The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-14
MEETS WITH OPPOSITION
TO HAVE HARD SLED
DING
MANY AMENDMENTS OFFERED
Representative TOrsOn Says Measure
\ Would Take EIeemOsYnary InstI-
tutiOns Out of Politics and Pc
terson Says 1t wouldn't.

7 If State Auditor Dunn or any of the
0cigmatOrs of the board of control bill
have allowed themselves to imagine that
the measure would &C galloping through
the house without any serious opposition
they must have had their fancies dis
PEELED yesterday when the first series of
debates was made upon the Droposition
The house took the bill up at o'clock
as special order and labCred with it
until 500, when it was decided to quit
and resume the argument at 2 this att
ernoon. The opposition to the passage
of this bill developed a surprising
strength yesterday and its success in the
lower body is fraGght with the graNest
doubt.
After the bill had been read, which
consumed a lengthy period, some eight
or ten amendments were sent up. Mr..
Laybourn proposed to strike that part
of the bill which makes it applicable to
the school for the deaf and blind at
Faribault, and Mr. Morley and Burns to-
gether sent up amendments which sought
to remove the state public school from
the application of the bill. Mr.. Umland,
Mr.. Roberts and others introduced
amendments whose reading was deferred.
When the members could think of no
other amendments to tack on the bill
was submitted for discussion.
Mr.. Torson, by whom the bill was in
troduced in the house, read a prolonged
speech, which, it was apparent had been
studiously prepared. an a large measure
it was merely repetition of the various
arguments which have already been used
for the bin and covered the ground that
has been traVerSed with reference to the
report of the commission appointed by
Gov. Van SAINT to make Investigations
of other state boards of control. The
manuscript read by Mr.. TorSon exploited
the measure in the most eXtravagant
terms, and cited various state officials.
among them Gov. Van SAINT and State
Auditor Dunn, who had favored such a
bill. The writer of the speech had,
through a somewhat unusual sagacious
forethought, peered into the future and
discerned that if Gov. Lind had been re-
elected all the separate boards in
the state would now be composed Of
Democrats and used this as one Of his
chief arguments for the passage of the
bill, saying it would eliminate party poll
tics from the management of state in
situations.
Mr.. finland occupied the floor briefly,
protesting against the introduction Of
such a vast number Of amendments. He
did not want to see the bill amended to
death before the members had time to
discuss it in its original form.
JACOBSON FAVORS IT.
Mr.. Jacobson talked for some forty
minutes in favor of the bill. He saw in
it all that was required to bring about
the Millennium in the management of the
state institutions, which this measure
was designed to affect. 1t represented
a solution for that most VeXing of ali
intricate problems before the lawmakers
of this state: How to run the correc-
tional and charitable institutions with
out allowing politics to be injected into
the management In the estimation. of
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all political evils having their origin in
this source. He thought the legislature
would err grievously if it adjourned with
s. out passing this bill.
Following Mr.. Jacobson came Repre-
sentative Ward, who also favored the
measure. He read a communication in
which the members of the commission
that investigated similar boards in other
states were exonerated from any blame
of having been committed to the board
of control idea before they were appoint
ed, and Gov. Van SAINT was released
from the slightest imputation of appoint
ing these gentlemen because he thought
he understood their views upon the sub
ject.
Representative J. A. Peterson, of Hen
nepin, was against the bill, and in his
reasoning of why it should not be pass
ed. he said in part:
'fIn the first place it will be conceded
TDat the minnesota institutions Wnlcn CilS
bill seeks to affect, rank as high as any
of a similar character in the United
States and above many. The institutions
iii the states of Iowa. Illinois and other
states of which the commissioners have
made such glowing reports and which
are under the control of the central
board do not rank with ours. Now
then, when we admit all this and then
ask for a change Of management as pro-
posed in this bill, 1 think there Is dam
ger of lessening the efficiency which We
now have.
IF the correctional and charitable in
situations are to be placed under the con-
troll of this board all the others ought to
be placed there too. 1 don't want the