Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-02-11
BUSINESS BODY

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STATE LEGISLATURE GAINING A REP
UTATloN FOR WORK.
At Saturdays Adjournment tho Desks Of
Both Senate and House Were Cleared.
Keapportion,nent Believed to He As
sured-kevis;on of Banking Laws-The
First Junket-Gronduhrs bicycle Bal.
Struck Jury Law-Tax Legislation.
ST. PAUL. Feb 9.-[SpeciaL ]-On the
tace Of things this is . business legisla-
ture. Saturday night found both
house with clear desks, all work re.
ported from committees having been
disposed of. And the committees kept
well up with their work, too. Secretary
Of the Senate Langum was bit in.
climbed to boast over the working rec
ord of that body until Chief Clerk
Bowling assured. him that the house
was also even with its work There
are two reas Gus for this state Of affairs.
First, and most important, is the
knowledge gained by the leaders from
their former legislative experience that
crowding business is necessary at all
stages Of the session. Too many legis-
lators think a s0:day session is long
enough to allow easy going methods
TOR the first month or two These are
the supporters: Of freq uent motions for
adjournments over from Friday until
Tuesday. They maintain that the
committees should thus be given
more time to & consider bills referred
to them, but moro experienced legisia.
tors have learned that when the house
or senate adjourns for. three days the
members 60 home and no committees
can meet. Hence nearly every pro-
posed three day adjournment has been
antaRonized and generally prevented.
and the result shows in the condition
Of legislative business. The second
reason Is that the most inaportaut
neasures.Aeges not yetv been reported
back from the committees aud in gen.
eral the bills thus far are Of compar-
itively minor interest and therefore
more easily disposed of. However, the
most important measures usually are
longer in committee SO that this fact
has less to do with the present adj
vanced stage Of business.
Reapportionment is now an assured
thing. After three weeks deadlock on
the preliminary details Of the subject
both houses yielded a little and the
compromise seems to make reappor.
tionment possible. Past experience has
shown that when either house alone
attempts reapportionment, the result
has been q failure, joint action being the
only kind to make success certain. This
fact made the leaders willing to accept
compromise. The house wanted a
joint committee of Is representatives
and : senator's, those figures giving
about the usual proportionate represen-
tation Of the two houses on joint COM
mittees, but the senate insisted on an
equal number of committeeman, ella. m
ing IL. from each house was proper.
Friends Of reapportionment feared the
contention Of the senate was scheme
Of the enemies to defeat that end, but
the compromise gives the house, where
they believe their strength is greatest,
a majority of ! on the joint committee,
there being 10 representatives and IL
senators. OF course this is but the
first step, but it is looked upon as SC
favorable to q just reapportionment Al
to. assure the ultimate success of the
newer portions Of the state in thei,
fight for enlarged representation in the
legislature.
If anyone ever doubted that this leg.
islature wanted to amend the banking
laws the action Of the house on Satur,
day should convince them Of thei,
error. Adverse reports on the three
banking bills, one. by Mr.. Mcdonald
and two by Mr.. Donnelly, were pre-.
sented BY the committee on banks and
banking, whose members favored some
amendment Of the banking laws along
the same lines US provided in these
bills, but believed certain provisions
too radical, and therefore not advisa
! bic. .sM r.a. Mel onald's bill was the first
Ito be 60 reported, and that member q