St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-30
FREE TEXT BOOKS,
They Cause a Lively Row in
the North Dakota
House.
FATTY EDWARDS FURIOUS.
The Members in Favor OF the
Bill Outnumber Their
Opponents.
LABOR UNIONS PROTEST.
Edwards Coal Bill the Ob-
jeet Of Their Dis
pleasure.

BISMARCK, n. D., Jan. 29.-The labor
and trade unions OF Fargo have filed a
protest against the using of convict la
Dor in competition with free labor, men,
tioning Edwards coal bill especially.
Senate bills introduced: Strom, for
loaning portion of the permanent
school fund on farm mortgages to run
twenty years, one-twentIeth to be res
paid annually; Sorley. making void
contracts where the signature is OBJ
tanned by fraud; Fuller. appropriating
$50, 900 for an additional hospital build
ing for the insane; La Moure, raising
the gross earnings tax to per cent.
The senate passed Little's bill re-
pealing the law creating a compilation
commission. Killers bill declaring all
mills customs mills was inadvertently
carried to the table with an amendment
offered by La Moure providing that
LeistikOw's mill shall be excepted from
its provision. Plains bill repeating the
Mandan reform school appropriation in
part was indefinitely postponed. Hag-
CARTS, repeating this appropriation en-
tirely, will pass. Whites bill making
directors OF public institutions person.
ally liable for amounts expended in ex-
cess OF appropriations passed.
In the house Murphy presented heavy
petitions for the organization of Kill
Deer county from organized territory
south of Willist0n. Bills introduced:
K0rsmo, for keeping snow blockaded
wagon roads open: Hancock, for de-
stroying weeds and grass along the pub
lie highway; Smith, amending the
Ellendale industrial school law so as to
permit building when 1000 is accumu-
lated from lands or bequeSts; Wallen,
repeating the law creating a weather
and crop service Tie house passed
Sfarpe's bill defining the duties and
fixing the salaries OF states attorneys:
PrOsser's, amending the law relating to
the deposit of county funds; committee
bill, for postage; senate bill, prohibiting
directors and officers Of state institutions
from becoming interested in contracts.
The committee of the who'll had
many bills under consideration, the
most prominent being the free text
book bill. Edwards and Winean again
hOty opposed. Edwards claimed it
would put an expense of $4,000 on the
people and would lose the Republican
party 5000 votes. Logan said Doodle
and monopoly were arrayed against the
bill. and that the Doodle car was on the
way to defeat it. Hodgson and Rinde
favored. Gill believed the bill in the
interest of economy; that it would not
lose the Republican party one vote. but
give 1t strength. The yarions votes
showed SO in favor and Is against the
bill. Senator Haggart has received no
tice of further concessions to be made
Fargo a. distributing point. 1t is re-
ported Nichols has negotiated state
warrants and will arrive tomorrow with
funds for legislative expenses.
of carbolic acid. He had been contem-
plating the step for some time, it is
thought Dependency over financial
troubles is said to be the cause for the
rash ac,. He leaves a wife and three
children,