St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-04
FROM THE THIRD HOUSE.

The senate and the house are run
ming an even race in the number of
billS presented. Many Of those intro
ouced IN each branch have the same
object in view. The municipal charter
bills are, however, all being started in
the senate.
The need of a revision of he laws Of
the state is evident in view of the raar,y
bills introduced in the legislature
There are already over four hundred
bills introduced, with a prospect of the
number running up to nearly two
thousand before the session erGs. If
all the laws were properly grouped in
10 chapters and the anne udments there
after were made to chapters, and rot
1nd1scriminately, the grouping under
proper heads could be done by the ju-
dietary committees and the printing
OF many large volumes of laws OBJ
Waited.
A desire for new state constitution
is evident from the many bills intro
duced proposing constitutional amend
ments. There are already more than
dozen amendments proposed, with
more to follow.
Scarcely a dozen out-of-town mem
bers of the legislature are left in The
city. They all seem to be using their
railroad passes to go home and load
themselves down with new bills fresh
from their constituents.
1t is evident that the senate will not
be the scene of such acrimonious and
windy debates as at the two preceding
sessions. The absence of the versatile
Donneliy and the sarcastic John iJay
Smith will permit many an opportunity
for acrimonious debate to pass.
Thus far there have been no stirring
scenes of forensic eloquence in the
house. but it is said that the noted
parliamentarian, Henry E'eig, and
alarm Clock" Jacobson have meas
ured swords and will be heard this
week on the floor of the house. The
seats in the galleries nave all been pre-
empted for every day this week and no
prompting of louder" will be neces-
sary to secure the proper pitch to the
debate.
Farmer Gibbs is said to be the leader
of the house. When he takes the floor
to speak he commands attention and
he invariably carries his point. Ru-
NOR says that Farmer Gibbs is in
training for a larger field of usefulness,
the center of which will be the guber-
material chair.
The opposition to the confirmation OF
Mr.. Powers as labor commissioner
comes from sources that allege his in
competency for the place and not from
a mere desire to turn him down. There
is a feeling that if the department is to
be maintained it should have as Il
chief a man who knows something
about the department placed in his
charge, and there are plenty of actual
labor leaders who possess all the re-
quirements necessary to the accept
able administration of the office.
1t is not so much question whether
Berndt Anderson is a capable dairy
commissioner that bothers the senate
in the matter of confirming. The sem
ate knows very well that a man might
perform all the duties of dairy commits
sioner while his mind was on a va
cation in Europe. The question is,
Has Berndt got a pull?
The proposition to do away with all
the boards in the city government
might be taken as a suggestion by the
state government. There is a thor
oughly grounded belief that one man,
with a good, substantial, domestic
brain and the executive ability of a
successful OK teamster could perform
all the duties of any three OF the state
boards-the railroad and warehouse
commission not excepted.
Bob CIarl, still hangs trembling in
the balance, with Tim Reardon's
mouth in dangerous proximity to the
point OF suspension. I'd. |"rt9.
1t has never occurred to any one
to ask why the house didn't adopt, for
its government, Tom Reeds rules.
Fred Zollman wasn't there.