Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-01-26
TIE LAWMAKERS
and THEIR DOINGS
"ssthins Doins'- Mileage Puzzle :
hnpatienee-A Lobby with Roses :
Election Of senator-state Fair :
Election Contests.
Nothing Doing"
BY Frank N. Eddy.

81 Paul, Jan.-The nothing doing"
sen has been conspicuously displayed
In both the Senate and the House ey.
q since they have been called to or
der. Fewer bills have been intro
ss,ced in either body than during the
ssnie length of time at any previous
session and up to date only two bills
have become laws, one of these was
bill appropriating money to pay the
Gpenses Of the session, the salaries
Of the members and employees.
This is one measure that never
gets lost in the shuttle There is
never any dilatoriness about it's pas
sage and it never requires special
rule to secure consideration.
The Mileage Puzzle.
The members also promptly drew
their mileage, and the mileage figures
present puzzle that would make a
distance traffic manager hustle to
solve. They never agree with the
railroad mileage for the same dis
tance
One senator who lives 20 miles near
er st. Paul than another travelled
% miles further, in getting here. \
senator and a representative living in
the same town find 10 miles difference
IN the distance to st. Paul. Of two
men living in the same block, one dis
covers that he travels two miles fur
her than the other. The only ex-
pianation that can be offered is, that
ssme come straight and others travel
crooked in getting to the Capitol.
Country Members Chafe.
Many of the members, especially
Nose from the rural districts, are in
s6ned to chafe at the delay in getting
Down to business and the freqeunt
nd many adjournments, but it is not
the wasted. The members are get
AE acquainted with each other, siz-
ing one another up, and legislation is
being discussed in general tentative
a0d informal way
It is well that this is being done.
Il the entire first month should be
spent in getting acquainted and in in
farmal discussion of proposed legis-
Ation so much the better. Hastily
considered legislation is apt to be bad
legislation
It Is the quality and not the guam
ity that counts in law making.
suffragettes Shower Roses.
At the recent night session when
Senator Sageng introduced his bill
granting equal political rights to WON
q, while it was being read from the
desk, a bunch Of sufragettes" or
"auffragists" as the Minnesota wom-
ea .eballot-boosters' style themselves
gathered in the gallery and led On by
Mary McFadden, the daughter of the
Minnesota Editorial Association, who
knows how to do things and do them
right, showered roses, on the Sena-
tors. Most of them were SHE'D at
sole', but the ladies' aim was poor
and they fell alike on the just and the
unjust.
In England, the suffragettes throw
brick-bats and get escorted to jail by
policemen; in Minnesota they throw
roses and get escorted home by the
bachelor legislators. It is hard to de
eide which method is the best, but
long odds are offered that Mary,
with her roses will get further than
Lady Parkhurst with her bricks
Election of Serator.
Promptly at IL O'Clock ian. "a, the
House took up election of United
states Senator A ruthless member
moved that all nominating speeches
be limited to two minutes thus chok-
ing of a number of carefully prepared
.sextemporaneous' speeches.
Representative Orr placed Senator
giapp in nomination and did it well.
Several seconding speeches were
made. One, and the only notable
taaing about this election was that two
Democrats, Mr.. Minnette from
9tearns, and Mr.. Kelly from Blue
Earth counties, seconded the nomina-
tion. There have been many In
stances, In many different states OF
Democrats voting for Republicans IN
senatorial contests, but this is the first
instance Of Democrat officially Sc
conding the nomination of Republi-
san.
Mr.. O'Brien In behalf Of Democrats
Who were not afraid Of the cars,
named Richard 7. O'Connor; and Mr.