The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-03-23

angle and appointed his committees
for the best interests of the general
nnh1ic This was shown in his an

angle and appointed his committees
for the best interests of the general
public. This was shown in his ap-
pointment of the temperance COM
mittee and in the appointment of every
other committee. When the matter of
the drainage investigation was up the
speaker was subjected to the strongest
kind of pressure from all sides, but
insisted on the appointment of CON-
mittee which would be fair and un-
biased. Many of the enmities that
have been awakened in the house Or
ganization have been due to the fact
that the speaker has insisted on being
fair instead of biased. In his work
as speaker Mr.. Dunn has shown him
self one of the big men who have come
forward in Minnesota politics. He
has not been moved from his purpose
by rantings or by prejudice. He has
had only one object in view and that
was good service to the state.
Speaker Dunn is one of the big men
of Minnesota. The singing of gnat
may be annoying, but it's only pur-
pose is to give more energy and &C
tivity to the object stung. The un-
warranted attack on the speaker has
not been utterly useless and without
good.
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The senate has passed the Putnam
bill calling for the election of a non
partisan judiciary. It provides for a
convention and other machinery, some
what cumbersome, perhaps, but de-
signed to bring about result greatly
desired. Politics should have. no
place in the selection of the judicial
officers of a great state like Mime
sofa. The house will probably whip
the Putnam bill into line and make it
an excellent measure.
4 !. i.
The senate has taken up the work
of considering the primary bills of the
elections committee. Wednesday the
bill was amended in many particulars
and finally placed at the head OF the
calendar. It provides for the direct
nomination of all state officers, for
the PRONUNCIATION Of party platform
by the candidates after the nominal
lions are made, and has provision
that the man nominated, in order to
have the right to 60 on the ballot as
the party candidate, shall have 10 per
cent Of the average party vote cast
for his ticket in the last election. This
was amended so as to make it posi-
BILE for the use of mans name on
the ballot with the party designation
by petition, even if he does not get the
required 10 per cent, which obviates,
to large degree, the usefulness of
the per cent provision. This latter
provision is designed to make it i'm
possible for members of the minority
party to take part in the nominations
OF the majority party.
WOman's suffrage has won one more
victory in the senate. The bill has
been advanced to the calendar and
the senators will have to go on record
for or against it.
Responsiveness is still an issue in
the senate. Realizing the fact that
they had been left in bad position
by their failure to pass the Congdon
measure, the senate took new lease
of life and began considering the pos
sibility of passing new bill. The
men at the head of this movement we're
Senators Rockne and Clague, the first
lukewarm about apportionment of any
kind and the latter opposed to it. 1t
appears that the chance of getting any
kind of bill through has dropped by
the wayside. The newest movement
is possible combination between the
north state republicans and the demo-
Gratis. It is assured that if the Third
district democrats could be placated !
reapportionment bill could be passed
which would be fair to the state in
general and which would give the
democrats an opportunity to claim
the credit of having had a hand in the
passage of a bill which both party
platforms declared for. The demo-
cratic platform did not declare for i'm
mediate apportionment and the new
bill would probably take effect four
years from now.
The public lands committee of the
house has decided upon two impor-
tant measures relating to the conser-
walton of the states land and the
states minerals. One authorizes the
people to vote on constitutional
amendment which would create a state
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