The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-08-30
MR.. CHILD'S OPINION.

The Attorney Generals Opinion
Sustains County Attorney
He Decides that Redistricting
Will Not Affect the Commits
sioners Elected in 1892.
Clerk of Court Briggs wrote Attor-
ney General Childs on the question Of
redistricting and increasing the num-
Der Of county commissioners from three
to five, and received the following re-
ply:
ATTY GENERALS OFFICE, 2
ST. PAUL, Aug. 2lst, 1894.
Mr.. L. S. BRIGGS,
Princeton, MINI.
Dear Sir:-The redistricting of Mile
Laos county into commissio districts
will not affect the tenure of
Office of the commissioners previously
elected. Those officers will, therefore,
continue to serve out the terms for
which they were respectively elected.
This is clearly in line with Norwood
VS.. Holson, As Minn...316. am
Very truly yours,
Fl. w. CHnDs,
Attorney General.
The attorney generals opinion must
stand as correct Interpretation of the
law until the courts decide otherwise.
Now, we would like to inquire, if the
county is redistricted and the number
of commissioners is increased from
three to five and the two commission
ers elected in 1892 are placed in the
same district, say district No. 2, which
of the other four districts will be left
unrepresented for the term of four
years? For the law says that the com
missiOners from districts No. and
No. shall hold their offices for the
term of four years. Then again, if the
two commissioners elected in 1892,
when the county was only entitled to
three commissioners, should, under the
redistricting increasing from three to
five, be placed in districts No. 2 and
No. 4, they would hold their Offices for
term of six years they have already
served two years and being placed in
the even numbered districts would
serve four years more.
We hold that, when there is redis-
tricting of a county increasing the
number of county commissions from
three to five, at the first election i'm
mediately thereafter an entire new
board must be elected, and the com.
missioners from districts 1, 8 and 5 are
elected for two years, and the commits
sioners from districts 2 and 4 are
elected for four years, and thereafter
all the commissioners elected shall
hold for the term of four years. We
IalsO hold that the supreme court de
cision upon which the county attorney
and attorney general base their Aopin
ion was rendered in a case where al
attempt was made to gerrymander tw,
commissioners, duly elected by tn,
people, out of Office, and in a count,
that already had five commissioners
But, as we have already said, the opin
ion Of the attorney general stands unit
set aside by judicial tribunal.
Miss Matte Wicker, the pleasin.
coincidence, who appears at the oper
house Friday, Sept. 7th, is at presen
the brightest and most versatile lad
in the profession, and in her new pla
'"The Circus Queen" she has ample or
portunity for a display of her peculia
talents. During the action of the pla
Miss Vickers appears in three distinc
| characters, ':Flossie, . Katrina an
! ''Bobby Bantam = and in each charae
, ter introduces one of her Origins
specialties. The other parts in tn
, play are as prominent and importar
! as the star part and are in thorough
t capable hands. Mr.. Eric Pollock, VIII
! takes the role of Hannibal Hurrah th
circus manager, is a competent come
. dian of experience and introduces Sc,
; eral new songs, dances, limitations, etc
!, as does Edwin Russell, E. G. Aver,
!, Miss Margaret Hatch, Miss Elma Lat
a more the Spanish dancer, and in fax
4 tall members of the company. Speci,
scenery is carried for the productio
and the second act represents the il
: terror Of a circus tent and the surroun,
e ing grounds. In this scene sever;
e novel and startling acts will be intr
q duced illustrative Of circus life. Notl
: ing great is claimed for the play,
: having been written for laughing pu
2 poses only. Still it has a plot and
:, much stronger one than most of II