The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-01
1T Is BEING KEPT WARM BY THE
STATIONARY ENGINEERS AS
ISOLATION.
SENATE AND ITS PROGRESS.
HAS PASSED ABOUT SIXTY BILLS
so FAR IN ABOUT FOUR
HUNDRED.
AMPHITHEATER AT HAMLINE.
PROJECT Is Turned Down by the House
Committee on Appropriations
State Affairs.

The National Association of Station
airy Engineers are determined to make
an effort to improve the state law in
reference to the inspection of boilers
and the issuing of engineers licenses
during the present session Of the Min
nesota lawmakers. An important meet
ing Of engineers representing the asso-
Citations Of Duluth, Winona, MankatO,
Minneapolis and st. Paul, all of whom
are branches of the National Associa-
ton of Stationary Engineers, was held
yesterday at the rooms of ST. Paul
No. z in the Central Odd Fellows hall.
The object of the meeting was to en-
able the committee to inform and for
tify itself for a second hearing before
the house committee on general legis-
lation, which is expected to be held
during the coming week. The National
Association Of Stationary Engineers
has had prepared and submitted
through Representative Laybourn, of
Duluth, a bill, which is House File No.
Az The substance of the bill is as fol-
lows: 1t provides for all cities of over
10000, and authorizes the mayor of
such cities to appoint a board of three
examiners, who shall issue to all en-
gineers their licenses every two years.
The examining board shall serve with.
out pay or compensation, and shall i'm
mediately upon their appointment Sc
lect some practical locomotive or ex-
pert stationary engineer, who shall be
appointed boiler inspector. The COM
pensatiOn Of such inspector shall be
= the fees derived from his duties The
fees for examination and inspection Of
boilers and the fees received from the
issuing of engineers licenses shall be
devoted to paying the expenses of the
board and the salary Of the inspector.
The examining board is supposed to
serve without pay. All insured boilers
are according to the bill to be exempt
from inspection. The penalties, ac-
cOrding to the bill, are that any en-
gineer operating a plant without G
license from the board shall be fined
5000 for each Offense, or imprisoned six
months in the county jail, or both, and
any firm or employer employing an en-
gineer without a license is sub
Jected to the same penalty. The
boiler inspector is also subjected
to the same penalty where it is found
he has made a false report as to the
condition of any one or set of boilers.
The meeting of yesterday was made
up or delegates from the various cities
as above, all Of whom go to make up
joint committee of the National AS
ISOLATION of Stationary Engineers of
engineer for Lindeke, Warner & Schur-
meier, is chairman. The meeting yes
terday was of a aacret nature, but the
engineers say they are going tC make
the effort of their life to have House
File No. 4l2 put through and passed,
claiming that the state and cities will
be better off thereby. Mr. T. f. s
Hayes, a member of the joint commit
tee, said yesterday: The way the
present license law is being carried out
is shameful. An agent of an Eastern
engine factory carries a block of blanl,
state engineers licenses, signed by In
spector Zelch, but made out by the
agent presumably for any purchaser
or operator of an engine of the make
for which he is agent"
A review of the work of the senate
up TO date shows that up to this time
there have been 1856 bills introduced
While at the same time two years ago.
45I bills had been introduced. OF the
number, nearly 400 barely a sixth, or
6l bills, have passed the senate,
and only nine of these have as yet
passed the house, although the lat
ter body has only fatty killed one SEN
ate bill, the KnatvOld measure to regu-
late the oil inspection. OF the other
senate bills, only 81 have actually been
Killed, although host of them are
pocketed with committees where there
Is seemingly a slim show of their get
ting to the broad light of the day
very soon.
Some time today the appropriations
committee will recommend for passage
the bill introduced a week or more ago
asking for an appropriation for an
amphitheater and water system at the
state fair grounds at Hamline AS re-
ported back favorably the bill will be
so amended as to call for a water sys,
ANN h hoo
here is where the story comes in
1t has been pretty we'll understood
for some time back that the members
OF the board were strongly in favor of
TINS Dig amphltheater, which they say
will go far to make the buildings and
equipment of the association complete
and up-tO-date.
Col. Liggett, one Of the most lin
defatigable members of the board of
managers, is credited with having or
iginated the idea, and has been agt-
tating the matter most energetically.
At recent meeting 1t was decided TO
have a bin drawn asking for an ap-
preparation of 900 for this purpose
and at the same time an additional APP
preparation of $4,000 for a system OF
waterworl6s for better fire protection
watering OF grounds, stock etc. In
this meeting the amphitheater easily
had the CALL it being informally de-
cided that If the association could have
should be the one.
Let us protect the buildings we have
now and later we can get the amphi-
theater," is the way President Ed
. Weaver expresses it. He believes that
each year, in spite of the presence of
engines from ST. Paul and Mime
apOlis, there is great risk of fire, and
4 he points out that the water should be
placed on the grounds the first thing.
This was the situation, then when the
bill asking for both was taken up
by the appropriation committee, and
1t is openly intimated that the differ
ence in cost In favor Of the water sys-
tenn was not all that recommended it
self to an economical committee, but
that Mr.. Weaver allowed it to be un,
derstOOd that the sentiment was gem
orally in favor of the water Repre-
sentative Scott has been intrusted to
make this amendment in the bill, and
as stated 1t will be reported today
1--WE don't like the way in which
this matter has been handled, for we
may not be able to have a change
made, even after showing what the SEN
ti1nent is" is the view held by several
members OF the board. This amphi-
theater idea is not a fancy one but
in addition to supplying an exhibition
and judging headquarters it does away,
by a system Of booths with the un>
slightly tents and shacks which have
always been an eyesore at the an
nual fairs"
Henry Feig, the rotund member from
Kandiyohi, was taken into camp by
the opposition during the week on the