St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-10
primary elections shall be the same as

primary elections shall be the same as
those against the general state election
law. Candidates shall submit their
names to the governing committees of
their respective parties ten days before
the primary election. Contests are to
be heard by the governing committee,
and the canvass Of the votes shall be by
the governing committee. A penalty
of 500 is imposed in case Of Indictment
and conviction OF any person for falsely
copying lists of voters from the state
registration books.
The senate resumed its work at II 80,
after hearing ihe message Of the gov
ernor.
Senator Miller introduced Senate File
No. 6, being bill to amend chapter 95
of the laws of 1876 by substituting Rus
sian thistle' for Canada thistle" and
provides for imposing a penalty for
neglect to destroy Russian thistles by
occupierS of lands.
Senator Allen introduced File No. Z.
1t is bill TO tax railroad lands. 1t was
referred to the committee OH Judiciary
when named. The bill provides that
all lands i'll the state heretofore or here
after granted by the state of Minnesota.
or the United States, or the territory OF
Minnesota, to any railroad company,
shall be assessed and taxed as other
lands in the state, except such parts OF
lands as are held or used as rights of
way, gravel pits, side tracks, depots and
buildings used in the actual manage
ment and operation of the railroads.
The gross earnings tax shall not be
intertered with by this bill except In so
far as it relates TO the tax Oh lands, the
intention being to preserve the gross
earnings tax and to repeal the law
which eXempts lands owned by rail-
roads from taxation. A section OF the
bill provides that in case this act shall
be declared void as far as it applies TO
tie lands of any particular railroad COM
pany in the state. it shall not be ground
for declaring it void or inapplicable to
any other company not similarly situ-
ated.
Provision is made to refer the act to
vote of the people of the state, for ap-
proyal or rejection. at the general elec-
tion in 1896.
Ex-senator R. NJ. Probstfeld filed no
tice Of a contest OF the seat or Senator
John H. Smith, who represents the
Fiftieth senatorial district, composed OF
the counties of Clay.. Becker and
Wilkin. The grounds of contest are:
Frst--The entire vote in the White
Earth precinct, being within the Indian
reservation, was Illegal and void, ana
should have been excluded for the rea-
son that the reservation is not within
the jurisdiction of the state.
SecoDd-That the entire vote at Camp
bell. In Wilkin county. should have
been excluded for the reason that all
the tickets voted by the electors of the
precinct were numbered by the judges
of election to correspond with the mum.
bers set opposite their names on the
poll lists kept by the clerks of election,
thus destroying the secrecy of the bal
lot.
The contest will be referred to the
committee OH elections when appointed.
Lieut.. Gov Ciough named as the
committee on rules Senators F. a. Day,
of Fairmont; E. B. Cullister. of Wa,
Sc ca, and James McHale, of Shakopee
Senator Pottgieser asked that the
journal be corrected so as to give the
correct spelling of his name. The sem
ate adjourned at :35 until 10 O'Clock
this morning. --------'----'-