Willmar tribune., 1899-02-01
none OF them affecting anything more
than local interests.

St. Paul. Jan. 25.-Both houses of thu
legislature were in session yesterday. hui
| the senate session was very brief. Sen.
| ator wilson introduced his second divorce
Dill Tor this session, this later bill pro.
Vld1ns that the court cannot allow the
wire more than one-third of the hus
pand $ real estate, but is permitted to &c
| 10 tnat exte:S unless the wife has com.
mitted adultery.
Wheelmen will. perhaps, be interested
IN nearing that the senate passed the bill
exemptlng bicycles from execution fo,
debt. Another bill of some Importance
| was one offered by Senator McGil. which
allows banks having one million or more
capital to establish branches. The
strength of the English and Canadian
i banking system lies in the fact that the
| great banks with large capital, establish
branches giving the smaller places bank.
ing advantages they could not hope tc
secure If dependent upon the local field
| Ihe old school of physicians seem in.
ci1ned to recognize Osteopathy as a pro.
| fess1on and have announced that they dc
not propose to fight the pending bill
recognizing Osteopathy but will seek, in.
STEAD to secure some amendments.
! II mas been generally supposed that the
private secretary of the governor received
about $1,000 per year salary, including
fees the salary itself is but s., 500. bu,
the secretary receives IS for every notary
commission issued as his personal per.
quisite. When Gen. Jennison was Gov
Hubbard's secretary, he and his friends
engineered the bill which extended the
| term OF notaries and increased the fee
! from two to five dollars and at that time
1t brought the secretaryship up to an in.
come of seven or eight thousand dollars
Mr.. Rosing, Gov. Lind's secretary, how
ever, sent report to the senate to-day
showing that his predecessor in 1898 only
secured $4,000 salary and all.
! IT the action of the house to-day can
be taken as criterion the bill making
! the railroad commissioners elective. in
stead of appointive, will pass, as it was
| unanimously recommended by the COM
| mlttee of the whole. There was more
contention upon the length of the term
| than upon the bill itself and it was finally
| decided to make 1t two years office.
The bill reimbursing citizens who ad-
| Vanced $24, 500 for Minnesotas exhibit at
| Omaha was passed by a large majority.
| One of the bills introduced to-day pro-
v1des that the state shall pay the surety
| company for the four hundred thousand
| dollar bond Of the state treasurer. Here
| tofore the state treasurer has been in the
habit of getting bankers to go on his
bond thus placing himself under obliga-
| tion to divide the deposits among his
| sureties. This was liable to place the
state money in weak banks, but where
ic
| pure matter of commission and the
| treasurer is under obligation to no one.
| An important resolution was offered by
Mr.. Donohue in favor of Northwestern
| International Exposition in 1902. If such
an exposition should be held it would
doubtless be located between the Twin
! Cities. The resolution went over under
| notice of debate.
Fifteen new bills were introduced in the
house, bringing the total up to date to 14S
st. Paul, Minn.-Jan. 26.-The session OF
the Senate yesterday was chiefly after
| that body adjourned. The official meet.
| ing was very BRIEF after which the Oste.
! opaths were given hearing in the Sen
| ate chamber. While it was nominally fol-
| the benefit Of the judiciary committee
| a large portion of the Senators remained
| and the ladies and gentlemen spectators
| completely filled the chamber. There ap.
| pear to be two branches of Osteopathy
| and they were both represented. While
! both desire recognition, they were more
hostile to each other than to the old
school of physicians. No decision was
| reached after all the talk.
Senator Horton offered an amendment
| to the new capitol bill of much i'm.
! portance. The original bill allowed a tax
| of tWo-tenths of mill to be levied fo1
| ten years for the new capitol, the entire
| sum expected to be raised being 81, 200, 600
| Since the bill was passed valuation have
| been so reduced that that tax will not
| raise the necessary sum and the pend.
ing bill proposes to allow the levy to con.
tinue more than ten years, in order to
raise two millions. but expressly forbids
| allowing the building to cost more than
| that sum, which was the original figure
named.
The death of Senator Young's father
was announced.
Yesterday was the liveliest the House
has seen since the session began. The
| bill in controversy was the one which
IeuuCeS (H0 Idlc OL interest on SCQOOl
lands from five to four per cent and the
entire session was devoted to discussing
| the measure. The advocates of the bill
argued that if the purchasers Of these
| lands only had to pay four per cent in
| terest, they would not hasten to pay the
| principal before it became due, and as
| the lands are sold on long time the state
| would be getting four per cent interest
! on the deferred payments, instead OF
| having the money paid into the treasury
| and being reinvested for the benefit OF
the school fund at even lower rate thar
| four per cent. The opponents of the bill
| claimed that the land would be paid fol-
! at four per cent just as rapidly as al
five and that the measure simply gave
! the purchasers a reduction of one pei
| cent on the interest. They were in a
! minority however, and the bill passed by
| 70 to 49,
Telephone Companies.
State Auditor Dunn made drafts or
| the telephone companies in Minnesota
for the per cent gross earnings ia,
provided for by the law of 1897. The
draft was made in accordance with the
signed statement presented by the Off
GERS of the telephone companies as tc