The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-12
There is a good biography and notes on
the musical selections.
MEN AND MEASURES

The attorney general will no longer be
the poorly paid legal drudge of the state
when Senator McGiI's bill passes the
house and is signed by the governor. 1t
has reached the last stage, being on the
calendar, and seems sure to go through.
Tt. raises the salary Of the attorney gen
eral from $500 to $4,000, which makes
the place more Of temptation to first
class lawyer. It was not the salary that
has tempted high grade men in the past
to seek this office, it was the honor and
the advancement which the office gave
to a member Of the state bar. No other
state in the union with such a mass of
legal business has left it's legal depart
ment SO crippled. States of equal size,
with Minnesota give the attorney general
from six to twelve assistants and at least
two more should be added to the present
staff in order to give proper attention to
the work, which grows every year: One
assistant should devote his entire time
to the railroad and warehouse commission.
Attorney General Douglas will round out
his term with at least a year of adequate
salary, and the passage OF, the bill is likely
to bring out strong field Of candidates
for the office at the next state convention.
Under Article 4, Section 9 of the state con-
stitution, no member of the present ~legis-
lature will be eligible Ito the office, but
the list of possibilities already: includes
w. j. Donahowe one Of the present as
sistants in the office, and E. r. Young of
Appleton, former state senator. .....
If there was anything in the rur1ors
that undue influence was being used in
the senate to beat the Gjertsen bucket
shop bill. the vote by which it passed yes
terday afternoon laid them to rest. There
have been no hints of scandal in the up
per house up to this time, although signs
have not been wanting that another SEN
atorial combine was in process of forma-
ton. II there was any attempt of a cor
rupt nature in connection with the Gjert-
sen bill, it was spoiled by the publicity
given to it. The bill is sure to provoke
a lively fight in the house.
A careful comparison of the new Fry
berger gross earnings bill, as approved
by the taxes committee, with the Shearer-
johnson bill, now consigned to its grave,
SHOWS that~the two are practically identi-
call The language is transposed in several
places, but the effect is just the same, and
fsection by section there is only verbal
d1rerence found. OF course the Fryberger
I Dill; had pr ecedence, as it was introduced
| first, and when the special assessment and
| sleeping car features were struck out, it
was left just about the same as the Shear
| er-Johnson bill. However it looks to a
| casual observer as If the committee went
| lar out of Its way to call the new bill
| the Fryberger bill. :. One member was
| heard to say that they would have been
willing to take the other bill if it had
been Shearers. but they did not, want
johnson to get any of the credit.
There is a large lobby from the Henne.
| PIN county courthouse present, every DAY
at the capitol, and some Of the deleeatior
are wondering how it is that so man,
officials can leave their offices for days
at time, when they claim to be in sucf
urgent need Of more help and higher pay
The sub committee that is drafting the
salary bills into one is having a disagree
able task, and should be upheld by thu
delegation. But the lobby is a strong one
| Charles B. Cheney.