The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-02-21
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3 I'm the Senate.
i st. Paul, Feb. Id. s. .Vandiyer Is
4 no longer in the employ Of the senate
at salary Of SIS per day as clerk.
4 The special committee reported that,
without examining into the fitness OF
n J. 8. vandiver for the position Of
4 clerk Of the senate rapport onment
committee. 1T was found this commit
tee Is now merged into the joint COM
n1ittee with another clerk, and hence
Vandiver.s services were not needed.
The report Of the special committee
was adopted without q dissenting voice.
Senator =. p. Jones presented bill
i creating a new state board Of educa-
Ition. #
Senator Potter. by request. presented
a bill in regard to libel suits permit
i ting either a civil or criminal action:
4 the civil action, il brought, to bar
i criminal action.
Senator Thompson introduced a bill
raising the amount Of state aid to high
4 schools from $500 to $1,000.
Senator Meilicke fathered bill
4 which amends the fish and game law
so as to prevent the sale Of ducks or
any other aquatic fowl in the state.
4 In the House. s3
! "A batch of fifteen bills was intro
duced in the house, among them one
to increase the maximum to be allowed
for the new capitol from $2,000,000 to
SO. 600 900.
! Mr.. Armstrong presented a bill to
prohibit wine rooms. Partitions, screens
| and stalls in saloons are under the
| ban. ss. # sS55s VI
| Mr.. Rich Of Ramsey introduced a
bill to appropriate $500 for a picture Of
the late Senator Davis painted by Carl
Boeckmann. and another bill appro-
| priating $1,000 or so much thereof as is
Ramsey. # MI
"a bill to prohibit the courterfeiting
of labor union cards was also intro
duced, as was the biennial measure
I,to provide that fve-sixths of a jury.
may render verdict in a. civil suit.
"A joint session in memory Of the late
Senator G. K. Davis was to have been
held in the hall Of the house in the
afternoon. It was decided, however, to
postpone the exercises until Monday,
and the house devoted the time to gem
eral orders. S5t$
In the Senate
st. Paul, Feb. Ex-senator Jepsons
ELL to abolish booths and wine rooms
In saloons was killed after warm de-
bate in the senate. "A motion to in
definitely postpone was carried BY a
vote OF % to II.
l Senator Johnson offered bill SIM
liar to one offered in the house for the
appointment by the governor of
board of eight to arrange for Mime
IIota's representation at the Pan
American exposition. The bill carries
with II ar appropriation Of $4,000.
Other important bills presented were:
BY Senator Snyder, to establish a
hoard Of three stationary engineers APP
POINTED by the governor, to license OPP
orators OF elevator machinery; by Sem
ator McNamean. adding three homeo-
paths and two osteopaths to state
medical board: by Senator Horton. to
appropriate 81, 0O0e00 to complete new
capitol; by Senator Bnckn.an. to in
crease the salary Of the chief fire
warden from 81, 200 to $500.
The Roberts memorial, asking for the
submission of an amendment to the
United States constitution giving con-
gress the power to define, regulate and
dissolve trusts, was recommended to
pass without dissenting vote Prog
ress was reported on eight other bills
on general orders
The invitation Of the house to meet
in joint session Monday afternoon for
a c. K. Davis memorial was accepted.
In the House.
It'll,
Of some interest-one by Mr.. Jackson
of Ramsey making non-support or
neglest Of wife and family a felony, in
stead Of a misdemeanor, but providing
for suspension Of sentence when the
defendant win give a bond to perform
his duty. s
Mr.. Roberts Of Hennepin presented /
a bill providing for detention hospitals
for the alleged insane in cities Of over
$4,000 population, and which shall be
either wards in hospitals or in other |
suitable quarters under state control.
Il The committee on military affairs
presented a bill to raise the salaries OF I
the adjutant general and his assistant, i
respectively. to SO 900 and $15oo.
Messrs. Dunn, Plowman and S. D.
Peterson were appointed to confer with
a similar committee from the senate
relative to the DaEis.memoria1 services
Monday.
The calendar was cleared up, the
most important of the eight bills I
passed being those locating the first
state fish hatchery at ST. Paul and the
act making effective the constitutional /
amendment as to the school funds APP
proved by the people at the last cleo
ton.
In the House.
st. Paul. Feb. 16.-The house spent a
portion of the day in conn
nittee of the whole on general orders.
A bill was introduced by Mr.. Morley
Of Steele declaring the ox-eyed daisy a
public nuisance, and making it's culti-
walton. propagation or distribution q
Mr. Fust of Minneapolis presented a
bill requiring barber schools to file
!. 4 4 $3.50 a. NM -. .