The Redwood gazette., 1899-06-28

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POLITICS AND NEWS.
Gossip and Opinions Gathered at
the State Capitol.
Senator Miller of Rock County, in
discussing Gov. Lind s veto to S. F.
No. "a, the bill giving the railroad
and warehouse commission judicial
authority in taking evidence, calls
attention emphatically to the fact
that Attorney General Douglass was
not consulted by the governor re-
garding this important measure be-
fore vetoing it. In the course of his
remarks Senator Miller says:
But suppose, for the sake of ar
gument, that the governor was hon
est in the matter and acted in good
faith If he really had doubts as to
the effect of the measure, what would
he have been certain to do? Would
he not have submitted the bill to the
attorney general and obtained his
opinion? Did he not do that in all
other similar cases? If any valid
reasons existed why the bill should
have been killed, would
he not, as matter of self-protection
and to shield his party from criti-
cism, have sought the attorney gen
eral S opinion and thus, in the event
the bill had to be killed, have placed
the responsibility on that Republi
can officer? Without any doubt in
the world he would. But as mat
ter of fact Gov. Lind did not submit
the bill to the attorney general and
did not seek to obtain that officers
opinion. Why not? Simply be-
cause he knew that the attorney gen
eral would endorse the bill and rec
omend it's approval. That would
have left the governor no excuse for
killing the measure and would have
compelled him to sign it. -
Further on the Senator says:
The bill in question embodied a
provision which Gov. ndrecomend
ed in his inaugural message. That
provision, which included all the
new matter contained in the bill, was
drawn by Judge Mills, president of
the railroad and warehouse commits
sion, and was approved not only by
the entire state railway commission,
| but by the Interstate Commerce
commission, by Elk. Attorney Gen
eral Childs, Judge p. E. Brown
Judge Kingsley and other jurists
and attorneys, representing the best
legal talent in the state.
The bill was favored by men of
the highest legal attainments, of un
questioned integrity and known 10y
atty to public interests. 1t was op
posed by the railroad lobby and its
henchmen, aud by this influence
only
Editor Everett, of the Fairmont
News, is rather quizzical in his last
issue and propounds the following
questions which he wants the Demo-
Gratis to answer:
':Still that painful silence on the
part of the popocratic press in re-
gard to Lind S veto to the Miller bill
Honest injun, boys, what do you
think of it anyway? Let us hear
from you Those of your party
that can read will hear of it in some
way and those who cannot will al
ways vote your ticket, SO there isno
use of keeping still. And while you
are at it, give us your honest opin-
ion of the Duluth normal school bill
which your reformer allowed to be-
come a law, and the double barrelled
insane hospital bill. Come, now,
don't be bashful. Speak, and let
your joys be known, speaking may
relieve you Let us hear the good
things he has done, for ordinary
mortals have failed to discover many
of them
NEW SWEDEN.