The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-17

@luVVVU Dy July, 1897. Some OF the
biennial reports are not yet printed.
me committee has summoned State
Printer Whitney to appear and bring
with him an itemized account of his
expenditures. There Is disposition to
go into the matter very thoroughly
ana see II the state printing cannot be
managed more economically in the
future.
COMMITMENT OF INSANE.
Mrs. Alice Bingham Russell, of Ano-
ka, who is known in connection with
her efforts to obtain a change in the
method of committing and treating in
sane patients, is about to have her
ideas put before the senate in the shape
OF bill providing for a detention
hcspltal in each county. She has sue
ceeded in interesting the w. c. T. U.
ladies in her plans and that organiza-
ton will probably indorse the bill when
drawn up.
Mrs. Russell has made a special study
of insane patients and believes that
many mild cases could be cured if
they were kept under proper treatment
in detention hospitals, where they could
often see their friends. Putting such
cases In an insane asylum tends to
aggravate the disorder on account of
the strange surroundings and the pres
ence Of other patients, and chronic in
sanity soon develops.
She argues that the detention plan
could be put in operation with very
little expenditure Of money, and that 1t
would save the state much expense in
the state institutions for the insane.
PITH OF NEW MEASURES.
A bill was introduced yesterday pro-
viding for the appointment, by the
governor, of a state fire marshall for
| a term of two years, at a salary Of
| $4,000 annually. He may have three
deputies at $1,000 each, also a clerk at
| $500 year. The fire marshall is to
share the Office of the insurance COM
missioner. His work is to investigate
the causes of fires and the bill clothes
him with full authority for this pur-
pose.
An appropriation of $4,000 is asked
by Senator Spencer to improve the
Crane lake road in ST. Louis county.
Ih1s road leads from the head of Lake
| Superior to the gold fields on the
Canadian border, and the county of
ST Louis has already spent $3.50, coo on
it.
A deficiency bill, by Senator Wyman,
provides for appropriating SOC, GOO for
| salaries of supreme court Judges $3.50
Tor contingent expenses Of the supreme
court; $522 for salary OF deputy insur-
| ance commissioner; $40 600 for the state
printing; $4,000 for stationery in the
same department; $1,000 for wolf boun-
ties; $1,000 for burial of soldiers and
| sailors; $4,000 expenses Of sheriffs; 81, coo
contingent expenses in Office OF the
| governor These are all to supply de-
| ficiencies for the present fiscal year.
Another appropriation bill by Senator
Wyman asks $4,000 annually for the
| payment of salaries of supreme court
| and district judges as now provided by
| law.
A bill specially applying to Mime
apolis is introduced by Senator Potter.
1t aims to regulate the police depart
ment by appointing a civil service
board OF three members. This board
shall adopt the necessary regulations
to put the police department under
civil service. This must include com
petitive examinations by applicants,
also for filing vacancies and promo
tions on the results of such examina-
ton. The examination must test the
qualifications Of the applicant, but
questions relating to religion or politics
are barred. The appointing power and
general supervision Of the force is left
With the mayor, subject to the prOvi-
| sions of this act The civil service rules
! do not apply to those already holding
! places, except they desire promotion.
| The bill provides for all the contingent
cies likely to arise under civil service
and seems very carefully drawn.
Senator Stockton offers bill to re-
| uCCO the Oh dll OIllceiS
| 25 per cent. This refers to those re-
ceiving their compensation under the
general law and does not apply to those
getting fees under a special law.
Safe deposit and trust companies viii
pay a fee of 81 to the state auditor
| for each bond or mortgage now on de-
| post or hereafter deposited, if Senator
Wyman's bill to this effect passes. Such
| fees are to be credited to the contingent
| fund of the state auditors office.
A seventeenth judicial district is con-
| templated by Senator Dunn's bill. The
| counties Of Faribault, Martin and
| Jackson are detached from the Thir-
| tenth district and the time Of holding
| court fixed.
ITO abolish the office Of coroner and
| deputy coroner is the object of a bill
| introduced by Senator Wyman. Instead
| Of these officials the governor Shall ap-
| point in each county doctor as med
| ical examiner whose fees shall be
| from SIS to $25 and a mileage rate Of
| ten cents a mile. Such examiners
| shall hold Office for five years. The
| duties of medical examiners refer only
to those supposed to have come to their
| death by violence or casualty. The du-
ties Of the medical examiners are care
fully defined and seem similar to those
| row performed by the coroner. Cor
cners already in office are not affected
by this act, if they have the necessary
qualifications prescribed.
A short bill by Senator Wing author
ICES the distribution by county COM
missoners of an annual statement Of
receipts and expenditures through the
medium of the paper doing such print
ing.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
S. F. 265 (Stebbins)-To establish. regulate
and support a state fire marshal Insurance
S. F. 266 (Miller)-To appropriate $500 for a
bridge over Rock river in Rock county. Roads
and bridges.
S. r. 267 (Spencer)-To appropriate $4,000
for roads in st. Louis county. Roads and
bridges.
S. F. 268 (Stockton)-To reduce salaries and
fees of county officers 25 per cent. Referred
to committee to classify counties.
S. F. 269 Notwithstanding the police
department of Minneapolis. Creates a civil
service board Municipal corporations.
s. F. go CWing)-AuthoriZing county COM
missioners to publish certain tax supplements
Judiciary
S. F. 271 CWyman)-To appropriate for de-
ficiency in appropriation for supreme and dis
trict courts. Finance.
S. F. 272 DEMONSTRATING trust COM
panles to pay fee on bonds deposited with
the state auditor Corporations A.
s. F. 273 CWyman)-To make an appropria-
ton for judicial salaries. Finance.
S. F. 274 CWyman)-To provide for appoint
ment Of deputy coroners and medical exam
liners. Judiciary.
s. F. 275 Dunn)-To establish Seventeenth
son counties). Judiciary.
THEY AGREE AT LAST.
House Accents Senate Reannortao~