Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1909-04-10

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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 disap-
pointed at the passage of the bill
there is no one who has word to say
except of appreciation and respect
for its author. If all the world loves
a lover, good square fighter at the
same time never fails to wins it's
admiration.
Thanks be, we have heard the last
of the stocksyards 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 it's authors
even, Dorsey, Holmberg and Noble
voting against it. This, however,
may not be quite the end. There is
still measure in the senate aimed at
the plant. But it is the last despair
ing gasp of dying cause.
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
regards the Pilgrim Fathers as the
nations truest progenitors would have
deliberately voted that the Lords day
was a proper time for baseball to be
played. They would surely expect
the people to be looking for tree on
which to hang the hag who had be-
witched the lawmakers. But the
world do move, and in the Minnesota
legislature there was only small mi
nority of members who thought the
people would be any the worst if
those who like sport were given an
opportunity to enjoy it on their day of
rest. There is this at least to be said
that as baseball will be played any
way on Sundays it is perhaps as well
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 fizzle. Only
twelve of the thirty or more who it
was expected would go 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. 1 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 billrequiring public service cor
porations to pay their employees twice
month, Immediately proceeded to
give its sanction to bill which au-
thorized the payment to members of
the legislature their salaries consid-
erably more than year in advance.
AS Manley Fosseen pointed out at the
time, s'it 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 reluc-
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. ssThe peo-
pie will think we are paupers,' they
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