The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-21
MINNESOTA SOLONS.
The Legislative Proceedings from
Day to Dag.

Everything Running In . Smooth Manner
and There Ii an Evident Desire ON
the Part Of Members to Mako
Purely Business Sessloa.
St Paul, Jan. 1s.-When the senate
met today Lieut. Gov. Gibbo did not
announce the committee on municipal
corporations or tho senate portion of
the joint committee on reapportion-
ment. Mr.. Gibbs named all the other
committees yesterday, but stated that
he would delay naming these until the
judiciary committee selected their
chairman. His idea was to placate
Senator Sheehan, by making him chair
man of the committee on municipal
corporations, if he lost the chairman
ship of the judiciary. OF course it was
certain that Sheehan would lose when
the senate took the matter out Of the
hands Of the lieutenant governor.
Sheehan and his friends claim that
Gibbs connived at or even suggested
that the judiciary appointment be
taken out of his hands. They claim to
have had his promise to give Sheehan
the place and hold him responsible for
the defeat. The Ramsey county push
tell Sheehan that they will cut him
dead If he accepts any craftsmanship at
the hands of Gibbs and Sheehan is SUI
ficiently mad to be of the same mind.
Hence Gibbs is holding over the mu-
nicipal corporation committee, hoping
that the storm will subside. There is
a report too, that the vote of q to 20,
whereby the judiciary craftsmanship
was taken away from Gibbs, is an in
dex to the standing of the senate on
the contest for Frank Days seat, Dunn
being in the minority. It is understood
that Gibbs is opposed to Day and that
the committee on elections that he
named stands three to two in favor of
OF Dunn. There is every reason to be-
lieve that there will be two reports of
the election committee and the COM
mittee being organized to convict, the
majority will favor Dunn. This does
not make much difference as the con-
test will be fought out in the senate in
any event.
Speaker Jones announced his commit
tees today, without creating any pub
lie friction, though there were many
blasted hopes in the matter of chair
manships. The house gave evidence
of intending industry by the introduce
ton of 10 bills. Perhaps the most i'm
portant was one allowing all state
banks to demand 60 days written no
tice for the withdrawal of time depos-
its. This is with the view of holding
in check panicky bank runs which
have recently carried down SO many
state banks. The bill introduced to-
day which will lead to one Of the great
est contests of the session was one re-
pealing the struck jury law. Such
law stood upon our statute books for
many years, but was repealed and
again enacted two years ago. Organ
lied labor is now demanding second
repeal. ON the ground that struck jurios
favor corporations. Another bill aboi-
ishes Major General Bend rs the head
Of tho state militia, which is hard
blow at the greatness Of our state
army. There is evidently concerted
plan to put the grain inspection depart
ment ON the civil service list, as bill
similar to that in the senate Was intro
duced in the house. Z
St Paul, Jan. Ex-senator Sheehsn
is still mad, and when Lieut. Gov.
Gibbs announced tho committee ON mu-
nicipal corporations today his name
did not appear as chairman or any
where else. Just how much Sheehan's
refusal to serve will be . grief and
damage to Gibbs is something no fol-
lab can find out" at this writing. There
IL q row on between the senate and the
house relative to the size Of the reap
portionment committee. Senator Stew
ems offered resolution providing for a
committee composed of nine from the
senate and eighteen from the house.
The house passed a resolution giving
the senate seven members and taking
fourteen fer itself. Now the senate is
mad about the excessive number of
the house members, and amended the
joint resolution of tho house giving the
senate fourteen also. In this shape it
goes back to the house for a continue
ton of the contest The most import
ant bills offered in the senate today
were duplicates Of those offered in the
house yesterday, namely: A bill to re-
peal the struck jury law and also to al
low state banks other than savings
banks to demand sixty-day notices
from time depositors before paying
back their funds.
The speaker made q good many
hearts glad in the house this morning
by announcing thirteen appointments
of clerkshlps, doorkeepers, ETC.. as we'll
as those Of seven pages. While this
brought happiness to twenty, in the
aggregate, it would be safe TO add two
ciphers to those figures to indicate the
mum Der to whom it brought unhappi-
ness. But tho world is too largo for
verybody to be happy. Eighteen ap-
pears to be favorite number in the
house, as that was the number of bills
presented today. as well as yesterday.
None of the bills were of great import
ance. though many of considerable in
terest- One compels cities and all cor
porations to pay wages weekly, instead
of monthly; another gives three years
instead of one to enforce the mechan-
les lien; another repeats the law Civ