The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-04-25
ITS WORK IS FINISHED.
Minnesota State Legislature
Concludes Its LabOrs.
AGREE on AN ANTl-PASS BILL

Both Houses Pass Meae're That
Will Become Effective on Jan. l.,
1eos-omnibus Appropriation Bill Is
Passed.
st. Paul, April 24.-After an even
ing of riotous proceedings the house
of representatives Of the Minnesota
legislature closed it's work last night.
The senate turned back the clock and
worked on until lonS after midnight.
Today both bodies will meet to cor
rect the journal and adjust affairs
among members and will adjourn at
noon. According to the constitution
the time for passing bills ended at mid
night.
The disorder in the house started in
the afternoon when the anti-pass bill
was on it's final passage. Members
began throwing spit-balls and paper
wads at one another and started gen
eral confusion.
With the tax commission, antf-pass
and other bills disposed OF during the
afternoon. the evening was given to
passing the senate bills on the calen-
dar and local and pet measures of the
members. The only matter Of i'm
portance during the evening was the
omnibus appropriation bill and this
was disposed of in a moment.
The closing session in the senate
was busy one, the hilarity which
marked the house doings being miss
ing, but the senate nevertheless was
good-natured and the various bills
were rushed through with little fric
tfon
The house. on motion of R. J. Wells
of Breckenridge, chairman Of the ap-
preparation committee, increased the
state tax levy from is mills to IL
mills.
An anti-pass bill, effective Jan. 1,
1908, was reported by the conference
committee and passed in the house.
En1hodies Features of Senate Bill.
The bill passed embodies the essen
tial features of the bill passed by the
senate last week except that the house
provision for free transportation for
members and employees Of the state
railroad commission is left in the bill.
The date is compromise between the
house and senate bills, the house bill
going into effect Dec. 81, 1908, and the
senate bill Immediately.
The Rockne amendment to the house
bill specifically prohibiting legislative
members and state and county officials
from accepting passes is attached to
the bill, the object Of this being to
prevent them from taking passes un-
der the excuse Of being railroad attor-
neys or employees.
The senate passed the bill with but
three votes against it.
Senator McGowan's bill substituting
the gravity test for the flash test for
kerosene oils was killed by the house.
The opposition was based on the in
crease of fees and salaries.
On motion of r. j. Wells Of Brecll-
enridge the house recalled and recon
sidered the game and fish bill which
had been passed Monday. The bill
was amended to require a license of
hunters only when outside their own
county and repassed.
The house spent some time repass-
ing house bills which had been amend
ed by the senate. First of these we're
the drainage bills. the bills drawn by
the house committee on drainage.
There were four bills, bill for judi
cial system, a bill amending the coun-
ty system, bill for state system and
bill providing for an increase of the
price of state land to cover the cost
of drainage. They will all become
law.
J. A. Dalzell of Morton made fight
on w. l. Nolan's municipal ownership
bill, known as the Muller law, when it
came back with the senate amendment
requiring a three-ffths instead Of
four-fifths vote on the question. G. B.
Miller Of Duluth defended the bill and
it was repassed.
Minneapolis Man VIII Build 1t.
The -Timberlake bill provid-
ing for special tax to raise 100000
for the state university in the next
four years for the purpose Of acquiring
additional ground for the campus and
erecting additional buildings was
passed by the senate in the form in
which it came from the house. AS
passed it provides for an expenditure
Of $250,000 for the engineering build
Ing, but contains no provision for the
ladies' dormitory nor for the dental
and pharmacy building.
Senator Albert Schaller of Hast
ings, who had the amendment rein
stating the appropriation of $4,000 for
the dormitory inserted after the house
had taken it out, stated in moving
that the vote by which the senate
passed the bill with this amendment
be reconsidered, that he had been i'll
formed by the president Of the board
Of regents of the university that the
dormitory will be built, by public
spirited Minneapolis citizen whose
name he was not at liberty to mention.
The fear that there would be
trouble between the two houses over
the omnibus appropriation bill was not
realized. The senate passed the bill,
amending it by adding about $4,000.