The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-02-25

Senator Cronkhite to admit homeopa-'
THO physicians and surgeons to the
medical board Of the national guard,
one-third Of the membership Of that
board being required to be homeopathic.
The anti.free lunch bill by Senator
Stevens provides also that saloonkeep-
ers who Hish to run restaurants in con-.
nection with their saloons shall pay an
additional tax of $500 for cities of over
10000 population and $3.50 in smaller
towns. The same tax is to be paid by
hotels operating bar
Saturday this Republican legislature
by formal resolution unanimously
adopted expressed decided approval of
the course of Democratic United States
Senator David B. Hill in calling for
the release Of Cuban Correspondent
Scovel.
Senator Stevens has expressed his
pity for tho loneliness Of the inmates of
the soldiers home by introducing a bill
providing that the trustees Of the home
shall provide for the admission Of the
| wives and children Of the inmates Of
the home, under the same regulations
bhas govern tho soldiers guests.
Bills having boon introduced in both
houses requiring labels on prison made
goods, Il has been suggested that
''sweat shop products should also be
marked, q they are. 50 far Is health is
concerned, more dangerous to the pur-
chasing public than the goods made in
the wholesome prison shops. Labor
organisations will secure the first be-
fore they attempt the second.
. Senator Theden has introduced in
the senate a very stringent child labor
bill and will push it through both
houses if possible. His committee in
vestigating department. stores has
brought out facts already to confirm
him in his opposition to child labor.
The pages Of the two houses, wishing
to profit by what they observe of legis-
lative methods, have organized what
they call the third house, with Ross
McMichael, one of the house pages, as
! speaker. They selected Hon. Dan
Shell of Worthington as page, and will
meet at intervals to consider what may
occur to them as worthy of their at
tention.
There are few matters coming before
the legislature that do not have more or
less politics in them. This is very de-
cidedly true of the investigation of the
state labor bureau. It was believed by
the Republicans that the silver people,
resenting Commissioner Powers IA
NOUS reports, were seeking to give
political turn to this investigation for
the sake Of future campaign material,
and that they hoped for something like
a whitewash. So there was held the
other night a Republican caucus, and
after canvassing the subject very thor
oughly it was decided to carry out the
investigation in the most thorough
manner, that being considered the
most effective way of disproving the
various charges against the labor bu-
reau. When the investigating COM
mittee reports to the senate that body
will take up the report and give it most
careful consideration. Specific charges
only, however, will be investigated.
A resolution has been adopted by the
house calling on the president of the
state university for mass of informa-
ton as to attendance, receipts and ex-
penditures, amount of various funds,
whether any departments are self sus-
tanning, what sums have been spent ON
buildings and what is the university
endowment and how much the annual
income. The resolution arose from the
somewhat heated discussion of bill
increasing the tax for university pur-
poses from 10 of mill to .23. and is
desired before that bill is again up for
action before the house. The original
resolution, introduced by Mr.. Foss,
asked only for attendance of non-resi-
dents of Minnesota, the other points
called for being covered by very COM
prehensive amendment offered by Mr..
Donnelly.
Chief Clerk Bowling celebrated his
31st birthday anniversary last Wednes-
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| newspaper friends to surprise banquet
at their hotel, and the newspaper
crowd had very pleasant evening. In
speaking about it the next day to
prominent state official he asked me,
"What does Downing want? Is he
! hoping to become governor or con-
gressman?' The question may have
been suggested by personal experience
or by observation of the fact that few
politicians do much entertaining, even
| to the extent Of treating to cigars, I'M
| less they have some special object in
view. However, as this affair was a
surprise to Bowling, of course the sug-
gestion of political ambition would fail
to the ground.
Modern improvements have been
added to this legislature that were not
dreamed of by old time legislators. A
| telephone system now connects the
clerks desk on the floor with all the
committee rooms, and big signal bell