St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-01

that with all this committee work to occupy
his mind and take up his time, that he has
been unable to assume any pronounced
leadership in the debates and general work
upon the floor of the house. YET he has not
been found wanting even here, always being
found in his seat when the more important
measures were coming up, especially the
work of either of his committees,
all of which he was prepared to
explain or to support in argument. When
he does speak lie is listened to as attentively
as is any speaker of the present body. He
has full, round, strong voice, uses good
language, utters his words with great dis
tinctness, carries his arguments along in
natural connection and withal throws into it
that animation and earnestness that always
go long way towards producing conviction.
Being as he is in the very prime of life, with
mind already well stored with useful and
professional knowledge, industry and COM
mendable ambition, and full bodily vigor,
Mr.. Burlingame should and probably will be
heard from in more important positions than
he has yet occupied.
Among the few members serving
second continuous session is o. B. Turrell,
''the gentleman from Redwood Mr.. Turrell
is gentleman 80 years of age, though his
hair, thickly sprinkled with grey and the
''crow's feet'' branching away from his eyes,
give him much older appearance. He is
>of medium stature and rather delicate frame.
He is a native of Connecticut, where he re-
ceived good common school education. He
came West and settled in st. Paul, which
place he made his home for twenty-one years,
in 1857, engaging in the real estate busi-
ness, with which for short time he coupled
that of banking Owing to i'm
paired health and business reverses
Mr.. Turrell in 1876 removed to Redwood
county, and engaged in farming. The
change has resulted in greatly heneiting his
health aud, his large circle of acquaintances
hope, also his financial condition. Mr..
Turrell is of a quiet and retiring disposition,
and is therefore better known for his work
as legislator than for his participation in
debates, though even in this line he more
frequently appears than many others, his
efforts always having the virtue of fairness
and directness in stating proposition, and
in advancing his reasons for the position he
assumes.
When a member two years ago his pet
measure was proposition to reduce the rate
of interest on sales of school lands from
to per cent, to apply to both future and
past sales. The bill passed both houses, but the
governor vetoed 1t because Of its retroactive
clause. This session Mr.. Turrell re-intro-
duced bill with the same provisions ex-
cept that the reduction of interest proposed
is only to apply to future sales, and he will
probably enjoy the satisfaction of seeing the
bill become a law. He introduced bill
early in the session fixing the liquor license
in the state at $500, and for vinous and
fermented liquors at S400. This he has now
amended so that the minimum license for
townships and villages of less then $500
inhabitants shall be 5000 and $500 for all
villages and cities of greater population. He
also proposed the bill for constitutional
amendment repeating the present sixty-day