The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-10
MCCARTHY won OUT
HE MADE A FINE FIGHT FOR HIS
ANTI-TIME CHECK
BILL
PEDDLERS' LICENSE is CUT
senator Daugherty Offers n Conn
promise Amendmcnt-"Ren
ed" Butter Bill Causes Some De-
bate In the Senntc-Board of
Boiler Inspectors Increased to
Seven-News of the Senate.

Just little of the old feeling that
Minneapolis lumberman have too much
TO say as to the course of pending legis
lation was revealed in a debate in
committee of the whole yesterday over
the bill of Senator Mccarthy Rep.),
Itasca, to give lumbermen relief from
the time check system, which, it is
said, has been abused.
Senator Wilson (Rep), Hennepin, Of
fered some amendments, which Senator
Mckusick (Rep), Pine, said would
spoil general lien law that had given
satisfaction to every one since 1876.
Senator Wilson said the old law had
not been satisfactory.
Not satisfactory to the lumber
firms,' said Senator McKusick, adding
apparently as a curious afterthought,
Nv om do you representa-
- i represent the people Of the Fifth
and Sixth wards of the city of Mime
apolis," replied Senator Wilson, with
icy deliberation.
And there is only one saw mill in
that entire district
Senator Mccarthy agreed with Sen
ator Mcf<usick that Senator Wilson's
amendment would ruin the effect of the
bill. The time check of itself was all
right, but it had been used to bleed
the men out of regular percentage
CT their earnings. When the old law
was passed Minneapolis was not only
the headquarters of the Second district
lumber interests, but the actual resi-
dence of most of the men employed.
1hey were cuStomarily paid there, so
the provision requiring foreclosure of
liens at Minneapolis effected little hard
ship. Now, however, many of the men
were paid in the woods and they either
had to discount these checks or suf-
fer the expense of a trip to Minneapo-
lis
He resented the charge that the lum-
bermen needed the amendment offered
by Senator Wilson to protect them
selves against the tramp element,
and declared that If in recent years
some OF the woodsmen had taken to
"tramping," 1t was this time check
evil which had driven them to it.
Senator Wilson's amendment was
lost
After the noon recess other amend
ments We're offered to correct minor
errors, and to prevent the application
of the new law to cases pending in the
courts now.
The bill, as amended. was then rec
commended for passage.
CUT PEDDLERS' LICENSE.
Senator Daugherty Rep), of st.
Louis offered an amendment to S. F.
112, the peddlers license bill, reducing
the license to 81 day, SIS a month and
$50 year, which was adopted. Prog
ress was then reported, as Senators
MCGOWAN Dem) and Jepson Rep.), of
Hennepin, were absent.
RENOVATED OR PROCESS.
Senator Potter CRep), Of Hennepin,
spoke in behalf of the Schellbach
amendment TO the Staples renovated
butter" bill. providing that the prod
uct shall be labeled process butter"
Senator Halvorson Rep.), Lac qui
Parle, opposed the amendment. This
butter was not wholesome, and it sub
jected the creamery product to an I'M
fair competition.
Senator Sweningsen (Rep0, Mower,
opposed the amendment. Progress was
reported
SHOULD HAVE BEEN LARSON.
1t was Senator Larson Rep.), Sibley,
and not Senator Lord Rep0, Dodge,
who helped to strew flowers on the
Knatvold sugar bounty bill. Senator
Lord voted against both bounty bills
and for the repeal.
GIVES LIND TWO MORE.
Another bill recommendation passage
In committee of the whole was that Of
Senator Potter Rep), of Hennepin, in
creasing the board of boiler inspectors
from five to seven, making their dis
tricts co-extensive with the congress
sional districts. to be appointed within
thirty days.
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