The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-07-12
IT WAKES WARM.
The Controversy Between Senator
Miller and Gov. Lind.

VI the OtaJe papers that have tax
en- Gov. Lind severely to task TO,
vetoing Senate File No. "a, the
Rock County Herald, Senator H. J.
Miller's paper, has been the most
outspoken. Senator Miller was the
author of this bill in the Senate ano
Representative Jacobson of an iden
tical bill in the house. All are ia
miliar with the purpose of this i'm
portant measure. It was to give
the railroad and warehouse commits
sion semi judicial powers, so that
testimony taken before the commits
sion would be admissibleto the high.
err courts when the railroads made
an appeal.
Gov. Lind recommended such q
measure in his message and Mr..
Miller and Mr.. Jacobson, who have
stood foremost in presenting meas.
ures of benefit to the shippers and
people at large and against the en-
croachments OF corporations upon
the rights of the people, introduced
this measure in compliance with the
governor suggestion.
After the legislature had ad-
journed Gov. Lind vetoed the bill
and did so without consulting At
torney General Douglas. 1t was
but natural that the State press,
voicing the sentiment and repre-
senting the interests of the common
people, should criticise such a
course. But for long time not
even the reform press bureau had
the temerity to explain or excuse.
Ever since the veto of the bill, in
terest has grown and public senti-
ment has crystallized. The execu-
tive has seen the hand writing on
the wall, has felt that the people of
the State will not endorse his veto
and now makes a statement of the
case. He has addressed a three
column article to Senator Miller,
dated St. Paul, June goth, giving
his reasons for the veto, and has
caused to be sent, at his own or
somebody else's expense, free stero-
type plates to the newspapers of
this private letter to Senator Miller.
This is procedure which as far as
we are aware. has not before been
found necessary by any Minnesota
governor.
The governor s letter is SO long
and technical that but few will read
it and it gives but precious little
light on the subject It leaves
matters as they stood before. The
governor serves notice on Senator
Miller to retract what he has said
and the senator in the last issue of
his paper, after devoting many col
umns to the question, and after re-
tracing whatever may have seemed
to impugn the governors motives,
as follows:
1.-The Herald believes that Gov.
Lind did wrong in taking the action
he did without submitting the law
questions involved to the attorney
general and without consulting the
members of the railroad commission
who drafted the bill and were thor
oughly familiar with it's provisions,
it's purposes and it's legal effect. At
least. under the circumstances, the
and advice of the rail
road commission should not have
been ignored.
''In view of all the facts there can
be no possible doubt that the gov
failure to sign the bill was
serious mistake.
Here is single spike driven home
by one sledge-hammer blow by
Hon. r. G.. Dunn:
"With an additional membership
Of fourteen the legislature of 1897
cost the State SIS, 900 less than that
of 1891, which was the only anti
legislature that ever sat
in the State. Before indulging in
any sweeping denunciations of the
last legislature let us digest these
simple figures, and give the devil
his due.
In northern Minnesota the scare
ity of labor is, according to The
Lumberman, seriously interfering
with a number of projects. Several
lumber firms are doing summer log
ging and it is with difficulty chat they