Morris tribune., 1909-05-29

Report has it that r. c. Dunn and Gov
Johnson had long political conference on
Wednesday. Dunn seems to figure that if
Johnson did not again, he could be elected
governor.
The Marconi Wireless Telegraph company
will put in wirless station at ST. Cloud this
summer and also at a dozen other points in
Minnesota. 1t is expected that by the end of
the summer it will be possible to send mes
sages to every state in the union.
A. NJ Welles has leased the Sank Centre
Herald to E. H. Pierce, of Grafton N. D., for a
period of one year. Mr.. Pierce will be well
come addition to Minnesota journalism. The
Grafton Record, which Mr.. Pierce has edited for
years. made by him of the best known
weekly papers in the Northwest.
A law has been passed by the Iowa 1egis
lature requiring township, city and village road
officers to the King split-log drag. The law
limits the compensation for dragging to fifty
cents per mile and it also obliges drivers of
rigs to keep to the undragged side of the road
until the dragged side is dry and fit for travel
under penalty of one to twenty dollars fine.
Justice Elliott, of the supreme court is to
be appointed federal Judge in the Philippines
to succeed Judge Willard, and Gov. Johnson
has announced that he will appoint I. d. OBren
TO the vacancy on the state supreme bench.
Mr.. OBren will be the first Democratic judge
to have place on the state supreme bench for
ten years, aud his entry at this time will be
sure to revive the question Of non-political
judiciary at the next election.
1t is stated by reliable persons that the bill
providing for a bushel grain tax grain hand
led by elevators was introduced and passed as
"ioker" by the opponents of the tonnage tax,
in order to try out of the legal questions
that would be involved in a tonnage tax, so that
if the supreme court declared the bushel tax
unconstitutional, then there would be no hope
of passing tonnage tax that would be legal.
The story is now supported by the fact that the
constitutionaity of the bushel tax has been
called in question by Duluth citizen.
Governor Johnson ana the OOutueTu SeId-
- tors of whom Senator Bailey is the spokesman
have got into a squabble, which if the governors
usual luck holds, will materially help the gov
ernor's chances for the presidency. The COVER
nor stated in an interview that the Republican
party would have to be responsible for the
AldriCh tariff and could not escape on account
of the few southern senators who voted with
Aldrich This was construed slap at the
southern senators, and they resented it, but as
usual the governor able to show that he
had said enough to tickle the ear of the country,
and yet not enough for anyone to get offended
at Such are Johnsonian politics.
There has been a seeming rivalry between
the supreme court of California and the
preme court of Missouri to see which could set
the greater number of boodlers and bribers free,
and on the most frivilous pretexts. Missouri's
court had the first innings, and astonished the
country by the facility with which it found rea
sons for setting free number of the St. Louis
officials whose arrest and conviction had been
secured, with much pains, by Joseph w. Folk
Then came the California courts turn, and it
eclipsed the Missouri record by declaring brib-
erv no crime Now Missouri has it's second
innings and turns loose another st. Louis
bribe-taker on the ground that the indictment
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