St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-07

last session of the senate be adopted as the
temporary rules of the senate until other
wise ordered. Adopted.
Senator Rice then moved that the senate
take recess for 80 minutes. Adopted.
THE COMMITTEES.
After recess Lieutenant Governor Gilman
called the attention of the senate to the fact
that 1t was the custom of the presiding officer
to appoint standing committees at the CON-
mencement of each regular session. In
some respects the present session was the
same as the last, there being but few changes
since the session of two years ago. He was
inclined TO ask the advice of the senate upon
this matter. II 1t was the desire and iudg-
ment OF the present body that there should
be general change he would be pleased
to answer the demand. The only
question was whether the old committees
should be substantially reinstated or whether
new committees should be appointed to take
their places. If the senate was satisfied with
the committees of last season he would be
inclined TO let them remain as they were,
otherwise he would respond to desire for n
change and appoint new committees.
Senator Wilson said he could discover no
grounds for the president of the senate TO
decline or fail to appoint standing commit
tees at the commencement of this as well as
the commencement OF other regular sessions.
There were reasons which be deemed con-
elusive why the president should make new
assign ments to committees. If experience
was worth anything the association with the
persons composing the present senate for
one session would enable him to form cor
rect idea of the character and fitness of sena-
tors for positions upon the various commit
fpnc IN yuhn b..
more satisfactory to the senate and more
conducive to the interests Of the state.
Senator Peck offered a resolution express
ing it as the sense of the senate that the
standing committee remain substantially the
same as those of the last session, with the
exception of the new members.
Pending the discussion of the appointment
of standing committees, the chief clerk of
the house of representatives entered and an
nounced the organization of the house for
public business.
Senator DOran, resuming the discussion of
the question of appointing standing com
mittees, said he thought it would be discour-
teous for the senate to take from the presid-
ing officer any part OF his prerogatiye, and
that the lieutenant governor should proceed
to exercise his appointing power as to COM
mittees untrammeled by preferences of any
one.
Senator Wilson said last session he was
appointed upon the committee on wheat
grading and testing, subjectu upon which he
had no knowledge, experience or fitness, and
had called attention 10 those circumstances,
but he was not transferred from that com
mittee, and he had rot been useful
to the senate or to the state
as such committee man. Now, would it be
rational to keep him in that position after
experience has demonstrated his Unitness
for it? He had heard other senators express
themselves in like manner, and he thought
the lieutenant governor ought to proceed to
appoint his committees, proftlng by his past
experience and observation.
Senator Comstock took the same view as
Senator Wilson, relative TO the appointment
Of committees at each regular session. Last
session there was some talk informally made
to the effect that certain committees had
been appointed in the interest of various
corporations. In view of these things he
thought it would be wise to make new ap-
pointments.
The matter was then indefinitely post
poned by the following ote: