Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-03-09

the first passes the railroads will be-so
they would reasonably claim unable tc
lower rates of any Sort On yathe other
p: hand if the twocut rate billsgo through
their ability to:pay the higher tax would
be doubtful. Shall the state orzthe in.
dividual benefit? The chances seem tc
: favor the state. s.
Senator Ives has introduced bill per.
hitting railroads to lease or consolidate
with other railroads in the state. It has
been suggested that the bill was in.
tended to make possible the absorption
of the St. Paul & Duluth in the Chica
!; 60, Milwaukee g st. Paul system, ami
J the Burlington & Northern into the
general %" system. There was tins
when the bill would have been sus'
pected at once of being aimed to make
possible the Northern Pacifc-Great
/: Northern consolidation. The Ives bill,
= however, does not seem to cover com.
peting local railroads so that the old
. transcontinental scheme seems still
: dead. r.
There has been considerable interest
; all over the country in the movement
for the new public library building in
! st. Paul and the legislature was given
an opportunity to lend such aid as was
! in its power to accomplish the desired
end. It was found that no proper legal
provision had been made for city coun-
ellis to turn over to library boards prop
erty to be used for library building or
! to maintain the same. The St. Paul
council had turned over to the public
library board the famous old market
building, where so many state conven.
lions were held in past years, and when
1t was found such action was not strictly
legal the legislature was called on and
very quickly passed the bill to grant
such power and to lesalize such trans
fers already made. The we'll known
old structure is already being renod~
elled for its new purpose.
Representative Torson's bill for the
election of railroad and warehouse COM
missioners has passed both houses, re-
ducing the number of the governors
plums, but at the same time bringing
more state officials in close touch with
the people, who can endorse or reject
faithful or faithless public servants,
whichever they may be. Senator Ryder
had bill more sweeping in it's provi-
sions than the Torson measure, in that
it made ether. heads of bureaus and
boards also elective. The Torson bill
| reached the senate before action had
been taken on the Ryder bill, and the
senator gave his support to the house
measure as step in the right direction,
by that means accomplishing what
would have been greatly delayed had
he cared more for personal dignity than
he did for the principle involved.
| When there was Republican, bank
examiner the opposition generally ridi-
! culed his claims that he was not pro-
vlded with sufficient assistants to make
| all the examinations of the state banks
that should be made. But now it is
! different. Since the hosts of confusion
! got at the pie counter and one of their
number became bank examiner they
! lind that the provision for the expenses
OF the office are entirely insufficient, and
| Senator Schaller. at the instance of Ex-
amlner Pope, has introduced two bills
to remedy the trouble, by making the
banks all pay good fees when exam
| lned, such fees to go into the state treas
ury. while direct appropriation of &c.
600 for contingent expenses is made in
addition to salaries in the Office. It is
an unintentional and indirect endorse
lnent of Bank Examiner Kenyon's many
pleas for more Office help.
Senator Miller's anti junket bill is not
| finding the legislative life an easy one,
and may die of heart failure, superin-
| duced by the extreme solicitude of some
| OF the statesmen as to the proper treat
1nent for the infant measure. With both
houses hampered all week by slim at
tendance because of the absence of reg
ular committee members on their regu-
lar inspection tours to several of the
institutions, Senator Miller almost
thought he had a strong argument in
favor of his little pet, but Senator
Thompson asserted a solemn belief that
the general public might be better
pleased if there were more junkets and
fewer bills-whether for laws or for
expenses mattered not-and insisted
that the state boards already had ample
powers for reporting on the institutions
in their charge. The bill was finally