The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-04-11
STATE LEGISLATURE
TwENTY-NINTH BIENNIAL SESSION
Monday. April 1.

TWENTY-NINTH BIENNIAL SESSION
Monday. April 1.
SENATE-O.er a dozen bills were
passed. amo.g them the following:
Providing for the lease of the state
capitol lands in Kandiyohi county, Min
nesota, the drainage of the same and the
repeal of chap. 1872, general laws>iS9'.
TO regulate the payment of grand and
petit Jurors fees and mileage in the dis
lrict courts. -
To provide for the sanitary regulation
of bakeries and other establishments for
the manufacture of bread and other food
products.
HOUSE-Among the principal meas
ures recommended for passage were the
following -,
Providing for application of the prin.
ciple of civil service reform to the grain
inspection department of the state.
To amend the drainage law by provid-
ing for side bitches and appropriating
5000 yearly for executing the law.
To make municipal corporations sub
ject to garnishee proceedings in certain
cases.
To proven: the spread of noxious weeds
Appropriation $4,000 a year in addition
to the present sum allowed for higher
education.
Tuesday, April 2.
SENATE-The Steobins smelling bill
was killed after warm debate.
II. +. 8, to regulate the use of pound
nets in international waters, was passed
under suspension of the rules, and a few
bills were favorably recommended in COM
mittee of the whole.
HOUSE-The Wright census bill was
the occasion OF another squabble. though
the contest over it was by no means as
bitter and personal as at the time the
original bill was acted upon adversely.
The new bill Cur. les an appropriation of
$45,OOO, and provides for simple enumer-
alton OF the people, and, incidentally. OF
the voters.
Among the bills passed were those to
provide for fourth insane asylum, and
relating to drainage of wet lands.
Wednesday, April 3.
SENATE-Senator Hanna's bill S. F,
No. $50 to provide for the election of the
railroad and warehouse commissioners by
the people, instead of by the governors ap-
pointment, occupied the senate for an hour
in the morning and was referred to the
judiciary committee in order that there
might be full hearing, the bill to be re-
ported back to the senate in 48 hours.
Bills were passed relating to the practice
OF medicine and giving justices of the
peace jurisdiction over offenses growing
out of illegal sale of liquor
HOUSE-The house disposed of an i'm
men e amount of business and, besides
passing numb r of bills on the calendar.
disposed of over 20 bills on general orders.
Among those passed were bills relating to
the regulation of labor; o amend the con-
stltution relating to pardons and regard
ing proofs of publication of legal notices.
Thursday, April 4.
SENATE-In committee of the whole
Mr.. Foss' beet sugar bounty bill, which
has already passed the house, was recon-.
mended for indefinite postponement. but
by mutual consent was placed on general
orders, and the bill providing for the es-
tablishment Of two additional experiment
stations was recommended for indefinite
postponement.
The fish and game bill came up on a
special ord r before the committee of the
whole, and the rules were suspended and
the bill was given its third reading, and
the 7ote on the final passage of the bill
stood 81 toS
Half dozen house bills were passed. in.
! Guiding the bills prohibiting the sale al
tobacco to scholars in the public schools
| and providing for the bonding OF counties
to build courthouses.
HOUSE-The feature of THURSDAYS
session of the house was the fight owe,
| Mr.. Sanders bill to prohibit the commit
| ment of persons convicted of crime to any
other than an institution under the direct
control of the state. The bill as drawn is
| general in its provisions, though, as stated
| by colleague of its author, it is Anne
directly at the House of tie Good Shep
herd, in St. Paul. After one of the bitter
est debates the house has had this session
the bill was passed-s9 to e.
| Friday, April 5.
SENATE-The hottest debate that ha.
occurred in the senate for some time wa.
INDUCED in during the afternoon wher
H. F. No. 20, Representative McGrath's
drainage bill, came before the committe,
of the whole. on general orders The dis
cussion of the bill in committee lasted al
the afternoon, and when the committe,
rose it was recommended to pass. TIL,
report was accepted, but motion for tn,
second and third readings of the bill ant
a vote on it's final passage under suspen
sion of the rules failed to receive two
thirds vote, and instead of being finall,
disposed of as the friends of the measur,
fully hoped it would, the bill will be u,
for further consideration on the calendar
! HOUSE-The only sensation of tn,
house was the report of the Ives impeach
ment matter, which had been under con
sideration by the house judiciary commit
tee for several weeks. The report was no
unanimous, nine members favoring i'm
parchment and eight opposing it.
Outside the judiciary committee tn,