The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-06

At closing Gross of Potter announced
caucus to be held Immediately in the hall
of the representatives "of all those who
are friendlyto the valued policy BILL known
as house bill No. 140.' All members not
friendly were requested to leave and the
doors were closed. RI. s....~.
Goddard was made chairman Of the
caucus and Hutchinson Of Beadle secre-
tary. ... ..-...
Gross made somewhat frey address.
reciting the course of legislative action In
relation to insurance and asserted the
policy Of the insurance men Is to postpone
action until too late to secure passage of
the bill. He declared that the weeks long
vacation was a part of this plan He
then proposed the following agreement:
Resolved and agreed by. all those present, who
upon roll call shall answer in the affirmative
that by so doing they agree to the following
proposition towit: q
First-That they are in favor of house bill
No. lao. known as the valued policy bill, and
agree to vote for the same when 1t is brought
up for final passage in the house.
Secont-rhat they agree to abide by the
suit and sustain the action of the caucus.
Third-That they will oppose every motion to
adjourn for a longer period than from day to
the house of representatives. ~'.
Fourth-That. should this caucus decide on
the appointment of committee to take charge
of house bill No. 40 for the purpose Of taking
such action as may be necessary to secure its
passage by the house. we further agree to uphold
and sustain said committee In any action 1t may
deem necessary. -
The Fifty one.
This agreement was affirmatively voted
for by fifty-one members, all who were
present, as follows:
Allen, Aplin, Berndt Bigelow, Brown Of
Bookings, Brown of sanborn, Burnstad, Carroll
CLANCY, Cunning, Egge, Ferguson Fossum
Hale. Ham, Hayes. Hildebrandt, Hilestad
Hutchinson of Beadle Hutchinson of Douglas,
Jackson, Kelly, King, Koenig Lawson. Loucks
Madison, Mahl, Noodle, Montgomery, Muhlbier,
Mullen, Mussman, Nelson, Pierce, Rempfer,
Renner. Russell, Sampson, scobel, Smith Of
Custer. Steiner. Stokes, Trum, Wipf and Young;
Several members declared they would
sacrifice every other legislative interest
to insure the passage of this BILL and the
sentiment was cheered to the echo.
~ A steering committee, consisting Of
Goddard, Croft. Burnstad. Hayes and
Gerhart, was given full control Of the
measure.
Mr.. Gross stated that he had been. re-
quested by a representative of the in
surance companies to await action until
after the 18th, when other representatives
of the companies desired to appear be-
fore the committee, and asked what the
desire of the caucus was in the premises
Don't watt shouted the members, but
the matter was not put to a vote. 1t Is
noteworthy that Hildebrandt, the chair
man Of the insurance committee: was
present and took part in the caucus. He
Is in the minority of the committee, the
majority refusing to report the bill.
The insurance committee consists OF
Hildebrandt, chairman; STEINER of Grant
Tower of Brown, Welch of Charles Mix
Jenkins Of Roberts, Daley of Pennington
Belts of Dawson.
STEINER and Hildebrandt are favorable
to the bill and the remainder are re-
i ported as opposed. ..'''
DIIIon's Bill Lost.
Senator Dillon's bill, providing that tn
circuit court might appoint special prose
cutting attorneys in cases where the reg