The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-01-21
ARE WIDE APART
BOTH HOUSES OF THE LEGISLATURE
ON THEIR DIGNITY

Regarding the Proper Formatio of q
Reapportionment Committee = Sen ts
Demands Equal Representation With
the House-Much Expected From" the
New Legislative Com,nittee-Donnel ly's
! Mountal@ Iron Resolution unanimously
Passsds,-spencer's Bill to Keep State
Funds in Vaults - other Legislative
Items of Interest.
ST. PAUL, Jan. 19.-[Special. with
the standing committees of both h ouse
and senate appointed, affairs legisla-
tive are well under way and the law
mill is already turning out the more or
less finished product. Lieutenant Gov
ernor Gibbs announced the senate COM
mittees on Tuesday, and those for the
house were announced on Wednesday.
The committees on legislative expen-
ses, through whose hands all details
OF expenses must pass, were at once put
to work, their first meeting being called
almost Immediately after their appoint
ment. It is for the committee to say
whether additional clerks or other en-
ployes shall be appointed. and members
of both houses with office-seeking
friends court the committee, presenting
all manner of arguments to pre-.
vail over their ideas Of economy
and necessity for the service
desired. Few committees have more
power than this, especially in the
house where it requires three fou rths
vote to overcome its adverse report,
and whether it be an economical or ex.
travagant session. to this committee
belongs the credit or blame For this
reason great care is taken and few
members seek an appointment on a
committee like this where the response
'bility is great, the CO mplaints aumer-
GUS and the work heavy.
The New House Committee.
There is new committee in the
house and much is expected of it. Mr..
Jacobson of Lac qui Parle, who is serv-
ing his fifth consecutive term in that
body, believed that business would be
much expedited if a committee to re-
lieve the usually congested condition of
the judiciary committee business and
to consider all bills of general nature
were appointed, and the committee on
general legislation is the result. AL
ready number of important measures
have been referred to this committee,
and much is expected from it.
What at times seems like small
and captious criticism may often result
in considerable benefit. A case in point
is the action of Judge Hicks of Henne.
pin county on Friday, when he insisted
that two bills be sent back to their
authors because their titles were not
sufficiently explicit. To some of
the newer members it looked
like an unnecessary blocking of the
legislative mill, but those Of more
experience approved of the action, be-
cause every inaccuracy in the bill as 4
introduced requires a separate amend
ment and creates confusion and delay. 1
Mistakes will occur even in newspapers
and in such minor matters as the max.
ing of laws, painstaking care is also
necessary to prevent errors that may
defeat the entire intent of law.
Mr.. Johns the other day introduced
the bill prepared by the union BARRIERS
of the state, which in detail specifies
the requirements for journeymen bar
hers and the issuance of licenses to
them. The Populist leader, Mr.. Don.
nelly, paid very close attention to the
first reading of the bill and then, ad.
dressing the speaker, said: 'sIn the
bill just read, move you that where
ever the word barber appears bill
there be substituted therefor the word
farmer"
Both Branches on Their Dignity.
"Whatsoever ye would that mon
should do to you, do ye even so to-
them,' repeated Chaplain Heard in
the house Saturday morning before his
prayer. and many wondered whether
his scriptural selection had been sug-
gested by the deadlock between the
two houses over the reapportionment
matter. At the present writing both
houses are standing on their dignity and
q conference committee will later try
to act as a peacemaker. The house
adopted resolution for joint COM
mittee on reapportionment, having Is
representatives and senators as men,
bers, that being the usual proportion Of
members on such committees. Before
the senate acted, Speaker Jones an
nounced the house members of this
committee. Then the senators, assert
ing that on such an important matter
as reapportionmentt they must have an
equal share in the preliminaries, amend
ed the house resolution to allow each
body IA members of whom two should
come from each congressional district.
This being reported to the house
that body very promptly and
emphatically refused to agree to
the amendment and asked for con-
ference committee, that being the usual
procedure in such cases. Both houses
have taken a firm stand, and senators
and representatives insist that they
will not yield but will maintain what
they consider to be their rights. There
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