Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-25
PERILS OF LEGISLATION.
Wadashatc County EMshered and No O
Kn0tcs Ho,C 1t Happened.

Wabashav County EstsIered and No One
KssO,cs H0,U 1T Happened.
To the Editor of the Globe.
WABAsHAw, March %, 1SS1.-In this,
Wabashaw county, "hell is to pay and no
pitch hot" fora mortal fact, over the legls-
lative apportionment bill, as signed by the
governor ana printed for distribution.
1t seems that the original draft allowed one
Senator and three Representatives to be elected
within certain described districts. This, how.
ever, did not suit majority of the delegation.
so the section relating to this county was
changed, giving the same number, but pro-
vided for their election from the
county at large, and passed the House in that
state. In the Senate it went through all
right as far as first and second readings. At
the third reading and final passage, the Sena-
tor from this district or county was absent,
and there is no telling the language used on
final passage, but as it now stands, the bill
provides for districts and not as the delegate
desired, nor as 1t passed the House, j. e., to be
elected Large.
Naturally, the members of the delegation
are surprised, and trying to find "a leedle out''
whose particular woodchuck it was to cause
the alteration IN the bill on final passage.
Here, and at Lake City, the inhabitants
are decidedly wormy, not to say wrathy, over
the matter, which the same is general theme
of conversation. All sorts of ways and means
by which it might have been done are suggest
ed; one among them, in effect, that a certain
representative in the southwestern part of the
county, who was the originator of the bill as
it now stands, played it fine on the "bhoys"
after acquiescing in the change, and this s'hea-
then Chinee" stole march, thereby getting
his bill through. Another theory is that dur
Ing the fire and hasty removal the amend
ments, which are always tackled loosely on the
original bills, became detached and lost while
in transit and in hands of the enrolling or other
clerk, so that when enrolled the bill was
in its original state, and thus received the sig
nature OF the governor. This latter seems
plausible enough.
But the worst feature of the whole matter
is that one town in the county, that of Mount
Pleasant, is entirely ignored. Not mentioned
or dstricted in the bill, and the conundrum is,
whether they are disfranchised, or which or
what? and as this town is the home of the
invulnerable, the eminent and former Senator
P. b. Rahilly, he is more than likely to be
heard from with howl of fraud, personality
towards him, ETC., and there will be music in
the air for certainty.
The bill don't assay worth a cent, and several
interesting points arise, defying the opinion
OF the legal and other minds of authority
in the county, as well as the new attorney
general. Does it leave Mount Pleasant out in
the cold altogether How are the members to
be elected from this county? Does it not in
validate the whole apportionment bill? Kill
it deader than the Cardiff giant, etc., etc., etc.
/ tell you its sumner.
Senator Lawrence was in st. Paul yesterday
seeking advice and authority, but was unable
to secure any. 1t is stupendous blunder and
will bother our worthy governor worse to
work out the problem than has all the ap-
pointments within his gift.
Can the GLOBE solve the matter; find out
whose fault it was the change was made; how
does it effect the town of Mount PLEASANT the
county of Wabashaw, and the State at large?
Can the bill stand as passed excepting as to
Wabashaw county and that county work
under the old law?
And again, is the bill as signed by the gov
ernor and printed, a loaO, inasmuch as it did
not pass the House in that shape, even if it
did the Senate, which is in dispute, or is IL
null and void, not being enacted and passed by
the legislature-the two branches?
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