Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-03-20

LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP
Our Special Correspondent Tells Of
the Solons' Doings.
Bills are Being Rapidly Introduced and
Sent on Their Way by the Commit
tee Of the Whole. But Few
Have Become Laws.
st. Paul. March s.-A bill was Of
fered in the senate for the relief of d.
vorced wives. If alimony has been
awarded the wife which is insufficient
to support herself and children, the
court may allow her additional ali
mony. not exceeding one-third of the
personal property and real estate of
her husband. This does not apply if
the woman has been found guilty of
adultery.
There is great deal of trouble over
the drainage bills, there being two or
three pending in each house and a
new one was offered in the senate
yesterday. The trouble is that there
is not money enough to drain all the
lands that require it and each member
wants to secure his share of the funds
for his district. As some districts will
have to be left out entirely it makes
the contest over the bills hot one.
The senate UNANIMOUSLY passed the
bill granting 81, 600. 600 extra for COM
pleting the state capital.
There is to be big fight over the
re-apportionment of the congression-
al districts. Hennepin county is the
storm center. It wants Hennipin
county divided on the river, placing
East Minneapolis in separate dis
trict with Chisago, Kanabec, Isanti,
Anoka, Mile Laos, Benton, Sherburne,
Wright and Stearns counties to make
a district. The west side Of Hennepin
county is to be another district SO
that Minneapolis could have two mem.
bers of congress if the outside coun-
ties would permit her to take the can
didate on the East Side.
The bill appropriating $4,000 for
the Pan-American exposition display
from Minnesota passed the house un-
der suspension of the rules. Another
drainage bill was offered in the house.
Each senator and representative from
northern Minnesota needs to intro
duce drainage bill. or else his con.
stituents will get left.
St. Paul March 9.-The oil inspec-
ton bill has passed the senate. with
an amendment delaying its taking eff.
feet until after the term of the pres
ent incumbent (Fred Schiffman) ex-
pires. The author of the bill, Repre-
sentative Hurd. was after Schiffmann's
scalp, and consequently, while he gets
the bill the other fellow gets the
game. The Hastings and Anoka in.
sane asylums cropped up in the shape
of bill appropriating $500, 900 for new
buildings.
The bill allowing life prisoners to
be paroled from the penitentiary has
passed the house. The friends of the
bill made no concealment of the fact
that it was designed to release the
Younger brothers. AS the senate two
years ago refused to pass a somew ha t
similar bill. there is no certainty that
the proposed act will become q law.
Hennepin county received a back
set in the house. The new reappor.
tionment bill proposed by Hennepin
county, putting the east and west por-
tions of Hennepin county in separate
congressional districts, was voted
down, and the original bill, as report
ed by the committee, was passed by 50
to 81.
At the session of the senate the COM
mittee bill was also passed, with one
or two inconsequential amendments
by a vote of - to 8.
It is ominous that the house refuses
to pass the senate resolution for an
adjournment on April 5. Action has
been postponed for a week in order to
force the senate to pass house bills,
and when the week is up some other
excuse will probably be found for fur
ther postponement.
st. Paul. March 1.-THE senate
seems to have walked up to the fact
that the medical fraternity are asking
altogether too much, and consequently
killed off lot of their bills. They
have been asking regulations on al
most everything, with view of keep
ing new men from entering the pro-
fession.
The senate passed the house bill ap-
propriating $780, 900 for the display OF
Minnesota products at the Pan Amer.
can exposition at Buffalo. There are
three commissioners and a superin.
tendent to attend to the disbursement.
The reapportionment bill was
changed just trifle in the senate,
and now 1t has gone to a conference
committee to see if the two houses can
be brought together. The house
seems a little obstinate and determined
to stick to it's original bill.
The usual baking powder bill bobbed
up in the house. 1t requires all the in.
gradients to be printed in plain Eng.
lish on the label placed upon each
package. and imposes maximum fine
of 500 or Imprisonment for 80 days
for violation of the law.
The effort to repeal the corrupt
practices act failed, and the bill to dc
SO was indefinitely postponed.