Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-04-06
LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY.
The transactions ms nj the Lawmakers ut
81 Paula Short Summary of
tie Regular Routine.

In the house a number of bills were
passed, among them being the following:
Relating to separation OF villages and
Authorizing retail hardware fire In
surance companies
Relating to mutual creamery fire In
surance companies.
Relating to assessment and collection
Relating to cooperative life insurance
associations.
Relating to change in county seats.
Relating to state reformatory.
Relating to the ownership of real estate
in the state of Minnesota and to the
quantity of land which corporations may
acquire hold or own
Relating to public improvements in
certain cities.
TO regulate the importation of de-
Relating to destruction of weeds and
debate the senate yesterday defeated the
Jacobsen bill increasing the gross earn
ings tax Of railroads by a vote of 81 to 80.
for work WerKs WcP
was temporarily defeated by the senate
in committee of the whole Monday, was
| to %, restored to life and given a place
upon the calendar.
The house passed the following:
Fixing time for holding terms of the
| district. - =
Relating to commission to settle claims
To provide means for partially COM
plotting and furnishing Minneapolis city
| hall.
Relating to taxation of insurance com
panies.
Authorizing cities of less than 10000
population to expend money for improv
| ing roads leading into such cities.
The bill ting to clerk for. county
| treasurers and auditors of certain .coun-,
! The only bill considered on general or
ders was Roberts sugar bounty bill,
which was recommended to pass.
st. Paul, March So.-The two houses of
the legislature yesterday took a few
hours adjournment t., and paid the bien-
were fully $50 people in the excursion,
most of them outsiders.
| 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;
| selling at race tracks was killed.
| Mr.. McGrath.s bill, H. F. No. SO, regu-
lating commission merchants, was retired
in favor of H; F.. No 1ol, providing for
| the same regulations. In the same man
| ner, H. F.. No. 1913, to prevent fraud in
the sale Of garden and field seeds, was
| was placed on general orders 800
Mr.: Mallette, Mile odLda Laos. moved to re-
some days ago. The Bill was by Senator r
McKusick, and authorized an appropria-
| ton of $4,000 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:
| bonds heretofore voted by city of Little
Falls. -
TO legalize Acknowledgements of con-
veyances and other instruments and the
record thereof.
To legalize 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 duly authenticated
copy OF his appointment as such exec
utOr or administrator.
To amend laws of 1885, to secure pay
ment of state tax on premiums paid to
In committee of the whole Yesterday
the house recommended the following
Fixing compensation of judges and
clerks of probate court.
To fix the salary of the deputy state
70 create system Of direct poor
houses.
Relating to accounts of executors and
A bill for an act providing for an in
vestigation of Sunday labor by the COM
missioner of labor.
special school districts to levy taxes
Relating to states prison. TO pass.
Relating to assessment and collection
TO empower villages to issue bonds for
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
agreed to recommend for passage the
compromise medical BILL just as it was.
reported from the committee; a substitute
for the Stockwen detention bill, and the
Schellbach bill to test the validity of the
which the chicago-Great western Rail
The senate passed H. F. No. 575 author
izing appropriations by board of county
commissioners for public improvements in
or about navigable lakes in counties hav-
ing population of not less than $50, 900
and not more than 1000 inhab itants.
Relating to city charter. &
To create system or district poor
houses. 'e.s
TO fix the salary of the deputy state
treasurer,
Relating to accounts of executors and
administrators.
Relating to assessment and collection
TO empower villages to issue bonds for
payment of outstanding Indebtedness.
To provide for election of Ramsey coun-
ty assessors.
st. Paul, April BIN the senate Satur-
day the bill making the office of oil in
spector a salaried one was recommended
to pass.> Sen
DwinnelPs mechanic lien bill was killed
by committee, but will be reconsidered
The bill repeating the traction engine
act of other days was placed on the
calendar.
The senate adjourned to 2:3O Monday
afternoon, leaving two hundred bills on
the general orders and great number
of bills not yet reported out of commit
tee. The senate spent the afternoon at
the university.
Both branches put in good deal of
the time with April fool sports
The work of the house was done in
committee of the whole. The following
bills were acted upon:
Relating to pleading in certain munich
pal courts. To pass.
Relating to records of foreign courts
To pass.
To prescribe the duties Of the deputy
state treasurer. To pass.
Relating to the gathering of farm
statistics. To pass
Relating to a uniform rate of taxation.
To pass.
To legalize certain warranty deeds. To
pass as amended. .6 II
Relating to the State Agricultural So
ciety. To pass. ss5
!. To regulate the payment of coroners'
a nd i1SficoS' i11r0re. To no &C