The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-10
THEY ARE RESTING
hin NESOTA LAW MAKERS ARE
TAKING III EASY THESE
DAYS.
SOME COMMITTEE GOSSIP.
DTLUTH'S CITY ELECTION CALCU-
LATIONS ARE UPSET by NEW
REQUIREMENTS.
JACOBSON on PRINTING BILLS.
The Member From Lac gui ParIs
Thinks Department. Reports Are
Too NOIuminous.

Still the modern SphinXes, who are
making up the lists Of committees for
the separate branches of the Mime
sofa legislature, are preserving a ST
leHce as discreet as it is profound con-
corning the makeup of those various
committees. The states published in
the O e Of Yesterday were read
with much interest by all those who
We're mentioned, as well as those who
were not.
Some surprise was expressed at the
placing of any one but Senator Wyman
& the head Of the senate committee on
finance. but the information which the
q o b e has by grapevine from Presi-
dent Gibbs office is that Mr. Wyman
VIII be al the head Of the university
committee as before
Who will succeed Potter at the head
of the committee on public health, dairy
and food is not known Some of the
dairy interests think the best interests
Of the department would be served by
comforting that honor on Senator Steb-
bins, Of Rochester. That it will be
some senator from Southern Minnesota
is demanded by the remarkable growth
of the dairy interests in that section
Of the state during recent years.
The calculations of political machine
managers are being overthrown to a
large extent by the operations of the
new constitutional amendment limiting
the elective franchises to full citizens
of the country. Duluth, which has a
city election coming Feb. 2, is partic-
ularly disraught over the uncertain
quantity Of this disfranchised manhood.
While in the recent national and con-
gressiOpal fight, the parties turned out
1000 voters at the polls, it is believed
that half Of these will be disfranchised.
At least that proportion of the voters
then were within the limits Of the law,
as nearly as can be learned, and it is
a question how many of those disfran-
chised took advantage of the POSSIBLE
ity Of the amendment becoming a law
Singularly enough, those desiring to
vote al the coming city election even
if they took out their second papers the
day before the general election Of No
vember, would be unable to vote under
the new law, so short is the interim
between elections.
City Attorney Benham. of the Zenith
city, who was in the city yesterday,
stated that in his opinion, it would be
$500 to 1900 this spring, and in the
event Of such a shrinkage there is
hardly any criterion by which to esti-
mate the probabilities Of local machine
calculations
Politically speaking, the corridors of
the hotels are comparatively deserted
although a few of the members of
either house are staying in the city be-
tween sessions reading up on their
public duties and familiarzing them
selves with the work of the various
departments as set forth in the reports
Of these branches of the government.
By the way, speaking about these
reports. Representative jacobson. Of
Lac Qul Parle, is preparing to camp or
the trail of the state printing commits
sion, for the generosity with which 1t
has permitted some of the state de-
partments to kill space in their reports.
Mr.. JacobsOn's idea is that the state
is wasting money when it prints 400 or
500 pages Of report from a single de-
partment, on a single topic, and es-
pecially when a large portion of this
matter is in tables of figures, as was
the case with the last report of the
state bureau of labor. Mr.. Jacobson
is. of the opinion that the general pub
lie can we'll be made familiar with the
work Of the departments in a small
and concise report. setting forth plain
1y the facts unencumbered by a mass
OF eXtraneous and uninteresting mat
ter.
A report that w. E. Johnson, of Hen
nepin, would be chairman Of the SEN
ate committee on elections gained cur
rency yesterday, and created a great
deal of interest in the camp of the
Dunn and Day forces, who have been
awaiting with much curiosity the an
nCuncement Of the personnel of this
department. The rumor carried with
it the further news that, as far as
consistent, President Gibbs would en-
deaVOr to give the senators their old
committee positions. The Dunn people
profess to ask nothing better than the