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result of the hullabaloo. The state treasurer, in response to the request of the senate, sent that body a detailed statement showing the amount of money originally in suspended banks, the amount which had since been paid and the ba'ance still remaining uncollected. The only banks where there seems likely to be a loss are the Farmers & Merchants' State bank, of Minueapolis, which still owes the state $21,000, and the American Exchange bank, of Minneapolis, where the balance due is something over $18,000. Even this may be collected from the bondsmen, but as it is over three years since the banks failed, it seems rather doubtful. The Bank of Minnesota, at St. Paul, had the largest deposit of any insolvent bank. amounting to over one hundred thousand dollars, but State Treasurer Koerner has already secured an order from the court directing the receivers to pay him $75,000 immediately out of funds they have in their hands. Considering that originally the state had $300,000 tied up, the ultimate loss. if any, will be very small. Mr. Jacobson offered a bill in the house yesterday which will facilitate the state in bringing suits to recover such property as the Mountain Iron mine, the Hastings & Dakota and other land grants which it is claimed have been improperly secured. This legislature is evidently determined to ascertain whether the created can be greater than the creator, or, in other words, whether the state has any rights that corporations are bound to respect. A bill was introduced in the house, in accordance with the usual method, which is the duplicate of one pending in the Senate appropriating $28,000 for the erection of a live stock ampitheatre and other improvements at the state fair grounds. The frequent introduction of the same bill in both houses indicates a dearth of material from which to make business to exhaust the ninety days. The cyclists do not seem to be strong in the house, as Mr. Grondahl's bill allowing cycle paths to be constructed along the highways does not seem to be popular. The house thinks it would interfere with the farmers, who have to rely upon the roads for marketing their produce. Mr. Jacobson said bicyclists were a nuisance; that they afflicted the cities but the farmers should unite to keep the nuisance out of the country districts. Tosave absolute defeat the bill was referred back to its author. St. Paul, Feb. 4.-You can put it on record that every legislative day which is not productive of a controversy is one day lost. The wrangle in the senate yesterday was over the confirmation of Mr. Griffin to a position on the state pharmacy board. The majority of the judiciary committee reported against him and the minority in his favor. The debate was so long protracted that the senators hungered and thirsted, taking a mid-day recess, only to return and continue the battle. In the end the appointment was confirmed, just as every other appointment the governor has made this winter has been, with the exception of Bundy of Otter Tail, whose name was withdrawn. for membership on the state board of equalization. There has been a good deal of bluster about defeating appointments made by the governor, but it is all ended in wind. In the case of Sheriff Block, of Nicollet county, the legislature even went so far as to remove a constitutional disability by passing an act allowing a sheriff to hold a position on the insane asylum board. The bill repealing the corrupt practice act was undefinitely postponed in the senate, notwithstanding Senator Greer's statement that the one man in the state who endeavored to live up to to it was defeated at the polls. The most important bill of the day was offered by Senator Miller. It provides for an additional assistant attorney general whose duty shall consist of prosecuting cases against railroads before the railroad commissioners. It carries with it a salary of 400. Another bill provides for the establishment of private cemeteries and crematories. It has for many years been a common thing for persons in Texas, Arizona and other untamed portions of the country, to have private cemeteries of their own, but this is the first movement of that kind in Minnesota. The location of the fourth insane asylum bobbed up serenely in the house yesterday. It came in the form of a resolution offered by Mr. Staples of Dakota county, providing for a joint committee of seven on the part of the house and four on the part of the senate to investigate the methods by which the asylum was located at Anoka. The resolution passed. There was a heated debate over the bill making the railroad commissioners elective. instead of being appointed by
