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which is similar to the Cairns bill of

which is similar TO the Cairns bill of
! two years ago.
/ Senator Culkin thought the Ozmun
| bill should not be considered in this
! connection because it went further
| than primary elections and interfered
with the system of electing to office.
! He had prepared as a substitute a
measure based upon the DIN primary
! election law, but would not offer it.
The view to which he gave preference
was that the primary election law
! should be very simple when it is re-
membered that several primaries by
| each party may be held in some years.
! The country districts did not want
/ burdensome primary election laws.
Senator Masterman spoke on his bill
| and urged the Importance of some
/ primary election law throughout the
state.
/ Senator Potter thought all the bills
had merit, but favored the one intro
| duced by himself. He favored refer
ring all the bills to special commit
/ tee with instructions to report one bill
| to take their place.
Senator Thompson said that all the
authors of the six bills had made
! study of the matter and he moved to
/ refer the bill to them.
! Senator Stevens-Would not that be
like leaving to five Mormon wives the
| question as to which should have the
! husband?
! Senator Wynan did not want to be
! one of such committee, as he would
INST care to try to enforce his views
| upoR other authors. He moved to
amend so as to place the matter in
! the hands of a committee, none of
whom had drawn a bill.
Ozmun wanted to be on the commit
tee so as to urge acceptance of his
| bill, which he considered better than
| the others.
Senator Wyman said he thought
such course would be in poor taste.
! With fine piece of
SARCASM
| Senator Wyman said: Il know that
the senator from Ramsey is the most
/ yielding one in the senate, yet know
he is committed to his own bill, and
think it would be improper to appoint
a committee of men who have drafted
bills and allow them to recommend to
this body the passage of a bill drawn
! by them"
( Senator Greer favored taking up the
! Wyman bill, it being the less cumber-
some, and recommending its passage.
Senator Durham moved as a substi-
tute for the other the OZmun resOlu-
ton that the Wyman bill be taken up
and considered. The Ozmun resolu-
ton provided for appointing a COM
mittee to report a bill with a recon-
mendation that it pass.
| The substitute was adopted and the
| Wyman bill was taken up section by
section for consideration, although o.
nun went about the senate during
the vote. and asked senators to vote
/ against the substitute. One of the
I senators rebuked him sharply enough
to make his face redden up, and he
subsidized for a few moments to con-
template how his bill had been speed
lily sheIved.
Several amendments were made to
/ the second section of the bill of Sena-
| tor Wyman which showed that bill
making in this matter was very labor
ious, and on motion of Senator Young
/ the committee of the whole recon-
mended that this and other bills be
referred to a special committee to
/ draft a substitute that should be as
/ simple as possible.
Senator Wyman suggested that such
! committee be made up OF others than
those who had drawn bills. Ozmun
was greeted with derisive laughter
when he said that that would be MAX
ing clocks by. persons who never saw
! q clock
! gested that the president be not re-
stricted in making lr9 the committee.
/ President Day sad he would be
pleased to have a re~commends ton in
! the matter.
Senator Hits said that the authors of
all the bills are from the cities. ana
/ was an evidence that there is some
thing wrong. He favored making up
the committee of men from both the
! country and cities.
The motion of Senator Wyman pre-
! vailed, and the committee will be
named by President Day
The railroad committee of the senate
/ held the first business meeting of the
/ session yesterday The bill of Senator
/ Miller. pertaining to the regulation of
rates by expr 4ss companies, and pIac-
!
! troll of the state railroad and warehouse
/ commission, was considered.
/ Frank F. Davis was heard in an ar
| gument as the representative of the ex-
press companies. He took the position
/ that t'1' Miller bill is in direct conflict
with he constitution. He objected to
i the first section, making such COM
/ panies common carriers and subject
! ing them to all the laws touching upon
! common carriers: for example. the
switching of cars, pooling and storing
| goods at terminal points. and would be
/ impracticabIe. When saying that eX-
! press companies do not run railroads
! or cars. President Day was asked to ex-
! plain the effect of such companies
using cars. He replied that they hired
/ places in cars to carry packages and
( employed messengers to do the bust
/ ness upon the railroads. Senator Mil
Ter wanted to know if the express COM
panies do not undertake to do business
similar to that done by railroads. Mr.
I Davis admitted that to be true. He
also admitted to Senator Miller that
. express companies make contracts with
the citizens direct, and with no deal
ing with the railroad company by the
I shipper, but tried to dispute the state
ment quoted from the report of Com
missioner Walker that this made them
common carriers.
! Senator Ringdal wanted to know what
{ explanation can be given of the course
of railroads refusing certain classes of
/ freight on the grounds that express
companies carry such freights, under
an agreement with the railroad COM
/ panies. Several other senators pro-
posed questions that gave Mr.. Davis
| considerable opportunity to dodge diff
ficult points, and called in play his
ability to lead the subject of thought
in the channel desired by him to avoid
breakers.
Mr.. Davis claimed that the Iegisla-
ture has no right to try to regulate the
business of express companies That it
WOULD STULTIFY
those who passed such law. To regu-
late the prices or changes he character
lied as confscation, as it placed at the
whim of a commission the power to