The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-06
HOUSE BEGINS ON
REVISED CODE
THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
PLAN Is ACCEPTED.
Members Reject Washburn Proposition
to Divide Code into Eight Sections
with Day for Each-Eight Chapters
Passed Over at Morning Session.

The house today rejected plan pro-
posed by w. ID. Washburn, Jr., for con.
sideration of the code, and accepted
the plan outlined ON Friday by W. B.
Anderson, chairman of the Judiciary
committee.
When the code was taken up at IL
am. as a special order, Mr.. Washburn
sent a resolution to the speakers desk,
providing that not less than eight days
be given to consideration Of the code.
He asked that the chapters be divided
into groups and not less than one dav
given to each group. The resolution
also required the judiciary committee
to explain the new matter reported by
the Judiciary committee in the form
of amendments to the code as reported
by the code commission. In support
ing his resolution, Mr.. Washburn de-
clared that he had every reason to be-
food, corporations, drainage, military
laws, insurance and game and fish were
practically all new matter.
Mr.. Anderson warned the author of
the resolution that his suggestion
would take more time than he thought
for. There was no disposition, he said,
to railroad the code thru the house;
ample time would be given members to
amended by the Judiciary committee,
or to strike out matter believed to be
bad law. Mr.. Anderson recited the
history Of the code, the years that it
had taken to complete it and its cost
| to the state. He insisted that reports
that it contained so much Of new law
were exaggerated, and that the only
means of its passage was to consider
George E. Perley Of the Judiciary
committee, sounded the tocsin of the
fight Of time, and Mr.. Washburn re-
torted that nothing could be more i'm
portant than tho consideration Of the
! fundamental law Of the state, code
that was to be the law for the next
thirty years.
While admitting his final determine
ton to vote for the code, Dr.. J. n.
Dorsey pleaded for Mr.. Washburn q
plan, and intimated that the Judiciary
committee had taken domineering at
titude in refusing to consider any other
plan than its own.
B. 8. Bennett, tho Polk county mem
Der of the Judiciary committee, de-
Tended the action Of the committee. he
said that Of the ], 100 to Zoo amend
ments, 700 to 500 were corrections in
grammatical construction, spelling and
the form Of language employed In legal
documents. Only 900 to 400 had to do
with actual changes in the revision
commission 8 code, and the general ain
had been to restore the old law to the
new code.
After desultory debate all along the
line, In which Mr.. Washburn and W. P
Roberts crossed swords over the pro
oedure, the Washburn resolution WA
defeated overwhelmingly
Immediately consideration of thu
first few chapters of the code was be
, gun by the house. No changes had beer
made to the first chapter by the judi
] ciary committee. The first eight chapter
were considered before the noon recess
No amendments of any consequence
, were offered, and the eight chapter
wer epassed over in about fifteen min
utes. A recess was taken till 2 o CLOCK
when work was resumed.