The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-02-04
At THE STATE PRISON.
HOUSE MEASURE PROVIDES FOR
EXECUTION OF ALL. DEATH
] SENTENCES THERE.
REGULATION OF WILD CAT MIN
ING COMPANIES SOUGHT BY
A HOUSE BILL.

st. Paul, Feb. 1.-THE execution of
all death sentences imposed in this
state at the state prison at Saltwater
is provided in bill introduced in the
house by F. B. Phillips Of ST. Paul. The
bill Is a re-enactment of Sections 5412
and SAP of the revised laws, chang
ing them so that when the sentence
has been imposed the court shall COM
mand the sheriff to deliver the prison
or to the warden of the state prison at
Saltwater. The evidence and court
order are to be delivered to the gov
ernor as usual, and he Is to fix the
date, the execution to take place be-
fore sunrise on the. date fixed. The
sheriff of the county where the pris.
oner was convicted is included among
those who may visit the condemned
man at the prison, the others permit
ted being the prisoners counsel,
priest or clergyman selected by him
and the members Of his family. The
provisions against admitting news
paper reporters or representatives and
against newspaper accounts of the
execution are retained in the bill
The regulation Of wildcat mining
and other investment companies
which try to sell their securities to
the public is aimed at in bill intro
duced in the house by F.. T. White of
ELK River. The bill is made applicable
to any association, firm, company,
partnership, association or corpora
ton, other than building and loan as
socfations and insurance companies
and associations which issue stock.
No association is to issue stock before
It has received a certificate Of au-
thority from the public examiner The
bill is intended to protect investors in
this state from buying worthless
stocks of outside companies.
State Highway Measure.
A state highway bill was introduced
In the house by J. r. Randall of Du-
luth. It provides for two state roads,
| one running straight north and south
and the other straight east and west.
The roads follow the town lines, re-
| CARELESS of what towns they strike,
| except that one end of one road hits
Duluth. This road goes due west
from Duluth to point about six miles
south of Moorhead.
The other road starts on the Iowa
line six miles west of the east
boundary of Faribault county. It
goes directly north to the state line
near Indus in Itasca county.
The senate in committee of the
whole, with Senator Frank Clague of
| Lamberton presiding, considered the
bills on general orders and recon-
mended several for passage
A bill reducing the minimum capital
of banks Of discount and deposits to
$4,000 was introduced by Senator A.
D. Stephens of Crookston. The bill
permits of the incorporation of banks
with capital of $4,000 in villages
having population of 400 or less.
| Another bill providing for tax on
mortgages was introduced in the SEN
ate, this one being introduced by Sen
ator G. A. Johnson of st. Peter. A
somewhat similar bill was introduced
by Senator Frank Clague of Lamber.
ton some days ago.
A bill intended to stop grating by
agents and employees at the expense
Of their principal and employer was
Of Rushmore. The bill Is comprehen-
| sive and includes in it's prohibitions
the giving, Offering or receiving of
| any sort of gift or gratuity in consid-
GRAFTON Of the exertion by the agent
or employee Of his influence on behalf
Of the person making such gift in re-
lation to the purchase Of supplies, en-
ployment Of labor or other matters In
connection with the business Of his
principal or employer.
Third State Fish Hatchery.
Provision for the acquisition Of a
site and the establishment of third
state fish hatchery at or near Deer
wood, Grow Wing county, is made in
bill introduced by Senator 8. F.
Alderman of Brainerd.
Joseph M. Hackney Of st. Paul is
the duly elected senator from the
Thirty-seventh district. The senate
came tosthis conclusion after spending
about two hours in listening to argu-
ments of both sides in the contest
brought by Pierce Butler. The test
Of strength came on the motion to
substitute the minority for the ma
jority report, which was voted down
by strict party vote. Senator Ole
Sageng, the lone Populist senator,
voting with the Republicans. The
vote stood nineteen ayes and forty
two nays. The motion to adopt the
majority report, seating Mr.. Hackney
was then put and Senator Albert
Schaller's was thee only voice heard
voting no. u
The house anii senate drainage
committee held a joint session and
went into a thorough discussion of the
general principles Of drainage and the
policy Of the state in regard to It. Two
motions were passed, one expressing
It as the sense Of the. committees that
100000 be appropriated for drainage
and the other that $4,000 be put in
the hands Of the drainage commission
for co-ODeration with the federal gov