The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-18
ROUSE MAKING HEADNAY
IMPORTANT LEGISLATIVE MAT
TIERS DISPOSED OF DURING
PAST WEEK
BOARD OF CONTROL APPROVED
EARLY Adjournment Resolution
Struck snag and Went Over
to This Week-Much
Work on Hand.

The house succeeded last week In get
ting off Its hands one Of the most I'M
portant matters of the session. This was
the board of control bill, which passed
that body on Thursday by vote of 70
to 80. Several other matters of great
interest were taken up.
Those who were inclined to doubt the
fact of this bill being a political make
shift, If they were in the house Weanes-
DAY and Thursday, when the proposition
was being debated, must have had their
minds changed to some extent at least.
Some of the strongest and most popular
Republicans in the lower branch of the
legislature took the floor in opposition to
the bill, denouncing 1t as a mere party
machine move and heaping upon 1t a
vast amount of caiumny which even its
bitterest enemies in the opposite party
had not sought to place against The meas
ure
The series of debates on the bill dur
ing the two days were more bitter and
acrimonious than any that have. been
heard in the house. this session. The
terms in which Republican leaders de-
nounced and condemned the measure
were of the most extravag CANT sort, and
1t seemed for a. while that the bill 8
chances OF passing were quite remote. At
one stage of the proceedings, when the
storm of debate. had subsidized temper
arify, Mr.. finland, of the minority fac
ton, came within a very little Of ditching
the whole scheme. He proposed an
amendment which would have made the
scope wide enough to include In its opera
tfons all the state. institutions, and the
amendment was at first carried by vote
of 81 to So. Before the vote could be
announced, however three Of the Repub-
licans, who had voted for the Umland
amendment arose quickly and changed
their votes, making the result IS to 81
and the amendment was lost
EARLY ADJOURNMENT DONE FOR.
Ostensibly the house will determine
upon the matter Of early adjournment
Wednesday afternoon but in reality the
proposition has been settled. It was be-
fore the house as a special order Friday,
ana so apparent was its defeat, if tilcn
put to vote, THAT the friends of the
movement arrangsdto have it again de-
ferred. There are few now who actually
have any idea that the matter can be
made to win. The motives of the scheme
having been EXPOSED have in themselves
defeated the move, as the more liberal
Republicans, by whom this movement
was started, regard it as unwise now
and insist that it must not prevail. MANY
have been tnrned against the proposition
in the last week. OF course the Repub-
HcanS caucused some time ago on this
proposition, and decided that they would
close the legislature on April 5, but. de-
spite this edict, and contrary to tradition
which seems to inpart a sort of sacred
power to Republican caucuses, the de-
cree of Which is regarded as positively
1rrevocab1e, the Minnesota lawmakers are
unable to see the wisdom Of closing Their
doors twenty days earlier than usual
merely to give foundation for one po-
IticaI party to manufacture Campaign
material upon. On
Mr.. Laybourn, who has opposed his
partisans in this undertaking, showed in
an address on the floor of the house Fri
day the folly and unbusinesslike conduct
OF attempting toyshut off the legislature
at this time, when already there is more
work on hand than will probably be COM
pleted at the end Of the regular term.
The house has introduced 53S bills and
the senate 406, and Of these 944 there are
actually less than ninety that have be-
come laws, or, in other words, only one
tenth, of the bills introduced have been
permanently disposed off, sliI
= Before thegWeek was ended it became
apparent that the house at least wouid
pass the Daugherty or the Republican
machine apportionment plan The joint
committee from the senate and house
to whom the bill and the Larson. amend
merit were referred, as was stated, failed
to agree, and another committee was ap-
pointed which was favorable in the ma
jerity to the original BILL This, of course.
puts virtual end to the fight, and the
Daugherty plan Will be passed.