The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-19
HOUSE WILL MET TODAY
NO VACATION is GRANTED BY THE
CzAR, JACOBSON, OF LAC
QUI PARLE
MINNEAPOLIS WANTS SCHOOLS
Bill Is Introduced to Provide Edu-
catiOnaI Facilities for
the City Up the
River.

There have already been introduced
into the house sixty-six bills, and there
awaits some busy seasons of debate for
the members when they get their affairs
in such shape that they can afford to
devote at least an hour each day to
their official duties. Naturally the SEN
atorial contest has engaged the attention
and absorbed the interest of the legis-
lators up to the present and they may
not be expected to accomplish much in
the way Of regular legislation until this
matter Is disposed Of
Representative Umland, anticipating
the lack of interest that would prevail
at the session yesterday owing to the
intense feeling over the senatorial sit
uation, endeavored to cancel the meet
ing today and take an adjournment I'M
til Monday morning. But Jacobson, per-
haps observing the loophole this would
afford for undetermined members to
leave the city before the caucus last
night, urged that the house convene
again this morning as usual. This pre-
vailed.
Seeking to correct some of the de-
ficiencis in the existing matrimonial
laws, Representative finland. who
fought for the same reform two years
ago, yesterday introduced a measure
which makes it illegal for any divorced
person to remarry within less than one
year after the decree has been issued.
1t also imposes a penalty upon the clerk
or deputy clerk for issuing a license to
such divorced person within less than
the prescribed period.
Some amusement was created when
Speaker Bowling referred the dill to the
committee on crimes and punishments.
Representative Bean introduced a
measure providing that the employees of
the st. Peter hospital. who suffered
financial loss by the recent fire at that
institution, shall be reimbursed by the
state. The bill proposed an appropria-
ton for this purpose of 81, 1G9.30. There
are only twenty-three persons to be ben
Gifted by this bill.
The house concurred in the senate res
olution providing for the appointment
of a committee Jointly from the two
houses to inquire into the method by
which the gross earnings bill of express
companies was changed last session be-
fore it reached the governor. "A commit
tee from the house to act with the sem
ate was appointed, composed of Messrs
Roberts, Nichols and Pennington.
A bill introduced by J. A. Peterson.
providing a three-mill tax limit for
school purposes, threatened to evoke a
storm of debate, but when it became
known that the bill was to apply only
to Hennepin county the members thus
aroused consented to suhside. The bill
was handed over to the Hennepin dele
cation for reference.
In opening the orty-three-minute SEES
sion yesterday morning Chaplain
Knowles did not forget the unseep1ly
enactons likely to obtain at the caucus
last night, before which he would prcb-
ably not have another opportunity of
invoking the blessings of peace and wis
dom in that assemblage and so he prayed
that in the selection of successor to
the late Senator Davis, wisdom and in
tegrity might guide the members in their
deliberations.