Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-02-21
CL0UGH REFUSES
TO MAKE PUBLIC A REPORT on
THE CAPITOL BUILDING.
The Governor stAs.ts That the
Senate Appoint H1Commlttee to
Look mt the Report, and
This the Senate Com
cludex to TO.
REMOVAL ONCE MORE.
Mr.. Anderson Springs Proposition
for the State to Buy the OLD
Exposition Building


for the State to Buy the OLD
ExpOsitlon Building.
st. Paul, Feb. 17.-Gov. Clough sent
III a communication to the senate de-
Ginning to send in the report of the
capitol experts to the senate The gov
ernor suggests that the senate appoint
a committee Of not more than fifteen
to examine the document and report
to the senate. The full text of the let
ter is:
"1n response to the resolution adopt
ed by your honorable body requesting
me, as the cx-officio president of the
board of state capitol commissioners.
to furnish you a copy Of the report
made by the expert architects to the
board relative to the plans now under
consideration, have to say:
"The report referred to is only adj
visory in it's nature, and does not
bind the board in any way (see sub
division 10 Of section s, chapter 2,
as amended by chapter 3 of the Cen
eral Laws Of 1888. and the board does
not think that the best interests of the
state Will be promoted by its being
made public un,il Il decision has been
reached concerning the plans. When
this has been done the report will b.
published in full in the daily papers.
Meantime and fully recognizing the
right of Your honorable body to b" put
in possession of full and complete in-
formation. Which the board desires
YOU 10 have. the board would be
pleased to submit the report to Il COM
mittee OF the senate, not exceeding tif-
teen in number since larger number
could not be accommodated conven-
iently at the rooms where plans are
now stored. Such committee would
thereby obtain much more complete
and satisfactory understanding Of the
entire subject than would be possible
by merely hearing the aoport. not hav-
ing seen the drawings. I await your
further pleasure in the natter
The senate decided to have the COM
mittee appointed. The senate passed
the following bills. among others:
To amend section g. chapter 62,
Statutes Of 1873. relating to divorce.
1t makes excessive use of drugs and
narcotics ground for divorce.
To authorize organized towns to
build fences for the purpose OF pre-
venting the spreading of the Russian
thistle.
10 amend section 467 of the penal
code. relating to receiving deposits in
insolvent banks.
Senator Hits offered a resolution for
the appointment of joint committee
to investigate the matter OF locating
the Birch Coulie monument. The res
olution was adopted. The senator
from Carver also submitted COM
munication and some resolutions from
the Sixth Regimental association. an
nouncinS that the monument had been
located in the wrong place.
In the House.
Representative Staples, who occu-
pied his seat in the house instead of
one of the trains to Red Wing. intro
duced a resolution instructing the
chief clerk OF the house to procure
badges for members Of the legislature
who go OH legislative junkets to state
institutions.
Representative Anderson has never
been suspected Of being humorist.
In fact he did not suspect it himself
when he blossomed out as such with
seven to confer with the directors Of
the Minneapolis exposition with re-
gard to leasing or purchasing the eX-
position building for temporary or
permanent capitol building. The reso-
luton went in ut time when most
Of the members were paying little at
tention to what was going on at the
desk and was allowed to pass. Then
there was a general laugh when the
nature of the resolution was known.
Among the bills introduced:
Robbins-To appropriate 5000 for the
distribution of the printed histories Of
Minnesota troops in the Civil and In
dian wars.
Blagik-To provide for taxation Of
mortgages OH real estate.
Sederberg-To provide the manner of
bonding counties to raise money for
Indebtedness for mprovements.
Sander-Regulating the amount Of
license for the sale of cigarettes. said
license to be $500.
Lockwood - To establish a normal
school ut Pipestone and to provide
brildingsg for the same by an appro-
priation of $4,000.
Wisconsin,.
Madison, Wis. Feb. 1.-THE bill for
state home for the predetermined
was ordered to q third reading in the
assembly this n:o1lins, which is equal
to passage and ii the senate does not
kill it. the institution. which the penal
and charitable institutions have been
striving for for years, will be cst:lb-
lished.
The committee on military reported
favorably on the Chickamagha monu-
ment bill. and it was passed under sus-
pension Of the rules The bill appro-
PIRATES S2O,iNW for the purpose Of
erecting nlonG.HCnts OH tile battle field.
and provides for the appointment of
two additional commissioners. The
vctc nI the bill vas rmanimoEs.
Mr. O'Neill'S bill to create a state
board of arbitration was laid over at
his request and made u special order
for next Thursday. In the senate the
bill intended to reorganize the office Of
labor commissioner and to make it a
salaried one. was killed. The bill re-
firing supreme Justices who have
t;ftnny, xnorS nm I'LL ,,n,. .,ftor