The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-18

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tute a legal newspaper for the publiea
tlon OF laws and legal notices. Senator
Roverud (Rep.), Houston, also spok,
against 1t. The bill received but 8 affirm
ative votes. 2S voting no.
RYDER SLAUGHTERED IT.
Senator Ryder (Rep), Polk, asked the
senate to beat the bill of Senator Myrar
thep.). Norman, changing the law relat
ing to division of property and settle.
ment of Indebtedness between counties
Senator Somcrvillc Rep), Brown, said
the bill was fair one. A call of the
senate was demanded It was lost, 2:
yeas and rs nays.
| WHEATON'S BILL WAYLAID.
The malicious mischief bill of Repre-
sentative Wheaton Rep) Hennepin, was
killed. % to 80
ONLY EIGHT VOTED YEA.
The amended anti-boycott bill secured
but eight votes, es follows: Senators
Daugherty, Hawkins Jones, E. j., Knat
weld, Mccarthy, Roverud, Scheilbach
and Sivright. t'
HAD A CLOSE SHAVE.
Senator j. d. Jones (Rep), Todd, op-
posed the bill of Mr. Dwinnell (Rep.)
Hennepin. adding $1,000 year to the sal
| airy OF the supreme court reporter, hui
| b.
| sentees were called
BOTTLES WE'RE SCRATCHED.
The bill OF Representative Umland
| QDem), Ramsey, to protect the owners
or bottles and other packages, was de-
feated on roll call, but Senator Ives
moved reconsideration and demanded
| call of the senate. The bill was then
| passed 81 to Z.
IRON RANGE RITZ OS,T
Senator Knatvold asked that the SEN
ale reconsider the vote which defeated
ii. Il. 262. the Staples bill, to appropriate
more money for the litigation of the .Du-
luth and Iron Range grant cases Sem
ator McGovern wanted to know where
| the money had gone. Senator Knatvold
did not know Senator Snyder explained
that 1t had been spent for a survey and
for attorneys fees Senator Young
thought another appropriation would be
| throwing good money after bad SEN
ator Daugherty said the railroad had
taken the shortest practical route. The
motion to reconsider was lost
RAILROAD BILLS. KILLED. 81
The railroad committee killed half a
dozen bills, the most important of which
were those requiring all passenger trains
TO stop at county seats and to prohibit
the running of Sunday trains, except in
cases OF absolute necessity.
TEMPERANCE FOLK LOST
The senate killed the bill of Mr.. Nelson
tRep.), Lake. which aimed to prevent
the opening of saloon within 400 feet
of a church in villages
GAVE RAILROADS A CHANCE.
Senators sheehan and Smith went
cunning for the bill Of Representative
Staples (Rep0. Dakota, which they said
was dangerous and outrageous meas
ure 1t provided for the allowance of all
the costs and part Of plaintiffs attorneys
fees against the guilty road where two
or more roads were joined In a suit TO
recover for damages to live stock injured
on one of them. Senator Schaller said the
bill was amied to prevent stock being de-
layed at Minnesota Transfer, but he con-
scented to an amendment TO obviate the
objection urged. AS amended it passed
RAMSEY COUNTY'S SECOND.
At IL o'clock a recess was taken until
80, for lunch room 16 having been
well provided Gov. Lind also entertained
few friends at lunch In his private office.
Soon after returning to work the Ram
sey delegation developed it's second split.
The roll was being called on Senator
Sheehan's bill increasing the fees of the
sheriff Of Ramsey county. The roll call
was about done when Senator Horton re-
entered the chamber and found it practi-
cally passed. In explaining his vote he
said the delegation was divided as to the
bill, and he had not thought that an
effort would be made to pass it while he
was out of the room. Thereupon a large
number of senators changed their. votes
new roll call was then ordered, and
the bill was defeated.
ERA NCuISE,c MON cnnnr
The bill of Mr.. Pope (Rep), Kanabec,
u legalfze franchises granted by village
councils to telephone and electric light
companies was killed.
PEDDLERs' LICENSE KILLED.
At o'clock a. M, actual time, the SEN
ate clock having stopped, Senator Hal
vorson Rep.), Lac aui Parle, tried to
get hearing for the Marin peddlers' H.
cense bill, but could not get suspension
of the rules and failed
The disorder among the senator's was
80 great at times that several motions
to adjourn were made, but were lost
No business could be done, however, and
recess was taken.
At l:15 Senator Miner fRepl Rock
asked q call of the senate and while it
was pending some grotesque bills and
resolutions were introduced with mock
gravity. flnally some real business came
in, some senate bills returned from the
huose with amendments.
ARGETSINGER BILL PASSED.
The Argetsinger BILL carrying an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for the support Of
the high graded, semi-graded and rural
schools was repassed upon the schools
meeting certain requirements. The con-
ference committee reported that the SEN
ate had receded from It's amendment
which allowed graduates from high
schools to enter the university without
examinations, and as amended had pass
ed that body. The house adopted the re-
port, concurred and repassed the bill.
The report of the conferees on the ap-
preparation was met in the senate by an
inquiry from Senator Fitzpatrick as to
what had become of his reso
ton Of earlier in the day CALI
Ing on the house to return the bill for
correction. He was informed that the
house had refused to so return it.
A motion to lay the report on the table
was ruled out of order, and after the re-
port was adopted the amended bill was
repassed, 3S to 16.
The senate, without dissent, concurred
In the house amendments to the Under
leak antitrust bill and repa ssed it,
Senator Miller moved that H. F. 233 be
recalled from the committee on taxes and
nVxyc h c d, l. l. r.