The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-15
SENATE PUTS IN DAY ON cENEp
AL ORDERS, CREATING
HAVOC
AMONG THE PET MEASURES.
NEARLY A SCORE OF BILLS. HOW
EVER, ARE RECOMMENDED
TO PASS.
IMPORTANT BILLS ACTED UPON
In the Larger Grist Relating to
Foods, to Elections, and to
Insurance.

One day on general orders was
revelation of what may be be expected
OF the senate from this on to the end
of the session. The way it went at
business was cyclonic, and when 1t
had finished it had advanced nearly a
score Of bills to the calendar, turned
down dozen or so, in one form or an
other, and put miscellaneous measures
in such shape for conference that thew
may be lost entirely when the day of
adjournment comes.
Senator French's bill to change the
method of electing United States SEN
ators was killed by the committee to
which it was referred.
The bill to prohibit the sale of cot
tolene slipped through, and, after
hard fight, the anti-insurance compact
bill was recommended in committee of
the whole for passage.
The scheme for a bureau of irnmi-
grafton as state department was
beaten.
General orders were taken up in the
morning for the first time in several
days. The bill to prohibit the sale of
icottOlene, which had been disowned
by a number Of senators, was slipped
through as though it had been creased
with the unctious product at whose
sale it was aimed.
The first discussion was over the
Spencer bill for a clearance sale of st.
Louis county real estate subject to de-
linquent taxes. 1t was finally decided
Ito take up the Potter bill governing
a more general field, and this was so
amended as to Obviate any objectio,.s
Thereto. Among these were one to in
'clude the delinquent tax lists Of 1897,
the original bill providing only for 1898.
Another prohibited any corporation
prOhting by the bill to the extent Of
more than 100 acres. Where bids at
such clearance sale are not equal to
the amount Of the taxes, the state
shall bid it in, and the state auditor
shall subsequently sell them in such
manner as provided by law for the sale
of state lands. The Potter bill as
amended was then recommended for
passage, and the Spencer bill was so
amended as to conform to it in its
limited sphere.
) Senator Sweningsen's anti-compact
brokers' license bill, which had been
cut so as to strike out the license
feature, was further amended by Sen
atOr Dunn so as to prohibit the fixing
of rate schedules by a local committee
OF underwriters. Senator Dunn said
that the insurance combine was the
most gigantic monopoly the people Of
minnesota had to meet, and he wanted
the anti-cOmpact provisions as broad
as possible and vigorously enforced.
Senator POttgieser said the nOn-b board
companies gave cheaper insurance. The
monopoly should be gotten rid of.
senator Potter said the bill was need
ed by the cities where large individual
investments were so at the mercy Of
the combine that they could not even
get adequate protection from the board
companies regardless of price
Senator Potter wanted the insurance
compact read, but Senator Thorpe OBJ
jected. He wanted the bill indefinitely
postponed. 1t was, however, recon- |
mended to pass.
The w. E. Johnson teachers retire
ment fund, with an amendment to
make it optional with teachers as to
whether or not they should come with
in its application or not, and another
extending the teaching limit to thirty
years, was then taken up. Senator
Schaller said it would put, even in that
1Crm a club in the hands of school
boards which would permit them to
force teachers into the pension scheme
or out of the teaching force Senator
Greer wanted the bill to pass. Sen
atOr Sperry was afraid the bill would
be used as a weapon by dictatoriaI
sUperintendents. The bill was indefin-
ately postponed.
The Ozmun bill requiring the preser-
walton of lists of the names and adj
dresses of all voters at party primaries
''in St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth"
was recommended for passage after
some opposition by Senators Morgan
and McHale.
Senator Young wanted to amend his
immigration bill by inserting the house
bill provisions, but Senator Thompson
opposed the bills in toto. He said the
state was filling up fast enough as it
was.
Senator Yale moved that the bill be
Indefinitely postponed. Senator Culkin
said that, while the southern part of
the state was we'll settled, the northern
part was not. He thought the state
could not have too many people of
the right sort.
Senator Reishus charged that the bill
Jas in the interest of a railroad mag
nate.
Senator MeHale said the natural in
crease of the present populate would
take good care Of all the vacant ter
TitOry Of the state within a few years.
Many of the districts of the state had
been settled too fast. Conditions eX-
listed which were crying for relief The
bill was finally recommended for in
definite pOstpOnement.
The BARRIERS license bill was recon-
mended to pass, 10 to IA.
Senator Hodges bill to extend the
terms of the county auditors was OPP
posed by Senator Yale. Senator Hodge
explained that it was designed to ena-
BILE counties which had good men to
keep them in office. Senator Yale sug-
gested that it was to give certain men
two years in office more than the peo-
pie had intended to give them.
Senator Ringdal opposed the bill. It