New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-02-22
From the Capitol.
How Public Affairs Seem to Those Near the
Powers That Be.

HOW Public Affairs Seem to Those Near thu
Powers That Be.
st. Paul, Mimi, Feb, q, 1899.
Governor Lind is not as yet member
tof the broom makers union. However
he uses the broom in his business.
Representative Wheaton (colored) is
! mot the first brave who has fallen in the
attack on the saloon free lunch.
| The bill for the increase Of. the gross
earnings tax to 4 per cent another OF
Governor LIMBS message recommends
tions, jogs along toward becoming a law.
Having cut his whiskers loose from
the states prison ice box, ex- manager
O'Brien will probably now follow the
cold snap and gradually subside.
Republican "leader'' Staples has rec
ognized another of Governor Lind's mes
sage recommendations, in proposing a
commission to investigate the board of
control plan, to report in 1900.
The Republican legislative investiga.
tion has already received proof sustain
ing every charge made in the campaign,
as to binder twine and grain robberles
of the farmers. Wait and see what they
do with 1t.
A white teamster insulted Leech Lake
squaws and was soundly threshed by In
dians and straightway Washington is
asked for troops to suppress the "out-
break" And Algerism will be more
than likely to send them.
The most novel temperance measure
yet Representative Wheaton's (colored)
to allow colored men to enter saloons,
But the theory that the whites may stay
out may not be correct. Lo will he there
after alcohol, anyhow.
A Republican member has introduced
bill to place all "common carriers un-
der control of the railroad commission
ers. Have owners of the wheelbarrows
and baby carriages no right which Re
publicans are bound to respect?
Governor Lind, when in congress, OBJ
tanned a decision securing $4,000 acres
of the H. & D. land. 1t was a st ate
Republican administration (the last)
which surreptitiously decided back to
Sage tie last valuable remnant of such
lands.
l. Everybody knows that there is a large
business done in wheat screenings. But
not everybody knows that under the
present Republican system of grain in
spection the farmer gets nothing for that
part of his product, but practically
makes gift of it to tue interested
(third) parties.
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effort tor municipal reform in Chicago,
in view of menacing corporate interests,
has resulted in the candidacy of ex-Gov-
ernor J. P. Altgeld for mayor, on the
leading issue of municipal ownership
and control. Thousands in Minnesota
will hope for his success and all watch
the struggle with deep interest.
A bill has been introduced IN the leg.
islature providing that when any person
has served twenty years in the state pris
on he shall be granted an unlimited pa
role thereafter if his prison conduct hac
been faultless. This is probably an in
direct effort to get the Younger brother
out of prison. We are not prepared tt
say that we favor the bill. =.
The substitute binder twine bill llabl,
to become law provides that twin'
shall be sold to consumers only, at cost
with freight added, up to May l, afte
which, 100000 pounds being still 1e
served for consumers, dealers may buy
but they must contract to sell at l cen
per pound profit, to actual consumers
Sales to be apportioned through the ag
ricultural counties, and none sold out O
the state until after July 1. If this il
not satisfactory to farmers they shoult
speak out in meetin' at once.
| Republican Leader jacobson, in press
ing the gross earnings tax bill, showed
that the market value of railroad prop
erty in Minnesota in 1897 was 1920, 900,
900, but we're taxed only on valuation
of $4S,000,00O! The average tax rat
on other property was over "a mills, ant
of railroads less than 8 mills. Freigh
and passenger rates in vogue enabled
l tho rna6s RI nav nearly Y npr cent n,