Little Falls herald., 1911-03-24
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BAD ] FEELING | | ! ] ! [
Defeat Of Rsapp0Id0nnlent II. IN.
the State Senate
WISHES IGNORED
Lower Branch Of Legislature Also in
Bad Humor Over the Turning
Down Of the congdon Bill.
Especial Correspondence.

Especial Correspondence.
st. Paul, March 20.-.Reapportion-
ment was defeated in the senate and
tonnage tax was beaten in the house
last week. It was a notable week in
the legislature for many other reasons.
The week saw the development of a
stiff fight between the governor and
the Republican majority of the senate,
the awakening of vigorous policy on
the part of the executive and dispo.
sition on the part of large faction in
the senate to ignore the governor. An
extra session, because of the defeat of
eapportionment, is now pending, and,
while the governor is intimating that
he may call one, the Southern Mime
sofa senators are standing pat and
say they will never submit to any kind
of apportionment which will enlarge
the representation of the cities.
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The defeat of the Congdon reappor-
tionment bill was probably the. chief
event of the session. The bill had
passed the house by an overwhelming
majority, had been amended in the
senate committee on reapportionment
and finally came up for a hearing as
special order on Thursday. The final
vote on the bill showed it away by a
vote of 36 to 27. Those who voted for
it were Ahmann, Boyle, Cheadle, Den
eyre, Dunn, Dwinnell, Elwell. Fosseen,
Froshaug, Gunderson, Gum, Hackney,
Hanson, C. D. Johnson, V. L. Johnson,
Johnston, L'Herault, Pauly, Pugh, Rus
tad, Sageng, Saugstad, G.. H. Sullivan,
J. d. Sullivan, Sundberg, Wallace and
Wilson.-27.
Those who voted against it were An
derson, Bedford, Benson, Carpenter,
eastman, Clague, Collier, c. F. Cook,
L. O. Cooke, Dale, Donaldson, Duea,
Duxbury, Glotzbach,, Handlan, Hay
craft, Klein, Lende, McGrath, Marden,
Moonan, Murray, Nelson, Odell, Olson,
Peterson, Poehler, Putnam, Rockne,
Schaller, Stebbins, Swanson, Thoe,
Van Hoven, Weis and Works.-36.
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One of the features of the. debate
was motion made. by Senator George
H. Sullivan of Washington county;
made, it is understood, at the sugges-
tion of the governor, to recommit the
bill to the committee for amendments.
| This was put as result of statements
! made by senators opposed to the bill
! that it was Objectionable. Senator Sui
livan suggested that if this was so it
should be recommitted so that the OBJ
! jections could be met. Men like Sena-
tors Haycraft, Putnam, Duxbury and
others contended that enough time
had been given to the measure and
that it should be settled at once The
| vote to recommit was lost by the exact
number accorded the bill on the final
ballot-36 to q.
The fight against reapportionment
has been conducted to a large extent
by the Democratic senators, under the
direct leadership Of Senator Weis of
lie Sueur. Both county optionists and
anti-optionists Joined in voting against
the bill, although it was notable that
two Ramsey county Democrats, Hand
| Ian and Van Hoven, anti-county op
| tionists, voted against it. The debate
| against the measure was conducted
by Senators Putnam, Haycraft, Lende
Duxbury and others, while Senators
Dwinnell, J. D. Sullivan and George H
Sullivan, Boyle, Hackney and others
led in the debate for it.
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! Previous to the final submission OF
the question there had been good
deal of jockeying for position. During
the day previous to the vote Governor
Eberhart decided to call caucus o1
! Republican senators. Only fourteen
of them appeared, the word having
gone out for the rest to remain away
for fear they would be bound by the
caucus. To these Governor Eberhar1
represented that the Republican party
was pledged to pass a reapportionmenl
bill by its platform and he urged the
Republican senators to get together
on some sort of fair reapportion
ment measure. He said he was MOI
committed to the Congdon bill-all hi
wanted was fair reapportionmen
measure. After the conference wa.
over the governor said he would no
say whether or not he would call al
extra session, as that would assume
4 the Republican senators would no
carry out their party pledges. But h,
! tntimated clearly he might do so. Fol
lowing the vote in the senate he still
refused to say whether or not he woul.
cafl an extra session, inasmuch as th,
senate still has thirty days in whicl
to reconsider its action, and he hope.
/ that within that time something Nigh
be done. II not it is clearly the inten
ton Of the governor at this time {,
call an extra session and put there
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