The Bemidji pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minn.) 1896-1917, 1897-04-08

in the Sixth judicial district; providing
that money expended by townships in
draining roads shall be expended I'M
der the supervision of civil engineer,
who shall establish grades, etc: to al
low villages to issue bonds to pay ex-
listing judgments; providing for liens
for laborers employed upon mining
properties; providing for liens for ma
terial men in connection with mines;
increasing to $1,000 the allowance for
clerk hire in the office Of the insurance
commissioners; providing for liens on
logs and other floatables; allowing the
incorporation of companies to secure
stray logs at the head Of Lake Superb
or; increasing to $4,000 the appropria-
ton in aid of county agricultural So
cieties.
The following bills We're introduced:
Providing that village councils may
designate repositories for village
moneys and exempting village treasur-
ers from liability for such deposits; rel
alive to building and loan associations;
to compel railroads operating more
than one line or division to run their
trains so as to accommodate the gen.
eral public; relating to dams and
booms used in driving logs; relating to
the equitable adjustment of state land
grants; relating to judges of probate
acting in adjoining counties; to pro-
vide for lien upon logs cut upon land
upon which taxes are delinquent; re-
lating to endowed professorships at the
university; to allow grain commission
merchants to file bond with the secre-,
tary Of state for the protection OF
owners of property consigned to them;
to allow cities having population less
u than $4,000 to issue bonds for water
works, ETC.; to regulate fares on sleep
ing, drawing and parlor cars prescrib-
ing the form Of affidavit of legal pub
LEGATIONS made in newspapers.
st. Paul. March 29.-The house re
NAMED in session until 6 o'clock Sat
urday afternoon working in committee
of the whole. Mr.. Jacobson was in
the chair and rushed business to such
purpose that large number of bills
were acted upon. A considerable
amount Of the time was spent on the
bill proposed by Mr.. Kelley, offering
bounty for long line spinning tibers
and spinning lows produced and man
ufactured within the state. The bill
was amended so as to cover a period
of five years and the bounty was made
4 cent pound.
The following bills were passed:
10 create board of state drainage
commissioners and prescribe their
duties; to fix the time for holding
court in Jackson county; to fix the time
for holding court in Cottonwood coun-
ty; to allow persons contributing not
less than $4,000 to the university to
cndow Il professorship; to fix the time
for holding court in Washington coun-
ty; to prevent fraud in the sale of
adulterated sacharine food products;
to provide for the examination and Ii
censing of civil engineers by state
board; relating to food adulteration.
The following bills were introduced:
Authorizing county commissioners
to cancel certain uncOllectable personal
property taxes; to protect the rights Of
the public in the use of roads, high
ways and thoroughfares; to provide
for the performance by county au-
ditors of certain duties heretofore per-
formed by county coroners; to regu-
late the burial of paupers and provid-
ing for the same at public expense;
relating to jurisdiction Of justices Of
the peace; relating to incorporation Of
savings banks; relating to independent
school districts; to compel railroad
companies to provide signal lights and
posts at all flag stations where q Sec
ton foreman is kept; to prevent the
dissertation Of the United States flag;
to provide a bounty for the sugar beet
industry.
st. Paul, March 80. = The senator's
took advantage yesterday Of their last
opportunity to introduce bills without
the consent Of the governor, and in
all eighty-two measures We're pre-
scented and referred to the respective
committees.
The senate went into committee Of
the whole at o'clock in the afternoon i
to consider bills on general orders,
with Senator Stebbins in the chair.
The following bills were passed:
To compensate county commission
ers for caring for paupers; to legalize
Hastings city bonds.
Among the important bills intro
duced were the following:
Relating to the incorporation of vii
lagos; to provide for the destruction Of
weeds along highways; to amend the
laws relating to the probate code; to
amend the laws relating to the state
prison; to amend the laws relating to
public schools; to authorize and regu-
late the business Of commercial
agencies; relating to the state land
tax; to amend the laws relating to the
operation of railroads; to amend the
laws relating to the practice of phar-
macy; to amend the laws relating to
building and loan associations; relating
to insolvent persons and concerns; re-
lating to the expiration Of redemp-
tons; to provide for the manufacture
Of beet sugar; to protect the rights Of
persons in highways and other thor
oughfares; to appropriate $1,000 for
monument for William r. Marshall,
ex-governor of Minnesota; relating to
elections; to repeal chapter 1856, Laws
of 1889, relating to taxes: to regulate
the commitment Of insane persons; re-
lating to the care Of orphans; to reg
ulate the Minnesota institute for the
deaf and blind; to provide for the ap.'
pointment of game warden; to pro-
vide for n commission to revise and
annotate the tax laws; relating to
grass earnings tax on elevators; to
provide for the establishment of BIZ
cycle paths.
In the House.
The troubles over the proposed trip