Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-04-15

the state university that no attempt
sWassmade to pass any bills. 4 B
/ st, Paul. April 8. The era of inyes-
6tigating reportsis still on. d The senate
committee appointed to investigate
Labor Commissioner Powers submitted
tssreport yesterday. There were six
charges. The committee finds that the
factory law has been enforced in part.
but when employers were notified and
did not obey they were not prosecuted.
The book, "Purchasing Power of Gold. +"
issued by Mr.. Powers at state expense,
was not proper public document. All
the statistics collected have been pub
llshed, so far as they were of value.
None of them were S''garbled." None
of the personal charges were sustained.
This mixed report concludes by rec
ommending labor commissioner at a
salary of $4,000 a year. and three as
sistants, effecting . saving of Sc, 600 in
the department.. A bill to accomplish
this is now pending.
The senate passed the house bill re-
curing peddlers to take out town IL
censes, very few besides the city men,
bers opposing it.
The house broke out yesterday in
favor of abolishing the Office of state
fire warden, a position enow held by
Gen. c. c. Andrews. A bill was intro
duced some time ago to abolish the Of
fee and on yesterday the majority of
the committee on forestry reported
against the bill and the minority in it's
favor. After debate, made lively by
personalities, the minority report was
adopted. An effort to suspend the
rules and pass the bill failed, but the
motion developed 81 votes in it's favor,
which lnsures its passage by the house
when reached in its regular order.
The house passed a bill forbidding
sectarian teaching in public schools or
the wearing of sectarian garb, and re-
fused to pass a memorial to congress
for general bankrupt law.
The senate took up the reapportion-
ment bill as a special order yesterday
afternoon and fought it to a finish,
holding an evening session to complete
the work. AS the bill was finally
passed it makes 63 senators and 1876
representatives. The vote on passage
stood 80 to Is.
The house, with great unanimity,
passed four bills taxing corporations.
One makes five per cent tax on the
gross earnings of express companies;
a second lev'es 8 per cent tax on the
gross earnings of sleeping and parlor
cars; a third imposes per cent tax
on the assessed valuation of freight
line and equipment companies, and the
fourth a per cent tax on the gross
earnings of telephone companies
There were 10 negative votes on the
last named measure, but the others
passed unanimously. It is estimated
that the four bills will add SIS, 900 to
the revenue of the state.
St. Paul, April AN echo of the
last campaign was heard in the senate
yesterday, when bill declaring gold
and silver to be legal tender in this
state was defeated. E@s-'.,s go '"'
The commitment of Frank Hoskin to
the insane asylum at Fergus Falls
came up in the house yesterday in the
shape of a report from the committee
on insane hospitals. Mr.. Hoskins had
a bill introduced expunging the records
of the insane asylum showing his COM
mitment.. The majority of the COM
mittee reported for indefinite postpone
ment of the bill while the minority
favored it's passage. The minority re-
port was lost by tie vote, and then the
majority report was also loss so that
the whole matter lies on the table and
Hoskins bill is likely to fail of passage.
The bill extending the water works to
the State Fair grounds was resurrected
and killed for the second time. The
legislature is evidently willing to
chance it on fire sweeping away $780,
600 worth of state property.
When the reform school was removed
from st. Paul to Red Wing the site
which had been used in St. Paul was
supposed to be valuable. 1t was mort
gagged for $4,000 and bonds issued
and sold, the proceeds being used for
the new buildings at Red Wing. At
present the real estate would not sell
for one-fourth of the mortgage and the
holders of the bonds ask the state to
take them off their hands. The SEN
ate wrestled with the problem a couple
of hours yesterday without being able
to reach decision.
The anti-department' store bill came
up as a special order in the senate late
yesterday, but consideration was not
completed and work will be resumed
on it today. The attorney general has
given guarded opinion which indi-
Gates that he regards the bill unconsti-
tutional on the ground of unequal tax
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The house passed the reapportion-