The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-03-14
STATE LEGISLATURE
TweNTY-N,NTH BIENNIAL SESSION


plans was handed in. 1t recommends
allowing the capitol commiss:o on ampler
powers in selecting design.
HOUSE-An even half dozen bills were
passed. Three of these were bills by Sem
ator Wyman and one by Senator Greer,
the latter providing : 700 appropriation
for the improvement of the national guard
camping ground at Lake City. One of
Senator Wyman's bills was to authorize
boards of trustees for Young Mems Chris
tlan associations, and another to provide
for the payment of wolf bounties. When
the house reached Tiers bill to amend the
banking laws. it was found that there
were not two-thirds of the members pres
emit and an adjournment was taken,
Eleven bills were considered in commit
tee of the whole.
Tuesday. Feb. -.
SENATE.-On motion OF Senator
Young. S. F. 212 was taken from general
orders and given it's final passage. It. is
the usual seed grain loan bill to aid farm
ers whose crops were destroyed by hail or
storms In 1894.
When the senate reached general orders
and went into COMMITTEES of the whole,
Senator Schaller was invited to preside.
The bill establishing normal school at
Duluth met with serious opposition. It
calls for no appropriation at the present
time. Stevens Of St. Panl and Yale of
Winona supported the bill and it was
finally recommended to pass.
HOUSE.-The session of the house was
brief and unimportant, very little business
being transacted. The following preamble
and resolution was introduced by Mr..
Douglass and adopted:
Information having been furnished bv
reliable parties tending to show that the
state has been deprived of upwards of 500
acres OF extremely valuable land, the
property OF the state and divers state in
situations, without in one instance having
first received the full consideration con-
tracted to be given and as to part of said
lands. without any consideration what
ever, and
Whereas, 1t is believed that the state
has thereby lost said land through the
fraudulent acts of officers of the state or
their employees, and that the same NAV be
reclaimed; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the special committee
heretofore appointed by the speaker. of
which Mr.. Feig is chairman, be author
lied to make investigation thereof; to send
for persons aud papers; administer oaths
to witnesses in the course of the investiga-
ton, and report the result Of the investi-
cations to the house, and, in their discre-
ton, to the attorney general with recon-
mendations.
"A memorial to congress was passed
asking that the Olney arbitration bill, or
some other equally good arbitration bill
be made a law. The vote was 70 tO3
Wednesday, Feb. 27.
The Legislature enjoyed another half hol-
iday Wednesday. Both houses last week
received al invitation from the regents to
visit and inspect the university, and a
large majority of the members of both
houses came up on special cars from the
Capital City. The party was in charge
OF Mr. bingham of the joint committee
ON the university, and striving at the
institution about 10 O'Clock, was shown
around the various buildings for an hour
and half, placed ON exhibition in
the chapel before an admiring audie,ce of
intellectual young men and women for
another hour and u half, hastily fed and
then shipped back to St. Paul in time for
the afternoon session at 3 o'clock.
After returning from the university
both house held brief sessions, bnt aside
FROM the introduction of bills and resolu-
tions little was done.
Thursday, Feb. 20.
HOUSE.-The sensation of the session
was sprungin the house during the morn
ing when Representative Feig presented a
petition from citizens and ATTORNEYS of
Crookston, asking the impeachment and
removal from the bench of Frank Ives.
Judge of the Fourteenth judicial district.
In general, Judge Ives is charged with
intoxication, Partially, lack of legal
knowledge, with being arbitrary and with
degrading the high position be holds bv
using it as partisan position to puaish
his enemies and reward his Populist
friends. There are 81 specific charges of
the most serious character, and when he
presented the petition to the house.
Speaker Pro Tenn Staples asked that the
members give it close attention The mat
ter was referred to the judiciary commit
tee for investigation.
SENATE.-The senate killed the Du-
luth normal school bill, and passed the
bills relating to drainage of wet lands: the
Gibbs resolution to congress asking that
the old Fort Smelling buildings be ceded
to the state; to prohibit the aiming of fire.
arms at human being and the Schur-
meier bill, proposing an amendment to
sec. l, art. Z, of the constitution, relative
to the election franchise.
The capitol bill introduced by the Ram
sey county delegation was made the
special order for 2:3O Thursday afternoon.
Saturday, March 2.
HOCSE-The house declines to iavesti-
gate the worlds fair commissioners by in
definitely postponing Mr. Dressel's resolu-
ton to that effect. Many members had
gone home and there was a thin house. so
the calendar was not taken up. Fifteen
new bills were introduced during the
morning session.
A resolution congratulating the people
OF the United States on the adjournment
of the Fifty-third congress was introduced
by Mr.. Downs. A motion to Law on the
table was lost and the resolution was then
adopted.
Among the bills acted on in COMMITTEES
OF the whole were the following:
H. F. 287-To amend sec. /, chan. 80.
laws of 1898. relating to legal newspapers.
Progress.
S. F. 2H-Relating to divorce. To be in
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