Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-04-17
LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP
Our Special Correspondent Tells Of
the Solons' Doings.

the Solons' Doings.
Tho Time Having Passed for Introduction
of Bills, without Consent of the
Governor, Both Houses Have
Settled to Work.
st. Paul, April 6.-The senate passed
good many bills yesterday. One of
them allows district judges Their ex-
penses when away from home attend
ing court. Another requires railroad
companies to keep agents at all sta
tions where the business amounts to
$4,000 or more per year. Other bills
which passed were requiring suits
against commission merchants to be
begun within year after cause occurs;
requiring corporations filing amend
ment increasing capital stock to pay a
fee on the capitalization. The rest of
the day was devoted to debating bills
in committee of the whole.
While it was supposed that the pri-
mary election law was completed on
Thursday by the conference committee,
in order to guard against any question
being raised as to it's legality, both
houses passed it over again yesterday,
and it now goes to the governor.
Each house is trying to indulge in a
little sharp practice on the other, and
so whatever is done in the house, for
instance, pertains to house bills, as the
house resolutely refuses to put any
more senate bills through until the SEN
ate passes some of the bills which have
been sent to it from the house. The
senate is pursuing similar policy, so
that it will not be surprising if good
many bills, concerning which there is
no contest, should pass one body and
fail to pass the other.
The house put in the larger portion
of the day in committee of the whole,
devoting itself entirely to house bills.
The million-dollar capitol bill has been
on the general order list for five days,
but rs it is a senate bill it has been put
over every time it was reached.
St. Paul, April s.-The cigarette bill
forbidding the sale of cigarettes was
amended in the senate to include chew
ing gum as we'll, and then indefinitely
postponed.
The house bill appropriating 81, 21O
to pay Blair and Mayhood their ex-
penses for the LIE Sueur county contest
finally passed the senate, after consid-
cradle criticism.
The Paris exposition awarded some
medals to Minnesota buttermakers and
then charged $3.50 before they will de-
liver them. This seems a good deal
like buying your own honors, but the
senate passed bill Saturday appropri-
ating that sum in order to secure them
for the winners .
The committee appointed to investi-
gate the charges of corruption made by
Representatives jacobson and Wash
burn, in connection with the railroad
gross earnings bill, reported that while
there was sufficient smoke to warrant
an inquiry, there was no real fire. In
other words, they found no actual cor
ruption. Representative Laybourn of
Duluth followed the report with reso-
luton censuring Messrs.' Jacobson and
Washburn for having made the charges
This resolution made something of a
but went over until today un-
der notice of debate
The bill designed to release the
Younger brothers on parole was re-
called from the governor by the house
for the purpose of amendment. Chief
Justice Start, of the pardoning board,
is counted as permanently hostile to
the parole and the attempted amend
ment was to substitute State Audito,
Dunn for Chief Justice Start on the
board. The amendment failed, and then
the whole bill was indefinitely post
poned. Now it is claimed by attorneys
that the postponement was unconstitu-
tional and that the bill has become a
law by having been, constructively, in
the possession of the governor long
enough to become law without his
signature: When the legislature is in
session the governor has three days to
approve bill or veto it, and if he does
neither it becomes law anyway. He
had the Younger parole bill in his pos
session two and one-half days when the
house recalled it, and the legal point is
raised that one branch of the legisla.
ture had no right to recall bill which
had passed both bodies.
St. Paul, Mimi, April 9.-The omni-
bus appropriation bill was introduced
in both houses yesterday, ordered
printed and made special order for 10
o'clock Wednesday. 1t carries appro-
priations amounting to $2,737 900,
which is 100000 more than two years
ago. Very few get what they hoped
for. The university asked for $3.50, O0O
and got $2s2,000. The state fair asked
for 800, 200 and got $37, 900. The Pan.
American commissioners asked an in
crease from $4,000 to 1000 and get
an increase of $4,000. The school OF
agriculture asked $l50,OOO and got
of $4,000. The St. Peter insane asy-
lum gets $94,O75, the Rochester 1884,.
100; Fergus Falls $685., ZOO; Anoka
$4,000; Hastings Sal, 100; total OF
$773,S7 The normal schools gather
in 1922, 500, Winona receiving $44, 500;
Mankato $4,000; Moorhead $7O,5OO;
Duluth $20,5OO, and St. Cloud ISL 200.
The school for the feeble minded at
Faribault must have made great i'm
preston on the committee which went
down there on Sunday to investigate
for it is given $274,oOo. The state re-
formatory gets $122,70o and Soldiers
home $2s,5OO Printing for two years
costs $l13 400.
The senate devoted nearly the entire
day to the passage of bills. One bill
passed allows for the increased popula-
ton of towns and cities by permitting
the annexation of adjacent property
where the owners desire the same