The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-15
DEGREES WASTED TIME.
Senator McGiII Objects to ReIated
Conventions of the Upper House,

Conventions of the Upper House.
| Let us be up ana doing at an earlier
| hour, Is the new motto Of the senate.
Senator McGill, seeing a future rush
| OF business piling up, protested yes
| terday morning when Senator Smith
| moved to adjourn to II o'clock this
morning and the protest hurries to-
| days session one hour. In the future
| lO a. m Will be the meeting time Of
| the upper house.
| Inc senators cleared up their work
In forty minutes Eight new bills were
! introduced, the two most important
| CEes calling for more money for pub
| lie officials.
Senator McGill introduced bin 10
| increase the annual salary Of the at
| t0rney general Of the state to $4,SOO
| The present stipend of the attorney
general is $4,000.
The Hennepin delegation is constd-
erlng the bill to increase the staff of
the sheriff Of Minneapolis Sheriff
Dreger would have four deputies added
to his force and have the salary Of his
chief clerk raised from $500 to $1,000
a year. In addition to this the bill al
lows the sheriff an expense account of
5000 and gives him a stenographer.
More changes are promised in the
primary election law, Senators Schain
and Peterson contributing bills de-
signed to made the new law more sat
lsfactory to the voters and the candi-
dates
Senator Peterson's bill would change
the date of the state primaries from
the middle Of September to the first
tuesday before July 1. 1t also makes
more explicit the clause prohibiting
the signing Of petitions for place on
the ballot by anyone who has voted
in the primary election.
Senator Schain'S bill is also directed
at the petition signers and would pre-
vent the signing Of more than one nom
mating petition for ony one office The
bill is intended to prevent irresp0nsi-
BILE and thoughtless voters from as
sisting several candidates in their par
suit for one particular office.
With Duluth abandoning the bear
story for the tale of wolves coming
right over the city boundary lines the
senate will without doubt push Sena-
tor Coles wolf bounty measure
through in rapid time. The bill pro-
vfdes bounty of SIS for each full
grown female wolf, So for each fun
grown male, 81 for female cubs and
81 for male cubs.
A resolution asking the appointment
OF committee to meet with COM
1nittee Of the house for the purpose Of
considering The report Of the commits
sion appointed to provide for the re-
vision and cOdtfcatscn of the general
laws of the state was introduced by
Senator Thompson, but, as some Oh
lection to the committee assignment
was made, Senator Thompson gave no
t1ce Of debate and had the measure
carried over to today
A resolution asking that the SEN
ate committee On railroads be author
lied to investigate the PRESENT freight
rates on coal, introduced by Senator
L. .. Thorpe, was unanimously adort-
ed.
The senate decided to senG dele
cation Of senators TO the sessions of
the State Coed Reads association.
which will meet in annual convention
in St Paul today.
a joint committee on rules was nam
Cd as follows: Senators Lord, E. e.
smith, Somerville, Horton and Schal-
Ter,