The Mankato free press., 1909-01-29
Naming of a Steering Committee
Stirs Up the Senator.
TOLD TO CONSULT JOURNAL
Democrats Don't Like the Turn Affairs
Hsve Taken In the Legislature,
Some Jokes Pass.
From The Minneapolis Journal !


Democrats of the house, under the
leadership of "Tom' Brady, have
served notice that hey must be reck-
oned with and not ignored by the ma
ioritv iii conducting the business of
that body. 1t was done during the
consideration of trivial matter, a mo-
tion by Mr.. Wohhuten OF Albert Lea,
TO have a bill of only local Importance
taken up and passed. The motion met
an unexpected volume of no., and
the speaker called for a rising Vote
1t meant suspension of the rules and
required two thirds, or eighty votes.
The Brady followers either sat tight
or voted no, and the motion got only
seventy-two votes. 1t was called up
later bv John c. Lennon who made an
appeal for courtesy to the author of
the bill but the opposition only gath
cred force and the motion failed a sec
ond time.
Answer of the Majority
Immediately after this the republi-
cans got their chance, and they rose
to the occasion. Dr. j. II. Dorsey,
(dem.) moved suspension of the rules
to pass another local bin just sent in
from the senate. Word was passed
among republican members, and they
clamored vociferously for the question.
The motion got a chorus of ayes, and
the bill was passed on roll call by a
unanimous vote
The majority had heaped Goals of fire
on the truculent minority, but the
democrats ar still chuckling over the
affair. They have shown that the
TWENTY-FIVE democratic votes will be
needed often and may cause trouble
for any kind of republican organiza-
tion program. They say the repub-
lican support of the Dorsey motion
was done to shame the democrats and
get them to abandon obstruction tac-
ties
1t is believed that Brady intends to
adopt the role of an obstructionist
leader at this session, unless the demo
cratic leaders are called in to help
agree on a house program.
WORKS Seeks information.
At any rate, the democrats in both
houses have taken notice and seem
bent on showing that they are alive
The appointment of a steering com
mittee' by the republican majority in
the senate was news to some senators.
Many of the democrats did not know
that steering committee" had been
appointed until the names of the com
mitteemen We're published and some of
the republican senators were equally
ignorant of the proceeding. An attempt
was made TO keep the committee secret
and the publication of the names was
not authorized by any member of the
steering committee
Senator s. d. Works of Blue Earth
county was the first democratic sena-
appointment of the republican steering
committee, and the method adopted by
the democratic senator i'll bringing tne
matter before the senate was decidedly
effective
When the senate was called to order
tbtdN. FNtlldlOT w OGKS Ucllldflutu 1ecO9-
milton. Il understand that com
mittee has been appointed in that body
to supervise the measures which snail
be presented to us for consideration, -
he said. "This committee is said to
have been organized by the majority.
| simply wish to ask whether or not
the minority has the same privilege"
Senator Works also asked concern
ing the workings of the committee, and
desired to know whether a member of
the senate who wished to have a bill
submitted with the approval of senate
committees should see the members of
the committee individually or collec-
lively.
Told to Consult the Record
This is the story from The st. Paul
Dispatch:
Senator s. ID. Works of Mankato, the
senate administration leader. injected
interest into the senate deliberations
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