The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-08
FOR BOARD
OF CONTROL
Present Outlook Bright For Pas
age of That Measure.
The House Well Up With lis Work.
Brief Mention of Many Measures
Before the SOlOns.

orders and the calendar. Yet there
have been introduced in the house thus
far this session more bills than at a
similar stage two vars ago.
Numerous committee reports wer e
heard, including a volumlnous one
from the committee on banks and
banking, the first this session. Among
the bills acted upon favorably were H.
F. 1O4, abolishing days Of grace, II. F.
1O4 and Il. f. 105, amending the law
as applicable to savings banks, amend
ments in which Minneapolis financial
institutions are particularly interested !;
II. F. 373, by Mr.. Ferris, protecting
banks in receiving deposits from
minors, and S. F. AS by Senator Bar
ker, amending chapter 145 of the gem
eral laws of 1895.
The appropriation for dining hall
and kitchen at the soldiers home
was favorably considered. The bill
will now go to the committee on ap-
preparations. The committee on sol
diers' home also reported the Rich
bill, H F. III, conveying to the
United States portion of the site of
the soldiers home, Immediately ad-
Joining the lock and dam in the Mis-
sissippi.
The Pan-American exposition bill,
H F. 261, was indefinitely postponed,
a substitute having been prepared
which carries an appropriation of 800,
600. Among the bills reported by the
Judiciary committee for passage was
S. F. 112, providing for prosecution of
proceedings for the suspension of at
tCrneys. The same committee attached
a long amendment to the BARRIERS
bill requiring all instructors in ton
serial colleges to hold a certificate
from the BARRIERS state board of ex-
aminers.
On general orders the house Endorsed
the drainage bill, carrying an appro-
priation of $25, 900; the bill authoriz-
ing history of the Minnesota volun-
teers in the Spanish war; the bill pro-
viding for duplicate and original re-
cords of the civil war in the adjutant
generals Office, and the bill equipping
the state with the proper machinery
for the collection of taxes on telegraph
lines.
Attorney General Douglas has been
directly interested in this last measure,
and it is understood that his anxiety
to secure its passage has been chiefly
aroused by the present inability of
state officers to collect taxes from the
Western Union. The bill was intro
duced in the house by J. A. Peterson.
The Torson bill, providing for a
board of control, will be laid before
the house in the near future. 1t has
been considered by the committee on
general legislation, amended and re-
ported to pass. Changes were found
necessary in some forty-fve instances,
but in the majority of cases the
changes all related to the same modifi-
cation, viz the handling of insGitu
tional funds by the state treasurer. AS
Mr.. Torson explains the bill in its pre-
sent form, the officials of the various
institutions will be relieved from all
responsibility in connection with the
management of funds. There will be
established a system of warrants SINH
lar to that in effect in several depart
ments of the state, and all bills will be
paid by means of these slips of paper.
This will centraliZe the management
of the various institutions, and their
system of accounts, in way not an
ticipated when the original bill was
introduced.
The board of control bill will be re-
ported ont to pass by the joint COM
mittee which has had it in charge for
several weeks. After another public
hearing yesterday afternoon the COM
mittee went into executive session,
and finally reached the conclusion to
report favorably on the bill. Some
members of the committee who were
opposed to the bill, reserved the right
to vote against it on the floor.
The discussion at the public hear
ing yesterday convered much of the
same old ground 1t was enlivened by
Senator Dart of Litchfeld, who
claimed that the governor had sent
as commissioners to the states men
already in favor of the boards idea.
This was vehemently denied by State
Auditor Dunn. G H. Petit of Min
neapolis, president of the board of
managers of the state training school
at Red Wing, spoke against the bill,
and Mrs. Helen Gregory Flesher of
Faribault talked in its favor.
The amendments suggested by the
commission will be incorporated in the
bill as reported to the house and SEN
ate.
Prof. Hays, of the state experiment
station, will draft the new highway
commission bill, provided for in the
constitutional amendment adopted in
1898.
He has been authorized by the road
and bridge committees of the house
and senate to do this, and it will be
presented in each body as committee
bill
The country members and their con-
stituents are clamorous for some road
and bridge money. Until the highway
commission is created to supervise the
work to be done in return for the
states money, no appropriations can
be made.
The senate resolution for an early
adjournment has not yet been present.
ed to the house, but will probably be
sent in tomorrow when the senate re-
assemblies.
1t was reported about among the
senators today that the house leaders
when it comes in and hold it up until
made at the caucus of Monday night
and considered number of bills in
which these house leaders are inter-
ested.
Considerable doubt is expressed by
house members as to the passage of
the resolution by that body.
Cities and villages must pay the
cost of prosecuting Migrants and
DRINKS convicted within their limits
according to a bill by Mr.. Afford of
Duluth The expense must be paid out
of the receipts from liquor licenses.
A tax on dogs is provided for by a
bill introduced by the committee on
agriculture Male dogs are taxed 81,
and females So, and no personal pro-
perty exemption shall excuse the pay
ment of this tax.