The Minneapolis journal., 1906-02-27
Anderson Meets with Officials.

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a.. W. B. Anderson Of Winona, who was
chairman Of the house judiciary com
mittee having the code in charge, came up
this morning and entered the, confer
ence between Governor johnson, Audi
tor lverson and G. S. Jelley, assistant
attorney general After the meeting
was over Mr.. Anderson said:
~ do not believe special session
is called for by this situation as to
standing appropriations. That can be
provided for as I understand. I told
session required, but if he decided to
call one, it should be summoned today
to- meet tomorrow, notifying the mem
bers by wire. It would then be possi-
BILE to change the time when the code
takes effect. If we do not meet till
March 1 or later, the mischief, if any,
will be done. The code will have taken
effect, and the only thing we could do
would be to correct this matter Of the
standing appropriations and any other
errors that might be discovered.
|; "I don It understand how this batch
of appropriations was overlooked. The
revision. commission first decided to
strike out all standing appropriations,
and let everything be included in the
biennial bill. This was recommended
by, the board of control. They afterward
let some appropriations in and pressure
was brought to restore them all We
considered and decided to restore all
standing appropriations, and 1 sup
| posed it had been done, The members
from the institution 9. towns and the
members Of the board of control were
| supposed to be looking after them. =
| san extra, session, if it should be
called, ought not to last more than three
| days" ). p; ss. : :
| Block Has a Remedy. ~, -
State Treasurer Block was not called
| either yesterday or today, but con
ferred Independently with C. S. Jelley
Of the legal department, and said to
| day: =. ..r.r r. r .
''I am opposed to special session
and there is no necessity for one. II
| no other way is found to supply the
money needed, this department will
see that it is provided"
Other Omissions Found.
The board of control has discovered
two other standing appropriation.
! omitted from the code. The $4,000
/ for: state agent in connection with til,
| Red Wing training school, and $1,50'
for the state agent work at the Owa
1 tonna public school, are left out en-
tirely.
/. Copies Of the code were deliveret
to all heads Of departments today, an,
| they were busy comparing the pres
ent laws with the code provisions. TIL
| grain inspection department found i'm
portant but not harmful changes il
] the provisions for their financial man
agement.
1 Local Legislation Opposed.
/ Members of the Hennepina delegation
seen today are unanimously of tn,
:, opinion that a special session is neithe
i necessary nor desirable. DemocratI
I. leaders in st. Paul are generally cred
tied with backing the special session
talk. Their object in this is said to b.
a desire to make capital Of the occur
II renee by trying to place the blame fo
4 it on a republican legislature. It i
believed, however, that the governor j
! too shrewd politician to be draw
into the game. Such an action, it i
thought, would be dangerous and b,
no means free from danger Of "come
back" It is the general opinion
among members of the legislature an,
business men as well, that there is alb
solutely no necessity for the specia
s session.
] sion was Intentional. 1t is considere
a mistake, and admitted to be ba
one, but none the less without delibera
i ton There was considerable confus
ion in the several interested commit