Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-01-24
Our Special Correspondent Tells Of
the Solons' Doings.
Seems to Walt Upou the Pending 5&
Senatorial Struggle.

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lieutenant governor took the position
that men OF experience like ex-Gover-
nor McGill and ex-Attorney-General
Wilson had already been honored by
| the state and consequently should not
be given much prominence in the leg
,..slatnre. His committees this year
ARE made up on much the same basis.
Speaker Bowling had, of course, en-
tirely new material'to work upon and,
as usual some coult not get just the
position they wanted. Mr., jacobson,
however, is we'll satisfied with the
! craftsmanship Of the committee on ap.
proprlations.f 5#..I TIL it$s
The appointment of James Martin
who was clerk of the judiciary com.
mittee TO the position of executive
clerk to the governor has brought
forth host of applicants for the com.
mittee clerkship. Among them is ex.
Lieut.. Gov Yale formerly of Winona
but now a resident Of st. Paul. The
position pays $40 dollars q day,
Y Among the bills introduced in the
senate was one extending the primary
election law of Hennepln county over
the whole state. There were six other
bills offered. but none of general i'm
portance except one which stops the
pay of judge who does not decide a
case in ninety days after it is submit
! ted, unless the parties in interest slip
ulate that he can have more time.
1t was appointments day IN the house
and the speaker named committee
clerk. a janitor, seven door and cloak
. room keepers, two file clerks and seven
pages. Representative Berg wants
more pages and offered resolution
providing for their increase. Proba-
bly, Speaker Dowling's appointments
did not include Mr.. Berg's favorites.
There were fifteen bills, introduced
in the house, nearly all of them amend
ing the statutes and none Of startling
Importance No one is in frame of
mind to legislate on anything import
ant when each one feels that the des-
tiny of the United States rests on his
vote for the senator.
/ It has been agreed to hold repub-
lican caucus Friday night, and if by
any accident there should be nomi-
nation (Which is hardly likely the
legislature would then go to work.
st. Paul, Jan. 17-The sessions of
both senate and house yesterday were
short, as they will undoubtedly con-
tinue to be, until the weigtlty question
of the senatorship is disposed Of.
Ten bills were introduced in the sem
ate and. sixteen in the house. all OF
which went to appropriate committees
where they will remain for some time
before being heard from.
One Of the senate bills authorizes
county commissioners to employ ex-
perts, or perhaps detectives, to hunt
up tax dodgers. tt has grown to be a
regular business for aclass of men, ex-
perienced in that line of work. to go
to county commissioners and offer to
collect taxes on shares, the general
charge being one half of all they col
lect. In some cases tins arrangement
has been carried out and in others
some indignant tax payer has brought
suit to prevent the commissioners
from making the division and the
courts haye decided that it was an IL
legal act on their part. The bill of.
fered in the senate authorizes the
commissioners to make such transac.
tions and zone offered in the house
the limit of Is per cent the sum the
county commissioners can pay the de.
tectives. We
A bill was introduced in the house
to, punish kidnapping, making the
maximum penalty twenty years i'm.
prisonment.
Another house bill abolishes the
present board of charities and correc.
tons and authorizes the governor to
appoint three men as state board OF
control who shall have charge Of all
penal and charitable institutions in
the state. This board is to appoint
wardens, superintendent and all ex-
ecutive officers of the institutions
thereby taking much, patronage away
from the governor. The secretary is
to have a salary Of $4,000. and the
office of state architect is created,
with d salary of IS, 600 attached.
st. Paul, Mimi. Jan. 1s. There
seems to be a disposition to put the
state institutions under the charge OF
a board of control. A bill to that