New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-09
NO EXTRA SESSION.
NJ Treats the Subject 1t Length and Ex.
haustively, Advancing Reasons and Argu-
nents for His Action.
Sentiment in the Twin Cities and Throughout
the STATED Duluth Very Much Agitated
and licensed

eaa,,,aned in eytra session for the purpose OF
making a reapportionment of the state Tor the
| legislature before the the next election COPIES
of said resolutions were, in accordance with one
| Of them, sent TO the common counciis OIL tie
various cities and villages likely to be interested
therein with the Invitation to eaen oody 20 1 te
same and on the same grounds nave Deen CIT
! cularcd for the signature OF individuals. Inc
| subject has been much discussed before yon.ano
the Duluth chamber of commerce took proper
certain public opinion. have DELAYED
answering the resolutions because l was as
unwilling that my conclusion should seem te
forestal expression Of the public wish, and more
because, although on the sufhciency OF che rea-
sons urged in your resolutions my OPINION mas
! not wavered, there were other CONTINGENCIES
which might force different conclusion. II
experience showed definite and serious defects
In the laws relating to the inspection, weighing
railroad companies. OF If the railroad and ware
house commissioners found their powers insult
fcient for the successful discharge OF their
| duties, should consider the prompt amend
ment of those laws desirable. perhaps at the cost
Of extra session But it is yet too soon to de-
| termine what amendments are essential. The
facts alleged as the grounds of your request are
undeniabie. The population OF the state has
increased very unequally since 1880. 80 that the
apportionment upon the census OF that year is
no longer just and equal The inequality may
| be expressed by saying that eleven districts
have now each one representative more thar
their population entities them to, three have
ASRAScS"osSeASSSS OAA~
senator in excess.
ENTITLED TO LARGER REPRESENTATION.
On the other hand, three districts should each
| have one representative, one should have two
representatives, one senator and two repre-
sentatives, one two senators and five representa-
tlve3 and one three senators and Two representa-
tives more than they respectively have at pres
ent. This takes no account of minor inequali-
ties which reapportionment could remove by
| uniting counties now separate. This inequality
ought to cease at the first opportunity. AbsO-
lutte equality Of representation is impracIicable.
but the right to representation equalized as
nearly and as frequently as practicable is I'M
doubted. Should make a practicable OppOr-
tunity at the expense OF an extra session:
The constitution OF the state authorizes the gov
ernor to convene the legislature in extra session
on extraordinary occasions" The constitution
itself anticipates unequal increase of population
with resulting inequality in the existing ap-
portionment,, and authorizes the taking of
census to ascertain the fact, and reapportion-
| ment every five years at the next session after
the census. ii found proper. In fact inequality in
representation in the legislature has been found
to exist after every census, as was from the first
expected. Can that be called an Extraordinary
occasion" which occurs according to habit and
expectation? An extraordinary reason for a
called session has been found IN an assumed
probability that the next legislature Will not
reapportion. The next is the one of which that
| work is cOnstitutiOnally expected. 1t is not to
be presumed that any legislature will neglect its
| duty. but if any dissemination does exist for
this particular duty, TO call the present legisla-
| ture together would furnish each an excuse fol
1eglccting il being the duty Of the other.
Your resolutions speak of practical disfranchse.
ment of portions of the state until SSS, unless
| reappOrtiOnment be made before the next cleo
ton. They will only wait for their full repre-
sentation through one session of the legislature,
| which the people in their constitution have not
| deemed intolerable. / might find an extraor-
binary reason for a session next year, if any
| fear was entertained that the counties now I'M
represented would suffer in any respect by await
ing the usual time. It has not been observed
| that the new weak counties have hitherto
been neglected or oppressed.
| GOOD TEST CITED.
A good test is the distribution of the internal
! Improvement fund. The legislature disposes of
| that fund at its pleasure. The present lagisla-
ture distributed about $50 600 belonging to that
fund at It's last session OF this amount swelys
! istature, took nothing at all: twelve other dis
tricts, all now ovcr-represented. and having fifty
members, obtained less than $4,000: the five
country districtsnow undc7-represented, having
thirteen members, were voted more thar $685.
OOO The sentiment OF the people, even i'll those
parts Of the state where population is now most
disproportionatc to representation. appears to
/ be that the advantage 20 them of Immediately
! increased representation Is not worth tn" cost.
| II Is not surprising that those parts which will
| gain nothing are opposed to the cXcensa. It is
not strange that the financial representatives OF
the great cities which must pay so great Il share
Of the cost should fail to approve; am ADVISED
that the city council of st. Paul has
.dopted the resoiut i1ns of Your body
The city council of Fergus Falls has
passed similar ones. Several editors through
|
| petition of the strongest character. by thirty.
| three representative men of Otter Tail county,
and other petitions bearing 224 signatures. have
| been presented to me. These form the total
! demand, the weakness of which is doubtless dul
| to the abstract and ideal nature of the advan.
tage to be realized. But if the favorable ex-
| preston had been more general could not have
| justified to myself the action you request. Yor
will remember that was Obliged at the end OF
the last session, to protect the credit Of the
| state by vetoing appropriations amounting to
| nj I4.OOO. Which there reason To believe tha
| treasury would not he ia a condition to pay II
is not yet certain that too much was not. after
peHscs OF an extra session could not be paid
LIZ. HUBBARD. Governor.
The most notable event OF the social
season in Mankato was the marriage OF
Miss Lulu Long, daughter OF J. H. Long a
| prominent commission dealer. and W. L.
Goodier a well known attorney OF Utica,
Ny
Eddie Langdon aged eleven years. while
skating on Lake Winona at Winona, broke
| through and was drowned The body was
recovered in an hour.
DR.. Thomas E. Heenan has rendered his
resignation as Stevens county auditor. and
expects to start for Odessa to assume his
duties as United States consul about Dec.
| 10.
There is said to be no foundation for sus.
picion OF foul play in the case OF Patrick
Slavin who died at Minneapolis a short
time ago.
The Union>house at Mankato was par
italy destroyed by fire.
The Hanley murder case was before the
Minnesota supreme court on motion for
a new trial.
Several Saltwater lumbermen were
caught by the failure OF D. D. Merriam, a,
Quincy.
May Braden, the only daughter of Mrs
J. c. Braden. the widow of Capt. j. C. Bra
den,wa buried by the side of her father il
the cemetery at Litchfeld, Meeker Co.
The bank OF Cannon Falls has been SOLD
to the Citizens Bank, possession to be takel
In day or two. Both these banks ar
owned mostly by Hastings men.
I At the First Baptist church in Duluth
$S54.5O was raised in half an hour to
ward the payment OF the church deb
OF 81 ,O25.
w. G Forward, who was arrested an,
placed in jail at Rochester, for practicin
l wi hr,, ~,