The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-14
HAl VI, FIGHTS
Several Sharp BATTLES Will q cur
HI the = Legislature DUR
sss
ing This Session.

'Goyeriipr Cloug Appointments
etleWe Powers and An
gfson as spratt Et Ux.
During this session of the legislature
there Will be three distinct battles.
fopg Ind each Of these three may.
ptod half a dozen others. The first
issthe sDGhn-D Day senatorial contest, the
second N the reap ortionmen scheme.
and the third is general revision Of
the tax laws. It by any hook or crook
the senate should conclude to unseats
Day there is little doubt that the An
derson ELL Twill be reintrodu in its,
original form, and if passed will again
be submitted to the people in the.
.electionof 1893. This, OF course, will.
renew the contest of 1896 over that bill,
and all the old corporation straw will
have to be threshed over again. The
corporation attorneys affect to believe
that the seating or unseating Of Day
will have absolutely no bearing on the
validity Of the Anderson bill, consider
atian OF any subsequ action on the
part Of the senate being mad missib bic in
q Hearing before the supreme court
Of scourse there are other lawyers who
hold the adverse opinion, and it al de-
|pepds on which lawyer has the last
guess atit. It is a good deal the same
way in the courts. The supreme court
decision is better than the district
court decision, because it is like the
third horse" in a game Of seven-up.
e may not contain nearly so many
lsgood points as the first or the second,
fbut 1t is the one that decides the game.
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The proposition to redistrict the
IStateSWill be fought out on party lines
to greater extent than any other
measure that will be presented. There
will be q tistinct.and active opposition
to IL on the part Of the older and more
1strongly Repub lican counties in the
south bern partsof the State, while the
northern districts, some of which are
Populist, and all Of swhich have utterly
loutgrosEn their representation since
It's last appor nias It will favor il.
mo better Illustration can be presented
than the 23rd and the 54th districts.
i The former is composed of Washing.
ton county, and the latter of the
counties Of St. Louis, Lake and Cook.
1 Each district has one senator and three
representatives # they each had the
same representation based upon popu.
lation. capital or resources, and il
Washington county still had a senator
and three representatives, the 54th
district should have at least three
senator's and twelve representatives
There are other Inconsistencies under
the present apportionment which are
[justsas striking. It will be seen. how,
ever, that. the counties which do not
want a pportionment have the best
OF it in the present voting strength
and it will take pretty good figuring tc
l induce the counties which now have
the best of it to reduce their compare,
tive strength in the legislature. Il
looks like about as hopeless a task as
submitting proposition to reduce the
pay of members.
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But the great battle will be over the
|question of framing a law to cover the
provisions of the last constitutional
amendment relating to taxation /
have alluded to this act before, and
do not know whether or not the UNION
shares my belief that this enactment
was an unwise and an impolitic one,
hut can readily see that it will join
me sdeprecating any attempt on the
part of the present legislature in the
direction of radical experiments with
| the delicate question of taxation. If
| it can discover any way by which the
trich corporations can be forced to take
some Of the burden of taxation from
the shoulders Of the poor individual
then let us all say God speed the eff
forts, but experience teaches that
when the agents Of corporations move
for a .change in the system Of taxation
it is not with a view to assuming any
new burdens, and the legislature will
lido well to trace the origin Of any bills
looking to a change. Under the gross
learnings law the railroads of the State
are paying more than a million dollars
a year into the treasury of the State.