Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-03-31
SENATE APPROVES MEASURE
Passes siI' Providing Tor the Direct
j Nosntnatlen Of STATE oAlosrs
IS, &,:s;..; 49,: 49,, = ~ aly@,
at Primaries.
Especial Corrsspondenoe).

emphasized, IL may result IN 6Oe0TA4'
solaf as st may have: q teniddency TO
make 'men occupying, 80 responsible 4
place as membership ii ths .lesislature,
to exercise care in: their statemsats.
In a nutshell, the case 3sSthfs. Repre-
sentative Klemer Of Rice county. =
quiet. modest and unassuming mai,
eat, up one day and announced he
wished to offer 4 resolution: 1T WAS
I peculiar document: and: I'm = l. he
charged that the speaker had 'packed
The committees in the interest Of thu
special interests" This raised Z
storm Of disapproval It once. strong
men like r. G. Dunn, L. c. Spooner
and others demanding an apology.
The speaker, q man Of known spirit,
resented the attack, but the dignity
of his position as speaker was not
overlooked in the heat Of tho debate
that ensued He did make it clear
that: he was not the kind of man to
quietly accept an insult. Later,a com:
mittee consisting of r. G. Dunn, Louis
c. Spooner and Albert Pfaender, the
latter q Democrat, was appointed to
Investigate the matter. A statement
was drawn up. which Mr.. Klemer 10
understood to have accepted, in which
hs apologized for his supplementary
language and Representative Spooner
stated on the floor of the house that in
private conversation Mr.. Klemer had
admitted he had no evidence upon
which to base. his charge
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It was understood that Mr.. K1emer.
the next morning, would make his
apology from the floor of tho house.
During the night men opposed to the
speaker, seeing in the affair an oppor-
tunity to embarrass him. induced Mr.
KlemeT to change his mind and the
next morning he presented another
resolution, understood to have been
drawn up in Minneapolis. In this he
asked for an investigation Of his
charges, part Of the committee to be
named by himself. There are sixty
two committees in the house and most
of the members, If not all OF them, are
On 1T least five Of them Such sell
Interrogation was patiently an absurd.
tty and was frankly designed by Mr.
Klsmsr's advisers to give Mr.. Klemer
technical advantage. Friday morn;
ing R. G. Dunn introduced q resolution
consuming Mr.. Klenef for his charges
which were declared :unfounded, and
for his supplementary language. Rep
resentative w. I. Nolan Immediately
ave notice Of deba&e.. Vnder the rulpl
Of the house TIL meant that u mat
Ter would 10 2oveF Z for twenty soa,
hours. R. c. Dunn moved Z suspeo
sion Of the rules to the OBJECT that tn
matter be taken up::at once. A Sus
pension Of the rules requires i two
thirds vote and tho motion: to suspend
RECEIVED only Sixty Eight: votes, 1 clesa
majority, but lacking tie necessary
two'lhlrds =. .<szs4 49,. : !.
- + + 1.
Friday night there were conferences
Of both sides Of the controversy, The
Klemer men met in room 307 Of Til
capitol and It was decided "a. pit iii
next move up to the friends Of th<l
speaker. Saturday morning there VA.
only 9 small attendance and nothing
waS done. During tie conference 81
tho Klemer men Friday night It w
at first thought that Klemer should
apologize for his supplementary Ian
guage. but not retract his charges
The next move was to make no apol
! oEy at all. The third plan was to leav<
the matter in the hands Of floor lead
ers, like w. l. Nolan, and await devel
opments. The friends of the speaker
have been more insistent on an apol
ogy than the speaker himself. Th,
speakers position is that the insult tt
the house is something that cannot b
overlooked, as, for instance, the charg,
that R. G. Dunn picked the tax com
mittee, but the insult to himself is ,
personal matter, land have got to b.
too big to let that make any differ
ence," he said afterwards. Il shall
put all that behind me-" This mean
that the house will probably insis
that the house take some notice of tn,
episode, but it will probably amour
only to a censure for the unparlis
msntary language used. While Their
are probably enough votes to expel tn
OFFENDING member from the house it /
unlikely that this will be Attempted
Mr.. Klemer appears to have stumble
into the trouble without really know
:fng what It meant and has been wave1
ing backwards and forwards since; 4
different forms of advice have reache
him. 80 49,
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The senate, with forty-nin votes 1
favor Of the bill, passed the direct pr
mary election law for state officer
which bears the name Of the election