Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-03-09
York declaration which was framed by

| York declaration which was framed by
| q constitutional convention.
Now everybody knows that each
membe- of such a convention Is
| usually star Of the first mag
ntuGe. A constitutional conven-
| ton ranks even above the judiciary as
one of the features OF government not
| dominated by political methods. So
what a constitutional convention might
| produce in the way of suppressing
pasteboards is a high standard for Il
| legislature, body intensely human.
The New York amendment provides
| that the state official who uses pass
shall forfeit his office. That is clinch-
er. But our senate refused to have it
that way. and this provision was omit
ted Some good men voted to omit it
the vote was % to 9-but Mr.. Hall says
1t is imperative and cites Pennsylvania
where it is omitted and the offense
styled a misdemeanOr Gas our senate
left it,, thus entrusting to successive
legislatures the fixing Of the penalty.
The Pennsylvania law is said to be
farce.
There are other clauses which have
to do with the giving of testimony by
offenders; and the leaving of an open
door for the transportation of national
guardsmen at | cent mile Ca matter
of $4,000 saving year to the state);
as to both of which there Is diversity
OF opinion. A few legislators seem de-
sirious OF mountaineering the issue at
every point. Others are less worried.
We shall have an anti-pass law, but it
Is not likely the outcome will wholly
please Mr. Hall, who is most active in
the fray.
Notables Before Committees.
There are interesting things going on
| at the capitol every day in the after
| noon the committees are at work in
| their rooms. The chairman sits at the
| head of long table, his associates at
| the side, some with feet up and smok
| ing cigars, and lobbyists, reporters and
| spectators filling the chairs. The sec
| rotary of the committee, sometimes a
| relative and always an appontee of the
| chairman, sits at a table of his own,
and in important hearings on insurance
| or other corporation business, where
money is no object, a typewriter girl
| is there to take down in shorthand
| room. We hear the best speakers in
| the state at these committee meetings;
| and as both sides are represented there
| Is often some brilliant cross firing which
everybody enjoys. Ex-Judge Dwyer of
Milwaukee was speaking for the North
western Insurance Co. the other after
noon. He looks like ex-senator Villas,
| and was formerly federal district
| judge until an offer of three or four
| times the salary took him into the
| insurance world as counsel.
Addresses in the Evening.
Often in the evening there is some
| thing well worth hearing. Tonight Su-
perntendent Harvey will gather both
| branches of the Legislature to hear him
| and others in the matter of his pro-
| posed reform of country schools.
The other night Senator McGillivray
held the senate chamber crowded with
people in advocacy of his bill to dis =
| tribute patronage of the state accord
ing to population. Mac" is one OF the
| liveliest of the whole thirtythree. He
was born in Canada, but has been in
Black River Falls since 1866. He is a
manufacturer. He has been in the as
sembly and senate continuously since
1890 and is identified with antitrust
bills and farmer legislation.
Ex-Gov. Peck and the Bell Boy.
/ found Ex-Governor Peck in the
Mushroom OF a hotel the other day.
He was talking with bell boy he prob
ably had not seen for a year.
II thought you We're going to get
out OF this business" the governor said
you'll never amount to anything
climbing upstairs and carrying ice
water. You told me you were going
into business-going to get into a store
of some sort"
The boy looked half-ashamed. as IL
he had buried his one talent and spent
the time since Governor Peck's depart
ure smoking cigarettes.
II didn't have the price" he STAN
mered. Peck buried his face and white
goatee in a towel and looked as If he
believed such spiritless boy would
never be mayor of Milwaukee, to say
nothing of being a governor for four
years
He told me he enjoyed lecturng and
the Southern Lyceum bureau was to
put him to work again in March. He
opened up In Tennessee city and had
1000 people In n big auditorium. The
manager sent the jaitor to the back of
the top gallery and he could hear every
word. He was introduced by a Demo-
cratic congressman, and such n hand
some audience he had never seen. His
subject was Boys" He is fond of
them. He says most people are par
ents OF boys and only one in hun
dred don't love boys His books are
still selling and he has a royalty of $50
month on the play in which the bad
boy worries the grocer. Ex-Governor
Peck Is the most unaffected good fellow
in the world 1t is impossible not to
love him.
Eau Clairc's w. c. I. u. Home.
A little pamphlet sent cut by the
home to promote the chances of getting
the $4,000 bears the suggestive catch
phrase
1T is easy to turn our eyes away
| from ugly sights and to consider our
selves refined" one Of Charles Kings
ley's pearls Of thought. The directors
are one from each congressional dis
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