The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-01-12
ATTITUDE OF SENATE
ST|RS COMMISSION
Samples of the Revised Code
Are Rushed From
Presses

The investigation by the senate spe-
cial committee of the delay in the
printing of the revised code, which was
required to be ready Dec.N1, 1904, evil
IDENTIFY started things yesterday.
While the senate was listening to the
report of the special committee
criticising the revision committee for
falling to have the code printed in
time, the West Publishing company's
presses were running off pages Of the
revised laws of Minnesota.
The complete work will comprise Ill
chapters. OF this number fourteen
were printed and bound and sent to
the revision commissioners yesterday
forenoon. About fifty more chapters
were printed during the rest of the day,
but not bound. One of the commits
sioners said yesterday that the remain
ing chapters would be printed by Fri
day and the entire work bound and
ready for distribution on Monday or
Tuesday of next week.
The fourteen chapters completed yes
terday deal with the subjects Of the
states jurisdiction, it's territorial divi-.
siOns, the legislature, the executive de-
partment, the judicial departments,
elections, counties and county officers,
towns and town officers, villages and
cities, public indebtedness, taxes, the
military code, roads and education.
This report, I think, will speak for
Itself and show how much painstaking
work has been accomplished by the
commission" said Judge M. r. Tyler,
of the commission, yesterday. 1T will
be one volume of 1,250 pages in which
has been condensed the statutes that
have heretofore occupied no less than
5000 pages. That is, the edition Of
the statutes published in 1894 consist
ed Of $500 pages in two volumes, and
besides these volumes we had to re-
wise and cOndense the laws of six sub
sequent sessions of the legislature
laws that were recorded on 1924 pages.
Relative to corporations, for ex-
ample, we had to take up the 172 sec
tons found in the revision of 1866; the
S44 sections added between 1866 and
1894; and the 1913 sections included in
statutes passed subsequent to 1894.
That meant, altogether, 1909 sections.
we have reduced these to 200 or 800
sections-I forget the exact number
and yet we have included in the re-
duced form not only the laws about
corporations in general, but also those
about the whole matter of banking, and
also the laws concerning procedure rel
ative to corporations.
Instead of giving the courts, the
lawyers, and the citizens unlearned in
the law a choice of thirty methods of
forming a corporation, we have reduced
the problem to one method only.
ITO accomplish these changes we
have had to rewrite almost every stat
ute in practically a new form. We
have had to copy all the laws passed
in half a century by our legislature,
barring some that were repealed-we
have had to copy them many times in
penciled manuscript and many more
times in typewriter form.
Yet, despite changes in the commits
sion and various other obstacles, we
shall have everything complete in our
report next Monday, except the detailed
index and the annotations. But we
shall supply an index sufficiently de-
tailed to permit all references demand
ed by the members of the legislature"