St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-28
WORK FOR THE SOLONS.
Indications Point to Heavy Business for
the Legislators That Meet
Next Week.
Numerous Important State Laws to B
Tinkered, Beside Electing a United
States Senator.
Some of the Wants of st. Paul, on
Which Legislation VIII Be
Asked.
A Park Commission--The Site for the
Proposed Soldiers Home--state
Fair Appropriations.

''The lobbyists are coming little in adj
vance of the members. " remarked gentle
man in the rOtunda of the Merchants yes
terday afternoon. at the same time pointing
to two or three well-knOwn members of the
third house" who were chatting in cor
ner 1t seemed to be true from a general
survey of the rotunda, for there was more
than the usual activity there. and a half
dozen faces were visible of men who will
show up pretty regularly at the capitol and
in the corridors within the next two months.
The members have many of them secured
rooms. and the few legislators already here
will have their number augmented
daily during this week and next Tues
day, when the first session of the
Twenty-ffth legislature meets it is safe to
say that the greater number will be on
deck. There will be more than usual to
draw all the members here as early as they
can make it convenient to come. 1t is
going 20 be, unless ali the politicians are
largely mistaken in their predictions about
the busiest session that ever came together
in this state In addition to the important
work of electing United States senator
and all the attendant lobbying and caucus
ing on the outside. there are many laws
that it is proposed to untang!e and put into
shape. and there will also be the usual num-
Der of new laws to make. Some of the
members have expressed themselves to the
effect that so much work will have to be
crowded into the sixty days. in which MEM
bers are entitled TO
DRAW THEIR SALARIES,
that the need of annual sessions, or at least
an extension of the length of sessions to
| ninety days. will be found a necessity. In
week the session will open. and it will be,
unless the makeup of the present legisla-
ture is different from that of its predecess-
ors, week or two to get acquainted with
each other and the manner of doing bust
ness. 1t is generally conceded that when
once work is begun there will be lively
time. Many of the state officials in their
reports to Gov Hubbard have recommended
legislation on points touching their own
departments. Probably the recommended
tons of the railroad commissioners will
require as much time and atten-
ton as any in arriving at satistac-
tory settlement of questions involved.
More Or less time will be devoted to the
| high-Iicense question. The soldiers home
bill will be one of the earlier ones intro
duced. The bill for a state park, it is eX-
pected, will create some discussion. The
pharmacy bill will be brought up. The
| contract prison LABOR system will probably
be ventilated. The tax title laws will be
| overhauled. and whoever may constitute
the Judiciary committees will have long
wrestlings over the remodeling of this law,
according to local attorneys Many mat
tiers of interest to ST. Paul and Minneapo-
lis will also be acted On. SO that when the
Legislature meets it will find its hands full
of work