Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-02-14
LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY.
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81 r2"a.---A Short Summary Of
the Regular Routine


st. Paul, Feb. THE senate Yesterday.
recommended for passage Senator r. H.
Brewers bill granting the 2 per cent tan
on fire insurance premiums to hremen,s
The following bills were passed:
TO increase the salary Of the attorney
TO TO appropriate 5000 for the relief u
To prohibit the use Of adulterating sub
stances in the manufacture Of vinegar.
ton Of adses oroHea fo and IN ss
duced yesterday BY Representative p. (.
Bowling. Of Eveleth
The following bills were passed:
Legalizing the 100000 issue Of bonds
voted by the common council Of Mime
apolis for the erection OF new school
Fixing the time for holding general
terms of the district court in Steele coun-
Repeating the special law requiring
bonds OF county commissioners of Sibley
county.
st. Paul, Feb. e.-The very brief session
OF the house Saturday. called by order Of
Speaker Bahcock, was devoted almost en-
was not honored by the presence Of the
speaker, who was called to Wadena hY
illness in his family.
BY bringing under the Jurisdiction Of
the state oil inspector gasoline, which has
an Illuminating oil. 1t makes it misde-
| meanor to keep, handle or sell gasoline IN
quantities>of less than ten gallons. unless
bearing the printed word gasoline"
Each person so handling gasoline is re-
CURED to take out an annual license, the
fee OF which shall be one dollar. and tho
state oil inspector Is required to inspeoe
the business place Of such .-licensee once
| every six months.
| no tho o31
troduced by Mr.. Larson's. H. F. No. 243,
and instead Of requiring that kerosene oil
shall be dyed red. provides that cans con-
that color and prohibits the keeping Of
kerosene in can painted under pen
atty OF a fine Of from SO, to 800.
ST.. Paul. Feb. lo.-The two bills by
Senator J. F.. Calhoun. Of Minneapolis.
providing revolving Improvement funds
for cities Of more than $4,000 inhabitants
| were passed yesterday under suspension
Of the rules.
Senator Daniel Shell. of Worthlngto..
introduced bill to provide for clerk hire
for treasurers Of counties where the total
amount Of taxable property exceeds S.
600: 600 and is less than $4,000 900.
The following bills were passed:
To provide a revolving fund for hiehwax
! improvements in Minneapolis, St. PAU
and Duluth.
Duluth to issue certificates 90 the amount
| OF $4,000 for improvements at the inter-
sections of streets ana in front of unta1-
| able property.
To limit the time for foreelosng mort
cages by advertisement to fifteen years,
without extension for any cause.
Bills We're introduced in both branches
Of the legislature yesterday appropriating
$l5O,o0O for draining marsh and swamp
lands owned by the state. The measures
We're introduced by Represstfintative Gun
committee on drainage respectively and
are a result of a joint meeting OF tho
committees Of the house and senate.
| Representative B. S. Bennett of Foss-
ton. yesterday introduced in the house q
bill appropriating s5l.7SO to make up the
deficiency in the appropriation for the
| state aid for graded and high schools for
| 1901 and 1902. The measure is advocat ted
by J. w. Olsen. state superintendent Of
public instruction. who called attention to
the deficiency in his annual ~ ort.
| Resolutions adopted at mass meeting
| at Norwood, Carver county. to protest
against ,s6 the passage Of the b appropriat
| were read in the house yesterday.
ST. Paul. Feb. 1.-THE senate yesterday
made short work Of its general order isl.
The following bills were passed:
| Allowing villages, towns and school dis
| trlctS TO require surety bond of treas
urers and pay reasonable sum for the
Fixing the state bounty for the appra-
hension and conviction Of horse thieves at
| $500.
!, Allowing the incorporation of lodges OF
| the Modern Woodn,en of America and
! United Order Of WorkNen.
Allowing life professional teachers Ger
tihcates to be granted graduates Of the
advanced course of state normal schools
| without further examination.
| Providing for the election Of town school
| superintendents in Cass county.
Providing for the election Of school
Healing to notaries sa pSo iHoh in new,
organized counties, whose commissions
are for the county from which such new
day decided to recommend for passage
the following constitutional amendmens
casene and be- Senana nst be KEEP.
| cans painted red. and no kerosene shall
be placed in red can. il the legislature
committee on illuminating oils.
| The following bills We're passed:
To provide that the per cent tax paid
| priated' to fire insurance relief associa-
! tons for pensioning firemen retired be-
| cause Of long service.
which authorizes villages to issue bond1
for water works and lighting plants to a1
lied" and to require that the question b
| ton.
| A curative measure to legalizs the or
| To provide for the disposition Of un-
claimed dividends and closing up the AZ
| 1alIS VI COEpOEdllOHS SUBJECT 10 me SOpeY>
| vision OF the public examiner.
st. Paul. Feb. Ex-senator Samuel Lord.
Of Kasson, yesterday held up the sena Z
for an hour and forty minutes on a mo-
ton to adjourn. Two recesses of twenty
minutes each were necessary to straightes
out the parliamentary tangle.
Senator Henry: Gjertsen, Of Minneapolis.
yesterday introduced q bill to authorize
cities Of more than $4,000 Inhabitants t.
issue certificates for national guard AZ
| mories.
Believing that farmers should be al
lowed to buy binding Irvine when they
need it, Senator A. v. Rieke of Fairfax,
yesterday introduced bill extending Il
| June l the time during which the Irvine
| manufactured at the state prison may ba
| sold exclusively to customers. The pres
| ent law sets the limit at May I.
Representative Nils Nyquist, Of Blue
| Earth county, yesterday scored a victory
| In the house committee of the whole by
| securing favorable recommendation foy
his bill which provides for state boiler
inspector In each Of the sixty-three SEN
| atorial districts.
Representative A. J. Lohren. OF waseca
| yesterday introduced q bill to extend te
| all counties Of the state the Torrens sys
tenn Of registering title to real estate.
| Representative r. T. Lewis Of Duluth
yesterday introduced in the house his bill
providing for death sentence by electro
cution instead OF hanging.
| Two bills were passed:
Allowing wives to testify AGAINST theh
| husbands In non-support cases.