Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-04-03
LEGISLATIVE letter.

LEGISLATIVE LETTER.
ST. PAUL, March 3O.The Mime
apolis Journal scare-heads Legislative
news with ''The House adjourns to.
visit brewery" It details Q somewhat
riotous proceeding when at noon on:
Good Friday a. highly. respectable
Democrat, who stands usually for.
good legislation but frequently boasts
Of his appetite for beer, moved that
The House adjourn until Saturday
This was contrary to the
rules which were adopted few days
ago to keep the members down. to work,
that the House hold two
sessions every day, with recess from
II to 1870 p. m. When the motion was
put, a vigorous ''No" was recorded.
The Chair was in doubt, for both sides
had yelled about as loud as they could
and asked for a division. The count
showed small majority for adjourn
ment. Some confusion followed, as
one member moved to reconsider and
another demanded a recount, another
arose to point of order, and another
from the decision of the
Chair. Some of the Republicans
maintained that the Chair was unfair
and refused to recognize those members
who were moving business that was in
order. OF course a number of the
motions were grossly out of order.
Your correspondent does not assume
to say whether or not there was I'M
fairness, but the House finally adjoun-
ed amid confusion and hot words, and
the Speakers desk was Immediately
besieged by number of irate legisla-
tors who maintained that in the inter-
ests of pilgrimage to a big brewery
the law-making body had been turned
into a puppet show: Undoubtedly
others felt that there was an attempt
to infringe upon their personal liberty
to use Good Friday to fill up on book
beer.
On Wednesday the corpse of the
local option bill which was slain a
couple of weeks ago in the Senate,
was dragged out; noisy wake was
held around the remains and the cad
aver was finally tagged "Requiescat
in Pace" The procedure was as
follows: Mr.. Rachie, who had intro
duced the measure and who, being a
former party prohibitionist, was great
ly in favor of it's provisions, moved
that the bill be recalled from the Tenn
perance Committee. A storm of OBJ
jections arose on the ground that Mr..
Webster, the chairman of the Tempe, :
ance Committee, was not in the chan
Der and that it was a discourtesy to
to him. Mr.. Rachie admitted the
force of the objection and moved a
call OF the House, which was seconded
and supported. But Mr.. Webster was
hard to find. The sergeant at arms
seurried the building and he was finally
located. Then the motion to take the
bi l from the hands of the Committee
was renewed and the fireworks was
off, A debate lasting an hour fol-
lowed, in which nothing was added to
the previous discussions. Mr.. Higgins
seemed to make substantial Roadway
against the opposition by stating that
he believed bill given to q committee
was given to report upon and not tc
stick into pigeon hole; that if thu
committee were against the bill, twas
the business of the committee to repor,
it out for death; that if the committee
were in favor of the bill, then they
should recommend it's passage; that i,
the subject matter of the bill was toe
intrica ate or the committee too obtuse te
come to any decision on it at all, thai
they should report it back to the Hous.
without recommend ation.g He empha
sized that the House ought to estab lisf
q precedent here and now that every
committee would be expected to return
to the House, with or without recon
mend ation, every bill put in its charge
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