The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-18
BILLS THAT FAILED
Usual Important Number Of Measures
Fell by the Wayside.

good many bills of moment failed
to get the favor Of both houses, and
were killed, but some Of them will be
revived to fight before the next legisla- !.
ture. Important among them was the
bill to require private banks to come un-
der state or national regulation, a
measure called forth by the disastrous
failure of some private banks, and the
absolute lack Of regulation for such
banks at present. The bill was intro
duced in the senate by A. O. Eber-
hard and in the house by John G.. Lund.
The senate banking committee was con-
trolled by the private banking. inter
ests, and reported substitute for the
Eberhardt bill, which put the private
banks under form of state regulation.
This was amended on the floor till it re-
sembled the rules for regulation Of state
banks too closely, and the friends of the
bill killed it.. The house passed the
Lund bill easily and it went by fight
to the senate calendar, where it failed
The vote stood "a to 25 on the passage
Of the bill, the following senator's .vot-
ing to leave private banks without
regulation
Barker, BATE, Cooke, Cowan, Dart, sDu
Toit, Durant, Everett, Frater, Hawk
ms, Horton, Mausten, McGill, Nc
nance, Morgan, Nichols, Pugh, Putnam,
Shell, W; A. Smith, Somerville,
/ The Haugland tax commission and
franchise tax bill Of two years ago re-
appeared with the name Of 8. D. Peter
son, and passed the house, but was
smothered in the senate committee,
motion to call it cut being lost by a
in the state to be Of full thickness Or
else sold as short measure, but the SEN
ate killed it. The same happened to w.
| I. Nolan's bill establishing the whip
ping post for wifebeaters, and, Sherman
Smith s bill for calling, constitutional
convention; The senate. passed the
Laugen bill providing bounty for rat
A bill making notes given for stations
and lightning rods not negotiable
aroused quite stir early in the session,
! and was killed in committee. The house
killed George R. Perley's compulsory
free textbook bill, and the work Of
bill, extending the fellow servant rule
now applying to railroad companies to
practically, all forms Of employment,
also went for naught. The senate passed
the Alley bill allowing juries to abate
the death penalty in murder cases, but
the house killed it, as well as the Lund
bill abolishing capital punishment;
l LIlIcIS lodCulO JILL, dIuCu
and college fraternities, died on the
house calendar. Various measures to
abate the embarrassing evil were run
| down by the railroad committee 8 pilot.
W. c. Fraser made fight for bill
4 putting telegraph and telephone CONF
panies under the railroad commission as
common carriers, and requiring tele.
with others having. the same standard of
! equipment, but he lost. The bill Great
ing county school boards and taking
county superintendent out of politics,
failed to muster votes enough in the
house. A similar fate overlook Bur-
i dett Thayer's tax ferret bill. Senator
i Gjertsen IS bill creating state board of
chiropractic examiners was vetoed by
the governor and no attempt made to
repass it.
The bills creating a separate training
school for girls were held back for the
appropriations committee, which failed
to make the money provision. This
proposition will be a live one at the
next session.
County option. anticigaret and other
sumptuary legislation did not make
much progress during the winter.
\ An appropriation of $4,000 was
asked for Minnesota exhibit at the
Portland exposition this year. A bill
by Karl De Laittre was cut to $4,000
shape it passed the house; but the tight
pinch in which the state finances were
found discouraged further progress, SO
Minnesota will have no representation
officially at the Lewis and Clark show.
Sherman S. Smith introduced his
legislative salary bill again, giving
members $500 year instead of $5 a
day during the session. 1t would about
double the compensation of members.
: It was ticklish proposition for the
members, many of whom tried to dodge
it, and it failed of passage twice, the
; last time by one vote. 1t was resus-
citated each time, but when the anti
pass bill was killed, the fate Of the
Smith bill was sealed, and Smith him
: self had it chloroformed.
General NJ. D. Flowers effort to re-
J quire the board of control to make all
} bids and contract prices public was
killed after a protest by the members
of the board, who showed that the pres
ent system was working to the advan-
tage of the state.
Bills raising taxes Of sleeping car
: companies, .freight-line companies and
express companies got thru the house,
but found Oblivion in the senate.
r The Laybourn bills, following up his
grand: jury amendment, passed the SEN
8 ate, and the last thing the house did
$ was to defeat them.
Direct Primary Not Extended.
: Attacks from every direction and of
: every sort were made on the battered
e old fortress of the 1901 primary cleo