The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-04-19
Tells the Legislature What Next
Congress Will Accomplish.
MOSES E. CLAPP TALKS TO SOL0NS
He Deplores the Initiation and Pass
age of Much Legislation That
Is Not Needed.

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the amendment of the national bank
ruptcy law and the passage of the Phil
ippine tariff bill are some of the thing,
which Senator Kunte Nelson hopes tn,
next congress will accomplish, as he said
i'll his address yesterday afternoon to the
Minnesota legislature. These are some OF
the measures that were either overlook
ed or were not reached at the session
recently closed. Senator Nelson and al
so Senator Moses L. Clapp addressed the
house and the senate yesterday in Joint
session in the house chamber.
The bankruptcy bill, Senator Nelson
said, was referred to q subcommittee
composed of Senators Pettus, Foraker
and Nelson and would have been re-
ported had not Senator Foraker been SO
busy with the Brownsville affair.
Senator Nelson thanked the Legislature
Cor the confidence it had shown in him
Il have not been asked to give any
pledges nor have l given any," he said
But L feel morally pledged to you to
give my best efforts to the service OF
the people of Minnesota and of the
United States"
The senator compared the work of the
legislature and of congress.
1--WE have a different field. Your duties
are extensive and from what / can Judge
you have been industrious during the
present session. Our field is more limit
ed But both bodies are confronted by
many problems which our ancestors
knew nothing about. We used to need
legislation for protection against the
brutal and ignorant, now we need pro-
lection against some of the educated peo-
pie, some of the people from the best
families. The amount of money carried
away by bank robbers is small compared
to that carried away by enlightenment. y
The senator reviewed the work of the
recent session of congress, naming among
the laws passed the amendments to the
currency laws, the expatriation law, the
increase of pay for rural mail carriers
the amendments to the denatured alcohol
bill. the amendments to tile pension
laws, the bill limiting the hours of labor
of railroad employees, the immigration
bill, the bill giving the government the
right of appeal in criminal trials i'll GER.
tain cases and the increase of the ap-
preparations for agricultural schools.
The senator modestly referred to some
of the measures with which he had been
connected and been Instrumental i'll
passing. The bankruptcy law, he said
with all its faults, was the best bill
along this line SO far offered and with
the proposed amendments would prOba.
bly, be satisfactory. He referred to the
bureau of commerce and labor which had
been established by bill of his. He
also was the author of the bill permit
ting national banks to incorporate will
$4,000 capital. He closed by promising
that he would aim to devote himself
faithfully to his work.
"We have a great deal of work" hi
said. 'There is much department work
Sometimes settler writes to me about
his trouble in getting his land title;
Strengthened out. l think it is more i'm
portant that | get this set right for hin
than that | send him long PRINTED
speech
Senator Clapp was called on for 1
speech. He complimented the senior sen
ator for his untiring industry, long eX
perience, unusual ability and zeal, al
of which made him prominent facto
in making the fifty-ninth congress al
important one. "For despite our prone
ness ever to regard our time and our re
lation to our time of the greatest i'm
portance, it is not far cry to say tina
the ty-ninth congress will stand fort
in history as one of the most impor
tant."
The speaker deplored the initiation an
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