The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-06-08
DONNELLY'S ROAST.
He Administers a Rich Brown
One to the Asinine Editor
of the ST. Paul Globe.

of the st. Paul Globe.
He Also Pays His Respects to ME-.
Childs and the Omnipotent
State Auditor.
To the Editor Of the Globe. #s
lam sorry that the staff Of great
paper like the Globe should embrace so
unjust and ignorant creature as the
man who wrote the editorial entitled
s'Who Is to Blame?n in your issue Of
the 10Th inst. i say unjust" because
he charges upon me an unheard-of and
unprecedented ruling of a Republican
attorney general, with whom I have no
connection and over whom I have no,
control; and Ignorant because, like
that official, he is unacquainted with
the plainest principles of rudimentary
parliamentary law.
The highest authority on the laws
which govern law-making, =. S. Cush-
ing, in his great work, Law and Prac-
tice of Legislative Assemblies page
297, section 1872, says:
I'm this country a form Of Legislative
act is much in use, denominated joint
resolution, or more commonly a resolve.
which in fact is only another name for
bill or act.''
And again, page $50, section 24O3, he
says: 49, .-s
A form of legislation which is in
frequent use in this country, chiefly for.
administrative purposes Of a local or
temporary character, sometimes for
private purposes only, is variously
known in legislative assemblies as a
joint resolution, resolution or a re-
solve. This form of legislation is
recognized in most of our constitutions,
in which, and in the rules and orders
of our legislative bodies, it is put on
the same footing and made subject to
the same regulations with bills pro-
perly so called. In congress a joint
resolution, which is the name given in
that body to that kind Of legislation, is
there regarded as a BILL
And the constitution of the State. of
Minnesota is one of those which recog-
nizes joint resolutions as Legislative
acts. Section % Of article 4, says:
s'No money shall be appropriated ex-
cept by a bill. Every order, resolution
or vote requiring the concurrence of the
two houses Except such as relate to the
business or adjournment Of the same)
shall be presented to the governor for
his signature, and before tn same shall
take effect, shall be approved by him,
Or being returned by him, with his OBJ
jections, shall be repassed by two-thirds
of the two houses, according to the
rules and limitations prescribed in the
case of the bill. y
nize the parity or identity OF bills and
joint resolutions. Senate Rule 36 says:
Every bill, memorial, order, resolu-
tion or. vote requiring the approval Of
the governor shall receive three several
readings previous to its passage, etc.
Rule IS says;
''Bills, memorials and joint resolu-
tions may be Introduced by any member
in his place. etc.
An examination will show. that the
joint resolution in reference to the Chi
cago anti trust conference, and the Joint
resolution in reference to the pine land
investigation were introduced as bills. .
read three times as s'bills'' in both
houses, and signed by the governo The
constitution says mo money shall be
appropriated except by bill, = and these
| we're bills. And yet the shallow in
| dividual who by accident, and to the
great damage Of the commonwealth.
temporarily occupies the place Of at.
torney general, profoundly declares
that bill and a law are ssunquestion
| bly, synonymous.'' He might just as
| we'll argue that an unborn fool is the
same thing as an attorney general. He
may grow to be an attorney general
given time enough; but he may die il
the ''borning.n A bill is an unborn
legislative act, and itcontinues s;bill'
until the governor puts his signature
to it, and makes it a Legislative enact
ment. And Mr.. Childs does not seem tt
know thata law is not the same thing a.
an act. A law is a permanent, univer
sal rule of action, prescribed for all The
people of the State; while a Legislative
enactment may concern only a few per
sons; it may be a private act, and it
function may expire thirty days afte1
it is passed. And any one can see, VIII,
has sense enough to black the boots Q
a frst-class lawyer, that it would b
absurd to print an enactmentsto enabl,
a legislative committee to continue al
investigation of pine land frauds j