Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-03-07
BEHALF 0E IVES
CRoOKsTON MEN ARE IN ST. PAU.
WORKING FOR The JUDGE.
The House judiciary Committee
VIII at Once Take Preliminary
Steps Toward Investigating
the Charges ana Will Push
the Work Rapidly.
Do1xGs OF VARIOUS LAW MILLS.

DOINGs OF VARIOUS LAW MILLS.
Proceedings In the Legislatures of
MinnenOtn, North Dakota
and wisconsin.
st. Paul, March 3.-The house i'll
dietary committee will meet Monday
evening and take the first steps to-
ward investigating the charges
brought against Judge Ives. of the
Fourteenth judicial district. The COM
mittee will be compelled to work
promptly, as it is matter which
takes q great deal of time at the best.
The committee will have to take the
evidence and report to the house with
the recommendations, after which, If
the charges in the petition are sus-
tained, articles Of impeachment will
be prepared in the house and the case
sent to the senate for trial. All OF
this will take much time, and it is
doubtful If the case can be completed
during the term Of the senate, and at
the same time allow the transaction
Of the regular business. In the cpin-
ion Of many lawyers, however, the
senate after it is once convened rs a
board Of impeachment, is authorized
and required to sit until the case has
Ss been tried and disposed of.
g The friends Of Judge Ives were on
hand this morning calling upon sen
ators and preparing to work day and
night on behalf of the judge. Harry
Ives, a son of the judge; Sheriff An
drew Stevenson of Polk county, and
others are on the ground.
In the Senate.
The senate did full days work
and then adjourned Until Tuesday
morning to allow it's members an op-
lortunity to visit their districts. Some
who represent distant districts have
not had day ut home for several
weeks. The question Of the state cen
sus to be taken this year consumed
more time than any other one measure.
The senate decided that the census
shall he confined to an enumeration of
the inhabitants although a fight is ex-
pected for census that SHALL insludc
large number of agricultural and in
dCstrial statistics.
resolution was passed asking the
president to promote Col. Mason Of
ForAIt Smelling to the rank of briga-
der general.
Senator. Wyman. from the special
committee to which had been referred
II. f. rs, a bill to prohibit wrongful
practices in connection with the cleo
tion of United States senators, report
ed with a bill which was so much
amended that it was practically a new
bill, which was ordered printed, re-
tanning it's place upon general orders.
The principal change is in forbidding
any electioneering or lobbying by any
state official or employe during bust
ness hours which are defined as be-
ing between and o'clock.
A bill cmbodying the ideas Of the
lending teachers of the state on the
Il truancy question has been prepared by
the Joint con- mittee of the school
boards of ST. Paul and Minneapolis,
and is now in the hands Of the at
torney general.
Two house bills were passed under
suspension of the rules. as follows:
To repeal part Of section IL. chapter
It, of the city charter of Red Wing;
amending section 80. chapter GA, Cen
eral statutes Of 1878. as amended by
chapter &C. General Statutes Of 1881,
relating to terms Of court in the Fourth
judicial district of Isanti county.
Drainage Bill Passed.
In the house the Red river drainage
bill after being amended reducing the
appropriation to $4,000, was passed
by Il vote of 70 to 10. The morning
session was brief and considerable
time was consumed in discussing Mr..
Schofield's resolution asking that the
senate return S. r. No. 81. providing
for the transfer Of $4,000 from the
school text book fund to the internal
Improvement fund. At II o'clock in
joint convention the legislature ac-
cepted from the veterans association
the portrait of Gen. Thomas, "the
Rock of Chickamagua." A resolution
was introduced calling for the ap-
pointment of committee to investi-
gate Bank Examiner Kenyon and to
prepare articles of impeachment
against him If the charges preferred
were found to be true.
Bills Passed - To establish certain
monuments, marking boundaries Of
land-Feig. TO open certain water
ways and appropriating $4,000 there
for; the Rer river valley drainage APP
propria tion-McGrath. TO amend sec
tion 1. chapter 81, General Laws 1879,
relating to DEMONSTRATING 10 APP
buildings at Minnesota institute for
defcctives-StOckton
Mr.. Bernig introduced a document
prepared by John HI. Burke reciting
several alleged "false and fraudulent"
acts OF Bank Examiner Kenyon. The
resolution calls for the appointment
of Il committee Of five members Of the
house with full power to investigate
all these charges. and to prepare on
the evidence found articles Of impeacll-
ment against Moses D. Kenyon. public
examiner and superintendent of banks
in this state. and if the evidence shall
warrant to prepare like articles of i'm
peachment against David NJ. Clough,
governor of this state.
South DukOta.
Pierre, S. D., March 3.-In the house
several remonstrances against the
passage OF the divorce bill We're pre-
scented. A sitting committee of tive
was appointed to pass upon any new
bill before it is col sidered in the house.
"A joint resolution was passed giving