Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-09-27

was still hunt in which the long
est way around was the shortest way
home. Like all new-country codes, the
organic law of the state favored local
corporations, and it might be urged
that bill placing the foreign compa-
MES on purely local footing was an
unmixed blessing to the aliens. But
on the other hand, an unprincipled ex-
ecutive might easily make the new
law an engine of extortion. To go no.
further into the matter than the re-
constitution gave the secretary of state
Quasi-judicial powers. It was within
his province to pass upon the applica-,
lions for chartered rights, and to deny
them, if the question pro bono publico
we're involved. Z =, ! =
Kent put two and two: together, saw
the wide. door Of exactions which
might be opened, and passed the word
of warning among his associates;
after which he had watched the course
Of the amended House Bill Twenty
nine with interest sharp-set, planning
meanwhile with Hildreth, the editor
of the Daily Argus, an expose which
should make plain the immense pos
sibilities for corruption opened up by
the proposed law; a journalistic salvo
Of publicity to be fired as a last re-
sort. =
The measure as amended had
passed the senate without debate,
and had gone back to the house. Here,
after the second reading, and in the
very hour when the Argus editorial
was getting itself = cast in the limo
types, there was a hitch. The men,
Der from the Rio Blanco, favoring the
measure in all its parts, and fearful
only lest corporation gold might find
a technical flaw in it, moved that it
be referred to the committee on ju-
dietary for a report on it's constitution
atty; and, accordingly, to the COM
mittee on judiciary it had gone. 49,. ~.
Kent recalled the passing of the
crisis, remembering how he had has
tened to telephone the Argus editor
to kill the expose at the last moment.
The incident was now month in the
past, and the committee had not yet
reported; would never report, Kent
imagined. He knew the personnel
Of the committee on judiciary; knew
that at least three. members of it were
down on the list, made up at the be-
ginning Of, the session by his col
leagues in the army of observation, as
'"'approachables. Also, he knew by
inference at least, that these three
men had been approached, not with
out success, and that House Bill
Twenty-nine, with its fee-gathering
amendment was safely shelved.
IT'S an ill-smelling muck heap!'"' he
frowned, recalling the incidents Of
the crisis at the suggestion let fall
BY the two outgoing lobbyists. And so
much Of this dog-watch as isn't sick.
eningly demoralizing is deadly dull,
as Crenshawe puts 1t. II I had any
where to go, I'd cut the galleries for
tonight" s M g. 81.
He was returning the newspaper to
his pocket when It occurred to him
that his object in buying It had been
to note tho stock quotations: q daily
duty which, for Elinor's sake, he had
never omitted. Whereupon he re-
opened It and ran his eye down the
lists: There was q decided; upward
tendency in westerns. Overland Short
Line had gained two points; and
Western Pacific .=ss h. n ..= .z.=5.
*s He held the paper under the near.
est electric globe to make sure:
Western Pacific, preferred, was quoted
at 5S11s which was one point and
half above thu Brentwood purchase.
price. Is 3.