The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-03-25
audit created by chapter oo1, General

Laws OF 1893.
The following bills were. introduced:
+ To amend the laws relating to the
ownership of real estate by aliens and
corpora tons; to legalize marriages
where they are made in good faith, all
though legal objection may exist.
The House.
The house devoted the entire after
noon on the Reeves bill for the taxa
ton Of mines and mineral lands, and 4
although the session was protracted
until 80 o'clock comparatively little
progress was made with the bill. a
very decisive and definite vote was
had, however, on the question of re-
tanning in part the tonnage tax system
MI. Lay bourn had moved to have the
section providing for this tax stricken
from the bill and the house voted -76
to 27- to retain the section.
The morning session was taken up
with the reports of the committees, a
large number Of which We're presented,
and with the Introduction Of a few
bills.
The following senate bills on the cal 4
endar We're passed:
Providing that corp lions doing an
insurance and trust company business
shall be taxed one-half in each capac-s
ity; allowing real property of insolvent
estates to be distributed among the
creditors when it cannot be sold to adj
vantage. Allowing the. Incorporation
i Of companies to insure against bllr-
glary or theft; amending the tax law
& SO as to allow the speedy determine
ton Of defenses against personal prop
erty taxes; allowing firemen's relief ass
sociations to pay service pensions;
making it an offense punishable by
imprison1nents.for not to exceed ten
years, for a water company tosknoW-
ingly furnish impure water; allowing
the sale Of a certain low grade of oil
for lighting purposes; appropriating
$1,000 for the purchase Of an eighty
acre farm for the state public school
at OWatonna; providing for the invest
ment Of the permanent school and per-
| lnanent university fund; authorizing
and directing the railroad and ware
house commissioners to investigate.
questions of rates without waiting for
complaints. 5ss
| The following bills were introduced:
10 provide for an abatement of taxes
Of so per cent where property value
| las deprecated so per cent; to pro-
! hibit the use Of tobacco by minors un-5
| der the age of sixteen years; relating
| to the sale of Intoxicating liquors.; fe-5
lating to storage AMI shipment Of
grain; to enforce the payment Of taxes
! which became delinquent on or before
January, 1897, and to provide for an
extension in certain cases; providing
for an examination of deeds convey
! ing real estate in certain cases without
payment Of taxes thereon. 4s8
ST. Paul, March 20.-The house bill
| to organize by legislative act the coun-
ties of Beltrami and Cass was taken
up in the senate on general orders, and
/ after a long debate was recommended
/ to pass. Five other bills were acted
on III committee Of the whole and rec
commended to pass.
The following bills were passed:
. TO prevent the San Jose scale; relat-
iIg to the elective franchise of women;
to provide for the treatment of in-
cbriates by counties and prescribing
! rules for governing the same; to legal
i ize in certain cases proceedings for OK
i tending the period Of corporate eN-
4 istence; to conform all savings banks,
4 or institutions for saving to inform
j ity Of powers, etc; to authorize the or
ganization and admission of certain in
surance companies to insure against
loss or damage from burglars, robbers,
1 ,tc.; to prevent corporations from or
ganiZing }or doing business in this state
whose sole or principal business is the
dealing in or acquisition Of tax titles;
i authorizing and empowering cities in
j this state having more than $4,000 in
i habitants to contract for the purchase
of electric power with which to operate
i their public water works.
4 The following bills We're introduced:
! Kelating to the state railroad and
i warehouse commission; to amend the
corrupt practices act Of 1895, placed
i on general orders under suspension of
i viding for the police pension fund; to
j lega1ize the organization Of villages;
relating to the organiza ton of the state
board Of trustees Of the insane llosDi-
tails; to allow villages to separate fuil4ls
in the treasures in the case Of q sep
i aration from the town in which it is
1 located.
! In the House.
The Reeves mining tax bill is not
dead but sleeping. The measure went
i to a vote yesterday afternoon and
failed Of passage, not because the ma
1 jority was against it., but! because it
lacked two votes of enough to pass it.
'rhe official vote shows a shortagr Of
4 three NOleS, DUl Inns @lnclulGSE MI.
Staples, who changed his vote from The
affirmative to the negative in order to
move q reconsideration. The friends
of the measure are yet hopeful of cue
cess. The defeat was a surplisc 10
those who have watched closely tho
progress of its consideration inside anu
outside of the house chamber. Yester.
! day forenoon a vote was taken on the
question of reducing the proposed tom
mage tax from cents to 5. 1t carried
by a vote Of 63 to As.
The entire day was spent in debate
on the bill. The final vote was SIS ayes,
81 nays.
i St. Paul, March %. There. were
seventeen bills on the senate calendar
i for consideration, and when it was
reached call Of the senate was or
dered so as to prepare for any trouble
that might occur in securing the pass
age of bills requiring two-thirds ma
4 jority
i The following bills were passed:
Relating to the letting Of the adver-
cSy,r Of f1ol;