Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-12
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1rs controversy.
next morning. Instead he made this
statement.
MIR. Speaker: In my remarks
yesterday on 1.-The floor Of this
House, said that the committees
of this House were packed in the
interests Of the special interests.
l simply said what believed to be
true from what l have learned since
my election; / am not the only per-
son in this state who entertains this
belief. l was simply voicing the
sentiments Of a large proportion Of
the general public.
II am willing to apologize for
what have said it, after tho
rough and impartial investigation
by this House it shall appear that
my convictions and the convictions
IF the public are not we'll founded.
II therefore propose, Mr.. Speak
er, that committee Of seven men,
bers be appointed, Of which l shall
be allowed to name three members
and the Speaker three members and
that the six members SO appointed
be authorized to name the seventh
member, for the purpose of in
vestigating the charges that l nave
made. and that such committee be
given full power to subpoena wit
nesses and compel the production
of books and papers bearing
on this question, and l beg leave to
express the wish that it may con:
clusively appear that this House
had been organized in the interests
of the people of this state and not
packed for the special interests.
Until such time.I respectfully re.
quest that my apology be deferred. .
Next Mr.. Klemer further surpris.
ed and practically routed the re.
dictionaries by offering a resolution
providing for a committee to in.
vestigate. three to be appointed by
himself. three by the speaker. and
those six to name the seventh. His
resolution further provided that this
committee should have the power
to summon witnesses and get all
the evidence they desired on the
subject of packed committees. AT
this point occurred the most un-
parliament incident of the whole
controversy, when Speaker Dunn
sneeringly referred to the Klemer
resolution as being unfit for con-
sideration by any parliamentary
body. And the speaker was saved
from presenting it to the House by
Spooner's motion for a recess. The
reactionaries sought safety from the
meek. mild little man. from Fari-
bault in adjournment.
Mr.. Klemer had put them Sin a
hole" l believe that the reaction
aries reasoned like this: If we give
Klemer-they omitted the mister
in an impartial committee, ap-
pointed partly by himself. he will
prove his charges; so we can do
that. But if we attempt to disci-
pline him without the hearing he
demands, it will be so obviously
unfair that the people will not
stand for the injustice.
Yet the reactionaries risked the
latter. Friday they attempted a
vote of censure against Klemer.
But they could only muster 68
votes. whereas they needed 80 to
do the deed at that time under a
Suspension of the rules. The vote
was as follows: 49,
TO CENSURE KLEMER WITH
OUT A HEARING:-Aker, Andrew
Anderson. Bergen, Bouck. G. W.
Brown. L. D. Brown. Clarke, Den
ger, Diessner. R. C. Dunn. Fergu-
son. Fowler, Fuchs. Greene. Half
ten. Hauge, Healy. Henion, Herr
berg. Hoffman. Hopkins. Hurley,
Jelinek. Just. Keefe. Kelly. Knapp,
Kneeland, Kunze, S. N. Lee. Len
non. Liberia. Lydiard. Nc Kenzie,
Mcdonald, Mcneil. Melting, Nor
iarity, H. Nelson, Nye, O'Brien,
O'Neill, Orr, Papke. Perry. Peters,
O. Peterson, Pfaender. Ribenack,
Rice, Robertson, Saggau, Schiller,
Schwartz, Spooner; c. E. Stone,
Sullivan, Thielen. Untiedt. Utecht,
Virtue, c. H. Warner, E. Warner.
Washburn, Westcott, White. Whit