The Worthington advance., 1901-03-15

10 not money enough to drain sll 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 ont entirely it makes
the contest over the bills q hot one.
The senate .unanimosly passed the
bill granting 81. 000, 900 extra for COM
pleting the state capital. %.t'"*' @
There is to be q 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 q separate dis
trict with Chisago. Kanabec, Isanti,
Anoka, Mile Lacs, Benton, Sherburne,
Wright and Stearns counties to make
district. The west side of Hennepin
county is to be another district so
that Minneapolis could have two mem.
bers Of congress il 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 ef-
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 5000, 900 for new
buildings.
The bill allowing life prisoners to
be paroled from the penitentiary has
passed the house. The friends of the
Jill made no concealment of the fact
that it was designed to release the
Younger brothers. As the senate two
years ago refused to pass somewhat
similar bill, there is no certainty that
the proposed act will become a 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 81
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 42 to 8.
1t is ominous that the house refuses
to pass the senate resolution for an
adjournment on April s. Action has
been postponed for 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 q lot of their bills. They
have been asking regulations on al
most everything, with a view of keep
ing new men from entering the pro-
feSsiOn.
The senate passed the house bill ap-
$40. 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 triAe in the senate,
and now 1t has gone to a conference
to see If the two houses can
be brought together. The house
seems little obstinate aud determined
to stick to its original bill.
The usual baking powder bill bobbed
up in the house. Itrequires 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 do
SO was indefinitely postponed.