The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-03-16

st. Paul. March 10.-The senate spen,
substantially all OF the morning session
Yesterday in considering one bill In com.
mittee Of the whole. It was the bill re.
quiring that lumbermen In the woods
shall be paid in cash instead of time
checks. The argument for the bill was
that the lumber jacks have to suffer a
discount because they cannot wait for
the time checks to mature, and the argu.
ment against 1t was that the employers
had no certainty Of keeping crew in the
woods If payments were made in cash.
The debate was not concluded until the
afternoon session when the bill was rec
commended to pass II
The rest of the afternoon was spent in
the committee of the whole and all bills
concerning which there was any serious
controversy were passed over owing to
the absence of many senator's on the
visit to the insane asylums at St. Peter
and Rochester. Among those passed
over were the antitrust bills. For the
same reason no attempt was made to
pass bills.
The house also spent the day in COM
mittee Of the whole owing to a similar
absenteeism. After long debate the
bill recommending an appropriation. of
$4,000 to pay Minnesota volunteer SOL
diers while they were in camp awaiting
being mustered into the United States
service was recommended to pass.
The next mooted question and the only
other serious one was the bill raising
the appropriation for high schools to
$4,000. After a debate which consumed
nearly all the afternoon further action
was postponed for week. r.
The house has indefinitely postponed
the bill pensioning teachers.
st. Paul, March 1.-THE senate made
no attempt to pass bills yesterday, as so
many were still absent visiting the asy-
lums. The entire session, which was
brief, was spent in the consideration of
bills in committee of the whole. The bill
requiring the counties to pay $3.50 per
week for each Of their patients in the
insane asylum was indefinitely post
poned. 1t was argued that the frontier
counties furnished the larger proportion
Of the insane, and that it would be too
heavy a burden upon them. The bill
making the wife liable for debts incurred
by the husbands for necessaries of life
was recommended to pass.
The Acknowledgements named SEN
ators Underleak, Daugherty and Collier
as the committee to examine the ac-
counts of all the fee offices of the state
The governor announced that he had
signed the bill providing for the election
by the people of railroad commissioners
in 1901.
A resolution was passed asking for the
discharge of the Thirteenth Minnesota
now at Manila. And then the senate con-
cluded to take a day off and adjourned
until 10 a. M, Tuesday.
The house was bound to put in the time
even if but little was accomplished, and
though forty members were absent on
visits to the state institutions, a morn
ing and afternoon session was held. No
bills were passed, but the work was all
in committee Of the whole
The bill introduced at the instance of
the Business Mems Association of the
state, to prevent the filing Of fraudulent
assignments, was indefinitely postponed
at first, but finally returned to Mr..
Deming, who introduced it, for amend
ment.
The afternoon session was devoted to
the discussion of three taxation bills,
which have already passed the senate
A very large portion of the bills intro
duced this winter have been concerning
taxation.
A bill has been introduced increasing
the salary of the dairy commissioner
from $1,000 to $780,.
st. Paul, March 13.-The house was the
only branch of the legislature in session
Saturday. and the chief business was the
consideration of bills in committee of the
whole. Mr.. Staples BILL providing for a
committee of five to visit all of the state
institutions during the recess and report
to the next legislature, was indefinitely
postponed after a decidedly general de-
bate. A few bills were passed, but none
of general interest. An effort was made
to adjourn until Wednesday to enable
members to go home to vote at the town
elections on Tuesday, but it failed and
the house will assemble again as usual.
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