The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-03

viOuS of Nevada, as Oil was intro
duced permitting glove contests, which
merely another name for r-ize fights.
The largest appropriation offered was
S237, 500 for the state reformitory at
Red Wing. The same bill offered In
the senate providing money for the
new capitol was introduced in the
house and will be considered by COM
mittees of both branches at the same
time. A child 4 Dor bill was offered for
bidding the employment of any child
under fourteen years of age, in any mer-
camille establishment, telegraph, tele-
phone or other public messenger COM
pany except during school vacations.
One of the Legislative novelties of
the day yesterday was bill intro
duced by Senator Tits creating the Of
fee of commissioner of phrenolgy with
a salary of 1000 per year and a deputy
with ST., 500 salary. The commissioner
is to prepare text books for the public
schools on phrenology, anatomy and
physiology. incidentally the commits
sioner will examine the bumps on the
heads of the state officers.
St. Paul. Feb. Ex-senator Dunn
scored a partial victory yesterday in
securing the passage of his resolution
directing the railroad commissioners
to compel the Milwaukee road to so
adjust their time table that people
from southern Minnesota can make
connections at Austin for the Twin
Cities. There was lengthy debate
h,,t ha 81 ho
curtailed by adding the words eff
practical" In Other other words if the
Milwaukee can convince the railroad
commissioners that it is not practical to
to change their time table, then the
resolution amounts to nothing. If it
was practical they would probably
have changed it without the interven-
ton of the legislature. A bill of con-
siderable interest to newspaper men
was introduced in the senate yesterday.
At present the delinquent tax list is
published in the paper making the
lowest bid.
This bill authorizes the county COM
missioners to take into account the
character and the respective value of
the competing newspapers. This will
enable them to award the tax list to
what they regard the best newspaper,
even though the bid may not be the
lowest
A little sectionalawar was cropped
out in the senate owing to the sup
posed reflection of southern Minnesota
upon northern Minnesota.
Senator Ringdal compared Polk
county with Freeborn showing that
Polk county paid nearly three times as
much in taxes as Freedom. The
trouble grew out of the statement by
by the Freeborn senator that northern
Minnesota did not pay its taxes.
Among the bills introduced was one
abolishing the inebriate ward at the
Rochester insane asylum. If this bill
should pass there would be no place to
send inebriates except to jails and
warehouses. Only tour bills were
passed by the senate and those intro
duced, other than the ones named, were
purely local.
The greater portion of the time in
the house yesterday was occupied in
debating the majority and minority re-
ports from the committee on grain and
warehouses. upon the bill reducing
freight rates on coal and grain. The
majority report favored indefinitely
postponing the bill, while the minority
favored its passage. The debate grew
fast and furious, during which the
Great Northern railroad and Eastern
Minnesota came in for good deal of
criticism. In the end the bill was re-
ferred to the railroad committee, where
it ought to have gone in the first place.
Representative Reeves bill taxing
IRON mines 8 cents per ton on their out
put was substituted for his previous
bill on the same subject. The bill
providing for teaching music in the
public schools was lost, and the bill
repeating the horse thief bounty act
was indefinitely postponed.
Only five bills were passed, the inn
portant one being the bill which pro-
vides for organizing the unorganized
counties of the state. The usual scram-
BILE for the honor and emolument of
being the first county officers may now
be expected to begin. Among the bills
killed yesterday was one authorizing
the railroad com missioners to proceed
against the railroads without any COM
plant being made.