The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-04-08


all kinds of opposition to Cass Lake
even in the section of the state fol
whose benefit the school is to be etsab-
lished. Bemidji wanted it and want
ed it bad. Failing to get it, it lob,
bied against Cass Lake, and on the
day of the special order had a big del
egation down to try to defeat it. But
it was no 60. In some way men who
had expressed themselves against Cass
Lake were won over, and after heart
breaking finish it won out without a
single vote to spare. Mr.. McGarry
was congratulated OH all hands, and
said that evening that he had harder
work keeping sober than he had to
carry the bill. A curious thing about
it is that while many are disappointed
at the passage of the bill there is no
one who has word to say except of
appreciation and respect for it's au-
thor. If all the world loves lover,
good square fighter at the same time
never fails to win its admiration.
Thanks be, we have heard the last
of the stockyards stencil. The bill by
Holmberg, Saugstad, Ware, Dorsey,
White, Fitzpatrick and Noble, which
prohibited the erection of packing
plant within five miles of the state
university except with the consent of
the university went down to an ignO-
minious defeat, three of its authors
even, Dorsey, Holmberg and Noble
voting against it. This, however, may
not be quite the end. There is still a
measure in the senate aimed at the
plant. But it is the last despairing
gasp of dying cause.
l wonder what Puritan New Eng
land would have thought if it could
have looked forward to the time when
the legislature of a state which re-
CARDS the Pilgrim Fathers as the ma
tion's truest progenitors would have
deliberately voted that the Lord S day
was proper time for baseball to be
played. They would surely expect the
people to be looking for a tree on
which to hang the hag who had be-
witched the lawmakers. But the
world to move, and in the Minnesota
legislature there was only small mi
nority of members who thought the
people would be any the worse if those
who like sport were given an oppor-
tunity to enjoy it on their day of rest.
There is this at least to be said that
as baseball will be played anyway on
Sundays it is perhaps as we'll to have
no restrictions at all on the subject as
one that is not enforced.
The senate junket to the iron range
country is good deal of tizzle. On
ly twelve of the thirty or more who it
was expected wouldg up to look over
the range took advantage of the trip.
A number of these are in favor of a
tonnage tax, and it is these whom it
is hoped to influence. / reproduce a
couple of significant sentences from
the letter of a correspondent to the
Pioneer Press who accompanied the
party:
- "The delegation of business men
which entertained the junketeers at
Coleraine, Hibbing, Eveleth and here,
regard the tonnage tax as an effort of
the southern counties to eXtort more
than the just share of taxes from the
mining counties, and threaten dire
vengeance if the bill is passed.
''They do not object to an increase
in the valuation, but decry a special
separate tax, but the members from
counties where things grow look at the
barren wastes created throughout the
territory visited and shake their heads
sagely."
The senate, after having refused to
pass bill requiring:public service cor
porations to pay their employees twice
a month, Immediately proceeded to
give its sanction to a bill which au-
thorized the payment to members of
the legislature their salaries consider
ably more than year in advance. AS
Manley Fosseen pointed out at the
time, sit seems to make lot of diff
ference who is asking to be paid twice
a MONTH:
Really, however, what was the mat
ter with the senate in this salary
grab deal was that it lost its nerve.
In justice to it's members it should be
said that it was with manifest reluct-
ance that they sanctioned the bill.
The senators were held up by the
house. The members of that body
seem to have concluded that they
needed the money. When the bill was
first presented to the senate they
promptly turned it down. "The peo-
pie will think we are paupers, they
said, Then the house put up this