The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-03-16
LEGISLATIVE l.lEl 81 4. ! GOSSIP
Our Special Correspondent Tells Of
the Solons' Doings. ID
The Members are Busily Engaged, as the
session Draws Towards Close, in: the
discussion and Passage of va
rious Measures.

lature was not in a working mood vestar-
DAY and but little was accomplished. The
senate session was very brief, but. long
enough TO receive Gov. Lind's appoint
Ihents or new game and fish commits
sion. The successor of S. F. Fullerton
the head of the board is John Beutner
OF PROCTOR Knott, suburb of Duluth
Inc other members are Jacob Danz. of
81. Paul, Leonard Cramb, of st. Cloud.
William Ward, Of Fairmont, and Mr..
"llilams, OF Minneapolis. There were so
many committee meetings to be held that
AFTER the Introduction of few bills the
senate adjourned.
soon after the house met in the AFTER
noon 1t went into committee of the whole
anu spent the entire session in that work.
Inc Dill relating to the compensation of
the reporter Of the Supreme Court caused
a wind-storm.
Inc Dill originally gave him a salary of
So'oOV. put 1t was reduced to $1,000, and
recommended to pass. The next bill to
ehclt debate was the one introduced at
the request of the Retail Grocers' and
manufacturers Association, to prevent
Araudulent assignments of wages by re-
Hulrlns assignments to be recorded with
the city or town clerk or village recorder
After a lengthy debate the bill was laid
over to be amended to remove the OBJ
Jections raised against it,
st. Paul. Minn., March S.-The bill re-
curing foreign corporations to nav the
same fee as those organized in the state
now only awaits the governors signature
10 become law. The bill originally
passed the senate and went to the house.
"here 1t was amended. When it came
back to the senate today, Senator Horton
endeaVored to have the senate refuse to
concur with the house amendment. This
was done for the purpose Of defeating
the Dill but the effort did not avail. The
senate nrst concurred with the house by
vote or 80 to Is, and then passed the
bill by vote of 40 to g.
Bills were introduced making appro-
prlatlons for the normal schools at St.
cloud. Moorhead and Winona and also
authorizing Minneapolis to raise a hum
dred and ffty-thousand dollars by tax
alton to finish their court house. A large
portion of the day was spent in the pas-
sage Of bills
There were q on the calendar. and all
but one were passed The one that was
lost applied to Hennepin county onlv
and legalized bridge bonds heretofore
voted upon by cities under provisions Of
chapter 2O4, laws of $685. Three of the
bills passed related to the collection Of
taxes. One gives bounty to the farmer
for raising sugar beets, while another re-
pealed the act giving a bounty to the
manufacturer of beet sugar Another bill
in the list was one to prevent fraud in
Aye nd I'M 80 h,,k2
provides for the erection of monument
at Hlnckley in memory of those who lost
their lives in the great fire.
The house devoted it's entire time,
morning and afternoon, to the discussion
OF insane affairs. Mr.. Staples introduced
a bill creating asylums at Hastings and
Anoka, and as this was compromise
measure 1T seemed to settle the feud be-
tween the two towns and their respective
friends. Mr.. Grondahl, however, offered
a bill inaugurating what is termed the
county system, providing for small hos
pitfalls in the various counties of the state.
These bills came up as a special order
today and after they were duly before
the house Mr.. Grondahl took the floor
and spoke until the noon recess without
concluding his remarks. 1t took an hour
of the afternoon session for him to con-
clude and then Mr.. Stivers of Brainerd,
Mr.. Staples, Jacobson and others contin-
ued the discussion in opposition to the
county system for the rest of the day,
1t will probably take another day to fin
ish the discussion and reach vote.
st. Paul, March 9.-The senate had
quite a reform spasm yesterday, which
consumed nearly the entire forenoon ses-
sion. 1t was precipitated by Senator Du
Toit calling up the resolution he offered
on Monday directing the public examiner
to examine the books of the clerk of the
supreme court and ascertain whether he
had made correct report of the fees he
had received. This led to row up and
down the line Some senators vouched
for the accuracy Of the report made,
while others demanded that every fee Of
flee in the state be similarly investigated.
The resolution, after much Wrangling,
was amended to include all fee offices and
to provide that the investigation be con-
Quoted by committee of three senators
instead of by the public examiner, and
passed in that form.
The afternoon session was chiefly de-
voted to the question of a bounty to the
sugar beet manufacturer and a bounty
to the farmer for raising sugar beets. In
the roundup, after a long debate, the
sugar beet was the loser.
The bill Of two years ago, granting
bounty to the manufacturer of one cent
per pound was repealed and the new bill
providing for bounty to the farmer
who raises sugar beets was defeated. So
the senate goes on record as opposed to
home industries and favorable to the su-
gar trust.
The house in the forenoon resumed the
thread of it's debate on the insane asylum
question. and there were speeches pro
and con until every one, including the
orators, were tired out.
Just before the noon recess a vote was
taken on the bill establishing county in
sane asylums, after the plan in Wiscon-
sin, and it only received Is affirmative
votes to 81 negative. This left the bill
establishing two new asylums, one at
Anoka and one at Hastings, before the
house, but instead of finishing up the job,
action on the bill was postponed one
week. Meantime, large portion of the
legislature will visit the st. Peter and
Rochester asylums.
The afternoon proceedings were listless,
the members being wearied by the long
insane debate.
A few bills were passed. One fixed the
salary of the supreme court reporter at
$4,000. Another gave the Soldiers Home
$4,000 for maintenance, which was cut off
two years ago, and third regulates the
inspection of steam boilers. The rest of
the day was spent in considering bills in
committee Of the whole, but so little in
terest was taken that several committee
meetings were in progress at the same
time.