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AXIOM (?)School books that are good enough for rural schools, are not good enough for cities in Minnesota. Ir the people are asking for the passage of Hall's amondmont to the Merrill law so as make it compulsory for fifteen years, why is it necessary for Appleton & Co. to send Lane, their agent, here just at this ciitical time, and just before the amendment is consid ered by tho House. MK. C. E. LANE, agent for Appleton & Co., imbhshers of the proposed State school books, amved direct from the East, Tues day, and was met at the depot by tho State contractor, with open arms, and escorted to lho Merchants, where he has quarters. What is he here for? Ii is a trifle inconsistent for the Chamber oi Commeicc to piopose to save foity or hfty thousand dollars by grinding down salaries so low that competent men cannot afford to woik for the public, and vote an in crease of sevonty-five thousand dollars in our bonded indebtedness for a high school and bridge. Especially so when the seventy live thousand dollars is only an entering wedge for an expenditure of two hundred thousand dollars. GLOBE reporter, made a good point in refer ence to the Auditor's salary in ltamsey county. That official formerly received five thousand dollars, but it has now been re duced to four thousand. Out of this he must pay his clerk hire, and the business of the office requires three clerks all the time, and portions of the year even more assist ance is necessary. Even the radical le tronchors do not propose to leduco tho Aud itor, and as a matter of justico the old sal ary ought to be restored. MK. LADD'S immigration bill introduced in the House yesterday, is faulty in that it appropriates but five thousand dollais for immigration purposes. This sum ought certainly to be raised to ten thousand. A much larger amount could be used to advan tage, but that sum is really as small as the State can afford to expend. There never be fore was such a favorable time to secure peo ple from other parts of our own country as now. The business depression has unsettled people who heretofore were immovable, and the State will secure big interest on ten thousand dollars, if that amount is expended in making public our advantages. W E give below the names of 20 cleiks who have been buying books of publishers since 187C: Stephen Hewson, Oxford Hogan Anderson, Wostbrook Matthew McMullen, Anna J. H. Thompson, Long Prairie Ira D. Beeman, Blooming Grove A. J.Phillips, Smith Lake G. G. Coon, New Auburn E. C. Wishart, Janes ville H. C. Nelson, Hayward J. B. Johnson, Spring Valley Z. Bunch, Eggleston Ole Gil bertson. Anderson S. W. Jacobson, Tordensk lold S. D. Welch, Hyde Park A. J. Jordan, St. Mary's Z. B. Chatfield, Lexington W. P. Smith, Roscoe Center S. B. Howell, Forest Lake A. P. Wilson, Janesville John Mont gomery, Minneiska. Is any other proof needed to contradict Mr. Donnelly's statement that "'schools could not buy books direct of publishers be fore the passage of the Merrill law," than the names of the twenty clerks which we publish this morning? If so, the names of five hundred others can be furnished. A BILL has been introduced in the Legis lature to prevent the further drainage of Lake Minnetonka. A terrible steamboat explo sion occurred on that lake last summer, which suggests a more important matter than drainage. The Legislature ought to pass a law providing for the inspection of all steamboats on Minnesota lakes. The calam ity last year was bad enough, but unless something of this kind is done, Lake Minnetonka or White Bear or some .other inland lake will supply a more frightful casualty. Thousands visit these lakes every summer, and any irrespon sible party can set a tub afloat upon them with an old, patched up boiler in charge of a novice. The State should have a law requir ing all of these little boats to pass inspec tion and keep a licensed engineer. The public is entitled to this protection. QUERY. The friends of the Merrill law claim that the amendments secured in the Senate com pel the contractor to send the books to the depositories in the different counties on com mission. Is this a fact The amendment reads, "And said persons designated shall act as a depository, to whom the said contractor shall furnish a supply of text books, AT THE STATE LIST PBIOES." This manifestly means that Mr. Merrill shall get his pay for the books as soon as they are shipped to the county depositories, JANUARY 1, 1863EMANCIPATION. Carpenter's painting, commemorative of one of the greatest events in history, now adorns the walls of the capitol. On the 1st day of January, 1863, Abraham Lincoln is sued that great proclamation declaring the slaves in the rebel States free. In 1862, he had proclaimed the intention to emanci pate the slaves. The crowning act followed, but it was only consummated, when, two years later, the cause of the Union triumphed, and later still, when every State that had formerly owned slaves, accepted and adopted the amendment to the constitution, making every man throughout the wide extended borders of the United States free, and class ing all alike with the inalienable rights of citizenship. Two days ago, in the presence of the as sembled representatives of the people, the former Vice President of the "Confederate States" accepted, on behalf of Congress, the painting of Lincoln signing the proclama tion of emancipation. Nearly two centuries ago England, by the treaty of Utrecht, se cured a monopoly of the slave trade. "With trinkets and toys, and worthless arms, she robbed Africa of her children, and peopled America with slaves. It was this infamous trade that poured countless wealth into Eng land, built up and strengthened the British throne, and reared and established an em pire of slaves in Hindostan. To-day Eng land is proud and potent and her victim, the South, is still desolate in ashes. Time changes all things. Wonderful events are hastening to fulfillment. The boa&t of the Irish orator that whenever a slave touched British soil he breathed the universal air of freedom, was a mockery of his own people, and the day may yet come when the wealth and the power and the splendor gathered from the slave trade may disappear and leave not a tiace behind. This is now the land, at least, of nominal freedom. SlaveryAfrican slaveryexists no longer, and there is no one who wishes its restoration. It is the mission of the present to preserve the government and the States free. It is proper that the walls of the National Capitol commemorate that great event which appears to be more the immediate act of God than either the inspi ration oi the deed of any human hand. AN INDEPENDENT RUREAU A EEDED. Mr. Mead's resolution, offered 'in the House yesterday, instructing the State Audi tor to supply members of the Legislature with copies of the report of the Commis- iron-clad if possible, sioner of Statistics, forcibly calls attention to the importance of making an indepen dent statistical bureau. Mi. Metcalf has sup plied a volume of immense value to the State. It is a document which can be made to do great service in promoting immigration. It seems, however, that the Secretary of State claims that the work was printed by the wrong contractor, and hence declines to receive it. The valuable publication is ac cordingly kicked about in the corridors of the capitol instead ot being applied to its legitimate use. With the printing controversy we have nothing to do, but this episode furnishes additional proof of the importance of chang ing the law and making the Commissioner of Statistics an independent bureau. It has been the appendage and foot ball of the Secretary of State's office long enough. If JUDGE MAYNABD, in his interview with a it is worth having at all, it is worth making effective. The present Com missioner of Statistics, whose appointment was announced a few days ago, was selected purely on nationality grounds and without any regard to his qualifications for the office. It is really no dispaiagement to Mr. Jacob son to say that he is unfitted for the place. We do not believe there can be found ten men in the entire State suitable to fill that position. Men of ability in other respects will prove lamentable failures in that work. It is timo to give this office tho inde pendent position which it deserves, and make the appointment by and with the ad vice of the Senate. It is time to place that office in such a position that no petty pi hat ing squabble can prevent the State from re ceiving its benefits. It is time for the State to assert that being a native of the United States, is not a positive disqualification for discharging the duties of the office of Com missioner of Statistics. It would be better to abolish the office altogether, rather than waste money on the present plan. THE LOUISIANA MARTYRS. Wells, Anderson, and their associates in New Orleans and at Washington are trying hard to make martyrs of themselves. What martyrs! Perjurers and thievesthat's the kind of martyrdom the American people are invited to sympathize with. Who has for gotten the condition of Louisiana before the last Presidential election? For ten years that unfortunate people had been the vic tims of every kind of oppression and suffer ing. Its condition excited the pity of friends and enemies both, alike. When the Presidential election came there was hope that the yoke might be thrown off. Then the State fell into the hands of the merciless scoundrels of the returning board. The people were disfranchised, and the State robbed of the electoral vote. The most moderate Republicans, prior to the fraud of the electoral scheme, could not, and did not go further than to hold, that the vote of Louisiana should be thrown out. It was conceded and known that the State had, as a matter of the fact, voted for Democratic ticket by 8,000 majority at least, and that Anderson and Wells swindled the State out of the vote. There could be no condoning of the crime. If an attempt was made to do it, if John Sherman, Eugene Hale and the Republican managers condoned the crime, they should be indicted, convicted and sent to the peni tentiary along with their guilty associates. This government cannot afford to exist even under the suspicion of fraud and crime. When the machinery of the constitution shall be used to perpetuate the misrule of partisanship, and the plunder and bribery of perjured scoundrels, revolution and anarchy will soon end all in ruin. SUPERFLUOUS OFFICIALS. THE GLOBE has already commented ap provingly of the Wood tariff bill, and espe cially on that portion which proposes to lop off the bummer portion of the custom's force, and thereby largely reduce the cost of collecting the revenue. We can see no com mercial reason why a Deputy Collector should be retained at every place where a few vessel loads of lumber and iron are loaded and unloaded. This not only entails an unnecessary expense on these vessels in having to pay one dollar at each entry, and the same for clearance, but also an expense to government be- sides, as very few of these so-called ports collect enough to pay the salary of the col lector. They are mere sinecures, kept up for use in political machinery. There are altogether on the lakes, between Suspension bridge and Chicago and Duluth, over three hundred customs officers, of whom one hun dred could be dispensed with without detri ment to the government. At all points where an officer is needed, either to protect the revenues and prevent smuggling, or for the collection of the revenues, trusty and reliable officers should be stationed, and a fair compensation allowed but political deadbeats and bummers should be guillotinsd at once. Mr. Wood and his committee should look after this important matter. MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS O TEST THE INVENTION OF M. J. ADAMS. The object of the invention of Mr. M. J. Adams is to secure a permanent channel in rivers. His invention consists of a line of flumes, with valved openings, laid in the bed of the riverthe water being forced into the flumes and let out through the valve openings, abrading sand and mud, throwing it out and deepening and broadening the channel. Mr. Adams has made this invention a study for years, struggling along in poverty, unaided, and under extraordinary difficulties. He has succeeded in perfecting his inven tion and has perfect confidence in its sue cess. He has received encouragement from the highest scientific authorities and one of the most extensive manufacturing establish ments in the United State. The National Tube Works, at McKeesport, Pa., are ready to test the invention. All that Mr. Adams asks is, that the Legislature shall enable him to place the matter before Congress that the invention may be tested. Mr. Adams is an old citizen of Minnesotahe has devoted the best years of his life to this study, and has struggled and toiled to accomplish his pur pose. If it shall prove successful, it will be the greatest invention of the age. The French government is now testing the in vention, and so far perfectly satisfied with the results, and it is attracting great atten tion. The Legislature will do a graceful act, and recognize a highly deserving citizen by promptly passing the memorial. APPLETON & CO. IN TIIE MELD. It has been claimed all along by the advo cates of the Merrill law that the people are clamorous for it and want to have it made It is evident, however, that Appleton & Co., whose books are to be universally intro duced under the law, have just heard that some of the people of Minnesota seriously object to having Quackenbos' books crammed down their throats continuously for the next fifteen years, for as announced above they are in the field. Mr. C. E. Lane, their general agent, ar rived on Tuesday and has established his headquarters at the Merchants. We give him notice that he will find it difficult to organize a machine strong enough to coerceJthe whole people into taking his worn out books, even if the pioposed amend ment passes. HE Senate yesterday acted on HE GLOBE'S suggestion, and referred the controversy relative to the State prison contractors to the judiciary committee, with instructions to ascertain the status of the case now in court. THE SUCCESSORSHIP, The Catholic Powers Threaten to Interfere in the Naming of the New PopeSchisms Among the Cardinals. KOME, Feb. 13.The ambassadors of the Catholic powers have jointly intimated to Camerlengo that if some cardinals known for their uncompromising spirit, whom they named, were likely to obtain the suffrages of the conclave the ambassadors would be com pelled to oppose their election. Camerlengo has found in the Pope's desk a sealed packet with instructions for delivering it into the hands of his successor. He also found 400,- 000 scudi, the destination of which, proba bly, is designated in the Pope's testament. The Pope's wealth, altogether, is said to amount to 120,000,000 lire, which is mostly in the hands of the Kothschilds at Paris. The Liberta states that three parties have formed in the Sacred College, namely, the irreconcilable3, advocates of compromise, and advocates of the maintenance of the status quo. The first, led by Cardinal Man ning, commands about twelve votes the second is said to have decided to support the election of Cardinal Maretta, Archbishop of Bavenna while the third, which is the most numerous party, is said to have elected Cardinal Linge St. Canossa, Archbishop of Verona, as its candidate. THE MAUCH CHUNK MIRACLE. Futher Helnen has to Read a Condemna tory Letter from the Archbishop. MAUOH CHUNK, Pa., Feb. 10Father Hei- nen stepped briskly into the presence of his congregation at 7:12 o'clock with the air of a man who had work to do. It had been given out that the letter of Archbishop Wood would be read, and, notwithstanding a storm of sleet and rain and the unseasonable hour, the church was well filled. At the proper time during the service Father Heinen read the letter, both in German and English, as follows: The Archbishop having heard and care fully considered the circumstances preced ing and accompanying what is derisively called the "Mauch Chunk miracle," said to have been wrought on the person of a woman whose eccentric piety has neither good sen se nor sound Catholic doctrine for its foundation, requires me to instruct you that in his judgment it is a delusion and a pious fraud. Without inquiring as to the extent to which others participated in this lamentable folly, he desires to mark the whole proceeding and the principal actors in it with his distinct and unqualified disappro bation and condemnation, and to say that a repetition of anything of the sort in this diocese will be visited by the severest cen sures authorized by the church. Father Heinen uttered no word of com ment. At the close of the service he entered his carriage to be driven twelve miles out in the backwoods to hold services in another of his churches. Father Bunco read the letter in the same words. He said he did not hold himself responsible for the occurrence in any way. He knew something of the facts, and was merely present as a witness on Satur day. That was all he had to do with the case, and he thought it would be well to say so. Wliat Will He Do? [Nashville American.] Mr. Lamar, then, finds himself confronted by a resolution of instructions, which, ac cording to Democratic practice and precedent, constrains him to vote for the Bland bill or resign. Two Old Rats. [Wheeling Standard.] Thurman and Hendricks are like two cats in opposite corners of a room eyeing each other. They are both watching the same rat-holethe Presidency. THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 1878. THE LEGISLATURE. YESTERDAY A DAY OF SOLID WORK. The State Prison MatterThe Senate Does Not Take Kindly to the Ring PlanRe storing Foreclosure by Advertisement Batch of Bridge Bills Killed in the House Does the State Geologist Earn His MoneyHis "Wood Chuck" Temporarily Suspended. Senate. With two sessions yesterday this body disposed of a large amount of business, so that it starts in to-day in good shape. Among the important measures disposed of was the bill for foreclosure by advertisement, which passed by the very decided affirmative vote of 28 to 9. Before a vote was taken Mr. Donnelly took the floor in opposition, and indulged himself in one of those extrav agant speeches so frequently occurring, as to greatly injure his influence. Thus, when he told the Senators that two-thirds of the State had been ravaged by grasshoppers last season, and made other statements equally extravagant, the majority of its members turned their attention to the matters before them on their tables, or retired to the lobby to smoke, and when he had got through with his speech votedfor the bill. If the will of the Senate is carried out. the head of navigation on the Minnesota river will be fixed at Little Falls, (as desired by Senator Henry) Carver county, that being the vote, notwithstanding Senator C. D. Gil Allan called attention to the fact that by the ordinance of 1717 such water courses should be maintained inviolate as public highways. An innovation upon the jury system is pro posed by Senator Goodrich, who has intro duced a constitutional amendment, accom panied by a bill, authorizing judges in civil suits to accept the findings of 12, 11, 10 and 9, jurors, as the case may be, as a verdict. Minnesota ranks A 1 among the States of the Union for the educational advantages of fered. By a bill introduced yesterday, it is proposed to still further add to the-standing of certain of our schools, by offering State aid to such high and independent schools as shall incorporate into their course of instruc tion a preparatoiy University course, to be regulated by a commission of education. The proposition is worthy of careful consid eration. The following is tho Routine Report. ST. PAUL, Feb. 13.Senator Pillsbury pre sented a petition for legislative "action to pre vent the further draining of Lake Minnetonka. BILLS INrKODUCED.. By Senator EdgertonTo enable railroad companies to condemn and acquire lands for the purpose of planting trees or erecting screens for the protection of their roads from storms. By Senator EdgertonRelating to the dismis sal of actions. By Senator RiceAuthorizing the commis sioners of Kandiyohi county to raise bonds in $30,000 for the purchase of seed grain. [Rules suspended and bill passed.] By Senator DeuelTo incorporate the village of Stewartville, Olmsted county. By Senator MacdonaldTo vacate the plat of Greenvale cemetery, in the town of Sauk Cen- Senator HenryTo change the name of Union cemetery, Belle Plaine, to Oakwood. [Rules suspended and bill passed.] Also to legalize the deeds and conveyances of Union cemetery, under the name of Oakwood. [Rules suspended and bill passed.] Senator J. GilfillanAppiopriating $500 for building a bridge across Rum river in Isanti county also to lepeal chapter 61 of the general laws of 1875, relating to actions also to repeal chapter 88 of the general laws of 1877, relating to process up on non-residents. THE STATE PRISON. The joint committee upon State prison made the following report: That they have visited the said institution at Stillwater and find it in good condition, BO far as management, health and industry are con cerned. There are ma ny improvements yet needed to make the institution complete, and af}er careful consideration your committee would recommend that the capacity of this prison be increased to four hundred inmates, and that its completion, including the substan tial walling in of the grounds, be prosecuted as fast as possible. More cell room must be pro vided at once, and the other improvements provided for in the accompanying bill our committee consider imperatively needed. We have also had under advisement the diffi culties arising under the contract entered into by the State through its agents, the warden and inspector of the State prison, under the advice of the attorney general, with Seymour, Sabin & Co., and we have adopted the recommenda tion of the board of inspectors for the appoint ment of a commission to settle all such matter of difference, and we herewith present a bill providing for such commission. We deem this course for the best interest of the State being much better than the chances and delay of liti gation upon a contract which has been acqui esced in and acted upon in good faith by all of the parties thereto from the time of making the same, up to the commencement of the pres ent litigation, which has grown out of a differ ence in the interpretation of this contract by the parties to it. All of which is respectfully submitted. J. M. WALDBON, Chairman Senate Committee. S. G. FULTON, Chairman House Committee. Senator Doran, one of the committee, dif fered from the report. He did not meet with the committee, not having any notice of the same. He was opposed to going any further in this matter until Seymour, Sabin & Co. came up and settled with the State and paid what they owed. When the appropriation for the institution was before the Legislature last year, they came before it and promised, if the appro priation was voted, to pay up, offering to give bonds to do so. Instead of doing as they agreed, they had refused to fulfill their con tract, now owing the State some $35,000. The action proposed was contrary to the dignity of the State, and he wanted to stop right now. For one, he did not propose that Seymour, Sabin & Co. should run the State. The proposi tion was in the interest of the contractors not the State, and was evidently for the purpose of getting ridwof paying what they owe the State under the contract. Senator Nelson agreed with Mr. Doran. The decision of the supreme court already had in the matter asserted the binding force of the contract, except as to the the question of con struction of shops. This being the case, he did not think it proper for the State to make a proposition of settlement. He therefore moved the reference of the bill and report to the judiciary committee for examination and re port upon the legal points involved. Senator Waldron held that all the interests of the State had been preserved in the bill. Senator Donnellv believed the proposition a wise one. If the contractors were held by the contract, so was the State, and it seemed to him that it had set up a technicality in the pro ceedings instituted. It was important that the questions at issue should be settled aB speedily as possible, and reference to a com mission of unbiased citizens would accomplish this purpose upon equitable and just grounds, in his opinion, more speedily than in any other way. Senator Mealey said that the meeting of the committee, when the proposition was decided upon, was full, only Senator Doran being ab sent, and that after a full discussion and exam ination of the matter, the proposition made was unanimously adopted as the best for the in terests of the State. Some further discussion ensued as to the force of the supreme court decision. The mo tion of Senator Nelson to refer to the judiciary committee was adopted. APPLE CULTUBE. Senator Donnelly presented a memorial from the State Agricultural Society for the purchase by the State of land for the cultivation of apples with a view to producing varieties suit able to this climate, which was referred to a special committee of five. *j SENATE BILLS PASSED. *^_ For the*relief of the independent school dis trict of Belle Plaine, Scott county. For the foreclosure of mortgages by adver tisement, Yeas 28 nays 9Senators Clough, Donnelly, Goodrich, Lienan, McClure, Nelson RemoreJ pce and Wheat. ^_ g^, HOUSE BILL PASSED. I S Incorporating the village of Montgomery, Le Sutur county. Recess to 2 o'clock. AFTERNOON SESSION. BILLSINTEODUCED. By Senator GoodrichAn amendment to sec tion 4, -article 1, of the constitution, giving courts power to receive as a verdict the finding of nine jurors in civil cases also, a bill for car rying such provision into effect if adopted. By Senator FinsethMaking paupers a town charge in Goodhue county. By Senator MacdonaldAmending the spe cial law creating the independent school district of St. Cloud. By Senator McHenchAuthorizing the con veyance of lots in Plainview cemetery. HIGHER EDUCATION. Senator Mealey presented a bill creating a commission consisting of the superintendent of public instruction, the president of the State university, ex-officio, and one other person to be appointed by the Governor, to be called a high school board, whose duty it shall be to inspect such independent and high schools which may teach such branches prescribed as requisite for admission to the collegiate department of the State University not lower than the third or Bub-freshman class, with a view of giving such schools aid not to exceed $400 each for any one year, and $9,000 in the aggregate. The mem bers of the board are to serve without compen sation, except the last named, who is to receive $3 per day when actually employed. IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE. Nine bills were ordered engrossed for a third reading, including a memorial to Congress to make the head of navigation on the Minnesota river at Little Falls, Carver county. The bill in relation to foreclosures by action was re ferred to the judiciary committee for amend ment, and that in relation to commitments to the Reform school laid aside at the request of Senator Mealey. The President announced as the special com mittee on the memorial of the S?atc Agricul tural Society, Senators Donnelh, Shalleen, Clough, Swanstrom and Drew. Adjourned. House. Now that the Page matter is neaiing its close, at least pieliminarily, the petitions read be fore the House comprehend and are em braced within three subjectsthe text book bill, the temperance bill and the bill for the removal of the Scott county county seat. Upon each side of the two first named, there were several petitions read yesterday, to each of which was attached quite an array of names. Upon the county seat question. Represent ative Giles sent up petitions claimed to be signed by 1.448 persons, in favor of its re moval to Jordan, or rather the sub mission of the question to the vote of the people. To offset this petition, Mr. Hinds sent up a remonstrance which was said to have been signed by 1,424 persons. It thus appears that 2,872 persons have enrolled themselves pro or con on this question, or nearly 500 more than the num ber of votes cast in the entire country during the late Presidential campaign. When the reading of the petition had been gone through with, on the order of reports jrom committees, Mr. Ladd. from the com mittee on ways and means, threw a bomb shell into the House in recommending for indefinite postponement all the bridge bills thus far presented this session. The sonor ous voice of Chief Clerk Flower had scarcely echoed through the hall when half a dozen cham ions were on their feet prepared to battle for their pet projects. Mr. Bowler, of Keuville, moved to amend the lecommenda tion of the committee, by referring all the bills to a special committee consisting of the members who had intro duced them. Brandt, of Brown, and Bohan. of Blue Earth, made earnest and vigorous protests against the proposed action of the House in consigning these relics to an un timely grave. But it was all in vain. The House was bent on the sacrifice and it was consummated despite all the piteous appeals that could be made. One of the reports of the committee on education also provoked quite a biccze. For some time past a bill had been pending be fore that committee, in which the author Dr. Miller, of Winonasought to change the rule whereby the proportion of school moneys is allotted to each district on the basis of actual attendance, and make, in stead, the actual number of schoolable chil dren in the district within the ages of five and twenty-one the basis, as was heretofore the practice. In this view, the committee were not inclined to coincide, and accord ingly recommended the bill for indefinite postponement. This, of course, did not meet the Doctor's ideas, and he accordingly waded in in defense of his bill, and in the course of an earnest and vigorous speech, charged the committee with a want of dis position to show fair and courteous treat ment to the measure. He contended that his bill provided the only fair and equitable basis for the country districts, and demanded that the bill be allowed to go to the com mittee of the whole for discussion. The earnest appeal of the Doctor prevailed, and he will yet be heard defending his proposed system for ascertaining the numerical basis of school children in each district. During the afternoon session Col. Colville created some merriment by seeking to have the temperance bill referred to the commit tee on military affairs. It was a question, he said, affecting military supplies and he thought the committee knew how to deal properly with such a momentous question. The friends of the bill, however, were evi dently afraid to trust it in the hands of the gallant colonel and his committee, and so to gratify them, the House refused to take it from committee of the whole, where it now is. Latar in the afternoon, the bill appro priating $3,000 annually for three years for a geological survey of the northern section of the State, to be expended under the direc tion of Prof. Winchell of the State Univer sity, came up for its third reading. Unani mous consent was asked to amend by inserting '"four" instead of '"three" years, and this was given without objection. The roll was then called, when it was found that 44 had voted for the bill and 38 against it. Mr. Morse moved to reconsider, as he had voted against the bill, with the inten tion, if it was lost, of making such a motion, thereby giving opportunity for an investiga tion into its merits. At this point, Col. Col ville said a few years ago it was generally understood that the appropriations that had been made for geological surveys were being used by Prof. Winchell in the interest of private speculation, and that was what would be done with the money appropriated by this bill if it became a law. He said further that it was a well-known fact that the Professor of Geology in the University was years and years behind what he ought to be. He was by no means a scientific man and had long been employed in hunting up pine lands. Compare the Minnesota geological report with that gotten up in Wisconsin. The corps of teachers of this branch in that insti tution were not only incompetent, but it is a well-known fact that they have been em ployed for years in pine and mineral land speculations. Col. Feller contended there were merits in the bill. The charge made by the gentleman from Goodhue was a very serious one. He (Col. Feller) had a land office at Duluth for years and he had never heard of Prof. Winchell being engaged in pine land specu lations or in hunting up pine lands. He believed some such appropriation as this should be made. He had never doubted the existence upon the north shore of vast deposits of mineral wealthin fact, he had himself seen fine specimens of iron ore from that region, and he thought the State could not possibly expend her money to better advantage than in assisting in the development of the boundless re sources of that portion of the territory. The discussion was further continued by Morse, Sabin and others, when the motion to recom mit to the committee of the whole was lost. The question recurring on the motion of Mr. Colville to refer to a special committee of five, Mr. Mead said he wanted to present the re port of Prof. Winchell to the committee of the whole. The report was simply an adver tisement of the city of Minneapolis, giving the price of brick yards, city lots, &c. The motion to refer was then put and carried. The most important bill introduced yes terday was that by Mr. Ladd. of St. Peter, which appropriates 5.000 for the encourage ment of immigration. It simply authorizes the Governor to xpend this amount in dis seminating all necessary statistical informa tion relative to the resources and general ad vantages, &c., of the State. On motion of Mr. Bowler, the rules were suspended, and the bill authorizing Kandiyo hi county to issue bonds not to exceed $30,- 000, for the purchase of seed grain for the destitute, was put on its third reading and passed. The House is now in the busiest stage of the session, and is. or will be in a few days, confronted by an immense accumulation of work. It is at the stage when business ac cumulates rapidly, and when the utmost diligence and industry is requisite to keep up with the natural and anticipated rush of business. The chief clerk has before him, from now to the close of the session, a period which will try his really fine reading abilities to their utmost tension, practically unassisted", and standing" alone in this department as he really is. If he can stand the strain through this session he will have undeniably demon strated his title to the claim of being one of the very best chief clerks in the history of the State. And he will do it, too. The Scott county imbroglio will reach a settlement in committee of the whole to daythat is if good luck attends either side of the House. Routine Report. Sr. PAU L, Feb. 13.After the piesentation of a large number of petitions relating to the school book law and the pending bill for the protection of the people against the pauperism and crime resulting trom the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, and also relating to the Scott county seat removal question, a re port was read from Mr. Ladd, of the ways and means committee, recommending the indefinite postponement of all the various bridge bills thus far presented, and which by previous ac tion of the Senate had been referred to that committep. A long discussion ensued, but the report of the committee was finally adopted. The attention of the House was occupied dur ing the entire morning session, with the con sideration of the reports of committees, and on the completu of thi* order of business at 12-40, the House took a recess to 2.30 p. in. AFTERNOON SESSION. Mr. Mead offered the following, which was on notice of debate by Mr. Hicks, laid over under the rules: liesoh'cd, That the State Auditor be requested to furnish each member of this House with three copies of the repoit of the Commissioner of Statistics. Mr. Colville moved to take the bill relating to the sale and manufacture of intoxicating liqnirs from the general ordcis and refer the same to the committee on militaiy affairs. The question was one affecting mihtarj sup plies, and as the members of that committee have a great deal of experience of these mat ters, he thought it ought to be sent to them. Besides, it was an important measure and one seriously affecting the personal liberty of every person within the State. Messrs. Purdie, McBrown, Muir and others opposed the reference, when the motion was lost. Mr. West, of Faribault, moved that the clerk be instructed to have printed and placed on the members' desks 300 copies of the Senato bill providing for uniform text-book6 for the pub lic schools of the State, which was carried. BILLS INTRODUCED Mr. Richter Authorizing Sueur county to sell its poor farm and purchase land for a new location. Mr. LaddAppiopriating $5,000 for the encouragement of immigration to this State. By Mr. MeadAmending the laws of 1877 rc atmg to evidence. Mr. CrandallAmending statutes, relat ing to sale of public school lands. Mr. McBrownAmending the statutes relating to the Inebriate Asylum. Mr. BorthelEstablishing State road in Carver and Scott counties. By Mr. WilliamsChanging the name of town site in Ly on county. Mr. PinneyRelating to school districts in LeSneur county. Mr. StanleyProviding for the collection indebtedness of school districts. sameAmendatory of the acts incorporat ing St. Cloud. Mr. FullerAuthorizing town lcrks of certain towns Wabashaw county, to record deeds of cemetery lands. Mr. LarkinIncorporating town of Mapleton. Passed under suspension of rules. Mr. MorseEstablishing and defining personal liabihties of stockholders in manufac turing enterprises. sameAmending the statutes to payment of debts of decedents. Mr. BowlerDetaching certain towns from Renville county and attaching the same to Yel low Medicine county. By Mr. GilesAuthorizing the village of Jor dan to issne bonds for the purchase of land for court house. Authorizing Kandiyohi county to issue bonds not exceeding *30,000 for purchase of seed grain. Passed under suspension of the rules. Incorporating village of Cokato in Wright county. Passed. SENATE BILLS PASSED. Relating to holding of elections town of Cambridge, Isanti county. Amending the act incorporating the city of Northfield and prohibiting the sale of intoxi cating liquors therein. HOUSE BELLS PASSED. Vacating town plat of Swann River, in Moi rison county. Amending the statutes relating to corpora tions. Amending the statutes in relation to corpora tionsi Appropriating 3,000 annually for four years, for a geological survey of northern sections of the State. Lost, yeas 44, nays 38. Reconsid ered on motion of Mr. Morse, and referred to a special committee of five, consisting of Colville, Hall, Richardson, McDermott and Bishop. Incorporating the village of Morris, in Ste vens county. Relating to time of holding court in Todd county. Repeabng special laws of 1877, relating to State road in Scott county. Removing county seat of Watonwan county from Madeiia to St. James. Amending statutes relating to corporations. Detaching county of Lac qu i Parle from Chippewa county, for judicial purposes. Amending general statutes relating to civil actions. Repealing an act relating to roads, cartways and bridges. Adjourned. Testing the Power to Compel Payment of Kailroad Konusses. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 13.A deputy United States marshal has visited Scotland county, and served on the county judges seven al ternative writs of mandamus, commanding them to appear before the United States Cir cuit courts in St. Louis, on the 3d Monday in March next, and show cause why they should not be commanded to levy a tax to pay the judgments against the county on the railroad bonds. The judgments in the seven cases amount to $30,000. Similar proceed ings are pending against other companies, which have defaulted the interest on their railroad bonds, and the coursi which the court will pursue, on the refusal of the coun ty judges to levy, is awaited with great in terest, GLOBELET8. Schuyler Colfax is still smilingto moral audiences at $5 0 a night. Germany is the first military power in En rope aud Russia the second. Le Dnc says he has 100,000 tea plants grow ing. Make him a Cabinet officer, quick. Gas of 16-candle power is offered to Indian apolis at gsl.60 per 1,000 cubicfee t. Shingle packers at Green Bay, Wis., have struck for 8c per 1.000. They have been re ceiving 7c. A Hindoo lectured in Chicago Monday eve ning on "Hindoo Castes and superstitions, and the Women of Southern India." The Austrian bark Cereve cleaied from New Orleans on the 9tb for Queenstown, Ireland with 30,438 bushels of wheat in bulk. Weldon, N. is the Gretna Green of Vir. ginia. Te conples from Richmond's best so ciety have been married there this season. Twenty men were emploj ed steadih two hours to carry in the floral decorations for Mrs. Astor's house on the occasion of a ball recently given by that lady. Dr. Seymour will accept the bishopric of Springfield, 111., if his election, now apprjved by a majority of the diocese, is confirmed b} the HOUFC of Bishops. Would it be unjust to the inspectors at Philadelphia, who pronounced the rotten Bteamcr Metropolitan to be seaworth}, to sen tence them to be hung? Specimens of Minnesota sugar from the amber cane, have been exhibited on 'change at St. Loms, and attracted much attention, as the first evidence theie of undoubtedh successful granulation of sorghum. The Louisville ton no Journal imagine*, the pleasing spectacle of the Ameucan conwet, pro\ ided with an ulster o\ rcoat and started for the penal colon} of Alaska, where he would have ice-water all summc. The exports of corn fo New Orleans thus fai this ear amount to 2,985,079 bushels, against 912,262 bushels toi the bame time last ear. Th natural outlet of the Mississippi Yalle} is fast bet on nig its actual outlet. Lord and Lad} Dufferm were enthusiastic-all} leceivcd at Montreal Mondaj evening, and Mr. Webb C. Hajes, the son of his father and Mon. Bierstadt. the aitist, guests of the Governor General, came in for a fair bhare of attention, An Englishman by the name of Witherford, who has been in the business himself, but has repented, has undertaken to expose to the Presbjtcriau pastors of Chicago, the tricks and deceptions of professional spirtuahstie medi ums. Tuesda} of next week a convention is to be held in Washington in aid of a more perfect understanding upon the subject of an export trade to Brazil. A large attendance of Eastern, Western and Southern merchants and snippets is expected. It is considered certain that the Sennit com mittee on militni} affairs will report favorably on the proposed new article ot war forbidding gambling or the frequenting of gambling re sorts by officers and soldiers of the arm\. Gen. Sherman thinks the article is not ncedi d. B} the treat} latel} concluded with Samoa, the United States secures for a natal depot and coaling station, the liar hoi of Pago-Pago, winch Commodore Wilkes sa} is the best barboi in the South Pacific ocean. The tieat} also ex empts United States goodh frnmSamoan duties. That wearied part of the public which ison nectecl with the newspaper press is beginning to wonder what induces Senators who have nothing to say to keep on talking about the silver bill. The question has been thoroughly discussed. Pass the bill and change the sub ject. The steamboat Sam Roberts, with four barges, arrived from Evansulle, at New Or leans, on the 9th inst., with 60,117 bushels of corn in bulk, 9,471 backs of corn and 3,560 sacks of oats. Yet they used to sa} bulk ship ments or giain wouldn't be handled at New Orleans. That missing *1.800 wlu Treasurer New ac mnuhttc b} illegal assessments upon ex changes of currency, has not been found, but the search for it has disclosed 'irregularities" in Mr. New's settlement, of which Mr. Wjma n, the jiresent assistant treasurer, must have been cognizant. Since Judge WhitUker, of Ne Orleans, tued Returning Boaid Anderson, Hayes's srerctar}, Sherman, proposes to prosecute Whittakcr foi a defalcation when he, Whittaker, was sub-treas urer at New Orleans in 1867. Mr. Sherman does not explain wh} Whittakcr has not before now been prosecuted. A remarkable illustration of the pluck and nerve of the thoroughbred lacehorse occurred at Charleston, S. last Monda}. A horse in the four-mile dash broke his right hind leg short off at the pastern when a little more than half the distance had been traversed, but the animal refused to give up until the four miles were fin ished. The New York ('omit, tells of a Washington waiter under instructions to address a titled foreigner as "m lord," was so surprised by Ins lordship's declining terrapin, having never be fore seen a man who could refuse the Washing ton luxury, that he exclaimed, as he again pushed the deheacy under his lordship's nose, "My Gd! them's terrapin!" Among the heirs of Kirby, the eccentric mil lionare. whose alleged will has been judicially set aside in their favor, are the wives of Donn Piatt and Congressman Banning. The heirs have succeeded in proving that the old man was victimized by three designing women with whom he had illicit relations, and thereby saved to themselves abont one-sixth of the es tate. Not including the untrained militia of the provinces or the contingents furnished by native East Indian states, Great Britain might call into the field at short notice 189,000 regulars, (of whom 62,000 are now serving in India,) 346,000 of the reserve and auxiliary forces, 127 India Colonial troops, and 81 clonial militia, volunteer, etc., in all an effective force of 743,000. There reeentlj died in England, Capt. Charles Bo} ce, of the Indian navy, who, when a lieuten ant, commanded the Nautilus when, June 8th. 1815, that vessel was captured by the United States corvette Peacock, Capt. Warrington. I consideration of the fact thfit peace had at that time been concluded, and that Lieut. Boyce sent a boat to notify Capt. Warrington of the fact, the United States paid a pension to Capt. Boyce. On the engine of a late train coming into Boston, the other night, was found blood spots, pieces of flesh and a heart. the latter a skillful ph} sician was enabled to pronounce that a man had been run over by the tram. Search for the remains resulted in finding the body of a large dog which had been run over near Newton, from which the heart and por tions of flesh had been torn In the cow-catcher of the engine. Th physician retracted. The President of the French Senate, Duke d'Andripfret Pasquier, is excitable on political subjects and has a friend who is perfectly cool about politics but is nevertheless insane. It was thought necessary to lodge the latter in an insane asylum, and the Duke undertook to lure im in under pretense of a morning walk anil call npon a friend. On the way they talked politics and on their arrival at the asylum the Duke was purple in the face and frothing at the mouth, while hi3 lunatic friend was his sanest mood. The result was that the Du ke was locked up and being enraged thereby would have been put into a strait jacket had Hot the mistake been quickly discovered.