The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-15

, the committee, he saw no reason for
| rushing it. Members of the committee
| should have the manhood to come out and
| vote to recommend the bill for passage
or for indefinite postponement. They
should not seek to crawl under any ones
coat tails.
Mr.. Roberts spoke for the resolution.
| He said the members of the house. for
the most part, had attended the sessions
OF the, committee. and were as we'll pre-
| pared to vote as members of the commit
tee. He wanted the committee to report
the bill out without change, but with its
recommendations appended, so that the
house might start with the bill as printed.
| The discussions in committee had pre-
| scented nothing new or valuable until
yesterday. The discussions had been
academic. To report the bill Immediately
| would not shut off hearings. Any one
desiring to be heard could appear before
| the house.
Mr.. .Whitford thought the committee
should shape the bill. The time consumed
in the current debate indicated what
would happen if the whole question was
thrown upon the house. He favored the
Anderson amendment. ~
Mr.. Jacobson said that he had never
| assumed that members of the committee
We're more important than other members
of the house. Some members of the COM
mittee assumed that they had been given
| extraordinary power. In his opinion the
bill had only been given to the commit
tee in order that it might conduct the
hearings.
He declared himself opposed to holding
executive sessions, and said that as a
member OF the committee, he would never
go into an executive session
Mr.. Dobbin thought the committee
should take time to frame the bill and
! formulate amendments. He moved to lay
the Haughland resolution and the Anderson
amendment on the table. The great ma
Jor1ty of the house expressed its con-
fidence in the committee by voting for the
| motion.
Mr.. Dunn offered a resolution directing
the clerk to have copies of all amend
ments printed in slip form to be pasted
in the bill as adopted. He admitted that
the resolution was little premature, and
Mr.. Jackson wanted to know what assur-
ance the house had that it would ever
see the bill again. The resolution pre-
vailed, however
Friends of the "dog bill" started after
Mr.. Nyquist's repeal bill this morning.
Mr.. PloWman moved that it be sent back
| to the committee On taxes and tax laws,
and j. A. Armstrong, author Of the orig
1na1 bill, supported the motion. Mr.. Ny
quist insisted that the dog tax was
bad one, and said, ''the legislature of this
state ought to know more than to act on
Dogs
Mr.. Plowmans motion was lost. but
Mr.. Smith had the bill put back on gen.
eral orders.
Mr.. Lee presented bill reimbursing in
full the owner of an animal killed for
tuberculosis, when the post norton shows
the diagnosis was mistaken. The state
is to pay four-ffths and the county one
fifth. When the animal is found to be
infected, the state is to pay two-thirds,'
and the owner to stand one third
Petitions against the passage of the
tax law were received from Goodhue
Otter Tail and Watonwan counties, and a
resolution of the same tenor was pre-
sented by the South st. Paul Live Stock
association.
At request of the senate H. F. 10 the
Bobleter bill, was returned "for further
consideration
New House Bills.
H. F. 36. Lee-Amending the act of 1901 re-
lating to the killing OF animals infected with
tuberculosis. Referred to committee on re-
ception Of bills
(; H. F. 81 Dorsey (by request)-Providing for
uniformity in municipal elections, and set
ting the time for all such elections to con-
form with the date of general election Re-
ferred to committee on reception of bills