The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
D0inus at the State Capitol
Option Mr. Higgins gets the Suffrage Bill on Oesera
Orders. Other Prohibition Members Making Good
PROGRESS. Referendum Move.
Mr.. Higgins gets the Suffrage Bi
ourinq in for County Option.

Unless appearances are very decep-
tive, legislators need not go home
without paying off the mortgage. A
liquor lobbyist was heard to say to a
friendly legislator in language that
would melt the types, "Our business is
gone to - if this county Prohibition
put it on the bum, it would be cheap"
A travelling liquor salesman stated
that he had gone over the situation
carefully and that should the bill be-
come a law "the - Prohibitionists
would wipe all but eight counties off
the map at the first election
The liveliest parliamentary passage
at arms thus far this session was a
tilt over Mr.. Higgins bill providing
for a woman suffrage amendment to
the constitution. 1t had been referred
to the committee on elections of which
Mr.. Higgins is a member, but some
how the judiciary committee got hold
of it and reported it out without re-
commentator. A minority report re-
commenting the bill to pass was al
SO made Then "the fire works was
off" The House was flooded with
oratory until Mr.. Higgins broke into
the deliberations with a speech that
was greeted with cheers, in which he
called attention, first, to the anoma-
lous position taken by the judiciary
committee and, second, to the fact
tnat that committee had no right to
the bill. The speaker saw it that way
too and ordered the bill to the elec-
tions committee, conforming to its
original commitment.
An anti-polygamy resolution was in
troduced, the rules were suspended
and it was given second reading and
placed on it's final passage, and was
out of the way without a dissenting
voice in five minutes after It was in
troduced. There are no Mormon votes
in Minnesota.
Senator w. w. Dunn is the attorney
for the Hamm Brewing Company, the
largest booze factory in the state. A
grin that could be detected by those
of specially sensitive auditory nerves
was occasioned when the clerk read a
petition addressed to him, praying him
to use his best efforts to secure the
passage of a county option bill.
) A bill prohibiting the sale and use
. of cigarettes and cigarette paper was
reported for passage by the committee
chairman of the committee on Public
) to have it sent to that committee be-
fore it's second reading. A House
member who knows the chairman in
timately told The Public Veal cor
respondent that the bill would never
, see daylight again. In that he is mis-
taken, however, for both Higgins an6
Lobeck are on the Crimes and Punish
ments committee, and will see to il
that the measure at least gets called
to the attention of the House again
or that it's practical duplicate is in
troduced and sent to favorable com
: mittee.
A bill providing for constitutions
: amendment giving the ballot to womer
, was presented by the Prohibitionists
and submitted to a conference com
l mittee Of the w. c. T. u, the Woman
I Suffrage Association and other or
CARNATIONS interested. 1t was intro
? duced in the House by Mr.. Higgin:
and in the Senate by Mr.. Seward, ;
3 Republican. 1t will draw the vigorous
) opposition of the whiskyites. In al
+ interview with Senator Seward thu
' day after it's Introduction, he told Th'
Public Veal representative that thu
liquor interests were already hare
after it. But we are practically SUR
: of getting it out onto the floor of botl
e bodies with favorable recommenda
It tion. In the Senate it was referred t.
Q the Judiciary Committee, Of which MI
J. Seward is a member. Courtesy t.
d him will be almost sure to bring
e out. In the House it was referred t