The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-29
BOARD OF CONTROL SURE
BILL AS AMENDED BY SENATE
PASSED THE HOUSE
YESTERDAY
SOLDIERS HOME IS EXCEPTED
All Other State Institutions Placed
Under One Huge Organization
Becomes Effective
Aug. 81.

The board of control bill. with It's long
train of amendments tackled on by the
senate, passed the house yesterday on
a vote of Sc to %. Having already run
the gauntlet in the senate, this machine
will be legalized as soon as the governor
has time to sign the bill
Under the innumerable provisions of
this measure, the existing state board,
that perishes by this piece of party leg
1slation, VIII remain intact until these
five regents of Minnesota are appointed;
this need not necessarily be done i'm
mediately, as the bill does not become
effective until Aug. 81.
As originally introduced in the house
by Mr. TOrsOn, acting for the origina-
tors of the measure the bill provided
that a central board of control, consist
ing of three persons, should be appoint
ed by the governor to have control of all
correctional and charitable institutions
OF the state. The bill came back into
the house amended by the senate, its
latitude enormously extended and its
powers multiplied so as to place under
this board the fiscal management of
every educational institution, including
the state university. and excepting from
its absolute control of all other state in
situations only the soldiers home IN
this form it has passed both houses and
viii become q law after Aug. 81
Only nominal fight was made on the
bill yesterday, when it was taken UP
IN the house. Messrs. Sageng. Mallory,
LaybOurn and one or two Others who
have opposed il from the first as ''gi-
gantic political machine foisted upon an
unwilling people at the instance of
grasping OffceseeKers,' disclaimer
against the measure, but the opposition
was overwhelming. and they were sub
dued. The house and senate conference
committee had fixed things. and the
house receded from its refusal to con-
cur in the senate amendments to the
bill, and passed bill and amendments
The boards absorbed by this central
organization are the following: The
Board of Corrections and Charities,
managers of states prison, insane hos
pital board and reformatory board
The board of regents of the state uni
versity is deprived of its fiscal author
ity, as are also the normal school boards.
and the directors of the state training
school at Faribault. These boards retain
their other powers.
The board Of control will consist of
three members to serve six-year terms.
appointed by the governor.
HOW THE VOTE STOOD.
The vote was as follows:
Ayes-AanenSon. Allen, Alley, Anderson
Armstrong, G. w, armstrong, j A,
BabcOck. Bean. Benolken. Ben
son, Berg. Brubaker, Burns, Bush,
Butler, Cooke. Cumming, Daggett.
Dealy. Dobbin, Dorsey, Damn, Feeney
Ferris Fust, Gainey, Gait Gandrud
Grass, H3ugland, Hemstead Hendricks
Herbert. Hickey. Hillary. HiImond Hin
ton. Hogan, Holm, Hunt, durd Jackson ia
cCbson, Johnsrud, Kelly. Lane. Larson,
Lee. Lemke. Lommen, Mahood, Morris
Nelson. II. X, Neubauer, Nichols. Nolan
Norman, Noyes. O'Neii, Ocobock. OFFS
tEun, Oppegaard. Peterson, G., Phillips,
Pope, Potter, Rich, Riley. Roberts, Ryan,
Sander, Schurman. Schultz. Schwarg ST.
kcrski. Smith. Sites. Swanson, Torson,
Tory. finland. Won Valid. Ward, Whit
ford, Wilder. Speaker Bowling
Nays-Alford, Barteau. Bury. Deming,
HaUgen, Hymes, Johnson, Laybourn, NAL
l0ry, Martin, Miller. Morley, Pennington,
Peterson j. A, Peterson, s. D. Plow-
man, Pugh. Rider, Sageng, Scherf, Stark,
Sweet. Wells
Absent-Bosworth. Harden, Mark. Mel
son, W, Nyquist. Rapp. Stevenson, Wal
lace, Washburn and Wicox-10.