Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-03-18

the maker and indorser, and a third
bill offered makes it a misde meanor to /
engage in the business of buying tax
titles.
The leading event in the house was
a technical squabble over the distance
freight rate bill. This was the bill
which was originally sent to the grain
and warehouse committee, and after it
was reported back by them big con-
test ensued and it went to the railroad
committee. A majority and minority
report was made by the railroad COM
mittee yesterday and the controversy
was relative to adopting one of those
reports, or sending the whole matter
to the committee of the whole, to be
there fought out. After q waste of
time on this bubble, both reports went
to the committee of the whole, and the
house was just where it started.
Frank Hoskins, the erstwhile Otter
Tail county editor who was committed
to the Fergus Falls insane asylum, but
soon discharged on the ground that he
was not insane, appeared with petit.
ton asking to have the affair investi-
gated and his commitment expunged
from the hospital records.
st. Paul, March 15.-Civil service in
an emasculated form, was resurrected
IN the senate on Saturday. Senator
Ozmun's civil service bill was referred
back to him with so many objections
that it was supposed to be dead, but
he came up smiling with an amended
bill and passed it with only three mega
tive votes. The most important amend.
ment was one making it non-applica-
bic to cities of $4,000 or less population
This only leaves it applicable to four
cities in the state and the country sen
ators were willing to support it so long
as it did not apply to their own local.
ties. To avoid too strong opposition in
the large cities, the bill was amended
so that it applies to but few officials
outside of the police and firemen. Now
the bill must run the gauntlet of the
house, and as that body is not desper.
ately strong on civil service, it may yet
go to the boneyard.
Senator Potter is evidently of the
opinion that existing national and state
laws do not give the colored man suff-
another civil rights bill, making dis
elimination on account of color a mis-.
demeanor and punisha BILE by fine of
from S25 to 500. Another bill offered
might be termed an illustration of
Temperance morality as applied to
''the other fellow" 1t provides that
when town has voted no license, no
liquor shall be sold or given away in
that town, but liquor may be manu-
featured in that town in unlimited
quantities, to be sold elsewhere. A
bill to tax telephone companies per
cent on their gross earnings was cor
daily received by the senate.
Gov. Clough favored the house on
Saturday with his second veto this ses-
sion. 1t was the bill authorizing the,
licensing of transient dealers in mer-
chandise." The theory of the veto was
that that the bill makes it an injustice
to the regular, all the year around
dealers.
Civil rights must be in danger, for
the matter cropped out in the house as
well as in the senate, Representative
Gray introducing a bill giving the col
ored man his rights in hotels, theater
and other public places. A strong
plea was made to reduce the penalty
on de linquent taxes from 10 to per
cent, but it failed.
Resolutions were adopted by the
house to investigate the charges against
the stock yards of the Twin Cities.
These charges are that shippers of
stock are charged enormous rates Tor
feed and thus compelled to sacrifice
their stock regardless of the condition
of the market.
Eight bills were passed. One of them
gives insurance companies organized
TO insure creameries. the right to do
business when they have secured so
risks, aggregating 100000.
An ImDOrtant Decision.