The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-08
PAID THEIR FARES
LEGISLATORS VOTE THEMSELVES
MILEAGE AND $4,000 FOR
SESSION EXPENSES.
GET AFTER STRUCK JURIES.
TWO MEMBERS RACE WITH BILLS
REPEATING THE 1895
LAW.
ERRIs' NEW HANGING LAW.
He Would Have All Executions Take
Place at the State Prison at
saltwater.

The last session of the opening week
of the legislature was held yesterday,
and the members of the house devoted
( three or four hours to hearing re-
ports of committees, several bills, and
putting on its final passage the bill ap-
propriating the fund out of which to
pay the expenses of the present SeS-
sion.
After this the representatives, as soon
as the matter of securing their mile
! age had been arranged, although the
! senate adjourned without acting on the
report of the mileage committee, made
preparations to start for their homes,
| adjournment having been taken until
Monday evening.
The first matter considered was the
matter of mileage, and the commit
tee appointed submitted it's report on
the distance and amount of money al
Iotted to each member of the house
representative Littleton was chair
man of the committee.
chairman Meyers, of the rules COM
mlttee, armed with manual and conf
Gus notes, read over the amendments
Which his committee had found necessa-
ry to the regulations for the governance
of the house. The amendments gave rise
TO some discussion, even to misunder-
standing, which made it necessary for
Speaker Jones to yield the chair to Rep
resentative Underleak and explain
some of the details
Some new amendments were offered
by members not of the committee and
the discussion became quite interest
ing when Judge Hicks, of Hennepin,
| moved to delay the adoption Of the re-
port until Tuesday. 1t was finally de-
clded that such action would tie the
hands of the speaker, so that the report
was adopted, and is in effect An eff
tort on the part of Representative
Johns, of Ramsey county, to have the
committee on legislative expenses in
creased from five first to ten, and
later to seven, brought out a storm of
opposition, and was finally put down.
chairman Meyers also submitted two
additional documents, one providing
that the joint committee on reappor-
tionment consist of eight senators and
hfteen representatives, and the other,
recommending the rejection of Repre-
sentative Jacobson's resolution for an
additional standing committee on gen.
era1 legislation, on the ground that
such committee was provided for in the
amended rules
Both Chairman Meyers reports were
adopted.
Senate File No. /, appropriating the
sum of $4,000 or such portion Of it as
may be found necessary to defray the
expenses of the legislature, was brought
IN from that body, given three read
ing and placed on it's final passage.
On motion of Representative McGill.
Of Ramsey, the use of the hall of rep
resentatives was given the state histor-
1cal society for its annual meeting
Monday evening, Jan. IS.
Representative Donnelly moved the
appointment of joint committee from
the house and senate to push the in
Vestigation Of the sugar beet and DO
tato alcohol industries in Minnesota. as
suggested in the governors message, to
report later in the session. This
brought Representative Abbott, of
Faribault. to his feet with the state
ment that he had studied the sugar
beet industry very carefully in the
southern part of the state, and would
be prepared to report later He hoped
APPOINTED
now to handicap him, and as Repre-
sentative DonnelIy was advised that
resolution similar to his had passed in
the senate, he withdrew his own, and
suggested that the matter be acted
upon without any crossfiring, when the
senate bill came to the lower body.
In spite Of the inadvertance Of the
senate anent the mileage question.
some plan was devised by which the
representatives were enabled to have
their mileage accounts adjusted as US
ual, and most Of them left the city
for home. Following is the routine:
BILLS INTRODUCED.
H. F: Ferris)-To provide for the execu-
ton of the death penalty at the Saltwater
PRISON. Judiciary committee.
H. T. 2 Oaybourn)-To repeal CHAPTER 32S
of the General Laws 1895 relating to the
struck jury law. Judiciary committee.
H. F. (StockwelD-Simila to H. F. 9
Judiciary committee
II. F. 4 Foss)-To provide a graduated and
progressive taxation on inheritances, legacies,
etc. Committee on taxes and taxation.
BILLS PASSED.
S. F. Ito appropriate $4,000 for expenses
OF the legislature.
brleHy stated, the changes suggested
in the house rules which were in force
two years ago are substantially as fol-
lows:
That a roll call be required on Joint
resolution and in all cases where ex-
pendltures Of money were concerned.
that there be placed seventeen mem
bers on the insurance committee in
stead OF fifteen; eleven on the state nor
NAL school instead Of nine; seventeen
instead eleven
committee; eleven on the roads and
bridges committee; eleven instead of
nine ON the committee on banks and
banking; nine instead of eleven on the
committee on printing; eleven instead
of nine on committee on public build
ings; nine instead Of seven on the COM
mittee on logs and lumber:
eleven instead Of nine on committee on
taxes and tax laws; and that a new
committee on general legislation be
appointed to include seventeen mem
bers. The report abolished the census
committee. In the line of assistants
seven pages were authorized instead
of six, reading clerk and a clerk for
the judiciary committee were provided
for at S. and SIS per day respectively
the apportionment committee was given
a clerk and general clerk under di-
rection of the speaker was recommend
ed at IS each per diem. A stenographer
was considered a necessity by the com
mittee on rules and also recommended
a So per diem, but subject to the con-
dition that the service should be under
assignment of the committee ON legis-
lative expenses. This latter COMMITTEES
was also made the judge of the time
when an additional clerk would be
needed by the judiciary committee and
the draft Of the rules authorized en-
ployment OF clerk under these cir