The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-21


able, though some contained merit. Bills
to compel telephone companies to make
connections with rural or Independent
lines were killed in both houses. s. u.
Peterson's bill fixing maximum rate
within the state for telegrams was also
cut off in its prime.
General Wilson lost with bill drawn
on the lines of Illinois and New York laws
making a bill of lading conclusive
evidence that railroad company has
received the goods consigned. The job
bers made a fight on it, alleging that it
would work hardship to them, and the
senate killed it.
A. Hanaford of Wright county intro
duced remarkable bill to compel the,
state fair managers to turn over their
grounds in the summer for running races
at which the law against pool selling
would be suspended. The bill was start
ed on the still hunt plan, but was soon
noised abroad, and the opposition was so
fierce that no attempt was made to get
the bill out of committee.
Senator Pugh brought in bill to estab-
lish civil service in the state grain in
spection department. His bill perpetuated
present employees in office, and was first
amended to compel them to take the ex-
animation. and then killed.
The state board Of health backed a for
midable bill codifying the sanitary laws
of the state, and providing for county
health officers to work with the state
board. Mr.. Nyquist went after this bill
one day and killed it, and attempts to
resurrect it failed.
Mr.. Nyquist had equally hard luck with
his newspaper bills. One to prevent news
papers collecting for papers after the
years subscription expired, was amended
by the house and then passed, but killed
in the senate His bills amending the
libel laws did not get very far.
The house passed w. w. Bardwells
bill to compel reports from mining COM
panies selling stock in the state. It was
intended to shut out fake concerns, but
in the senate objection was raised that
1t would work hardship on legitimate con-
Germs and owners of stock, and it was
killed
An attempt to legislate the bucket
shops out Of existence was foiled in the
house. The bill was by Senator Gjertsen.
and 1t was passed by the senate, but the
bucket shop interests ''got busy and had
a substitute bill reported by the house
committee, prohibiting all trading in fu-
lures. This had the expected effect. All
legislation of the sort was shut off.
Senator Gjertsen and W. I. Nolan also
failed with their bills to permit inmates
of the soldiers home to retain their pen
sion money.
Bills to create a state board of survey
ors and license surveyors, to license public
accountants, and bills to license auction
eers and peddlers, were consigned to outer
darkness, and the dog license bill only
furnished a brief season Of merriment.
Senator Laugen's bill to ceded Barron's
island, opposite La Crosse, to Wisconsin,
was killed by the OPPOSITION of La Cres-
cent, on the Minnesota side. and the re-
fusal Of Wisconsin to cede an island op-
posite Red Wing in return.
A. J. Lohren's bill to extend the Tor
rens system Of land title registration to
the less populous counties Of the state
| was lost.
Various bills regulating the speed Of
| live stock trains were lost in the final
| shuttle.
George w. Wilson's bill to raise dis
| trict judges salaries to So 900 did not get
out of committee, but the bill to increase
| salaries of the supreme court judges was
killed on the floor Of the houSe. The SEN
ate disposed of Senator Morgan's bill COM
| pelling university law graduates to take
| the state bar examination, which stirred
up the law school considerably.
The perennial age of consent and coun-
| ty option bills were killed without much
of a struggle this time, also most of the
bills shutting down saloons on holidays,
| but the house passed the Fosseen bill to
| CLOSE saloons on memorial Qdy, anu the
| senate did the killing.
Bills to revive the state board of chari-
| ties and corrections, to abolish three of the
state normal schools, and to add two edu-
cational members to the board of control,
| went the way Of the more strenuous at
| tempts to alter the law.
| Bills to improve on the tax machinery
with county assessor, county super
visor of assessments, were killed in the
senate.
| General Wilson had his bill to repeal the
corrupt practices act recalled from the
| house when the attempt was made to
amend it, and killed the bill himself.
| The senate passed bill to establish
| summer terms of school at the state nor
mails for the benefit of teachers, but the
| house sat down on the project.
| An elaborate act for a voting machine
commission, imposing a test on such ma
chimes to be used in this state, was op-
posed by the promoters of a machine be-
| ing worked up in st. Paul and the bill was
| Killed in committee.
! The house killed bill by George r.
! Smith designed to educate people on the
constitutional amendments, providing for
! their publication in pamphlet form and
distribution to every voter by the secre-
tary of state.
The house was torn up for a long while
over the beet sugar bounty BILL proposing
to refund the money paid out by the COM
pany at ST. Louis Park under the act of
| 1895. The house beat 1t, but passed a
bill by DR.. Dorsey to permit the COM
pany to sue the state and test the con-
stitutionality Of the law. This was killed
in the senate.
| Several propositions for the building of a
new reform school for girls were turned
down by the appropriations committee.
and the state will get along with the
| Red Wing buildings a while longer, for
| both boys and girls.
| The ladies of the G. A. r. wanted $4,000
to aid in building cottages at Anoka for
| soldiers widows, and the Woman's Relief
Corps was behind movement to appro-
pirate 100000 for a like purpose. the
cottages to be built near the soldiers
home. Both were rejected by the commit
tee on appropriations.
| The bills creating q state bureau Of
immigration were rejected by the house.
which first beat the Olson bill, and then
refused to consider one coming in from
the senate at a late date.
The Sheppard bill to put stop to un-
dersized berry boxes masquerading as
| quarts and "pints' was passed by the
house, but the senate first amended it
and then killed it.
| 1t Was a Costly Session.
The legislature broke all records for
spending money on itself. The populist
| legislature of 1891 had held the belt up
| to this time. 1t spent a few hundred dol
lars less than 100000. The s150,000 set
aside as usual at the beginning of this
session was not enough, and the omnibus
! bill as first drawn carried $4,000 more,
but by the time the bill came in this was
seen to be too close a shave, so 1t was