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reservation, Is down on business in connec-
ton with pending legislation.

reservation, Is down on business in connec-
ton with pending legislation.
One of the bills introduced in the senate yes
terday which has already aroused considerable
opposition Is that to provide that the matern-
Ny hospitals, Bethany homes, Houses of the
Good Shepherd and like institutions, where
dissolute mothers or deserted wives are cared
for, shall be the guardians of the lily blessed
offspring. The bill is opposed largely on &C
count Of recent revelations in the Minne-
apoiis courts, in which it was declared by a
female doctor prominent in the management
OF one Of the institutions of this kind that
she had taken babies from the hospital and as
sisted In palming them on on husband as
his wife's own children, when in fact they
were not
duced in the senate yesterday was the prop
osluon for gross earnings tax Of 10 per
cent on the elevators located along the lines
of railroads, which measure was fathered by
Senator French.
What effect the Anoka- Hastings fight and it's
ultimate settlement will have on the re-
apportionment Is conjectural largely, but in
the present state of feeling it is safe to pre-
sumo that If the Hastings folk lose they will
take good care to defeat the reapportionment.
Incidental to this discussion. 1t Is worthy
Of comment that Senator IItis of Chaska
one of the staunchest of the Hastings con-
tingent. yesterday introduced a bill to give
has the sanction of the federal principle. in
which the senate is entirely free from con-
slderattons of population and representation
while the equities would be preserved, it is
argued, by the provision that 5000 inhabi-
tants should entitle constituency to a rep
reSentative in the other branch of the legis-
lature. The Northern Minnesota people
claim that the bill, while 1t might be actual
ed by consideration Of the helpless condi-
ton of Carver county, as compared with
some Of the larger counties, If they obtained
Justice, is merely to give pretext for delay
long enough to defeat the passage of the pro-
posed reapportionment.
A new element in the hospital fight while
1t was hardly taken seriously. was the re-
ceipt of dispatches early in the evening to
the effect that an ice gorge had formed in
the river a short distance south Of the ambi-
tlous city, and that it was backing water and
n0at1ng Ice up into the Rum river at an
alarming rate. While it was not argued that
1t would be possible for the river to raise
the ice the ffty-one feet or so necessary to
submerge the whole site, the Hastings people
were not slow to argue the deleteriouS effects
a recurrence Of this catastrophe in future
years might have on the minds of those pa
tfents who were sufficiently reasonable to
realize the possibilities Of danger in the rising
floods.
Today is a day of special orders in the
house, there being two scheduled, one for
each of the sessions. The first is on the mat
ter Of Senator Spencer's bill relating to the
reorganization of suspended banks. The bill
Is on general orders in the house, and the
committee named some time ago to report
on the matter will simply recommend the pas
sage of the bill with the single amendment
that the words may in it's discretion" have
In two instances been substituted for the
word shall, p" referring to the courts issuing
to banking institutions certificates of reor-
ganization when a plan had been submitted
whether there was opposition or not. The
report will be made when 1t is expected that
the matter will be discussed at some length.