The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-04-05
LEGIsLA r1vE SUMMARY.
The Transactions of the Lawmakers at
81. Pau.---A Short Summary of
ths Regular Routine.

st. Paul. March 2i.-Saturday was the
last day for introduction of bills. The
committee recommended the passage of
the bill INCREASING the tax on express
companies frDm to per cent.
In the house the following important
bills were in foduced:
To amend the constitution relating to
the franchise of women. on questions of
| local option.
Ferris-To regulate the price of binding
| Irvine manufactured in the state prison.
Fixing terms of holding court in the
several judidal districts; given second
| reading and laid on the table.
| TO license itinerant vendors of drugs,
| noStrumS, patent medicines, etc.
Relating toIthe publication of lands and
| village, city and town lots for delinquent
TO amend Existing laws relating to the
issuance of licenses for the sale of incoG-
| icating liquors.
To require railroad companies organized
| under the IL Tvs of foreign countries to
| incorporate Under the laws of this state
| before extending their lines or acquiring
property rights in this state.
TO appropriate money to provide uni
/ forms for the band at the Minnesota
state training school for boys and girls.
| st. Paul, March 2S.-The senate yester-
day defeated the MCGOWAN eight-hour
/ In the house number of bills were
| passed. among them being the following:
Relating to separation of villages and
| towns.
/ Authorizing retail hardware fire in
| Surance companies.
Relating TO mutual creamery fire in
| Surance companies.
| Relating to assessment and collection
| of taxes.
Relating to life insurance companies.
! Relating to cooperative life insurance
! associations.
Relating to change in county seats.
Relating to state reformatory.
| oil fty,cr I,A h in nf a f0tk
| in the state of Minnesota and to the
quantity of land which corporations may
acquire, hold or own.
To regulate the Importation of de-
pendent children.
Relating to destruction of weeds and
| grass on public highways.
| Relating to taxation of freight line and
| equipment companies.
Relating to unauthorized communica-
| tons with convicts in the state prison.
Relating to section and meander posts.
st. Paul, March 2s.-After considerable
! debate the senate yesterday defeated the
| Jacobsen bill increasing the gross earn
| ings tax of railroads by vote of 81 to 80.
The MCGOWAN bill, providing for S-hour
| day for work upon public works, which
| was temporarily defeated by the senate
in committee of the whole Monday. was
| taken up yesterday, and, by vote of "a
to 49, restored to life and given a place
| upon the calendar.
The house passed the following:
Fixing time for holding terms of the
| district court in the Seventeenth judicial
district.
Relating to commission to settle claims
| due the state.
| To provide means for partially COM
pleting and furnishing Minneapolis city
| hail.
Relating to taxation of insurance COM
| Authorizing cities of less than 10000
| population to eXpend money for improv-
| ing roads leading into such cities.
The bill relating to clerk for county
| treasurers and auditors of certain coun-
ties was lost: % ayes, 46 nays.
The only bill considered on general OF, or
| which was recommended to pass.
St. Paul, March 3o-The two houses of
| the legislature yesterday took few
| hours adjournment and paid the bien-
NAL visit to the Saltwater prison. There
| were fully $50 people in the excursion,
When the senate met, Grindeland wanted
| the temperance committee to explain
why the county option bill, which had
! been referred Feb. IA, had not been re
ported back. The resolution was tabled:
| In the house the bill to legalize pool
selling at race tracks was killed.
| lating commission merchants, was retired
| in favor of H. F. No. 101, providing for
| the same regulations. In the same man
ner, H. F. No. 1893, to prevent fraud in
retired in favor of s. F. No. 1872, which
was placed on general orders.
Mr. Mallette Mile Laos, moved to re-
consider S. F. No. 292, which was lost
| some days ago. The bill was by Senator
McKusck. and authorized an appropria-
| ton of $500 to erect a monument to the
| memory of the Hinckley fire victims.
st. Paul, March 31.-The following bills
were passed yesterday by the senate:
Legalizing electric light and waterworks
| bonds heretofore voted by city of Little
Falls.
| TO legalize Acknowledgements of con-
VeyanceS and other instruments and the
| record thereof.
| TO iegalize the execution and record of
| conveyances and powers of attorney exc
| cuted in blank or manifested by witnesses.
Legalizing the foreclosure of mortgage
| by any foreign executor or administrator
| who has not filed a duly authenticated
copy of his appointment as such exec
utOr or administrator
To amend laws of 1895. to secure pay
| ment of state tax on premiums paid to
unauthorized fire insurance companies.
| In committee of the whole yesterday
| the house recommended the following
! bills to pass;
| Fixing compensation of judges and
! clerks of probate court.
| To fix the salary of the deputy state
| treasurer. To pass as amended.
To create system of direct poor
| Relating to accounts of executors and
| administrators.
A Dill for an act prONlQlnS LOT an IN
vestigation of Sunday labor by the COM
missioner of labor.
| Authorizing boards of education of
sDecial school districts to levy taxes.
| Relating to states prison. TO pass.
| Relating to assessment and collection
| Of taxes. To pass.
To empower, villages to issue bonds Tor
payment of outstanding Indebtedness.
ST. Paul, April 1.-The senate yesterday
| passed the Staples bill providing for in
| sane hospitals at Anoka and Hastings.
| After the passage of the bill the senate
| went into committee of the whole and
| agreed to recommend for passage the
! compromise medical bill. just as 1T was
| reported from the committee; substitute
| for the Stockwell detention bill, and the
| Schellbach bill to test the validity of the
| 2 per cent gross earnings contract. under