The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-01-19

fcation, and that the editing of the
work and its publication and distribu-
ton must be vested in other hands
When the supplementary explanatory
work of the commission has been pre-
scented to the legislature, which will
be in a few days, the commission will
ask to be discharged from considera-
ton of the code, unless the added pow
ers indicated should be given to the
commission. .z-s-E.-
In joint session yesterday, the judi
ciary committees of the two houses de-
c1ded to empower their chairmen to in
troduce the new code in each house
and this will be done today. The code
will be introduced in the form of a bill
In each house, and will be read by it's
title and Immediately referred to the
judiciary committees.
On the procedure to follow, the two
branches Of the legislature may dis
agree. The senate has already named
special subcommittee of its Judiciary
committee to have charge of the pro-
posed revision of the laws in commit
tee and on the floor of the senate. The
house judiciary committee has mimi
rested disposition to report the code
out of committee with a favorable rec
ommendation and to amend it on gen.
era1 orders. The point has been raised
that the sente cannot pass the code
until after it's passage by the house
because the measure carries a reve-
nue. feature. Discussion of the prob
able procedure by house members last
evening indicated that possibly the
house would consent to the senate plan,
with the privilege to be retained that
various chapters of the code may be
referred to the house subcommittee
for consideration. The suggestion that
the code be referred to the standing
committees of the house for recon
mendation is not regarded as feasible,
and the lay members of the house are
expected to take the Judiciary commit
tees accommodations on faith.
Method of introduction
Senator G. p Wilson, of Hennepin,
at the joint conference yesterday, rails
ed the objection that the code could
not be introduced as one bill, but must
be introduced chapter for chapter as
separate bills. Members of the code
commission attended the meeting of
the two committees, and submitted an
opinion and brief from a committee of
the State Bar association that the sim
gle bill idea is legal. Judge Daniel
Fish, of the commission, and Senator
Wilson argued the point at some length,
and when Senator r. E. Thompson
moved that the .chairmen of the two
committees be authorized to introduce
the code on Wednesday morning as one
bill, there were several amendments
designed to give the members opportu-
nifty to study the opinion and brief
presented. Senator Samuel Lords
proposition to lay the matter over to
Tuesday was defeated by close vote,
and Representative G. E. Perley's mo-
ton to postpone to Friday afternoon
was also lost. Then the Thompson mo-
ton was put through. BY unanimous
vote 1t was decided to recommend that
the code, when passed by the legisla-
ture, become effective Dec. 1, and this
provision will be carried in the bill
itself.
Judge Fish, replying to question,
responded to critics of the commission.
.'The law under which we have done
the work" he said, requires such re-
vision and codification as will simply
harmonic and make complete the
statutes Of Minnesota. Such new mat
ter as has been added was included
in the report simply to piece it out.
Many chapters have been marked new
matter when they represent only the
spirit of existing law, but which is not
expressed by statute. We have not
attempted to make any new law, ex-
cept as we will show in our supple
mentary report