The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-03-04
SECRETS ARE REVEALED
The Temperance Committee Does
Not Seem to be Doing Very
Much for the Public
ARMOUR
The Twins Are QuarreIing Over It,
and the State Fair Needs to
be Investigated
tSpecial TO The Herald)

Especial to The HeralO
ST. PAUL, March 3.-One has to
know q good deal about the legisla.
ture, about past conflicts, about the
part members took in them and about
the members own antecedents before
he can fully account for the course it
may see fit to pursue on any given
subject. For instance, the United
States has an Indian school at Morris.
The federal government proposes to
abandon it and to turn large tract
of valuable land and the school build
ings thereon to the state, if the state
win establish an agricultural school
theie. The property had originally
cost some $4,000. Considering the
present interest displayed in agricul-
tural education, both by the legisla-
ture and the people of the state and
the many propositions presented look
ing towards the establishment of
county and district agricultural
schools, here was a proposition which
one would be inclined to conclude
would be eagerly embraced by the
members of the legislature, and which
they would hasten to take advantage
of, IS giving them without cost the
l4,a Gus of just such an institution as
@@F professed themselves anxious to
blish. ,Singularly enough, how
x.-t,n R,su,f II.
ling towards the acceptance OF the
United States generous gift unexpect-
ed opposition developed. DIR. Gates,
who this year is one of the house floor
leaders, was at once on his feet talk
ing about the white elephant the gov
ernment had on it's hands and their
readiness to turn the burden over to
the state, at the same time opposing
the suggestion even to appoint COM
mittee to look it over and see what
kind Of a gift it was. A number OF
members giving one excuse or another
Joined in. On the yea and nay vote it
looked rs if the opposition had the
best of it, and it was only the demand
that the members be put OH record by
d roll call that insured the adoption of
the resolution offered. Later, on in
quiry being made, it transpired that
two years ago Mr.. Spooner was active
in securing the separation of the girls
from the boys industrial school at
Red Wing and establishing the girls
school elsewhere. For this he was to
he disciplined, and later he was given
formal notice that if he wanted an ag-
ricultural school at Morris he would
have to fight for it. ''We can remem-
Der at least two years" he was told.
They had good deal of fun with
Spooner and Rosenwald and Senators
Johnson and harrington after they
came back from Washington. The
dispatches in the daily papers made
rather joke of their visit and init
mated that it was rather worse than
useless and that it was foolish to eX-
pect that anything would be done at
this session to relieve the situation of
those who had suffered from the flood
ing of the Minnesota valley. The trip
was a mere junket, it was said. 1t
developed later that if it was junket
it didn't cost the state great deal,
rs distance and expense considered, it
was by all odds the cheapest trip of
the year. Now it appears in addition
that it was by no means fruitless. At
their solicitation Senator Nelson took
up the cause of the junketers and got
busy right away. The result has been
that he secured the insertion of al
clause in the river and harbor bill au-
thorizing the use of a government
dredge i'm clearing the Minnesota river
of snags during the coming summer
and an insertion in the bill of an
amendment providing for a further
survey Of the proposed Lake-Superior
Mississippi river ship canal. The
house has also made provision in the
bill for survey with view to the
of reservoirs for the re-
tention of water in good times which
insures full investigation of the