Index to today's Journal

On this day in 1854, Minnesota's first Swedish governor, John Lind, was born at Kanna, Sweden. Lind made his home in New Ulm and served as Governor from 1899 to 1901.

The House of Representatives convened at 10:00 a.m. and was called to order by Irv Anderson, Speaker of the House.

Prayer was offered by Mary Teurman, Director of Youth and Family Ministries, Mount Olivet Lutheran Church, Plymouth, Minnesota.

The members of the House gave the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

The roll was called and the following members were present:

Abrams       Dorn         Johnson, V.  Murphy       Tomassoni
Anderson, R. Entenza      Kalis        Orfield      Trimble
Bakk         Finseth      Kelley       Paulsen      Vickerman
Bradley      Frerichs     Kinkel       Perlt        Wagenius
Broecker     Girard       Knoblach     Peterson     Warkentin
Brown        Greiling     Koppendrayer Rest         Weaver
Carlson, L.  Gunther      Kraus        Rhodes       Wenzel
Carlson, S.  Hackbarth    Lieder       Rukavina     Winter
Carruthers   Harder       Lourey       Schumacher   Wolf
Clark        Hasskamp     Luther       Skoglund     Sp.Anderson,I
Commers      Holsten      Mahon        Solberg      
Cooper       Huntley      McCollum     Stanek       
Dawkins      Jaros        McElroy      Swenson, H.  
Dempsey      Johnson, A.  Munger       Sykora