The Bemidji pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minn.) 1896-1917, 1901-04-04
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IN the Senate.

3s In the Senate.
St Paul, March 26.-The Dunn direct
primary election bill, passed by the
house, was reported to the senate yes
4 terday from the committee on elections
without amendment and with the rec
concentration that 1T pass.
Sanotor Du Toit introduced bill
providing that at the next senatorial
election senators from uneven num-
bered districts shall be elected for but
Z two years, the term Of all senators
"A thereafter to be as at present-four
years. This bill is designed to permit
half the senate members to hold over
at each election.
The Torrey house bill providing for
4 the sale Of the state capitol lands In
\ Kandiyohi county was recommended
for passage.
After killing similar bill from SEN
N ator Wilson the upper house has rec
commended that r. A. Peterson's con-
stitutional revision bill be passed.
In the House.
A resolution empowering the bribery
Z Investigating committee to summon
witnesses. administer oaths and later
4 submit the testimony taken. to the
I house. was adopted without opposition.
Representative Hurd introduced a
4 bill providing for the distribution Of
the portraits Of the Minnesota state
officials and legislators among them
selves and various libraries at a cost
to the state Of 5000.
The house practically cleared up the
calendar yesterday. The most impor
tant measures passed We're those per-
hitting voters to vote for all presi-
Dental electors by making one cross,
and amending the game and fish laws.
The latter makes the closed season for
woodeock or upland plover from Nov.
i to Sept. 1; for trout, Sept. ! to April
Is and for black, gray or OsWego bass,
u March / to June 4. Il.
In the Senate. ~
ST. Paul, March 2T.-The Halvorsen
anti-cigarette bin met its death in the
senate yesterday. After concurring in
the house amendments the senate killed
the bill and emphasized its action by
defeating motion TO reconsider by q
Il tie vote. s. sz
The first measure Of the session re-
lating to the taxation Of the street
Is railway corporations was introduced
Yesterday by Senator Hospes Of Still
water. The bill purports to compass
the entire situation by proposing the
lnent applying gross earnings system
Of taxation to such interests.
The senate passed the house bill pro-
yiding FOR the building Of bicycle
paths throughout the state.
In the House.
Mr.. Sageng introduced bill provid-
ing fer the public ownership Of tele-
phone systems The bill authorizes
supervisors OF townships, having re-
ceived the sanction Of a majority vote
OF the qualified electors Of the town
ship. to levy tax for the construction
Of a township telephone system.
The Henstead baby farm bill was
yesterday passed by the house. The
same bill. introduced by Mr.. Chiffon,
has passed the upper house and sub
stitution will be effected in one Of the
houses to allow the bill to become q
law.
3$ In the House.
st. Paul, March 2s.-After repeti-
"A ton Of the scenes Of last week. minus
the sensational thrills furnished by
the Washburn-Jacobson charges of
bribery, the railroad gross earnings
4 bill was yesterday taken up from the
table on motion Of Mr.. Jacobson by q
vote of 81 to Sc. Before adjournment
consideration Of the bill was made a
special order for 1890 o'clock to-mor-
row morning.
Fcy%x -
Pan American commissioners issued
the ultimatum that unless the state
stands ready to appropriate another
1880 900 1t will be better to withdraw
1.-THE previous appropriation Of $4,000
land have no exhibit at all. Commits
sioners Hall and Morton appeared be-
fore the senate and house and pre-
scented a report, prepared at the re-
quest Of Gov. Van SAINT.
A bill aimed at restriction Of the
operations of fake mining stock deal
Il ers was yesterday introduced by Mr..
! Roberts of Hennepin.
In the Senate.
After an all-Gay fight in the senate
yesterday the Schaller bill extending
and increasing the Anoka and Hast
ings asylums was defeated by vote
of 80 to 90. and then recnnsidered and
laid on the table. The six years fight
that closed with the construction of
the two institutions was reopened and
gone over again in a heated and long
drawn out wrangle.
The Nichols bill, imposing a 5 per
cent gross earnings tax on express
companies, passed the senate yester-
day and will become a law as soon as
signed by the governor
The salary Of the insurance commits
sioner is increased from $1,000 to $1,000
q year. the salary of the deputy COM
missioner from 81 800 to $4,000 q, year,
and three new employees allowed the
department by bill introduced by
Senator McGill.