Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-02-13

provided the capital stock of such COM
panies is fixed at 100000.
The house was in session half an
hour, passing resolution to provide
inmates of the soldiers home with
oveccoats
"A bill relative to the form of ballot
IN state and national elections in the
state of Minnesota was introduced by
representative Rider. It is similar to
other bills introduced in this respect.
1t carries with it the provision that all
tickets be placed on one ballot.
Representative Deming would have
what are known as days of grace in
the payment Of promissory notes and
bills of exchange abolished.
Representative G. w. Armstrong has
bill relative to the poll tax to be
placed on dogs, which Speaker Dow
ling referred to the committee on agri-
culture, amid much laughter.
A new eight-hour law act was in.
PRODUCED by Senator Potter differing
from the MCGOWAN measure, in that it
applies only to work on public build
lngs and not to all departments of the
state employment.
The committee of the whole was
presided over by Senator Stockwell.
Senator Wilson's bill for a constitu-
tlonal convention was the only meas
ure of general Importance.
st. Paul, MINI. Feb. IAN impor-
tant insurance bill was introduced in
both houses yesterday. It. provides
Tor the enlargement of the duties of
the insurance commissioner, increase
OF his salary and the appointment of
four additional assistants. The COM
mlssioners salary is raised from So, 500
to SIS, 500 and his deputy's salary is
raised from So, 900 to So, 500. He is also
given an actuary with a salary of ST.
600, chief clerk with salary of ST.
200, an assistant clerk with salary of
$3.50, stenographer with salary of
5000 and an assistant stenographer
with salary of 5000. The object of
the bill is to enable the Insurance
commissioner to scrutnize more care
fully the responsibilities of insurance
companies doing business in the state,
and as the expenses will be paid from
the fees collected from the insurance
companies, it will not be burdensome
upon the tax papers. AS an offset for
increasing the expenses, the bill pro-
vldes that the usual lengthy state
ment which must now be published by
law in either a St. Paul or Minneapo-
lis paper, can be briefly summarized and
and printed in any county where the
company's chief local office is located.
! Senator Snyder offered civil SER
vice bill applicable to cities of more
than fifteen Thousand population. It
provides for the appoin tment of civil
service commission of five members
who are to hold examinations and de-
termine upon the qualifications of ap-
| plicants for Office. 1t is nodded con-
siderably after the United States
civil service law, exempting heads of
departments and principals of schools
from it's operations.
| A resolution was introduced to dis
miss j. S. Vandiver from his clerkship,
but as the ma ority of the senate have
gone on record in favor of the pardon
of Mollie Morris, which he engineered,
there seems no reason to suppose that
they will vote to GUST him because he
did it.
The event in the house was the re-
port of the committee on taxes and tax
laws. Thew decided to clear the skies
by reporting for indefinite postpone
ment every bill they had before them
regardless of it's merits. The excuse
for this summary action was economy
as the bills allowed special taxes to be
levied for certain purposes. Three OF
the bills were resurrected from the
tomb to which the committee had con
signed them.
One of the bills introduced is aimed
to make the manufacture of process
butter unpopular by requiring the
label to be in such large letters that
he who runs may read.
A bill appropriatiing $4,000 for {
dining room and kitchen at the Sol
diers' Home was introduced.
The old question of the age Of con
sent was brought up by bill increas
| ing it in females from 16 to 10 years.
Senator Daily of Otter Tail offered
the first antitrust bill of the session.
It gives district courts authority tc
restrain corporations of individuals
from com ining to restrict competition
in trade and makes it the duty of coun
! ty attorneys to prosecute such alleged
| combinations