The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-05

large number of petitions, principally
from the Red river valley, IN FAVOR OF
the county local option law as fol-
lows 10Y countdes): kIttSOn, "a voters
and As women; FOLK, $40 voters, 315
women; st. Louis, voters, 3 women
Pope, 344 voters, go women; Otter Tail,
359 voters, 154 women; Koseau, 119, IS
women; Grant, z59, 136 women; Carbon,
Il voters, IL women; Marshall, Isl
voters. 21S women; Norman 267 voters,
141 women; Stevens "a voters, Oh
women; Becker, 81 voters, 81 women |;
Clay, % voters, IL women. These Wert
presented by Mr.. GiIbertson, the author
of the bill. Mr.. Marvin also presented
similar petition from East Grand
Forks, signed by twenty-seven voters
and tWenty-SeVen women.
Representative Laing, by rqueSt, in
troduced bill Oh. F. 319) which pro-
Vldes for such amendment to chapter
175 of the general laws of the state
as will provide that any purely mutual
nre insurance company may be or
ganized solely to insure threshing
machines, engines and outfits, and may
do business when $50, 900 of insurance
shall have been subscribed.
III. f. 321 (Quinn) is the equivalent OF
S. F. 176 (WhitneO, introduced yester-
day.
The usual bill. introduced at each
oOoGuOll, dPPl p1O,UOU Lo ell
courage the holding Of fairs by county
agricultural societies, has been sent in
this year by Representative Scribner.
Representative Smiths bill Oh. F. 322)
prohibits the construction in the fire
limits of Minneapolis Of fences over
twelve feet high, as being calculated to
interfere with the best efforts of the
City department in case of fire.
A penalty is prescribed for violations
of the provisions.
In house file 325, introduced by Rep
resentative Snyder, of Hennepin, drunk
enneSS, whether caused by the excessive
use Of liquor, morphine, opium, cocaine
or laudanum, is added to the causes
for which persons may be released
frCm the bonds of matrimony The
measure provides this habitual drunk
enness shall exist for year prior to
the filing of the complaint
The bill introduced by Representa-
tive Cray (by reQueSO aims to amend
section 1O3, chapter 4, of the election
law of 1898, providing that any election
judge may mark the ballots Of any
unable to do so. Under the present law
it is allowed each judge to mark five
and not more
Representative Cray has introduced
house file 1913, which provides for the
forming corporations to own and oper-
ate private cemeteries and crematOr1eS,
and provides that when the corporation
does not continue to do business it
shall forfeit it's charter.
Representative Dunn introduced a
bill Oh. F. $3.50 which simply provides
that all officers and employees of the
state of Minnesota and all counties,
cities, villages and townships, shall be
citizens of the United States, and ex-
ceptions are made Of females and per-
sens under the age Of twenty-one.
Representative Dyer introduced a
bill Oh. F. 310 amending the General
Laws Of 1856 SO as to require railroad
companies to place in towns on their
line with LOCO population suitable
waiting rooms, and in cases where the
annual business of the road, based
UPON the outgoing freight and passen-
gers, amounts to $4,000, the company
shall keep an agent
Representative Manchester brought
in a bill which is calculated to bring
relief to the people Of Lake Benton.
The bill provides that the railroad and
warehouse commission shall order a
''Y'' at the intersection of the Great
Northern and Great Western near the
town Of Tyler, near the boundary line
between Lincoln and Lyon counties.
The citizens want to ship their grain
to Duluth, and also coal and wood, for
which, owing to a disparity in rates,
they drive to Pipestone on the Great
Northern for a distance of twenty
miles The bill went to the railroad
committee.