The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-01-18

later in the session.
Thirteen bills were added to the house
calender, and, strange as it may seem,
none of them were of reform charac-
tGS c- aimed at corporations and trusts.
1t must not be supposed, however, that
that class of measures will not come to
the front in due time.
Both branches, having their commit
tees, are now in full working order and
if they do not feel obliged to go home to-
day to consult with their constituents
again, the week will prove an Industrious
one.
st. Paul. Mimi, Jan. 13.-As was ex-
pected the Senate promptly and with
unanimity passed the joint resolution for
investigating the grain inspection depart
ment. The officers at whom it is aimed
express a desire, equal to that of the
legislature, for an investigation. They
say that there has been so much talk
in the newspapers and on the stump
concerning something wrong in the de-
partment that they want an opportunity
to vindicate themselves. 1t is not often
that both sides are anxious for an in
vestigation, but the officers really seem
to be in earnest in their statements.
1t is only little while ago that the
regular medical practitioners were trying
to drive the Osteopaths from the state
by legal process, but they have not only
remained but Senator Grindeland pre-
scented bill yesterday, which gives them
legal recognition. His bill provides for a
state board of examiners before whom
anyone wishing to practice Osteopathy
must go for a license. If such bill
-
paths in the field as regularly legal
class of practitioners, much to the
chagrin of the old schools.
A considerable portion of the Senate
session yesterday was devoted to discuss
ing the propriety of attempting to offer
the Torrens Land System bill. The
matter was finally referred to the At
torney General to ascertain If he could
frame such BILL
The House was not as Industrious as
the Senate and really did almost nothing
of interest. The bills are coming in
rather slowly, but SO having been intro
duced up to date as against As in the
Senate. The House usually gets in be-
tween one and two hundred bills the
week the committees are announced. One
bill, which is pending, provides for a
general mixture of the candidates, when
printed on the Australian ballot. If it
should pass the scramble as to which
party heads the ticket would be abol-
ished, as the various political parties
would be so jumbled up that it would
actually require intelligence to vote cor
rectly. How any one could expect that
a bill requiring intelligence in the voter
would be popular, passes understanding.
ST. Paul, Mimi, Jan. A.-Notwithstand-
ing the ST. Paul Jobbers' Union and
Chamber of Commerce, as well as many
other commercial bodies throughout the
country, have decided that the bill of
Senator Cullom, giving the Interstate
Commerce Commission authority to fix
the maximum rate for railroads, is mex
pedient, Senator Miller offered a joint
resolution yesterday urging its passage.
He also offers a bill declaring sleeping
car companies common carriers and
amenable to the railroad and warehouse
commission. A similar bill has cropped
up in many previous legislatures without
becoming a law.
The next most important matter con-
sidered was a resolution providing for q
commission to present a bill which will
result in taxing securities and other per-
sonal property which is not found, at
present, by the assessors. There is no
doubt that large amount of personal
property escapes taxation, but whether a
law can be passed that the owner of such
property cannot >evade, is a good deal of
a conundrum.
Three more newspaper reporters were
given committee clerkships. At no pre-
vious session have SO many newspaper
men been provided in this manner.
The cost of Minnesota's investment in
the Omaha exposition was definitely fixed
by bill offered by Senator McGill, ap-
propriating $24, 500.
Some members of the house appear to
be agitated, and perhaps insulted, by the
statement of a Minneapolis paper that
only three members, which it named,
amounted to anything, and burlesque
resolution was offered that the rest of
the legislature go home. Perhaps the
mover of the resolution did not want to
be taken literally. A motion to expel
the reporters of the offending newspa-
per was indefinitely postponed, so that
probably both the paper and the legisla-
ture will survive the session.
No bill of especial Importance was Of
fered in the house yesterday, unless it
may be a civil rights bill presented by
Mr.. Wheaton, the colored representative
from Minneapolis, giving colored citizens
the same rights accorded to white people
in public places. There is already such
a law upon the statute book, but in its
enforcement it has not proved very prac-
teal, and Mr.. Wheaton evidently wishes
to make it more binding.
Two years ago the state bought $1,000
worth of sugar beet seed from Germany
and offered it for sale to the farmers at
cost. The farmers have only bought one
fourth of the amount and now a bill
comes in proposing to give the balance
to them without charge. Perhaps as an