The Worthington advance., 1901-03-29
with only negative votes This va
the only important bill passed ~ the,

with only 3 negative votes This was
the only important bill a,passsd 81 the
senate. 81 sss z #s . RI; s3at q Fs IS a
Chaplain Lewis, whose death was
announced, practically sacridced' his
life in order to discharge his public
duties. His physicians forbid his
leaving his homo but he insisted on
going to the senate and the physician
threw mp the case. It twas quite ap-
propriate therefore tor the senate to
pass resolution giving his widow the
remainder Of tho pay which would
have been due him IL he had lived
throughout the session. A committee
Of six was appointed to attend the
funeral. Rev. H. "A. Chouinaid, Of ST..
Peter, who was . candidate for chan
lain at the outset and defeated by Mr..
Lewis, was elected chaplain for the
remainder of the term. @.- !;
The senate passed resolution call
ing upon the oil inspector to report
the names Of his deputies and the dis
tricts each work in. '....'
The usual buncombe game appeared
In bill offered to limit future sessions
to 80 days. ...
st. Paul, March 2&-The senate
passed tho board Of control bill yester-
day by . vote of 40 to 10, with the
amendment that the state university
and other educational institutions
shall b. placed in charge Of the new
board. An, effort will be made in, the
house to strike out this amendment.
Senator Chilton's marriage bill was
resurrected and amended 30 that when
parties wishing to marry can secure q
health certificate from q physician
showing that they are in sound mental
condition the ceremony can proceed.
In this form the bill passed. The bill
reducing interest on state land con-
tracts was also passed.
The corruption investigation in the
house is exciting considerable interest,
but it looks as If it would not amount
to much. It is now alleged that all
the talk about Doodle was done as q
matter of joke, and the parties sup
posed to be implicated say they never
were offered anything or heard of any
thing being offered.
The reapportionment bill, which was
in the hands of q conference commit
tee, has been finally agreed to, and
has gone to the governor for his sigma
ture.
The house passed the bill allowing
municipal employees to be garnisheed,
BY large majority. Quite q number
of bills were passed by the house, but
they were only of local interest.
st. Paul, March 25.-After almost in
Vulnerable delays. the house at last
reached a vote on the early adjourn
ment question Saturday. The senate
voted two or three weeks ago to ad-
journ on the 5th of April, but the
house voted to make the date April Is.
When the resolution reached the sem
ate, that body refused to concur, and
appointed a conference committee with
. view of agreeing upon April 18th or
12th. The latter date was finally
agreed upon. If the full session had
been held the date of adjournment
would have been April 25
The oil inspection fight has finally
terminated by the agreement Of the
conference committee to have the bill
go into effect after the term OF, the
present incumbent has expired, and
now 1t il reported that the governor
may veto the whole thing.
A bill was introduced in the senate
appropriatihg "a, 900 for the attorneys
for the state in litiQating the land
grant of the Duluth & Iron Range
railway.
The following are the new congress
sional districts as finally agreed upon:
First District - Dodge, Fillmore,
Freeborn, Houston, Mower, Olmstead,
Steele, Wabasha, Waseca, Winona.
Population, $40, ,164.
Second-Blue Earth, Brown, Cotton
wood. Faribault, Jackson, Martin,
Murray, Mobiles, Pipestone. Rock, Wa
tonwan. Population, 1871
Third-Carver, Dakota, Goodhue, LIE
sueur, Mcleod, Nicollet, Rice, Scott.
Sibley. Population, 1873, LOG.
Fourth-Ramsey, Washington, Chi
sago. Population, 2l1,610.
Fifth-Hennepin. Population, 22S,.
$40.
Sixth - Benton, Cass, Crow Wing,
Douglas, Hubbard, Meeker, Morrison,
Sherburne, Stearns, Todd. Wadena,
Wright. Population, 20s, 1862.
Seventh - Big Stone, Chippewa,
Grant. Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lin
coin, Lyon, Pope, Redwood, Renville,
Stevens, Swift. Traverse. Yellow Med
icine. Population, 1s4,357.
Eighth - Aitkin, Anoka, Carlton,
Cook, Isanti. 1tasca, Kanabec, Lake,
Mile Lacs, Pine, St. Louis. Popula-
tion, 158, 943.
Ninth-Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Kitt-