The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-03-04

all unimportant, comprised the mum.
Der passed yesterday IN the senate.
There were % bills introduced, most
~ of local character. One of them,
however, offered by Senator Durham.
appropriates money for building the
fourth insane asylum at Anoka Fol-
lowing immediately on the heels of the
ing committee on the location of the
asylum between Hastings and Anoka,
this bill becomes interesting. The leg
islature will have to fight out the ques-
ton of location before an appropria-
ton is made.
Mr.. Donnelly's bill providing for
daily posting of the condition of each
bank in its counting rooms was sent to
the graveyard by the house yesterday
very decisively. 1t only received %
votes to 20 against it. Perhaps because
it hurt Donnelly's feelings so much,
the house then proceeded to pass his
bill requiring the daily posting of the
names of officers and stockholders of
banks. This went through by 81 to 20.
The senate bill creating board of
pardons passed under suspension of the
rules. AS was predicted, bill was
introduced appropriating $1,0s1.93 to
reimburse Mr.. Coats for his failure to
secure Mr., Halls seat. This will
bring the expenses for contests elect
ions during the sessions, up to nearly
Sc, 600. Minnesota is apparently en-
vious of Nevada, as bill was intro
duced permitting glove contests, which
merely another name for prize fights.
The largest appropriation offered was
$237, 800 for the state reformitory at
Red Wing. The same bill offered in
the senate providing money for the
new capitol was introduced in the
house and will be considered by COM
mittees of both branches at the same
time. A child labor bill was offered for
bidding the employment of any child
under fourteen years of age, in any mer-
camille establishment, telegraph, tele-
phone or other public messenger COM
pany except during school vacations.
One of the legislative novelties of
tho day yesterday was bill intro
duced by Senator lltis creating the Of
fee of commissioner of phrenolgy with
a salary of 81, 900 per year and deputy
with $500 salary. The commissioner
is to prepare text books for the public
schools on phrenology, anatomy and
physiology: Incidentally the commits
sioner will examine the bumps on the
heads of the state officers,
st. Paul, Feb. Ex-senator Dunn
scored partial victory yesterday in
securing the passage of his resolution
directing the railroad commissioners
to compel the Milwaukee road to so
adjust their time table that people
from southern Minnesota can make
connections at Austin for the Twin
Cities. There was lengthy debate
but the force of the resolution was
curtailed by adding the words "if
practical" In other other words if the
Milwaukee can convince the railroad
commissioners that it is not practical to
to change their time table, then the
resolution amounts to nothing. If it
was practical they would probably
ton of the legislature. A bill of con-
siderable interest to newspaper men
was introduced in the senate yesterday.
At present the delinquent tax list Is
published in the paper making the
lowest bid.
This bill authorizes the county COM
missioners to take into account the
character and the respective value of
the competing newspapers. This will
enable them to award the tax list to
what they regard the best newspaper,
even though the bid may not be the
lowest
A little sectionaljwar was cropped
out in the senate owing to the sup
posed reflection of southern Minnesota
upon northern Minnesota.
Senator Ringdal compared Polk
county with Freeborn, showing that
Polk county paid nearly three times as
much in taxes as Erect born. The
trouble grew out of the statement by
by the Freeborn senator that northern
Minnesota did not pay it's taxes.
Among the bills introduced was one
abolishing the inebriate ward at the
Rochester insane asylum. If this bill
should pass there would be no place to
send inebriates except to jails and
warehouses;. Only four bills were
passed by the senate and those intro
duced, other than the ones named, were
purely local.
The greater portion of the time in
the house yesterday was occupied in
debating the majority and minority re-
ports from the committee on grain and
warehouses, upon. the bill reducing
freight rates on coal and grain. The
majority report favored indefinitely
postponing the bill, while the minority
favored its passage. The debate grew
fast and furious, during which the
Great Northern railroad and Eastern
Minnesota came in for good deal of
criticism. In the end the bill was re-
ferred to the railroad committee, where
it ought to have gone in the first place.
Representative Reeves bill taxing
iron mines cents per ton on their out
put was substituted for his previous
bill on the same subject. The bill
providing for teaching music in the
public schools was lost, and the bill
repeating the horse thief bounty act
was indefinitely postponed.
Only five bills were passed, the i'm