The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1911-01-07

announced the appointment OF the fol-
lowing senate employees:
A Native Son.
When Speaker Dunn stands up in
his chair" in the house, his head will
be somewhere up in the dome. He is
probably the tallest man that ever oc-
cupied that chair.
If there ever was an "Abe" Lincoln
type of man in Minnesota politics, H.
H. Dunn is the man. He is as tall as
the rail splitter and just as thin. His
face is smooth shaver, and his fea-
lures are keen and rugged. His bushy
black hair falls over on one side and
looks like a shock of alfalfa that has
been dyed black.
The new speaker usually wears a
long black coat and black string tie
completes the sombre effect. 1t is
only when the Albert Lea man gets
into action that the sombreness fades
away and then he is all fire and action.
Mr.. Dunn is native of Minnesota.
His fathers people were Scotch-Irish
and his mothers people came from
Virginia, which possibly accounts for
Mr.. Dunn's typically Southern appear
ance.
The man who will be speaker, un-
less the unexpected should happen,
was born in Jackson county, Mime
sofa, Oct. 20, 1876, 43 years ago. His
parents were pioneers. Mr.. Dunn was
born in sod shanty and he still owns
the old farm on which he was born in
Jackson county, and the sod shanty
is still standing.
Mr.. Dunn went to Fairmont, where
he practiced law for six years, and
made his first entrance into politics.
Frank A. Day, head of the Democratic
organization, had become lieutenant
governor, when Governor Knute Mel
son became United States senator and
Dave Clough became governor.
Mr.. Day was president pro tenn of
the senate and the claim was made
that he was no longer senator and
Mr.. Dunn was elected to his place.
Both Mr.. Day and Mr.. Dunn were Re.
publicans in those days.
In 1898 Mr.. Dunn went to Albert
Lea and formed law partnership
with the late John L. Lovely. When
Mr.. Lovely was elected to the supreme
court Mr.. Dunn took over his law
practice, and after Mr.. Lovely's re-
tirement the partnership was resumed.
After Mr.. Lovely's death Mr.. Dunn
continued the firm
Senate Employees Named.
Messenger to lieutenant governor, F.
G.. futile; second assistant secretary,
G. A. Anderson; third assistant secre-
tary, e. A. Nelson; fourth assistant
secretary, d. w. Meeker; assistant en-
rolling clerk, N. e. Hutchinson; assist
ant engrossing clerk, William e. Nc
Gee; first assistant sergeantrat-arms,
A. A. Christianson; second assistant
sergeant-at-arms. s. E. Fay; clerk en-
crossing committee, Henry Lokens-
gard; janitor senate chamber, w. H.
Lake; assistant janitor, John HI. Dill
lingham; postoffice messenger, Anton
Hanson; keeper of cloak room, Albert
Boerner; doorkeeper, Ole Anderson;
assistant doorkeeper, M. F. Doty;
sergeant-at-arms of retiring room, John
Bucknell; sergeant-at-arms of COM
mittee rooms, Steve Ecklund; file
clerk, o. e. Dieson; assistant file
clerk, Alfred o. Schmidt; clerk Of ju-
dietary committee, w. H. Hodgman;
assistant clerk judiciary committee.
James d. Doran; clerk committees on
railroads, municipal corporations,
rules, c. e. Johnson; clerk committees
on taxes and tax laws, federal legis-
lation, public parks, manufactures, F.
A. Wilson; clerk committees on gen.
eral legislation, forestry and fire pro-
lection, game and fish laws, state
training schools, Ray Johnson; clerk
committees on state prison, election,
state, public schools, geological survey,
G. M. Wilkinson; clerk committees on
labor, education, normal schools, deaf,
dumb and blind, military affairs, r. s.
Myers; clerk committees on state
soldiers home, public buildings, pub
lie accounts, university lands, state
fair, M. w. Williams; clerk commit
tees on corporations, legislative ex-
penses, public parks, libraries, print
ing, dairy products and livestock,
Henry James; clerk committees on
temperance, insurance, mines, and
minerals. Illuminating oils, o. o. Dis
tad; clerk committees on banks and
banking, immigration, roads and
bridges, public lands, P. H. Simmons;
clerk committees on grain and ware
house, agriculture, towns and coun-
ties, drainage, hospitals for insane, N.
c. Keel; clerk committees to be as
signed, Anna Connors; stenographer
to judiciary committee, Edward Ha-
gen; stenographer to finance commit
tee, Harry Lemont; general stenog-
raphers, Miss X. H. Hansen, Mrs. w.
A. Moved, Anna Fering, Alta Kingsley
and Emma Paulson.
The governors message was read
Tuesday noon.