Warren sheaf., 1899-02-02
LEG B<ltAAYlIYK ! 4 I y + GOSSIR1|
Our Special Correspondent Iel1s of
the Solons' Doingss..' = Il
A Bill in the House Proposes an Increase in
the Capacity of the Binding Twine
Plant in the Penitentiary.


legislature were in session yesterday, but
the senate session was very brief Sem
ator Wilson introduced his second divorce
Dill for this session. this later bill pro-
vldlng that the court cannot allow the
wife more than one-third of the hus-
bands real estate, but is permitted to go
to that extent unless the wife has COM
mitted adultery.
Wheemen will perhaps, be interested
IN hearing, that the senate passed the. bill
exempting bicycles from execution for
DEBT. Another bill of some Importance
was one offered by Senator McGifr; which
allows banks having one. million or more
capital to establish branches The
strength of the English and Canadian
banking system lies in the fact that the
great banks, with large capital establish
branches giving the smaller places bank
ing advantages they could not hope to
secure If dependent upon the local field
Ihe old school of physicians seem in
cllned to recognize Osteopathy as a pro-
1esSlOn and have announced that they do
not propose to fight the pending bill
recognizing OsteopathY but will. seek, in
stead to secure some amendments. ..-.
1t has been generally supposed that the
private secretary of the governor received
ABOUT $I00O per year salary including
ices. the salary itself is but $1,5OO, but
the secretary receives S. for every notary
commission issued as his personal per-
quisite.. When; Gen. Jennison as Gov.
Hubbard's secretary he and his friends
engineered the bill which extended the
term of notaries and increased the fee
from two to five dollars~and at that time
1T brought the secretaryship up to an in
come of seven or eight thousand dollars
Mr.. Rosng, Gov. Lind's secretary, how
ever, sent report to the senate to-day
showing that his predecessor in 1898 only
secured $4,000 salary and all.
If.the action of the house to-day can
be taken as criterion the bill making
the railroad commissioners elective, in
stead of appointive, will pass, as it was
unanimously recommended by the COM
mittee of the whole. There was more
contention upon the length Of the term
than upon the bill itself and it was finally
decided to make it a two years office
The bill reimbursing citizens who ad-
vanced $24500 for Mnnesotas exhibit at
Omaha was passed by a large majority
One Of the bills introduced to-day pro-
vides that the state shall pay the surety
company for the four hundred thousand
dollar bond OF the state treasurer Here
tofore the state treasurer has been in the
habit of getting bankers to go on his
bond thus placing himself under obliga-
tion to divide the deposits among his
sureties. This was liable to place the
state money in. weak banks, but where.
a surety company. is used it becomes a.
pure matter of commission and the
treasurer is under obligation to no one
An. important resolution was offered by
Mr.. Donohue in favor 'of a Northwestern
International Exposition in 1902. If such
an exposition should be held it would
doubtless be located between: the Twin
Cities. The resolution went over under
notice of debate.
Fifteen new bills were introduced in the
house, bringing the total up to date to 14S
st. Paul. Minn.-Jan. 26.-The session of
the Senate yesterday was chiefly after
that body adjourned. The official meet
ing was very brief, after which the Oste-
opaths were given. a hearing in the Sen
ate chamber. While it was nominally for
the benefit of the judiciary committee,
a large portion of the Senators remained
and the ladies and gentlemen spectators
completely filled the chamber. There ap-
pear to be two branches of Osteopathy
and they were both represented. While
both desire recognition, they were more
hostile to each other than to the old
school of physicians. No decision was
reached after all the talk.
Senator Horton offered an amendment
to the new capitol bill of much i'm
portance. The original bill allowed tax
of -tenths of a mill to be levied for
ten years for the new capitol, the entire
sum expected to be raised being $20 900.
Since the bill was passed valuations have
been so reduced that that tax will not
raise the necessary sum and: the pend
ing bill proposes to allow the levy TO- con
tinue more than ten years, in order to
raise two millions. but expressly forbids
allowing the building to cost more than
that sum, which was the original figure
named. !: II
The death of Senator Young's father
was announced. 49,. =.
Yesterday was the liveliest the House
has seen since the session began. The
bill in controversy was the one which
reduces the rate of interest on school
lands from five to four per cent and the
entire session was devoted to discussing
the measure. The advocates of the bill
argued that if the purchasers of these
lands only had to pay four~per cent in
terest, they would not hasten to pay the
principal before it became due, and as
the lands are sold on long time the state
: would be getting four per cent interest
on the deferred payments. instead of
having the money paid into the treasury
and being reinvested for the benefit of
the school fund at even a lower rate than
four per cent. The opponents of the bill
claimed that the land would be paid for
at four per cent just as rapidly as at.
five and that the measure simply gave
the purchasers a reduction of one per
cent on the interest. They were in
minority however, and the bill passed by
70 to 49,
pau1 Mimi Ian 27-The senate