requiring the attorney general
to embody In his report statements Of opinions
OF interest rendered by him; relating to the
marriage of blood relatives, declaring all such
hereafter contracted incestuous and void (ac.
tlon deferred); to make insurance companies
responsible for the face of a policy in case OF
total loss.
In the house there was a long discussion upon
the acceptance of the invitation to visit the
worlds fair. The senate had accepted, but the
house rejected it by q vote of SO to So Bills In
troduced: To prevent the exhibition OF freaks
and monstrosities; requiring railway corpora
tions to build, own and operate at all stations
where grain Is shipped, elevators, track scales,
etc., (the railroad and warehouse commission is
to decide whether these improvements are ne.
cessary at any station); prohibiting adulterated
cigarettes; relating to the obstruction of navi.
gable streams: amending chapter 28 general
laws OF 1887, relating to delivering prisoners at
the state reformatory and fixing the sherif1's
fees therefor
The house concurred in the senate resolution
fixing the limit of time for the introduction of
Ol1lS 8pprOprlaLlng money from the general i'm
provement fund at March g.
A long list Of senate bills were given their
first reading and a number OF house files their
second reading.
ST. PAUL Feb. 25.-The senate did a big days
work In one session today and then adjourned
to p. m. Monday. The university tax bill was
referred to the finance committee, after it had
left the university committee with q recon.
mendation to pass. The telephone rate bill was
iN066n1fp1V na1yis olov
the standard fire insurance policy was lost after
an acrimonious discussion. March'S bill max
ing an agreement by hve-sixths OF jury after
six hours deliberation legal verdict also
went down in defeat.
The following bills we're introduced: To
amend the law relating to education; to amend
the law relating to public schools In the matter
OF apportioning school moneys; relating to the
creation and organization Of new counties.
In the house this morning the bill requiring
trains to stop at county seats, once lost and re.
considered, was again lost-lacking one vote OF
enough to pass. The bill to give Duluth an ad-
dttional judge was passed. Underleaks local
option measure which permits change in the
system OF road work, enabling tax payers to pay
cash instead Of doing work If townships vote In
favor OF the change, was also passed.
In the afternoon the house amended and
passed the Sullivan bill prohibiting the sale of
liquors to minors for their own use or for the
use OF PARENTS; voted to Indefinitely postpone
the bill to repeal the Scheffer law regarding
drunkenness, and recommended for passage tho
indemnity insurance bill.
The following bills were introduced: To re-
duce the penalty on delinquent taxes from 10 to
per cent; to provide for the appointment of q
state mineral land agent; amending the law re.
lat1ng to cruelty to animals; to regulate the
sentencing OF persons convicted of felony and
their subsequent release on parole. This is the
bill proposed by Gov. Nelson, and it was given
its second reading and ordered to be placed on
general orders.
CURRENT TOPICS.
UNCLE SAM pays 800. 600. 600 year In
salaries
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