The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-02

1t Is true that the charge for care
OF insane is rather high, but z Is prac-
ucally 1880 per month per patient, and
any county asylum would have to be
conducted on very economical basis to
care for patients at this price Most Of
the counties have very few patients to
care for, and but few of them nav any
such sums as has been cited for Grant
county. The counties which have a high
er number are Minnehaha, Lawrence and
Union, while those on practically the
same basis as Grant are Turner and
Brown. All the rest have a fewer num-
per and their expense Is proportionately
light.
The bill for changing the time of cleo
uon OF supreme and circuit court judges
at general elections had to provide for
the constitutional provision, which pre-
vents the shortening of a term for more
than six months, and provides that in
the election held in 1904 all judges shall
be elected at the same time as other
officers, and that those elected that year
snail serve for four years and six months,
and their successors shall serve for the
same time. and after that time the term
shall be four years for circuit court
judges and six years for supreme court
judges.
The bill to prevent fraud In sales OF
stocks of merchandise to creditors.
which was killed by committee &c
port today, contained q provision to the
effect that in any case of sale of mer-
chandise ten days public notice must be
given of the intended sale. This provision
Killed the bill, and another will be intro
duced providing that in case of a transfer
of merchandise in bulk the party making
the transfer must furnish an affidavit of
all his creditors to the party making the
purchase, and OH this affidavit he makes
the purchase at his own risk.
But the fight of the day was on the bill
to allow county commissioners to send
INDECENT drunkards to some cure hospital
at county expense. In this the bill was
championed by Goddard, Packard, Locke,
Warren, McDougall and others, among
them Benedict who, as usual, did not
feel that the bill could be quite right
until he had had his say In the matter
He declared himself to be strongly in
favor Of the bill, but wanted an amend
ment to the effect that no payment was
to be made until the expiration of five
years to be certain that the cure was
permanent That he had failed to see
any INDECENT drunkards around asking
for the bill. but had found the man push
ing it who expected to get the fees out
of the county In case of success. Hts
amendment was voted down and the bill
passed by just the necessary A.
In the senate the bill to give counties
all the license fees collected from saloons
was fought to a finish by Hall, who de-
clared it to be a necessity to the state
to retain that part ef-Its revenue, which
is about 100000 a year, but he was OPP
posed by Englesby, and the bill carried
by a vote of Is to IA, but Hall gave no
tice of reconsideration, and the matter
will be fought over again tomorrow.
LITTLE CHANCE FOR BUFFALO.
Col. Rucker, official representative of
the Buffalo exposition, was given a
hearing today by both houses. The
chances for an appropriation are slight
The house committee cut the Gary asy-
ium land grant to $4,000 acres. The
house tangled up on the senate bill for
the codification of laws and it was only
saved by securing an extension until
Wednesday of next week An effort to
table the senate resolution for an lnves-
LEGATION committee failed and the reso-
luton was adopted. The first sign of the
beginning of the end was resolution
to make the 18th the limit for the intro
duction of bills, which was voted down.
although supported by old members who
have been through closing day scenes.
For n Cold in the Head
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