St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-09
A Northern Pacific Conductor
Gathers In a Legislative
Annual.
The Holder Did Not Sign 81.
G. Wood" to His Salts
faction.
What the Official Reporter on
the Smith Plan
Will Be.
The Great Vests Caustic
Roast on the Alliance
Traitors.

There Is q great deal of buncombe
and nonsense about the commencement
of session of a state Legislature, and it
takes anywhere from ten days to two
weeks for things to shape themselves in
way that will enable any one to Judge
whether or not anything will be accom-
plished. AS general thing the curse
OF the several states is too much legis-
latlon, but at the present time the PEG
pie of Minnesota will not object to a
great deal of the right kind of lawmak-
ing. There are great many matters
demanding the attention of the Mime
sofa lawmakers, who meet, by the way,
at time when the highest court of the
nation has clearly blazed way, by the
following of which relief may be Oh
tanned for the people of this state.
Corporations are. no longer absolute
and all-poWerful. and the lawmakers or
Minnesota at this session have it in
their power to bring arrogant and ty-
rannical combinations of capital to time.
grants of powers, privileges and lands
made by previous legislatures that
should be carefully reviewed at this
time with due and proper regard for
the interests of the people. Of course
very much depends upon the makeup
OF the committees. If the president of
the senate and the speaker of the hoase
place the committees Oh public lands,
corporations, taxes and tax laws and
railroads in the control of the repre-
sentatlveS OF certain great corporations
nothing will be done for the relief of
the people.
With all these important matters
awaiting the attention of the law
makers 1t seem likely that a great deal of
time this week will be devoted to de-
batting Senator John Day Smiths propo-
sition regarding the publication of an
official gazette. Now. this is not new
idea by any means, and has from time
immemorial been in use in certain
states. In Pennsylvania the legislature
occasionally adjourns, but the Legisla-
tive Record, like the brook. goes on for
ever, and two months after the SOlOnS
have left Harrisburg the state printer
continues to plug away at the Record,
and grows rich thereby. From Simon
Cameron down no man who has ever
had hand III the Legislative Record of
Pennsylvania has failed to grow rich.
But Senator Smith has new idea.
AllOhJu9 tldb luClC 10 IIOl IlilS
house in the North vest that could pub
fish the full reports of both the house
and senate in time for any use, regard
less Of the question of expense, Senator
Smith proposes to have the official ga
zette contain only extracts from
speeches and digest of the other pro-
ceedings. For example, the senator
from Hennepin" will make an abstract
Of each OF the twenty speeches he will
deliver each day, and the senator from
Dakota" will do the same. If these
forty abstracts consume the entire space
the otter senators Will be allowed to
read their great efforts and wait for
some better time. But as Judge Flem-
ing, of Braiuerd, one of the house COM
:mittee, remarked
IF there is an official record it must
contain every word spoken in the two
houses as well as everything done. Any
other course would place it in some one
clique's power to crush or make a mem
ber."
well, l can tell you it won't pass"
blurted out the impetuouS Princeton
editor. Hon. "Bob'' Dunn.
There are some members favorable to
the project of publishing an official
record that will contain everything said
Or done in the house. but there are none
except John Day Smith and his two or
three wOrShiperS who will favor a
scheme by which one man will be able
TO advance himself at the expense of his
fellow members.