The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-01-27

FORFEITURE OF license IOr IIedlrlcdl man
ayers who give Sunday entertainments.
Manchester will have no passes to the
theater this winter. Mr.. Feig had
bill abolishing the SIS, 900 limit of dam
ages when railroads and other corpora
tions kill their employees Another bill
of some interest provides state board
of which the state treasurer is not a
member, to determine in what banks
state deposits shall be placed and what
bonds shall be required The commit
tee on legislation reported favorably
on the constitutional amendment MAX
ing governor or governor-elect ineligi-
BILE for the q. S. senate during his guber-
material term, but the bill was rescued
from passage by reference to the ju-
dietary committee.
ST. Paul. Jan. 21.-It is almost
pleasure to be able to record measure
upon which the two houses of the leg
islature are not in accord. Tuesday,
for instance, bill was introduced in
the house prohibiting Sunday theaters-
Yesterday the same bill was intro
duced in the senate. Tuesday a bill
was introduced in the senate making
the railroad commissioners elective in
stead of appointed by the governor.
Yesterday a similar bill was introduced
in the house. If this thing keeps on,
the last 80 days of the session will be
devoted to the work of conference
committees appointed to determine
whether it shall be house bill or
senate bill which becomes law, both
measures being exactly alike. That is
why it was refreshing yesterday to
have Senator Wyman, of Minneapolis,
advocating the arbitration treaty now
before the United States senate, and
comparing Grover Cleveland to Abra-
ham Lincoln, while Representative
Donnelly, a populist and semi-demo-
crat was offering resolutions against
the treaty. and denouncing Cleveland.
Both resolutions went over for the day,
the senate one going to a committee
and that of the house being made a
special order for today, when Judge
Hicks favoring peace and Donnelly ia
voring war, will again cross words.
While the United States expels its
clerks to conceal the fact that
what is done in executive session, the
Minnesota senate voted to have their
executive sessions open, like the regu-
lar business sessions. Now if the gov
ernor has any more horse doctors to
appoint on the board of health, he can
send the names right in and find out
what the senators think about it by
reading the reports in the newspapers.
One of the events in the senate was the
passage of bill, under suspension of
the rules, which will enable Mr.. Block,
of St Peter, to serve as member of
the insane asylum board notwithstand-
ing he is sheriff
The Rochester insane asylum was
originally an inebriate asylum, with a
special tax on every saloonkeeper in
the state to support it. The saloon
men arose in their political might and
transformed the institution into an in
sane asylum, with a ward devoted to
the care of inc briates. A start towards
returning to the first principles was
MADE yesterday, by a bill offered by
Senator Stebbins. of Rochester, appro-
priating $50. 1000 to erect a separate
building for inebriates. And thus we
reverse the trite saying. making it read
THE first shall be last"
Another reform measure offered pro-
vides for erecting a reformatory for
women located between ST. Paul and
Minneapolis As the bill provides for
the purchase of from 40 to 60 acres of
land, it is the evident intention to have
the new reform woman become
farmer.
The house made up yesterday for its
industry in sitting Saturday and Mon
day, when the senate took a vacation,
by holding a very short session. Not
withstanding this twenty-five bills
were introduced. Among them was
one curbing the ambitions of sheriffs
by forbidding them from practicing
law. Another forbidding the sending
of flowers to criminals. Another makes
incurable insanity a ground for di-
vorce, while another thinkers with the
election law by abolishing the tri-col-
ored tickets and providing single bal
lot to contain the names of all the can
didates. The remainder were chiefly
bridge and local measures.
St Paul, Jan. e2-Only two bills were
offered in the senate yesterday. and
those not of general interest. Almost
the entire work was devoted to consid-
ering the Dupn-Day contest. 1t was
the innings for the attorneys. M. ID.
Mum, of st. Paul, opened the ball on
behalf of Mr.. Dunn, and was followed
by r. B. Evans, of Minneapolis, in be-
half of Day, who spoke until between,
and o'clock. when an ad journment,
was taken until 10 o'clock today. When
Mr.. Evans concludes, either ex-Attor-,
ney General Clapp, who is one of the.
attorneys for Dunn, or Mr.. Mum, will,
make the concluding argument for the
contestant. There was no sen blance
of politics in the speeches yesterday,
the argument being entirely a legal
one, with an effort to show that Sena-