The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-21
NEW TWINE SYSTEM
HOUSE ACTS FAvORABLY ON THE
SUBSTITUTE REPORTED BY
PRISON COMMITTEE
SALES TO CONSUMERS FIRST
Which Is Drawn With the Hope
of Giving the Farmers Chance
Industrious, Sitting Till Supper
Time.

The house did not meet yesterday
until 2:3O o'clock. but to make up for
lost time it continued in session until
nearly o'clock. With thirty bills on
general orders and holiday approach
ing, Wednesday, the motion to adjourn
at o'clock was voted down and the
members settled down to business.
Twelve of the bills on orders were dis
posed of. the most important being the
one regulating the sale of binding Irvine
manufactured at the state prison. This
measure, which was reported back
from the committee a. a substitute for
half a dozen bills on the same sub
ject, was discussed at length in the
committee of the Whole. and as amend
ed was recommended to pass. The bill
reads as follows:
H. F. 264-To regulate the sac of binding
twlLe manufactured at the sta,e prison al
Saltwater
Section l. The price of the binding tw:ne
manufactured al the state prison at Still
water shall be fixed by the warden and board
of managers each year az soon as practical BILE,
and not later than March l. and shall be sold
only to farmers or actual consumers thereon
/ in quantities necessary for their own usa, up
to and including the first day of May Of each
and every year, G1i shall be sold only for
cath or on such security as the warden of
the state prison may approve.
Sec z All the Irvine remaining on hand
on the first day of May and for which no
order has been given by farmers or actual
consumers, except 500 coo pounds that shall be
reserved by said warden or board 10 fill or
ders direct from consumers, may, after said
date, be sold and disposed of by the warden
or beard OF managers of the state prison to
dealers In Irvine on such terms and condi>
lions as the said warden or board of mana gers
may prescribe, one of the provisions of which
small! be that the person purchasing the Irvine
for sale as aforesaid shall, before delivery of
twiLe go Lnrcha,isd, enter into contract with
said warden or board of managers to not
charge more than % cent per pound
profit upon the Irvine sod by him to actual
consumers. The cost at the said prison az
saltwater, with freight charges added to the
point Of destination, shall be taken as the
ba IS of cost OF said Irvine. In the sale, dis
trI5ution and disposition of the Irvine the
board OF managers and warden of the state
prison shall: divide the same throughout the
SeVera! agricultural counties of the state In
proportion to the amount ordered. And no
twine shall be sod outside Of the state except
as hereafter provided If any Irvine remains
unsold on the first day of July in any year
such twlne 50 remaining may be sod for use
outside Of the state
Sec 8. ANY wi lful vocation of the pro-
V1;1ons OF this act on the part OF said per-
sons entering into contract with said warden
or said board OF macagc rs for the sale Of
said binding twine shall be punished by fine
hundred $4,000 dollars.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be In
force from and after its passage.
Mr.. krayenbuhl RepD. chairman of
the committee on public accounts ard
expenditures, submitted a partial re-
port, together with a resolution ask
ing further time in which to complete
its labors. Mr.. Krayen buhl asked that
the resolution be adopted, but Mr..
Jacobson Repo, of Lac qui Parle, In
sisted that some time limit be fixed II
the resolution. The resolution was laid
on the table and the report as sub
mitted was ordered printed in the
journal.
On motion Of Mr.. Grondanl Rep). of
Goodhue, the vote by which H F. 129.
by Mr. Dunn RepD, of Ramsey, was
lost Saturday, was reconsidered and
the bill placed on the calendar Mr..
Grondahl said he made the motion sim
ply out OF courtesy and would proba biv
vote against the bill when it came M.