The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-28

city engineers and boards Of pubic
works in cities of the proportions
| named. OF course, such bills can only
apply to st. Paul and Minneapolis in
this state. It remains to he seen which
city will admit that it has only one
hundred and fifty thousand people, in
order to come in under the bill. The
usual bill taxing mining and mineral
lands appeared, but for the most part
the twenty bills offered were of minor
Importance. -.
There was quite breeze over the
resolution directing the state treasurer
to furnish, by Tuesday next, the
amount of state deposits in each of the
insolvent banks, and the names of the
! sureties for the state. The objection
appeared to be the making public the
| names of the sureties, as it is liable to
be damaging to business men if wide
obligations. As makeshift the reso-
luton went to committee.
Jacobson and Staples seemed to have
relented on the vacation question for
they allowed the house to adjourn till
Tuesday morning. This will make
some amends for having to work last
week when the senate, was having a
| vacation.
st. Paul, Jan. 25.-After debating
the matter all day the senate at 2
o'clock, Saturday evening. decided to
Dust Frank A. Day of the Sixth. legis-
latlve district, by vote of 30 to %,
and followed this by vote of seQting
H. II. Dunn, 80 to 81. Senators Ste
vens, Yale, Young, Miller, Wyman and
Culkin spoke in behalf of Day, and
Senators, Sheehan, Thompson, Sperry,
Knatvold, Spencer and Iltis argued for
Dunn. The speeches were made more
to explain the reasons why the sena-
tors voted as they did than with any
idea of converting any one. Several
senators frankly stated that the legal
arguments presented had not changed
q vote. When the oratory had spent
| it's force a vote was reached. Orig.
inally resolution was offered unseat-
ing Day and seating Dunn but before a
vote was reached the question was di.
vided and the first vote was on this
proposition:
Resolved, That the facts referred tc
in the report of the committee on cleo.
tions created a vacancy in the Office OF
senator from the Sixth senatorial dis
trict on the 31st day Of January, 1895,
which vacancy continued until the Sd
day of November, 1896.
| Upon this the vote stood:
Yeas-Barr, Cole, Collester, Currier,
Durham, French, Fuller, Greer, Han
sen, Heneman, Iltis, Jones, Keller,
Knatvold, Lloyd, Macarthur, Ozmun,
Peterson, Potter, Poltgieser, Roverud
Sheehan, Smith, Spencer, Sperry, Steb
bins, Sweningsen, Thompson, Thorre
Wing-30.
Nays - Cronkite, Caulkln, Hanna
Hodge, Howard, johnson, A. G. John
son, w. e. Larson, Masterman. Miller
Morgan, Mcaale, Reishus, Ringdal
Schaller, Sevatsou. Stevens. Stockton
Theden, Whitman Wyman, Yale
Young-23.
The other branch of the divided reso
luton was: -:
Resolved, That H. H. Dunn was, or
the Sd day of November, 1895, dull,
elected to the Office of senator from
said district. and is entitled to his sea-
as such senator.
This passed by the same vote, excep
that Senators w. E. johnson and Whit
ney, who voted against oustlng Day
voted to seat Dunn, making that vote
stand 80 to 81 in favor of Dunn.
/. The Anderson bill taxing railroad
lands, which was passed in 1895 by the
bare constitutional majority. Senator
Days vote being necessary, was fire.
quently alluded to in the debate, Tho
friends of Day claiming it would render
that measure nugatory if he was I'M
seated, and the opponents denying the
claim. The matter will undoubtedly
be carried to the courts to decide.
The 80 votes cast to unseat Day were
entirely repu blican, with the excep
ton of Senator Keller (Dem.) Of
Stearns. In the negative vote there
five populists, two democrats, two sill
yer repu blicans and IA straight repub
licans.
| Prison Labor Question.