The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-03
N|(E. FAT, JUICY PLUNS
GOV. WHITE MAKES A LARGE NUM-
BIER OF APPOINT
MENTS
WISH TO MOVE THE CAPITAL
Pass Bill to Label Cigarettes as
''POison" - Still Fighting
Over the Wolf
bounty.

: BISMARCK, N. D., March 2-(Special.)
The governor made a large number of
appointments yesterday, and the SuS-
pense is over. There is some controversy
over places on the asylum board, and APP
pointments will be made. Other appoint
ments are generally satisfactory and in
dictate no change in the management of
the principal state institutions. An en-
tirely new penitentiary board was nam
ed, and 1t is expected that the present
management Of the institution will be
continued. The appointments were con-
frmed without incident
The introduction of a proposed consti-
tutional amendment to locate the state
capital at Fargo created some interest,
but no excitement, as there Is no pos
sibility of it's passage.
The state medical association bill went
through the senate saddled with provis-
ions. allowing the practice Of osteopathy,
Christian Science and magnetic healing.
The bill as passed is a distinct failure
SO far as the desires of the state as
ISOLATION, who introduced the bill, are
concerned.
The house passed the cigarette license
bill, providing that all packages of cigar
cites sold in the state shall have the
word poison" printed with skull and
croSSboneS in red ink.
The wolf bounty appropriation was re-
ported by majority and minority commit
tees, the latter favoring killing the ap-
preparation, and the matter went to COM
mittee Of the whole.
The reform school bonding bill was
passed, and a number Of unimportant
bills in both houses. A constitutional
amendment for local option was reported
by majority and minority of the COM
mittee, and the matter will be fought out
in committee Of the whole. The house
killed the bill to wipe out the salary of
the adjutant general of the state guard
and adopted a favorable report on all
senate bills for the maintenance Of state
institutions, which will be passed without
change.
There is plenty Of talk over Senator
Murphy's bill to elect city aldermen for
four years, as under the provisions of
the bill the present city officers will hold
over for another year, the bill providing
that all city elections be held in even
numbered years It is suggested in some
quarters that this is an attempt to avoid
an election in Bismarck, where all the
city officers are to be elected this spring.
It also applies to the election of a por-
ton of the aldermen in every city in
the state. Senator Murphy says he in
troduced the bill by request, and that
he Is not aware Of any sinister motive,
but that the aim is simply to make city
elections fall at the same time through
out the state.
The bill for the aid Of the high school
board and the appointment of a high
school inspector is among the bills recon-
nended to pass the senate. 1t is reported
this is bill in the interest of ex-State
Superintendent j. G. Halland, whom, it
is said, has been slated for the place by
the high school board.
House bill H. known as the anti-hobo
law, has been amended by the senate and
for passage. The bill as it
passed the house repeats the present rail-
road hobo law, so much complained of
as expensive by several counties The
senate has amended the bill to provide
that arrests Of hoboes can not be made
until persons stealing a ride on trains
have been ordered off and given a
chance to get off; 1t also limits the pow
ers Of railway employees as peace Of
fcers. In it's present shape it is thought
it will be acceptable to taxpayers and
the railways.
Jacobson, is recommended to pass. This
bill provides for the appointment by
the governor of q competent inspector
of mines at a salary Of 81 900 a year and
expenses. He shall put up bond Of
81, 900, and shall examine all the coal
mines in the state, his term of Office be-
ing for two years.
It seems a striking commentary on the
times that it is necessary to pass bill
prohibiting state officers from taking a
rakeoff on their clerks salaries, and vet
the senate has recommended such a bill
to pass. 1t ought to be labeled a bill
for the relief Of needy and Woodworking
capitol clerks.
The bill to permit graduates from the
state university to practice law without
examination has been favorably reported
In the senate. 1t seems hardly a fair
in view Of the searching ex-
animation required Of those who have not
had the good fortune to have imbibed
their legal training Of the university.
The house appropriations committee has
agreed on all appropriation bills passed
by the senate, and on $4,000 for the Pan
American exhibit.
The road machine bills that are in are
attracting their share of interest, and
there is a lobby Of machinery men at the
capitol to prevent If possible the repeal OF
the law whereby township boards must
purchase road machines upon the petition
of certain number of residents A
good many Of the farmers are just as
anxious to kill the law, claiming it was
passed solely in the interests Of the ma
chine men.
There is a number Of important meas.
ures that have not yet come out of com
mittee. The bill for the repeal of the
penalty clause Of the prohibition law Is
in the hands of the temperance commit.
tee, and is admitted to have no chance Of
passage. Another bill is in to permit set.
Elements with bondsmen Of defunct banks
in which the state has funds. Senator
Cashel has an important measure provid-
ing for the sale Of several hundred acres
Of school and institution lands of the
state this year. This bill would bring II
permanent sums to be invested, the in.
terest to go to the maintenance Of the in.
stitutions. It is also provided thai
enough of the state capital lands be solo
to pay the $4,000 bonds issued for the
erection Of the addition, in 1894, and
enough Of the soldiers home lands be
sold to pay for the improvements recently
erected there. The bill for the creation
OF the board Of trustees for the proposed
institute for the feeble-minded at Graf.
ton, and authorizing them to draw upor
the state treasurer for the funds in the
treasury to the credit of the institution
for the building of a suitable institute
has passed the senate, and the house
looks favorably upon the proposition tc
issue $4,000 bonds for the erection of 6