The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-16
WAS CUT AND DRIED
SENATE REFUSED TO AMEND THE
OMNIBUS BILL, AS THE COMMIT
TEE SAID.
DULUTH AND AN0KA FOUGHT
AS DID OTHER TOWNS, BUT COULD
NOT BREAK THE
SLATE.
SCORE OF BILLS FIND FAVOR
In the Committee of the Whole and
VIII Go to the Calendar
Tomorrow.
DULUTH AND ANOKA FOUGHT
SCORE OF BILLS FIND FAVOR

The senate devoted yesterday after
noon to the omnibus appropriation
bill passing it practically as it came
from the committee, excepting that
certain omissions were corrected which
met the approval of the committee.
Anything that was not Endorsed by the
committee with a large rubber-stamped
20. K" did not get through. There
was an ironclad syndicate there to see
that the report of the committee was
sustained. Duluth, MoOrhead, Anoka,
Rochester and st. Peter in turn tried
to break in, and then they all tried
together, but there were not enough
OF them and the bill will go to the
governor fer his signature this morn
ing.
The morning was devoted to general
orders, a score of the senate files there
on being advanced to the calendar,
While a few We're mercilessly slaughter
ed, and a few were set back to await
such time as the ak may be sharper.
Among the bills that were recon-
mended for passage were the Greer bill
to regulate the use of pound nets in
international and Interstate waters;
school taxes, the Sperry bill to pro-
hibit and punish fraudulent and de-
Ceptive advertising, the Fuller bill to
forbid fraud in sale of garden seeds.
and the Morgan bill relating to in
solvent estates.
The appropriation bill from the house
was reported to the senate Immediate
y following the noon recess. Senator
Wyman moved that it be substituted
for the senate bill, S. F. go
Senator Wyman read the changes
made in the senate bill by the sub
stitution of the house bill, and then Of
fered three amendments which, he said,
We're to supply omissions.
The first provided for the transfer
of funds by the state auditor, in his
discretion, when requested by the board
of managers of the state schools, the
same right having been given the state
boards for insane hospitals and for the
institute for detectives.
The second changed the allotment of
the printing funds without changing
the total, and the third made a similar
change in the Rochester appropriation
Senator Spencer asked that the Du-
luth normal school appropriation be
made $4,000. He said the people of
that city had given the state a $13, 900
site. They were entitled to the school.
The contract should be kept. The nor
NAL school board had recommended the
erection of a $4,000 building. The city
of Duluth had stood by its share of
The contract, the state should do the
same. The sum of $4,000 was not
enough for a foundation for a $4,000
building. St Louis county paid more
taxes 10 the state than the first twenty
counties in the state in alphabetical or
der. 1t paid enough to support all the
state institutions except the state
prison and one other. 1t was said that
the state owned the mines and was en-
titled to that revenue. But these mines
had been developed by st. Louis county
and her people.
Senator Thorpe said the original bill
had been railrOaded through. He had
done all he could consistently for Du-
ll.th. but he could not vote for this in
stitution which was not needed.
Senator Knatvold offered substitute
10 strike out the appropriation entirely
Senator Heneman said the attendance
In the existing schools was not increas-
inc. There was no need for the Du-
luth institution.
Senator Thompson believed if the geo
rIe were consulted, they would not only
5ppose. new institutions, but would cu'
afr two of the existing ones.
Senator RoYerud said the proposed