The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-02-07
STATE LEGISLATURE,
WORK OF THE MINNESOTA Law.
MAKERS.

work OF THE MINNESOTA Law.
MAKERS.
Condensed Report of the Proceed
Nngs in the Senate and House. Com.
rising a Brief Summary OF the
Weeks Business.
st. Paul, Feb. Ex-senator Day. tho
new lieutenant governor, called tho
senate to order, Gov. Clough having
handed over the gavel and assumed
the duties of governor.
senator Towards bill relative to the
employment Of minors is a rather
sweeping measure and appears to be
A!lned particularly at the employment
OF messenger boys after 6 o'clock at
hlght. 1t provides heavy penalties for
employing minors about saloons. gam
ping places or any place where liuuor
IS sold, or for employing minors in
mines, factories, etc., or A. D. IT,, tele-
phone and other similar establishments
wv q p. IN. and Z a.. m.
Senator Reishus got a bill in the sen
ATE This morning which raised the age
OF consent to Is years. It attracted at
Az " III SldIL, dS Jne lH0lAS
began to inquire for the bill as soon
as it was read.
Senator Wings bill prohibits the
Whistling by traction engines on the
public highways, and requires them to
stop before meeting horses.
Senator Peterson's bill amends the
law governing. the insane hospitals, It
allows the board of to make
improvements without advertising for
bids, and changes the commitment law
IN a number OF respects, the old law
having been declared unconstitutional.
Senator Roverud introduced a bill
providing that where there has been q
continuous travel in a certain place for
SIX years without objection from the
owner of the property, said road shall
be a public highway.
Senator Spencer introduced a bill
for a soldiers relief commission. It
provides that judges of probate shall
appoint the commissioners.
The senate this afternoon went into
committee of the whole and recon-
mended the following bills to pass:
"A bill for an act to amend sections /
and 4 of chapter rs of the General
Laws of 1888, concerning mutilated.
lost and destroyed bonds, orders and
warrants.
In the House.
Bills introduced in the house TODAY
were as follows:
Mullen, to amend existing laws re-
lating to the formation Of farmers mu-
tual fire insurance companies.
Robbins, concerning chattel mort
cages and other liens upon grain and
for the protection of mortgages.
Reeves (by request), to amend exist
Ing laws to prevent debtors from Civ
ing preference to creditors.
Parker, to amend the constitution so
that the permanent school fund may
be loaned to aid in the erection of
school buildings.
Soule, to amend existing laws and
permitting the barbed wire fence to
answer the definition of a legal fence.
Christensen, to amend existing laws
50 as to exempt 100 instead of SO bush
els Of grain from execution.
Feig, to promote practical forestry
and to appropriate $4,000 to the Mime
sofa Forestry Association to raise trees
for free distribution on the prairies.
Sampson. to provide for maintenance
of track scales at all stations by rail-
road companies.
Tallman, to amend the penal code so
as to make Sabbath breaking punish
able IS misdemeanor.
The senate confirmed all the appoint
ments recently made by Gov. Nelson,
except those Of Dairy Commissioner
Anderson and Labor Commissioner
Powers. Other ame may now be
sent in by Gov. Clough.
st. Paul, Feb. 3.-The committee on
elections reported to the house in the
Furlong-Allen contest, in favor Of al
lowing Furlong, the contestee, to hold
his seat. The report of the committee
was not adopted, but made a special
order for Wednesday morning at II
o'clock. and at that time, in accordance
with the statute, the two sides of the
case will be heard by the house and a
verdict rendered by a vote Of the mem.
bers. The committee report sets forth
that the committee decides that Fur.
long is entitled to his seat because In
sufficient notice by the contestant, AL
len, and that, though Allen appears to
have a plurality of two votes, yet the
evidence to that end is very conflicting
and unsatisfactory.
The most interesting thing in the
o0AoeC was Iuc light Oh the COulnl1CCee
on legislative expenses. When this
committee was appointed, no one sus-
pected that it would ever be charged
with extravaganza, and there was gen.
eral surprise when the committee yes
terday afternoon decided to favor
clerks for committees that in~the past
hardly knew what a clerk was. The
senators seemed to know what had
been done by the committee, for the re-
port had not e. been read when Sen-
ator Wyman moved that the report be
referred back to the committee. Sen
ator Greer and others wanted certain
matters exempted, they being pet reso-
lutions, OF course. This did not wark,
however, and after a more or less live
~ discussion, in which r~etrenchment
n reform talk came from unexpected
directions, the motion Of Senator wy
man to refer the report back carried
practically unanimously.
$3.50 va&sy In the House. ...-v..s
The house, after hearing committee
reports, managed to summon enough
energy to pass four bills. One Of them
was Baston's pest house measure. AS