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and also regulating the conduct of
barber schools .5
The larger portion Of the house ses-
sion was devoted to discussing Speaker
Dowhng's bill increasing the pay Of
county commissioners from s. to ~ per
day. q bill to indefinitely postpone
was lost, but the bill was finally left
in committee Of the whole. .#
There is q good deal of agitation
over the fact that the committee on
reapportionment sits with closed
doors. So many members of the legis-
lature hope to see the new conRres-
sional districts SO carved out that they
will have q chance to 60 to congress
that they want to know what the COM
mittee is doing. 1t now looks as if
the committee would make the dis
trlcts SO that they can all get elected
to congress and leave the rest of the
legislature to take its chances. When
the bill Is finally reported to the open
legislature things may be different.
st. Paul. Feb. 1a.-There was little
attempt to introduce politics into leg
islation Saturday, but it came to
naught. Senator Stockwell in ntroduced
resolutions against the ship subsidy
bill and against retaining the Philip
pines Both were promptly laid on
the table, and as a motion to table is
not debatable, there was no oppor-
tunity for flights of oratory.
Among the bills introduc ed was the
one creating a board of opteometry,
which is to regulate opticians, prevent
ing physicians who are general prac-
titioners from treating the eyes, and
requiring parties selling eye glasses
and spectacles to pass an examination
and secure a license. The bill is evi-
IDENTIFY based on the theory that none
are SO blind as those. who won't see,
and it proposes to make them see
whether they will or not. It is quite
evident that the eye specialist who in
vented the bill can see hole through
a skinner with the naked eye.
Senator McGill introduced bill cre-
ating fund to pension school teach
ers in districts having over 5000 peo-
pie. It sets apart l per cent of the
salaries paid to create the fund. 1t is
sort of enforced savings bank pro-
vided for the teachers by the teachers
themselves, and if the same set of
teachers remain in the same district
40 or 80 years they will have laid up
quite bank account for their old age.
It will make the young lady teachers
independent of marriage to secure a
home.
Another bill prohibits marriage of
feeble-minded persons, or those affect
ed with epilepsy or hereditary insanity.
The house was greatly wrought up
by petition from the old soldiers at
the soldiers home. As it is now, the
pensions of the old soldiers who are
inmates of the homes are collected by
the institution and devoted to its
maintenance, only small fraction
being given to the pensioner. They
either want it all or a good deal larger
proportion than they receive. There
was contest over printing it in the
journal of the house, but the old SOL
diers scored, and it was ordered print
ed, so that they can see their griev-
ance. This publicity may lead to some
legislation later.
A bill was passed requiring proposed
constitutional amendments to be print
ed at the top instead of at the bottom
of the ballot.
The tombstone industry encountered
a loss by the defeat of the bill author
izing the probate judges to erect $50
monuments over neglected graves.
And still they come! A bill offered
Saturday provides for state art COM
mission to pass upon the architecture
and plans of all public buildings. The
commission is to consist of five persons
appointed by the governor and they
are to be paid SIS per day for every day
actually employed. If this thing
keeps on there will be nothing on
earth not regulated by commission,
not excepting the bills of fare at hotels
and restaurants.