The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-28
LEGISLATIVE ROUTINE.
Briefly Showing Bills Introduced and Bus-
49, mess Finished.


| mess Finished.
st. Paul, Jan. 20.-The senate assem-
bled at 10 a. m. The following bills
were introduced yesterday: :
To create and provide for system Of
travelling public libraries.
Antitrust bill. "ss
To appropriate money for instruction
in butter and cheesemaking.
To repeal chapter 277 of laws of 1895,
preventing corrupt practices.
To amend chapter 90, laws of 1891,
relating to weighing and inspection of
grain.
To appropriate money for higher ed
ucation.
Amending e27 of general statutes of
1894; holding town meetings.
Amending chapter 4, laws of 1898; to
regulate elections.
To appropriate $500 for state camp
meeting at Lake View.
House reports from standing commit
tees this morning were as follows:
Committee on State Public Schools
Chairman Sloane
| To appropriate IS, 800 for state public
school at Owatonna. Recommended
and then referred to the appropriations
committee.
Committee on General Legislation
Chairman Staples
Relating to liens on logs and lum Der.
Recommended.
Amending the statutes of 1878 relat-
ing to personal property exempt from
execution. Recommended.
Amending laws to declare certain
weeds common nuisance. Indefinitely
postponed.
Repeating laws relating to bounties
for capture of horse thieves. Recon-
mended.
Amending the laws with regard to
compensation for executors and guard
ians. Indefinitely postponed.
Declaring the governor or governor
elect ineligible for the office of United
States senator. Recommended to pass
as amended. Referred to committee
on judiciary on motion of Henry Johns
Amending existing laws relating to
partition fences. Recommended to be
referred to judiciary.
Preventing fraud in the sale of gar
den seeds. Substitute recommended.
st. Paul, Jan. 21.-The senate yes
terday, by a vote of 20 to 81, decided to
hold no more executive sessions.
The following house bills were con-
sidered:
Legalizing bonds. hereafter issued by
county commissioners for road and
bridge expenses. Judiciary.
Relating to Viclssburg park military
affairs.
Abolishing Sank Center municipal
court. Passed without dissent.
Fixing the terms of the district court
in Sherburne county. Passed.
The following bills were introduced:
Asking congress to reorganized the
railway mail service.
Relating to repairs of bridges over
streams between counties. Roads and
bridges.
To make dairy and food commissioner
an elective office. Public health, dairy
and food.
+ Amending laws relating to delin-
quent taxes on realty.
Appropriating $4,000 annually for
public graded schools.
Governing the board of pardons.
Prohibiting sheriffs, deputies and
coroners from holding other lucrative
civil Offices. Passed under suspension
Of the rules.
Erecting reformatory for women
close to St Paul and Minneapolis, pro.
viding commission of seven to- locate
site Of from 40 to so acres.
Amending laws of 1891 relating to
weighing and inspection of grain:
The judiciary committee of the house
reported the following:
A bill for an act to regulate and i'm
prove tho service of grain inspection
and weighing and registration to the
state OF Minnesota; to pass as amended.
Report adopted.
chapter SO, of the general statutes of
1878, to exempt a husband from liabil-
ity for torts committed by his wife;
recommended to pass. Report adopted.
A bill for an act providing for an
amendment to section 9. article 4, of
the constitution of the state of Mime
sofa, making the governor or governor
elect ineligible to the Office of United
States senator; reported back without
further Recommendation. Report was
adopted.
Creating a board of pardons and pre-
scribing the duties thereof; to pass.
Report adopted.
The grain and warehouse committee
reported in favor of the passage of H.
F. No. No. 81 (Carson). to amend gen.
eral law relating to the railroad and
warehouse commission, providing that
commissioners be elected by the people
in 1898, and one new member every
subsequent two years.
The following bills were introduced:
Extending the power of the railroad
and warehouse commission to street
and electric railroads.
A joint resolution protesting against
proposed treaty for peace commission
of three American judges, three Eng
lish Judges and King Oscar; made a
special order for 1880 o'clock Thurs
day, Jan. %. 49,.
Amending the present law relating
to telegraph companies, providing that
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