The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07
REVISED CODE
PASSES SENATE
Upper House Gives Measure Two
Votes More Than; the Neces-
sary TWo-thirds.
FINAL CONSIDERATION
TAKES HOUR AND A HALF
Bill Now Goes to Conference
Committee to Reconcile Two
Sets Of Amendments.

Sets Of Amendments.
The state senate passed II. F. 43,
otherwise known as the revised code,
at / 40 this afternoon. The vote was
A. to 9, eight senators being absent and
two not voting.
The measure will now 20 to a confer
ence committee for adjustment of the
200 amendments adopted by the two
houses.
. The senate rushed proceedings. In
the morning a motion was offered to
make the code a special order for noon.
This was carried, getting barely the
forty-tWo votes necessary to suspend
the rules. At noon the code was taken
up for final passage, but an hour and
half was spent in discussing and vot.
ing on amendments offered on the floor.
= NO effort was made to defer the oper-
as it passed the house, so as to become
operative Dec. l, 1905.
+ An amendment offered by Senator
Horton was adopted. It restores a sec
ton OF the old law providing that when
railroads build branch lines the branch
es shall have the same charter rights as
the original line. Two amendments by
senator Morgan were adopted, restoring
the old law with regard to fees paid for
certifying records to the supreme court.
Members Of the Judiciary committee
claimed that after the adoption of their
amendments the code was left prac-
tically the same as the existing law, the
new legislation put in by the commits
sion having been cut out and the old
law substituted. NJ. =. -
The prejudice against new legislation
defeated other amendments offered this
afternoon. One by Senator MCGOWAN
permitted the use of saccharin in con-
fectionery. One by senator Thorpe di.
regard to fees paid to the clerk Of
courts. -
There was no debate on the passage
Of the. bill, and only one senator ex-
planned his vote. Senator Hawkins OBJ
jected to the early date fixed for the
measure to go into effect The senators
voting aye were as follows:
Cole, Collier, Coliester. Comstock. Cooke Dale,
tspatrieE G5ertsen Harrington. Hoaeon. John,
Son. Son. Lord taugen Mausten Naeseth. Nichols,
sunabetg arpe
Torson. Ward Wilson. Wftherstile Wood-44
:; Ne NNees.Ecalh9un. Hawkins, Laybgurn. MCGOWAN
n MbsNsmse, Morgan Push, E. n. Smith. Ste
z Not votipg-Benson, Hardy s9s,s'
snab sss 5ss sssssSSa hsG seha
The code battle started with a mo-
ton by Senator Thompson to make it a
special order at 10 o'clock to be con.
sidereds for final passage. III,
There are forty senators not on the
judiciary committee, said SenatoriLay-
bourn. ":The measure should be care.
fully considered and discussed and our
| constituents are entitled to know what
there is in it.. It is an unusual pro.
cedure. to rush this code as we are
asked. -. Es@.'+ 3. - - =
IT have confidence in the judiciary
committee said Senator Calhoun. sbut
don T believe in swallowing this code
t.'We are as fully prepared now to
vote on this code as we ever will be-
asserted Senator Schultz. /" Every
senator now opposing passage. Of the
would never vote for it,, !,
Senator Horton then made lengthy
speech. r., r. - -. . r. -
- If you want the senate to vote fol-
this code without knowing anything
about what is in it, he said, Nyou
can count me out from the friends Of the
measure. It contains every conceiva
bic sort Of legislation, from the day Of
a mans birth to the day of his death
IT, i1 r1 v the Legislation s Of this n STATE
member Of the judiciary committee who
knows where the senate and house
amendments conflict. You are MOI
planning to give the code the considera
{ ton you would dog tax bill. The re
Esponsibility Of passing the code is ont
no man should assume without refec
4 ton. It should be submitted to- an
other commission for further study
and a. ., revision; to let the people review
II have been called an enemy to tn
CODE" said Senator Morgan. II wan
to say I was one Of the first lawyers t
!: support revision Of the laws. But
do object to such patchwork as this
such new legislation in a revision Of tn
statutes. i believe you have no bust
ness to rush this code thru now, bu
that it should be given consideration.
Il: &c TITS not much Of my funera
whether this code is passed or not,
lsaid Senator Collier. 7But there ism
any legislature that within the consti
tutional time limit can consider an
code word for word. But I know tn
am ready to vote for the code now.
"The assertion that we are railroad
ing this code thru is not true" sal
Senator Wilson. .nThis code has bee
given more consideration and stud
than any measure for years. You ca
go thru every chapter and you H. fin
each one has had its special attentio
from. certain senators. There may b
some omissions, but every day we max
some little mistakes in other Legislation
We are in just as good position toda
: to pass that code as we are to pass an
Legislation. We~have got to pass tina
code within a day or two and send
to the house if we do it at all this SET
!: sion: The code is as perfect today i
all parts as would be any code reporte
: to us. by-new revisionists two years frol
!: now. I say, give the code to the pei
J pie, and let them try it. We've spen
days and nights on this, and now ther
!: are gentlemen here who want to hol
: it up. It is impossible, it is beyon
! human possibility, for these men to n
! view these LOO pages Of the code j
. a few days. b I
Banking Section Redrawn.
Senator Shell, chairman of the con
mittee on banking, complained that tn
!: code sections on. banking were nc
placed in the, code according to tn
. draft he recommended.
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