The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-12-17
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since intrenched itself behind this
proposition. The corporation lawyers
accumulate all the law extant and
gradually impart it to the supreme
the progress of arguments be-
fore thataugust tribunal. The COR
poration lawyers had a good deal to do
Withlth framing of that constitutional
amendment. They had tied up their
concessions in the same chapter and
under connecting clauses with provis-
ions which the public would not suffer
to be abolished, and they knew that
when the amendment was adopted it
would be impossible to separate them
from each other. And so, as usual,
the corporations made a pretext of
opposing the amendment, secretly sup
ported it, and smiled whenit was pas
sed. They had climbed to the moon
and driven a nail through it, and this
law climbed to the other side and
clinched it.
There is nothing that illustrates like
an illustration, and there is no place
like st. Paul for illustrations when
you come to discuss special legislation,
for st. Paul is the subject of several
volumes of special legislation. In
1891 the Legislature passed a special
law relating to the compensation of
certain officers of Ramsey county, re-
pealing the law under which the of
fees then being conducted, and
fixing certain stated salaries for such
offices. When the legislature of 1898
met It was shown that the law of 1891
was so clumsily drawn that certain i'm
portant departments Of the county
government were entirely unprovided
for, and the law therefore utterly in
adequate and impossible OF operation
without serious detriu1ent t the.
m aterialinterests of the county. Some
thing had to be done. The law Of 1891
repealed the next previous act. The.
special Legislation amendment had
been adopted. and the special law of
1891 could not be amended to conform
tosthe1 local requirements. 81 rather
than leave two of the mostimportantof-
fees in the county without recourse the.
Legislature of 1898 repealed the special
law Of 1891, and this threw the offices
back under the operation Of a remote
law enacted when the city was a. ham-
let and the county a wilderness. Re
suit, certain Ramsey county offices
have been worth from $4,000 to
$4,000 a year for the past fo~urayears.
The legislature of 1895 passed q salary
bill based upon the population theory
embodied in the board of public works
bill above referred to, but that theory
has been turned down by the supreme
court as a. contravention Of the. inhi-5
bition contained in the constitutional
amendment of 1898, and there you are.
I: :. +
Every I'll m a session of the legisla-'
ture c%onYenes there is an. increased
number of candidates for the minor
positions, as clerks, d~oorkeepers, etc.
This cannot we'll be the fruit Of an
ambition to accumulate wealth, for no
man a come to ST. Pau from a dis
lance, work for So a day for the
four months of the session and
lay up anything. Decent
board cannot be had for less
than 81 a week, and unless a mans
habits are absolutely exemplary his
incidental expense" account will eat
up his surplus. Besides the legislative
enactment satirically specified as the
corrupt practice act'' does not apply
to candidates for such offices. and the
candidates r compelled to spend
more or less money without the COM
pensating privilege Of perjuring them
IN a formal statement, such as
those with which the public has be-
come familiar within the last 80 days
or so.
S0J5 6l0J
Office fever during the session of the
legislature, and it is but just to say
that as a rule they make the best of
fcers. Some of the more enterprising
them are said to send their salaries
home to pay the printers and play stud
poker for their current expenses. This
IS commendable and practical only
under certain planetary conditions,
which may or may not be infuencedb by
manual ~dexterity of the dealer, but
It Is, to say the least, q hazardous un-
aertaking when prosecuted insthe pur-
OF the third house.
COUSIN JOHN.
Children + taught to comb their
hair and wash their faces; but perhaps
nine cases out Of ten they never
brush their teeth. Why is itp It is
simplysdue to the Ignorance of the
mass of the people.-DentdJ Rey5eW.