The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-01-29
Redwood Gazette.
THURSDAY, JAN. 80, 1891.

THURSDAY, JAN. 90, 1891.
The senate last Friday confirmed l
the appointments of w. P. Dunning-
ton and w. M. Liggett, but refused
to confirm Gov. Merriam's appointees .
on the State Board of Equalization.
Representative. Bjorge introduced a
bill Tuesday to submit a prohibitory
to popular vote. 1t was
referred to the:temperance committee
and unless strong pressure is brough
to bear upon the house, it is liable to
be killed in committee. We think tibet
people ought to have chance to vote
on this question.
Hutchinson Leader: The Minneso-
ia state republican COMMITTEE met in
St. Paul last week and organized for
'92 by appointing one stalwart for each
county and several members at large
to hustle from now until after the next
election. Their first work should be
to get together and endeavor to ascer-
tain which is the right side of the many
questions now agitating the people.
"Be sure you are right; then go ahead"
Measures, not men, will be the issue
from now on.
"Yim HIP appears to be of an en-
tirely different breed of financiers
from Jay Gould and other distin-
guished specimens of the Great Amer
lean Hog. Mr.. Hill has recently en-
dowed Catholic seminary near St.
Paul with half a million dollars, and
now proposes to establish system of
insurance for all the employees of his
road, and also to organize hospital
system for their benefit. If j. j. is
robber baron, it will have to be admit
ted that he makes pretty good use OF
| some OF his stolen pel1.
A ballot for senator was had in the
Kansas Legislature on Tuesday, which
virtually elects w. A. PETER, of the
Kansas Farmer, as the successor of j.
J. Ingalls,. The latter received most
Of the votes in the senate, but in the
lower house PETER received 90 votes to
% for Ingalls,, indicating that the joint
ballot to follow would give PETER
majority of about 40 votes. There is
no doubt about it, that the alliance
called the turn in Kansas. Up to
year ago Judge PETER was staunch
republican.
Glencoe Enterprise: A movement
is on foot among tie citizens of Graf
ton, Sibley county, and Preston Lake
and Boon Lake, Renville county, to
haye those respective townships annex
ed to Mcleod during the present ses-
sion of the legislature. Their object
is to save the trouble and expense of
going to Henderson and Beaver Falls
to transact business at the county seat.
To come to Glencoe would be much
more convenient. A bill that will bring
about the desired result will soon be
introduced in the legislature.
The fairest, yet the most severe crit
icism we have seen of the way in which
alliance interests have been cared for
in the lower house of our state legisla-
ture, is the following from the pen of
G. P. Carpenter, of the Pennington
Tribune, who is county lecturer for
the alliance in Dakota county:
On Monday last the standing COM
nittees of the house were announced.
These were the means of legislation
which the alliance men declared they
must have at all cost-the committees
were absolutely necessary in order to
secure needed legislation. To obtain
these they must have the speaker, and
for that they traded everything in
sight. Now, how have they Jared in
the matter of committee appointments?
Out of the thirty-eight standing
committees and the two portions OF
joint committees, the alliance gets
working ma ority on just none of them;
worse than that. There is not single
committee in the whole lot On which
the alliance has more members than
the democrats. On the other hand
the democrats have more members
than the alliance on thirty-three differ
ent committees, and have an absolute
majority on five of the committees, in
Guiding the committee on banks. Eyen
the republicans have more members
on eleven of the committees than the
alliance. On seven of the committees
the number of alliance and democrat
members is equal. The railroad COM
mittce was considered to be of especial
Importance to the alliance and was
one of the things which the state ALI
ance demanded for it's representatives
in the Legislature. This committee is
made up just as the republicans pro-
posed if the alliance members support
ed their candidate for speaker-five
from each party, but the democrats
have the chairman, instead of the ALI
ance, and there are only seven farmers
out of the fifteen.
The alliance has also taken advanced
ground in the matter of temperance
work, and it was supposed that this
committee would be somade as to give
them chance to do something; but
they get only two members of that
committee out of nine, and the demo-
Gratis have the chairman. With the
democrats controlling the committee
on temperance in both the house and
senate, with such men as Lienau and