Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-04-08
THE LEGISLATURE
Both Bodies Are in Good Working
Order.
Sossipy Letters Giving in Detail the More
important Work of the Senate
and House Of Repre-,
= s..-s~. 0ontatives.

''ethPt Delng made to pass bills in
eitner branch of the legislature. In
.ne senate the bill providing for pub
!isnlng notices of expiration of redemp-
'ion In the newspapers was indefinitely
postponed. A long debate ensued over
the distribution of the $4,000 appro-
pr1ated for county fairs, it being
CANNED that Olmstead county, in OBJ
taln1ng $4,000 for Southern Mime
sofa 1alr. got more than her share. The
OIL was recommended to pass, in spite
OF strong opposition.
The longest debate in the house was
over the bill allowing ten men in a
jury OF twelve to render a verdict in
civil cases. 1t was finally recommends
ed to pass. The bill placing the grain
inspection department under civil SER
wee was again defeated. There seems
TO be ito the victors belong the
spolls' feeling regarding this bill, and
the farmers in the legislature don't
want to be tied down to any one set of
inspectors. A desire has cropped out
all through the session to hit the rail-
road commissioners, and measure
was proposed yesterday cutting their
salaries from So, 500 to $4,000, and their
secretary from 50, 500 to 1,5O0.
St. Paul, March 24.-Yesterday was
an eventful day in legislative circles.
In the senate the tax levy for the sup
port OF the state university was
doubled, the bill passing with only
four negative votes. There was quite
protracted discussion over the bill
providing that treasurers in counties
having over IS, 900 people should fur
nlsh bonds from some approved surety
company. Some of the country sena.
tors opposed it, but the city senators
won and the bill was recommended to
pass.
Politics cropped out in the house
when the bill organizing Nelson coun-
ty, out of portion of Polk county,
came up. Mr.. Feig called upon the re-
publicans to vote for 1t as party
measure. He said that the populists
thought the new county would be
populist affair, and they favored its Or
ganization. When they discovered
that it would be republican they op-
posed it. He called upon every repub-
ican to favor the bill, and it went
through by 60 to 80.
The so-called mental suffering bill,
which provides that the failure of
telegraph company to deliver mes
sage, such delay causing mental an
gu1sh, was passed almost unanimously,
though at first good deal of opposi-
ton was encountered. It limits the
damages to $500. The bill extending
the terms of county auditors was lost
by close vote.
The great event of the day occurred
in the house during the afternoon.
The bill taxing iron mines cents per
ton on their output was under consid-
Grafton, having been reconsidered after
its defeat last Friday. Messrs. Reeves,
Donnelly, jacobson and Staples led the
forces favoring the bill while Schmidt,
Feig, Stockwell and Hicks led the op-
position. Efforts were made to re-
duce the tax to 8 cents, and
that failing to cents. but that also
failed, and after two hours debate the
the bill was passed by 81 to 46. Rep
resentative johnson created sensation
by announcing that he had been offered
money to vote against the bill.
Mr.. Donnelly said he wanted to say
was once an ornament, that they would
have no party if they allowed this bill
to be defeated.
1t looks as though Anoka had been
given its quietus in the fourth insane
asylum fight. The senate committee
on insane asylums, to whom had been
referred the resolution to inquire as to
the advisability of enlarging present
asylums instead of building a fourth
one, submitted two reports yesterday,
Senators Cole, Stebbins and Schaller
favoring the fourth asylum and Sena-
tors Durham and Peterson opposing.
The ma jority report was adopted after
several hours debate, and the bill ap-
propriating SIS, 600 to buy the Hastings
Site, which has already passed the
house, was placed on the calendar for
passage by 81 affirm alive votes, which
is nine more votes than is required to
pass the bill. -....s.- -
st. Paul, March 25.-The new mill
tary code bill, which has passed the
house, received baclxset in the senate
Yesterday, where it was attacked by
Senator Ringdahl. The bill was ready
for passage, but was reconsidered and
sent to the committee of the whole for
further consideration. The bill pro-
viding that Olmsted county shall share
alike with her sister counties in the
agricultural fair fund, instead of re-
ceiving $4,000 for the Southern Mime
sofa fair, was passed.
The committee on railroads submit
ted majority report against the house
.,1 ,,,1,;nr tho railroad commissioners