Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-03-09
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A Good Legislature "Bob" Visits
"Adoiph"-.Ralph Roasted-Aouse
and Senate at Losserheads - The
investigators" Capital Punish
ment-spooner's Biil--coneress.
A Good Legislature

A Good Legislature
st. Paul-The thirty-seventh ses-
sion Of the Minnesota legislature, is
remarkable for the things it hasn't
done. Over half the session is past
and gone and fewer measures have
been enacted into law than at any
previous sessions in the history of the
state.
This does not necessarily imply that
1t 10 not good legislature. On the
contrary it goes to show that it is one
OF the best, taken as a whole, that has
assembled for a long time. AS a
usual thing every legislature rushes
through a lot of legislation that is not
called for or needed and very often
deieterious to public welfare. If the
present one should pass the appro-
priation bills and adjourn and do
nothing else, there would not be much
lamentation throughout the land.
There will be several meritorious
bills passed and some that ought to
pass will probably fail. Bob Dunn,
good roads bill will be enacted into
law and it is freely prophesied that
'reapportionment will fail. This ought
not to be so and the friends of the
q H1y
the fight but the prospects of reappor-
tionment at this writing are not par
ticularly rosy.
Bob Visits Adolph
A rather interesting incident 0c-
Cured last week when Robert c..
Dunn made his first formal call on
Governor Eberhart. It is an open
secret that for many moons past, the
Princeton Irishman has not been con-
sumed with affection for the Chief
Executive and when Bob don't like
anyone you don't have to guess at it.
lie has vigorous way of making the
TACT manifest. For this reason the
ante-room attendants were somewhat
surprised to see Bob enter the corri-
dor and walk directly into the Cover
nor's Office with the same sang froid
that he used to do when Dave Clough
used to sit therein, and place his bro.
gans on the executive table. The
secretaries, under-secretaries, and the
stenographers, stuffed cotton in their
ears and waited for the explosion.
but nothing exploded.
They were closeted together nearly
an hour. What they talked about no
one but the Lord, the Governar and
Bob knows, and it is hard for news
paper man to get pointers from any
of these parties, but when Bob. came
out his leathery visage was wreathed
with smiles and Robert G. never
smiles except when he feels good.
Ralph Roasted
Ralph Wheelock, the Immediately
clad secretary to the Governor, made
a speech at the Editorial Association.
It was a good speech, Ralph says so
himself, and he is fine Judge Of
oratory. He thought it was a face
tious, humorous effort and the speaker
was greatly delighted with his own
remarks. Now comes the Eden Valley
Journal and roasts the speech and the
speaker, rich, rare artistic brown.
The language contained in said roast
would have made Senator Ingalls, of
Kansas, postmaster of vituperative
English, turn pale with envy. Whee-
lock swears he won't represent the
Governor" and make any more
speeches but in the future will devote
all his ability to "secretarying" and
relentlessly cut out "speechifying.'
House and Senate at Loggerheads
In every legislative body there is
always more or less friction between
the House and Senate; this is true
Of this legislature. They deliberately
crossed swords last week and on
what do you think? Matrimony!
representative Livingston A. Lyd-
lard, (What name for a romance
hero) Representative from Hennepin,
who has been a bachelor from birth
some say from choice and others as
sert from necessity broke away
from the reservation and took unto
himself charming wife. Egged on,
it is claimed, by certain young ladies
in Minneapolis, the House took
prompt action and he was adjudged
in contempt and cited before the bar
of the House and duly reprimanded