Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-02-28
LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP
Our Special Correspondent Tells of
the Solons' Doings.
Bills are Being Rapidly Introduced and
Sent on Their Way by tho Commit.
tee OF the Whole. but Few
Have Become Laws.

ASSOCIATION was the leading feature in
the session OF the senate yesterday.
The bill allows mans wages above
50 per week to be garnisheed. This
does not really reduce the amount
which was before exempt, but allows
the garnishee to be made weekly.
There was a good deal OF opposition
TO it. on the ground that the working
men should be protected, but the bill
was finally recommended to pass by
80 TO 26.
The other bone of contention was
the bill cutting down the fees OF coun-
ty clerks. The bill has been having
pretty plain sailing, but the clerks
have seemingly rallied to protect their
interests, and the bill went over with
out any vote indicating its strength.
The house spent it's entire time in
committee of the whole and almost all
of that time was devoted to discussing
Speaker Dowling's bill raising the pay
of county commissioners from $3 to 81
per day. The bill itself was not d.
rectly acted upon, but a motion to in
definitely postpone was defeated by 50
nays to 81 yeas, which indicates it's
probable passage. =
bill was introduced putting all the
employees of the grain department un.
der civil service rules. a civil service
- board is created by the bill, which is
to examine applicants for positions,
having fee of $40 day while on duty
and charging each applicant 81 TO,
being examined.
The greater portion of the legisla-
ture went to Red Wing in the after.
noon to visit the state training school,
St. Paul, Feb. 2l.-The senate passed
the bill creating a tax commission by
a vote of 50 to I. The negative votes
were cast by Senators Knatvold. Nc
Govern, Viesselman and Schaller. The
commission is to consist of three men,
bers with a salary Of $4,000 each and
appropriates $4,000 to pay. the sala-
ries and expenses. If the bill should
pass the house it would probably end
Representative Jacobson's bill increas-
ing the gross earnings tax on railroads
from to 4 per cent If that bill
should pass the house, the senate,
which killed a similar bill two years
ago. would probably refuse to pass it
on the ground that they had already
passed the tax commission bill, which
is to report a law covering all kinds
of taxation. A possible deadlock be-
tween the two houses may occur and
both bills be lost, but at present the
chances seem to favor the tax colu-
mission bill.
Another commission was created by
the senate by the passage of the JOINT
resolution providing for the appoint.
inent of one senator and two repre-
sentatives to meet a similar commits
sion from Wisconsin to agree upon a
plan for taxing the shipping interests
on Lake Superior.
The senate passed the house bill
Furnishing the crime of kidnapping,
making the maximum penalty twenty
years Imprisonment. 1t only lacks
the governors signature to become a
law. '"~ :"
! A bill was introduced which requires
railroad stations, where the receipts
are Us, 600 or more per year, to be kept
open between trains and during ali
business hours.
Rather an odd bill was offered by
Senator Thompson. which allows a
man who has served four consecutive
years in the legislature to practice law
after he has read law a year, six
months of which must be in the office
OF reputable attorney. The bill is
; supposed to be in the interest of SEN
ator Knatvold.
Another bill introduced allows man.
ufacturing corporations to own more
than 5000 acres of land in the state.
At present all corporations are forbid
den owning more than that amount of
land, but the Grass Irvine company of
St. Paul needs great many thousands
| of acres of swamp grass land to manu-
| facture Irvine.
Senator .Du Toit introduced a bill
appropriating $4,000 for the purpose
of erecting monuments on the posi-
tions occupied by Minnesota troops in
! the attack on Vicksburg in 1868.
Another bill appropriates $1,000, to
give to each high school in the state
500. to make up for deficiency in the
last appropriation, which gave them
$500, but only $500 were paid.
There was quite contention in the
house over the bill for a constitu-
tlonal amendment allowing the legis.
lature to fix the term of probate
judges at any number of years it may
see tit- After "A long debate the bill
was indefinitely postponed. ..~. -.
| The bill making an eight-hour day
on public works was passed, after be-
ing amended excepting work done for
towns and counties and on county
roads.
The bill allowing country merchants
to indulge in auctions was indefinitely
postponed. .- ..- .-t..
A bill was introduced increasing the
fees of grand and petit jurors from So
to So per day and making their mile.
age 10 cents a mile.
! Speaker Dowling's bill increasing
the pay of county commissioners from
IS to ST. per day was passed.
There is evidently to be considerabl
temperance agitation this winter, as
hill uae introdnco1 IN the sonata ex.