The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-14
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BILL IS KILLED
HOUSE VOTES DOWN THE COM
PULsORY MEASURE. -,

HOUSE VOTES DOWN THE COM
PULsoRY MEASURE. -
Long Debate Brings Out Allusions to
Religion-Bill to Facilitate Consoli-
dation of School Districts Fails to
Uarry-Bill Introduced to Raise AL
dermen s Salaries.
The Perley free textbook bill, in
committee of the whole, was recon-
mended for indefinite postponement in
the house today. The vote stood SIS to
81. A motion by Mr.. Perley to except
the bill from the report of the commit
tee failed to pass by the same vote
and then the report was accepted and
the bill was put to it's final death.
The debate, which lasted an hour, was
not very spirited. Mr.. Perley spoke
and was supported by o: T.. Ramsland
OF Renville, George Fl. Wyman, J. T.
Mannix and A. K, Ware, while A. J.
Rockne, H. c. Block, Nicholas Julear,
c. H.. Klein and others spoke against
the bill. The question of religion crept
into the debate, and John Deegan of
Scott resented some Of the illusions.
81 dom know from what I have
heard today whether we are living in
Russia or free America,' he shouted
in a voice trembling with emotion.
"The present law gives the people the
right to accept the privileges of the
free textbook system, and the passage
of the Perley bill will be a step back
ward. The arguments today I did not
expect to be uttered in free America.
You'd better 60 back to Russia where
them to do'
The vote by which the Perley bill was
killed was not made a matter of rec
ord, as no roll was called.
Confer on Wilson Bill. =.
The house agrede to the senate re-
quest for a conference on S. F. No.
70, by General Wilson, which allows
probate judges to refer examinations
of insane to the court commissioners.
1t was drawn to apply to Hennepin and
Ramsey counties. The house amended
it to cut out Ramsey, but the senate re-
fused to concur.
Regulate Business Colleges.
Fake business colleges will suffer ex-
tinction by the terms of a bill intro
duced by W. A. Nolan, of Mower, which
Dill prescr1bes course of instruction
and makes the minimum term
twelve weeks. The state superintend-
ent of public instruction is to appoint
a board Of five examiners to conduct
by mail an examination Of the fitness
of: students to be graduated and the
No establishment having an equipment
that costs less than ZOO and a faculty
OF less than three may use the name of
business or commercial college.
AS a result, out of the special fire in
surance rates Investigations, John T.
Rosenthal, the Ramsey member Of the
committee, introduced bill for safe
fire marshal at $4,000 year with
powers in cases of suspicious fires SINH
lar to those of coroner in death cases.
Chiefs of fire departments are to report
to the fire marshal and he to the insur-
ance commissioner monthly.
Committee S Demurrage Bill.
A move in the.fght against the Nolan
demurrageE bill, which has split the
house into two warning factions, de-
veloped when w. II. Putnam Of Red
Wing, chairman of the railroads COM
mittee, introduced a practical duplicate
of the Hugo substitute for the Nolan
Dlll, >tuiHeu uOWu Ny CHe AouSe 1dSt l. L
day. The Putnam bill requires all rules
of the state railroad commission relat-
ing to demurrage be printed that they
be reasonable; that railroads furnish
cars with reasonable dispatch to ship
pers and in cases of car shortage must
divide the cars between the shippers at
any station; that each shipper may have
at least one car; and on verified COM
plant that charges are unreasonable,
the commission must cause a hearing:
It's conclusion isl prima facie evidence of
| it's Justice and the orders are to stand
until disturbed by the courts. The
same regulations are to obtain as to the
moving of cars. The bill was referred
back to Mr. Putnam's committee. The
Nolan bill is a special order for to:
morrow afternoon and if the bill should
be recommended for passage. as seems
probable in view of the, emphatic vote
for it when. the railroad committee was
overturned. the Putnam bill may never
be reported. .<
| w. A. Hinton of Martin is author OF
bill forbidding. the use of sulphur
Gus and f1uorine compositions in the pre-
servation of foods. The punishment is
made a fine from $50 to 800 and the
fines are to go to the dairy and fooo
commissioner s department.. a. =, ..~7~
=, Fire Insurance Securities.
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Upon request Of a. st. Paul fire in
surance man, w. D: Washburn, Jr., IN
troduced a bill changing the law relat
ing to the requirement Of deposit of Sc
curities with the state insurance com
missioner as a protection to. policy
holders in life insurance companies. The
bill makes legal the acceptance by the
Minnesota commissioner of the cert1ti
cate of the insurance commissioner OF
another state that 100000 in securitie!
has been deposited. Abrose Tighe
a former Ramsey member, is said to bt
interested in the measure.
/ A bill designed to give. st. Pau
authority to spend $4,000 for new
bridge across the Mississippi to For
Smelling was introduced. 1t ,permit:
councils Of cities Of more than 50 900 tt
issue. on a three-fourths vote, bonds fo1
$15O,OOO for building bridges. Tht
S! bonds are to run for thirty years anC
to bear interest at not more than 5 pc:
cent. - r. r. +.'..- 3. '.-'
Rules Committee surrenders.
The house rules committee, whicl
was in the limelight last Thursday, pre-
sented a report on the Bowling resolu
ton to give the public.accounts com
mittee another clerk, which was a com
plete capitulation. The report favored
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