Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-03-13

changing the jury principle which
had been in use for centuries.
| Representative Peterson is after the
telegraph companies again. He Of
fered a bill Saturday limiting the
charge for ten-word message IN this
state to 20 cents, and l cent for each
additional word. ~,
| An effort will be made this week to
hatch the reapportionmcnt chicken.
which carves out nine congressional
districts. Then there will be music
as there are good many ambitious
members of the legislature who have
the congressional bee in their bonncts
and want a district which will give
them sure thing.
| st. Paul, MIMI, March 5.-The con-
gressional reapportionment bill,
agreed upon by the committee, was
introduced in both houses and made
the special order in each house for Fri
day morning. A combination has been
formed which may prove strong
enough to carry it through without
change, as reported by the committee,
though there will be some strong OBJ
position.
| Senator Miller renewed his effort to
tax the express companies with a bill
providing for per cent tax on their
net earnings.
| The house was even duller than the
senate. The most important bill Of
Tered was one making it INSIDE
meanor to run theater on Sunday.
The same kind of bill was offered
two years ago, but after the legisla-
ture was supplied with tickets to 20
and see for themselves, the bill was
not heard of any more. Possibly his
tory will repeat itself.
! A bill was passed requiring six
months school to be kept in country
districts where the property valuation
amounts to S35, O0O
| The effort to cut off twenty days
from the session will eliminate in a
caucus. The movement comes from
the senate and is based upon the de-
sire of the senators to act upon the
report of the tax commission at an ex-
| ira session next winter. If there is
| no extra session next winter a new
senate will have been elected before
the tax question comes up, and many
OF the present members may fail to
come again. The house seems to be
more DESTROYS of securing full term
now, as that is more ephemeral body
and to them a bird in the hand is
worth two in the bush. If was to
guess a prediction l would guess that
there would be no fraction of time
that is paid for being cut off from the
present session. A good test would be
to offer a resolution pledging the
members to serve this session through
for full pay and agreeing to come to
an extra session next winter to revise
the tax laws without compensation.
When this is done the millennium will
begin doing business at the same time.
ST. Paul. March GA portion of the
legislature visited Owatonna yester-
day to inspect the school for depend
cnt children, and another crowd went
! to saltwater to inspect the state
prison, so that while there was seem
ing air of industry in the legislature
nothing was settled concerning which
there Is any controversy. The senate
bill providing for public meetings in
| school districts to discuss political
questions was killed. Senator Kuat-
void offered bill extending the pri-
mary election law all over the state.
A bill to amend the Grindeland law
was introduced, requiring all shippers
of produce or grain to make com plants
within sixty days OF be forever barred
from doing SO.
The senate committee on illumina t.
ing oils voted to report the bill for the
relief of the Standard Oil company
without recommendation. and the f.
nance committee reported recon-
'nendation for its passage. The bill
cuts off the fees for inspecting oil.
The house passed all the bills on the
calendar, because they happened to be
of minor Importance and uncontested
The bill to increase the pay Of jury
men from ST. to $3.50 was indefinitely
postponed.
The action Of the republican caucus
was in favor of cutting down the ses-
sion twenty days and adjourning on
! April 5. 1t does not follow from this,
however. that anything of the kind
happens, but oftener it don't.
St. Paul. March 1.-THE senate de-
voted yesterday to visiting the state
university, and only 6 members of
the house put in an appearance, the
remainder being absent visiting vari-
Gus public institutions in the state.
Consequently the legislative business
| was substantially nothing. The house
passed one bill and discussed quite a
number of others of minor import
ance.
The committee On appropriations in
troduced substitute for the Pam
American bill, appropriating $40, 900
instead of $4,000 for the exposition.
1t provides for five commissioners in
stead of seven. who are to serve with
out compensation, but they are given
$500 for railroad fare and hotel bills.
The officers of the various public in
stitutions are making a com bined at
tack on the committees to defeat the
proposed board of control bill. If that
should pass there would be a new deal
in every public institution in the state.
The senate having passed the reso-
luton to adjourn on April 5, the house
is talking of holding it up until the
senate passes some of the pending
house bills, which might be lost for
lack of time if the session should be
shortened.