The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-11
Senate Fixes Date for Final
Adjournment Which Short
ems Session by Only Six
Days-House Is Expected
to Decline to Concur in
Resolution.

Senator Lords early adjournment
resolution, amended to suit its author
ana the advocates of a short session
OF the thirty-third legislature was
called from the senate Yesterday
morning and adopted by a vote of %
to Is.
The resolution as amended provides
that the legislature adjourn sine die
April 10 and that March 20 be the last
DAY Tor the introduction of new bills.
Inc action of Senator Lord in call
ing up his resolution yesterday morn
ing was not entirely unexpected, as
senator Horton recalled attention to
,l, me proposition Monday afternoon.
When' TO avoid being held responsible
Tor long session, he asked that the
resolution be considered.
The resolution as originally framed
was designed for immediate adoption
ana having been delayed by the Hor-
ton motion sending it to the table it's
author believed that amendments were
IN order Declaring that he wanted to
be fair to all, the senator from Dodge
lXed April II as the day for final ad-
Journment and March 20 as the last
day for the Introduction of bills.
Full Time Barely Enough.
Senator Laybourn opposed the reso-
luton. The senator from ST. Louis in
sisted that the legislature had barely
enough time to consider properly the
bllls introduced and insisted that an
early adjournment would be an inius-
nee to the members and to the state.
he declared that no important tax
legislation had yet been taken up by
either body and concluded by moving
that the Lord resolution be sent back
to the table
Senator Lord aroused several mem
bers by stating that in his opinion
the state would lose nothing if all but
a dozen of the bills now pending were
killed.
Senator Rieke utilized the debate to
work in his opinion of the working
methods of the senate. He declared
that if he did not pay more attention
to his business than this senate was
paying to the states business he would
be bankrupt in six months.
Lets go home or let's get down to
business" said Mr.. Rieke. 1--WE are
spending the states money let us do
something for the state. Why don't
we work for the state as we do for
ourselves ?"
Senator Thorpe offered a comprom-
ise amendment, fixing April Is as the
day for the final adjournment and
March % as the last day for the new
bills, and with this amendment the
resolution was adopted.
House May Not Concur.
The senate, by its resolution shorten
ing the session by six days, has passed
the responsibility for a full session
along to the house. There is small rea-
son to doubt that the house will accept
the responsibility or that it will con-
sent to sacrifice a lot of house bills for
the purpose Of making capital for the
senators.
Representative Walz, who introduced
a c-i1
days ago, yesterday announced that he
would not call his proposition up. He
Is backed in his position, or rather
takes 1t at the instance Of the men be-
hind the big bills, who think the de-
layed adoption of the adjournment res
olution in the senate, is not alone a
play for capital but a scheme to de-
feat their measures.
A refreshing phase Of this situation
is that the men in the house who are
now opposing early adjournment can in
no way be connected with the time
killers and grafters who are expected
to hang on for the final pickings. At
an informal discussion of the matter
yesterday Mr.. Walz admitted that he
believed his resolution should be al
lowed to lie on the table, as the full
ninety days session would be none too
long to clean up the work. especially
as there are about 800 pending bills,
and among them all the important leg
tslatiOn proposed.
Senator Thompson announced HIM
self as Of the same opinion, and unless
some special arrangement for prefer
ence of important measures and d re-
ciprocal arrangement with the senate
for cleaning up the great mass of mi
nor bills can be made, the house is not
likely to concur in the amended Lord
resolution.