The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-01-18
HORTON BILL PASSED
MEASURE GIVING COMMISSION
CONTROL OF Capitol GOES
THROUGH SENATE.
HOUSE MEETS BUT ADJOURNS.
WITHOUT TRANSACTlNG
ANY BUSINESS.

81. Paul, Jan. Ex-senator Horizons
bill authorizing the state capitol COM
mission to maintain and operate the
new building during it's construction
and occupancy, prior to it's completion,
passed the senate Monday night.
Only four senators voted against it
Senators Barker Of Isanta, Naeseth OF
Goodhue, Thorpe of Kandiyohi and
Wood of Todd county F'ifty-hve votes
were recorded in its favor, after Sen
ator Horton had explained the bill.
The bill gives the commission pow
er to hire and discharge all employees,
and provide for the adOrnment and
ornamentation of the capitol grounds.
The board is to elect one OF its
members as resident supervisor and
superintendent of the capitol building,
who shall have exclusive charge and
direction in the management thereof
subject to the orders and control or
the board, and who shall receive as
COMPENSATION for his services as such
resident supervisor and superintendent
q salary of $4,000 per annum, in lieu
of all compensation to him as mem
Der of the board.
For the proper care and maintenance
of the building the sum OF $4,000 shall
be set aside from the general fund
each year. The act is to take effect
from and after it's passage.
The state capitol commission was
appointed under the law of 1898, to
hold Office until the completion of the
building The governor is ex-officio
a member of the commission, presid-
ing at every meeting he happens to at
tend, but he has no vote.
The Legislature may refuse to ac-
cept the report of the statute revision
commission submitted Monday.
Senator H. A. Morgan of Albert Lea
gave a strong intimatiOn Monday night
that he would oppose reference OF
the proposed code to the senate judi
ciary committee Of the code in the
form of bill for passage in the sen
ate.
The charge that the statute revision
revised is furnished as warrant for the
proposed objection to the reception Of
the report.
Senators Get Revised Code.
On every senator's desk Monday
night reposed a copy of the revised
code, bound in buclNam, and 1870
pages of the first communication re-
ceived, to-wit, from Secretary of State
Hanson. That official informed the
senate that 500 copies had been re-
ceived for distribution. He further
stated that the West Publishing com
panW had offered to print and publish
1000 additional copies bound in
buclIram for 1,470, or an equal num-
ber bound in manila for 1915.
The secretary of states cOmmuni-
cation included letter from Supreme
Court Justice f. A. Jaggard. repre-
senting that body, stating that the
court would not take any action rela-
tive to the distribution OF the code IN
til action had been taken looking to
the publication of additional volumes.
1t was the sense of the senators, ex-
pressed by Senator Thompson, that
1000 additional copies be published
for distribution, and after adjourn
ment it was arranged that joint COM
mittee of three from the senate and
five from the house be authorized to
make a contract for the publication of
the additional volumes.
Students of the st. Cloud normal
school, who suffered losses by the fire
Mt Lawrence hall-the girls dormi-
tory-last Saturday night, will be re.
imbursed by the state if the house
concurs in a resolution offered by Sen
ator Morgan and unanimously adopted
1t directs the principal of the normal
school to forward estimates of the
losses sustained by the individual
students to the end that each may be
reimbursed If found eXpedient
Senator Brewer of st, Cloud in
dorsed the resolution
Senator Durant introduced a bill
forbidding the sale by any person of
wood alcohol unless it is conspcuously
labeled wood Naphtha," and impos-
ing fine of not less than $50, nor
more than s100, for a violation of the
law.
When Hennepin county Republican
senators and house members met
Monday and decided to vote for Sena-
tor Moses E. Clapp, the Republican
caucus senatorial nominee, they set
tied Senator Clapp's reelection by the
Minnesota legislature Both houses
of the legislature will meet at noon
Tuesday and ballot separately on can
didates for United States senator.
HEARS PRAYER AND ADJOURNS.