Morris tribune., 1911-01-20

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him to associate with the other pa
tients. On the representations made
by Senator Schaller this was thought
to be dangerous and the appropriation
was made under suspension Of the
| rules.
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! The other bill which passed the
| house under suspension of the rules
was to prevent the establishment of
cemetery within three-quarters of
mile of any college or university or the
| Soldiers home. 1t seems that private
parties contemplate opening ceme-
! terry in grounds adjacent to the Sol
| diers' homo at Fort Smelling and both
! the old soldiers and the people of Min
neapolis are up in arms about it. They
took this way of heading them off.
A bill about which there has been a
! good deal Of discussion, and this has
| covered several legislative sessions,
| involves the principle contained in
measure introduced by Senator Hack
ney of St. Paul. The bill provides for
! the creation of legislative bureau to
! secure and compile for the use of the
members of the legislature the laws
| of other states and countries which
! may be used as guide. Senator
! Hackney would put the bureau in
! charge of a director appointed by the
i governor, attorney general and presi-
dent of the board of regents of the
| state university. His salary is fixed
at $4,000 year, and $4,000 is appro
priated for the work of the bureau.
Similar bureaus are in operation in
| New York and Wisconsin, and it is
said that, by taking advantage of the
! work they have done, the bureau could
be put in operation here at compara-
| lively small expense. l am told that
in anticipation of the passage of the
law an upstate politician is already
| laying wires in hopes of securing the
| appointment of director.
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A bill which is regarded as of con-
! siderable Importance by temperance
reformers in the northern part of the
state has been introduced by Repre-
sentative Converse of Detroit. BY it
he seeks to eliminate drunkenness on
trains, said to be common in logging
| districts. His bill makes it misde-
meanor to drink intCx1caants in puOIic
| coaches and gives the conductor of the
train authority to arrest the offender
| 1zith nt
liquor. Mr. Converse has other meas
| ures in mind to suppress drunkenness
| on trains.
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A curious proposition is made in the
form of an amendment to the rules by
! Representative Stone of Park River
! He would have a new committee ap-
| pointed to have similar powers to
| those of the tri-cOunty committee and
to be called the public interest com
| mittee. 1t would be composed of three
members from each congressional dis
trict except the Fourth and Fifth and
that part Of the Eighth represented
| by St. Louis county members. In other
! words, he would exclude from the pub
| lie interest committee the members
| of st. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth,
| While there is some reason in this,
Dr. Stones proposition is generally
| regarded as sardonic kind of joke
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The house rules committee has
! taken back water in the matter of
| Mr. Nolan's proposition to put mem
| bers on record regarding their votes
| in committees. The house voted down
| the rule he first presented to accom-
! plish this. Members of the rules COM
| mittee said it was impracticable. They
| have apparently changed their minds.
On Mr.. Nolan again presenting the
matter in slightly different form it was
referred to the committee on rules.
| That body, after pondering over it
| little longer, concluded there might be
something in il after all. So they re-
| wrote it, changing he form somewhat,
| rule as recomm ended to pass makes it
| incumbent on committees to take
| roll call on final action on all bills,
the result of the vote to be reported
to the house and filed with the clerk
and later with the secretary Of state
for public inspection. The roll call
will not be published in the journals
except when demanded by vote of
the house.
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Senator Moonan's amendment to the
primary law, besides providing that
party candidates for the office of
United States senator and for state
| Offices shall be nominated by direct
vote and containing provisions de-
| signed to prevent voters of one party
taking part in nominating the candi-
dates of another, does away with nom
! mating conventions. However it pro-
vides for another convention to formu-
| late the partys platform and to select
| campaign committee This conven-