Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-02-14
LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP
Our Special Correspondent Tells Of
the Solons' Doings. -
Pho Senatorial Question Being Settled, the
Members Are Rapidly Getting the s..
Wheels of Government a.~~
In Motion.

st. Paul. MINI. Feb. IAN impor-
tant insurance bill was introduced in
both houses yesterday. It. provides
Tor the enlargement of the duties of
The insurance commissioner, increase
of his salary and the appointment Of
-FOUR additional assistants. The COM
missioners salary is raised from So, 500
to IS, 500 and his deputy's salary is
raised from 50, 900 to So. 500. He is also
given an actuary with salary of $2,-
900, chief clerk with a salary of ST.
200. an assistant clerk with a salary Of
1850, stenographer with a salary of
1900 and an assistant stenographer
with a salary of $500. The object of
the bill is to enaole the Insurance
commissioner to :rutnlze more care
fully the response o4itics of insurance
companies doing business in the state,
and as the expenses wall be paid from
the fees collected from the insurance
companies, it wall not be burdensome
upon the tax papers. AS an offset for
increasing the expenses, the bill pro-
vides that the usual lengthy state
ment which must now be published by
law in either Il ST. Paul or Minneapo-
lis paper, can be briefly summarized and
and printed in any county where the
eompany's chief local office is located.
Sena.Or Snyder offered civil SER
vice bill applicable 10 cities of more
than fifteen thousand population. 1t
provides for the appuiN Lment of civil
service comm. ss.ou OF five members
WHO are to hold eX.lml lations and de-
term ne upon the gu .u6cations of ap-
pllrAnts for office. 1t is nodded con-
siderAbly after the United States
civil service law, exempting heads of
departments and principals of schools
from its operations.
~ resolution was introduced to dis
miss }. 5. Vandiver from his clerkship,
bu Us the majority of the senate have
gonc on record in favor of the pardon
OF Mollie Morris, when he engineered,
there seems no reason to suppose that
they will vote to GUST him because he
did It.
The event in the house was the re-
port Of the committee on taxes and tax
laws. Thew decided to clear the skies
by reporting for indefinite postpone
ment every bill they had before them,
re ardless Of its merits. The excuse
for this summary action was economy,
as the bills allowed special taxes to be
levied for certain purposes. Three of
the bills We're resurrected from the
tomb to which the committee had con-
signed them.
One Of the bills introduced is aimed
to make the manufacture of process
butter unpopular by requiring the
label 10 be in such large letters that
he WAC runs may read.
bill .ppropriatilng $4,000 for a
dining room and kitchen at the Sol
diers' Home Was in reduced.
Tne old question of the age of con-
sent was brought up by bill increas-
ing it in females from 16 to IS years.
senator Daily of Otter Tail offered
che first an IT, lrust hill of the session.
1t gives district courts authority to
restrain corporations of individuals
from com bining to restrict competition
in trade and makes it the duty of cQun-
ty attorneys to prosecute such alleged
combinations.
St. Paul, MINI. Feb. S-For a good
many years the question of consti-
tn; ional convention for the purpose of
making a new constitution, out of the
present patchwork affair, has been
mooted and the senate judiciary COM
mittee declared itself practically un-
animous in it's favor. The friends of
the measure were therefore greatly
surprised when the bill was defeated
by a vote of 20 to ~ as it required a
two thirds vote to pass such a bill.
The ground on which the negative
votes were cast was the expense which
the state would incur, and though
Senator Wilson, who had drawn the
bill, stated that the expense would be
spread over a period of six years, he
could not secure the necessary votes.
A bill for meat inspection was intro
duc,d in the senate which provides for
the payment of losses incurred by
owners Of 1--we stock ordered killed by
by the state officials owing to the dis
eased condition of the animals. The
fund for this purpose is to be created
by fees charged for inspecting all live
stock.
- 1t was decided to continue the pur-
chase of spring water for the senators
SO that they can return home without
communicating their constituents by
microbes taken into their system
through St. Paul water. It does not
follow from this that the Senators
will necessarily consume water in i'm
moderate quantities.
The event Of the day in the house
was the passage Of Representative
Hurd's bill placing the state oil inspec-,
tor on a salary ana cutting off the
fees. Notwithstanding the proper
title of the bill should be IAN act for
the relief of the Standard Oil COM
pany" it passed by vote of 81 to ID.
Quite an acrimonious debate occurred
before the bill was passed, it's oppo-
nents claiming that it was unconsti-
tutional and would result, as similar
bill did some years ago, in the failure
TO have oil properly inspected and the
saying of fees to the Standard Oil
company while the people will pay