The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-03-06
LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY.
The Transactions of the Lawmakers at
81 Paula Short Summary of
the Regular Routine


81 Paula Short Summary of
the Regular Routine.
st. Paul Feb. 24.-Several amendments
to the law providing for the extermina-
ton Of domestic animals afflicted with
contagious disease are contained in a bill
introduced yesterday by Senator Albert
SchaIer, of Hastings.
Senator B. E. Sundberg, of Kennedy,
yesterday introduced a bill to place the
farmers institutes throughout the state
on a sound basis. The measure estab-
fishes a board of administration and ap-
propriates $4,000 annually for expenses.
County commissioners must redistrict
the county on petition Of 500 residents
and taxpayers, according to bill intro
duced yesterday by Senator A o. Eber-
hart, of Mankato.
In the house the following bills were
passed:
Authorizing city councils and park
boards to establish a building line not
more than fifty feet back from the mar
gin of the street, and to acquire an ease
ment over the land between the same
Allowing the deposit Of will during
the life Of the maker with the probate
court.
Authorizing directors of banks to fix
maximum amount which may be to the
credit of any one depositor.
Allowing savings banks to invest in the
bonds of dividend paying railroads.
Requiring all cans holding from one pint
to six gallons, in which gasoline, benzine
or kerosene is kept to be painted red and
labeled with the name of it's contents
Allowing villages Of less than 1000 in
habitantS to grant franchises to street car
companies by ordinance and legalizing
franchises so granted.
St Paul, Feb 25.-A state veterinary
board of health: vested with power to
condemn domestic animals afflicted with
contagious and infectious diseases and to
quarantine those that have been exposed,
is provided for in bill introduced yester-
The measure provides that the board
shall consist of three licensed veterinary
surgeons to be appointed by the governor.
ty are required to appoint county vet
erinarian," who shall see that the laws
are enforced in his county.
The county veterinarian must investi-
gate all cases of CHAMBERS or farcy among
horses or mules, pleuro pneumonia, foot
and mouth diseases and tuberculosis
among cattle, scab among sheep and chol-
the animals afflicted and exposed. and re-
port to the secretary of the state board
within twenty-four hours.
The following bills were passed
To authorize the state to transfer real
estate which it has acquired by escheat.
\ To Iegalize conveyances of real property
where the county Is not correctly named.
To increase the number of days in which
the county commissioners may be paid for
their services from twenty-five to thirty
five.
Recurring townships, villages and cities,
and counties to share equally the expense
of controlling infectious diseases, ana pro-
viding for the levy of a, local tax of not
Providing that no harmless insane per-
SON who cannot be benefited by hospital
treatment shall be committed to state
insane hospital and for the discharge of
such persons now inmates of insane hos
Providing that roads changed by coun-
ty commissioners or town supervisors
shall remain open for three years after
such change.
st. Paul, Feb. 26.-Under suspension of
the rules and in the quickest manner pos
sible, the house passed, by vote of 81
to /, bill appropriating $1,000 from the
state treasury for the relief of the famine
stricken district in the Scandinavian pen
insula and Finland.
The beet sugar interests Of the state,
assisted by Representative Dorsey, of Nc
Leod county, defeated the house judiciary
committee and secured an advance posi-
ton in it's efforts to secure from the state
$4,000 in sugar bounty money.
The following bills were introduced yes
Providing for procedure by which hus-
bands are to be arrested and tried for
abandonment.
Providing that the inmates Of the school
for the feeble minded, the state hospital
and the asylum for the insane be main
tanned partly by the state and partly by
the county from which the inmates come
and partly by the relatives of the in
Appropriating $4,000 to carry out the
provisions of the law relating to the state
Requiring stipulated premium life in
surance companies to be more specific in
their statements.
Giving deputy county auditors power to
administer oathS.
ST. Paul. Feb. 27
The senate passed the following bills:
To repeal the corrupt practice law.
To prohibit an elector from both vot-
ing at the primary election and signing
the petition of an independent candidate.
To authorize the probate court to ap-
point special guardians.
To prevent the destruction Of crops by
To require the filing Of wills relating to
real estate with the register of deeds.
To provide that stockholders holding
Of the stock Of
has been held for two years.
To allow religious corporations to &C
quire and dispose of cemetery lands
TO provide for the election of trustees
biennially in school districts containing
more than ten townships.
The senate passed the following:
Allowing mutual retail hardware deal
ers' fire insurance companies to insure
dwelling houses and contents owned and
occupied by owners Of hardware stocks
insured in such companies,
Adding 246 acres in Hubbard county to
the Itasca state park.
Providing fee of SIS for court commits
sionerS for the examination and commit
ment of insane persons.
Prohibiting common carriers from In
creasing rates, or changing claSSificationS
of freight without the written consent of
the railroad and warehouse commission.
Amending the law relating to appeal
from the probate court.
ST. Paul, Feb Ex-senator H. F. Bark
er's bill raising the standard for the ap-
portionment of state school aid among
districts was the subject of heated dis
cussion in the senate committee as a
whole yesterday.
The senate committee on hospitals for
the insane yesterday decided to recon-
mend for indefinite poStponement Sen
ator Charles JohnSon's measure estab-
fishing an eight-hour day for nurses and
attendants at the state hospitals.
The senate committee on labor and la
Dor laws yesterday approved Senator A.
F. Ferris measure, providing that no To-
connective engineer or fireman shall be on
duty on an engine longer than fourteen
hours without an opportunity to rest.
ton, Yesterday introduced bill to pro-
hibit any hunter from entering or allow
his hunting dog to enter land on which
there is growing or standing grain, with
out the permission of the owner OF the
land and grain.