The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-01-05
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COUNTRY FRIENDS
BARRED FROM FLOOR
II,
Committee on Rules Restricts,
Time Honored PrIvi-
leae s


Following a three hours session of
the house committee on rules yesterday
afternoon, it was announced that a
radical departure in the matter Of
granting floor privileges would mark
the house session of 1905. 1t is pro-
posed to limit the privileges of the
floor to the members, the members of
the senate and the state officers The
old practice of member taking his
country friend to his seat during the
session viii be abolished, and only the
members of the house will be permit
ted on the floor of the chamber when
the speakers gavel, calling the house
to order, has fallen.
The rules covering the barring of
the floor to all but members is fash
toned after a similar rule obtaining in
the national house at Washington, and
is in line with the provisions for the
care of visitors in the galleries by AR
chiteet Cass Gilbert in building the
new capitol
Enlarge Committees
The rules committee will recommend
crease in the membership of fully two
thirds Of the important committees of
the house, From the fact that Speak
er Frank Clague was present during
the greater part of the session of the
committee held in room at the Mer-
chants hotel, it is suspected that he Is
largely responsible for the change in
the committees, and that the increase
in the size of the committees is due to
his desire to place more members on
important committees. In but one
committee is there reduction in the
size. The judiciary committee is to
be reduced from twenty-five to TWEEN
ty-one members. Other committees in
which there are to be increases in the
membership are:
Public accounts and expenditures,
from IL to Is; state prison and re-
formatory, from IL to Is; roads and
bridges and navigable streams, II to
IL; elections, to Is; commerce, to
j z; logs and lumber. to II; prison la
Dor, Z to II; public parks, Z to IL;
university and university lands 8 to
IL; binding Irvine, 5 to IL; towns and
counties, Is to II; public health and
dairy and food products. IL to IS;
game and fish, Z to II; state drainage,
IL to ID; census, 5 to II.
!. Reduce Clerks
The committee will recommend a
feuuctlOn In Inc usual NUMBER OF
clerks of the house by five from the
number employed two years ago, but
the larger quarters, with the use Of SO
many committee rooms and the larger
galleries of the house, will necessitate
the employment of about as many adj
ditional doorkeepers and assistant SER
geants -at-arms as taken from the
roll of clerks. One additional stenog-
rapher will be provided by the 1908
rules over the number employed two
years ago, and the speakers messenger
will be eliminated from the list of en-
ployes usually authorized by the rules.
The speaker will be given clerk, and
1t is said that Larry Hodgson, the ST.
Paul newspaper man, is slated for the
position.
The rules which governed the house
of 1903 win be largely adapted for the
government of the house of 1906, if the
committees report is adopted today.
The committee which spent yester-
day afternoon on the report was COM
posed of A. J. Rookie, Goodhue; W. b.
Anderson, Winona; James r. Hickey,
Ramsey; T. T. Ofsthun, Pope, and Carl
de Laittre, Hennepin.