The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-02-03

OIL was introduced LOT a SLate IRE mar
shall, equipped with four deputies The
chief marshal is to have his Office at
the capitol, with a salary of 81, 500,
1920 clerk, and $1,000 for extras. The
deputies are to reside in the principal
cities of the state, and as recompense
for such enforced residence will be
given salary of $4,000 each. The OBJ
ject of the bill, outside of the salaries,
is to tighten the losses of the insurance
companies by preventing incendiarism
and thus secure a reduction of insur-
ance rates in the state.
Still another Office was proposed in
the nature of state elevator inspector.
The governor will begin receiving APP
plications for the proposed Offices to-
morrow.
Another battle monument is desired
by Representative Olds. who offered a
bill appropriating So, $50 to purchase
ten acres of land in Yellow Medicine
county. to commemorate the battle of
September, 1862, between the late Gen.
81. H. Sibley and the Indians under
Little Crow.
No bills were passed, the greater por-
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mittee of the whole considering the
merits and dement's of bills already in
troduced.
st. Paul. Jan. 2S-The resolutions
offered by Senator Wyman last week
favoring the arbitration treaty were
adopted by the senate Yesterday and
sent to the house for concurrence. Per-
haps because U. s. Senator Hoar, of
Massachusetts,, stated that the senate
ought not to be dragooned by sermons
and resolutions into adopting the
treaty, and perhaps owing to the latent
Fenian spirit, they were SO modified
before they passed as to favor arbitra-
ton on general principles without COM
hitting the legislature to the particu-
lar treaty now pending. This seems
to be an entirely safe position. being
based on the principle of the hunter
who fired In such way as to hit it if
it was deer and miss it if it was
calf
Another matter which agitated the
senate was the motion of Senator Cole,
of Fergus Falls, who wants to recon-
slider the vote whereby Frank Days
seat was declared vacant as of date of
January 81, 1895, and make it read in
stead April %, 1895. Mr.. Cole comes
from a section which is interested in
the Anderson bill taxing railroad lands,
and as he went home over Sunday he
learned that his constituents feared the
unseating of Day would invalidate the
Anderson bill. This was argued back
and forth during the three days de-
bate. and whatever damage may re-
suit from the unseating of Day, was
done with the full knowledge of the
senators. Mr.. Coles motion was laid
on the table, but will doubtless be
heard from later.
Among the bills presented was one
appropriating SIS, 900 for Improvements
at the state fair grounds, an invest
ment which, if made. probably benefits
more people than through any other
one institution in the state. There
was also bill providing for placing
the legislative manual in every school
house in the state. This is supposed
to be owing to the fact that the manual
contains brief biography of the MEM
bers of the legislature and the rising
generation can have them pointed out
to them by their teachers, the Illus
trious men of the state, so that they
can GO and do likewise.
In the house yesterday there was an
interesting passage concerning the
Heimerdinger resolution for a commit
tee to cut county and state salaries
down 20 per cent Mr.. Donnelly, who
and Feig, in that he does not expect to
be reelected. favored the resolution
cutting everything, including the sal
aries of the members of the legislature.
Mr.. jacobson was frank enough to say
that it was nonsense to expect them to
vote to cut their own salaries. They
were not getting too much now and he
moved to strike out that portion of the
resolution which included the legis-
lature in the cut. This was evidently
a happy thought. for his motion passed
and then the resolution was adopted
And now the state and county officers
can begin to look out for bill reduc-
ing their salaries.
Mr.. Donnelly wants to find out what
the election tickets cost last fall, and
the amount of money the candidates
had to pay for them. He thinks the
state is specializing off the candidates
for Office. and regards it as bad enough
to be candidate without paying some
thing to the state for the privilege.
Out of the 81 bills introduced six were
making appropriations for roads and
bridges, and one appropriates $4,000 to
buy seed for farmers in Otter Tail
county whose crops were destroyed by
drouth.
Representative Schmidt is still look
ing after the iron matters and had a
bill repeating an old law of 20 years
ago which enabled mining companies
to organize without any assets in the
shape of paid up stock. No decision
has yet been reached as to the relative
mau he rship Of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT