The Calumet news., 1911-04-18
RESUME OF THE WORK
DONE BY THE LEGISLATURE
cantInutd frOm page One.

Continued from page one.
senate, but not yet reached by tn,
house.
Abolition Of state weather bureau
Leonard bill passed and becomes a
law.
Supervision Of stock brokers-no bin
passed.
Stopping the publication Of dishon-
est advertisements-Kline bill passed.
Many Big Bills Not Passed.
This tells in brief how many Of the
measures advocated by Governor Os-
born have been passed by the legisla-
ture and where the others have stop
ped in their trip through the legisla-
ture.
1t will be observed that many Of the
bills advocated have been passed, but
il will also he observed that the major
ity OF the real big things advocated
have not passed. To be sure the Lord
| bin relative 10 the state tax commits
sion and the Stewart bill reOrganizing
the National Guard are a good stroke
of work and would perhaps satisfy an
ordinary governor But to Governor
Osborn there is no limit 10 his
demands for betterment of conditions.
The defeat Of the civil service bill. the
refusal to investigate the departments
OF state as demanded are disappoint-
ments.
But al these measures have been
made Of record and just how every
man i'm the house in which the bin
was killed stands on these reforms is
easily found by reference to the jour
nal OF that branch. This much the
governors friends have seen to and
many of the members will find it nee
essary to explain when they run for
Office in 1912.
Senate Is Blamed.
The reason for the difficulty in get
ting things through has been due very
largely to the insurrection of the SEN
ate in the first week and to the divi-
sion in the house due TO the election
Of Speaker Baker and the resulting
quarrels. Now that the session is prac-
tically at a close the two branches
have become settled down to work and
show evidences of doing something
constructive.
But it is now too late. For the first
month the senate did nothing but try
to get even with the governor for try
ing to put his own appointees in office |
against those of Governor Warner.
For the first two months the house |
did little but try TO find excuses to
overrule the speaker, TO fight over the
question of junket or no junket and
to quarrel about the number of days
the employees of the house should be
paid for.
1t has been only during the last
month that things have really steadied |
down and real constructive work has
been done.
Primary Law Stumbling Block.
But when you get right down to hard |
pan the real reason for the difficulty |
in accomplishing things is the pri- !
system, representatives were sent here
by the party and running on a party |
platform which they felt bound to full
all. Today the representative comes
here on an individual platform which
happens to tickle the ears of his i'm
mediate neighbors and he introduces
an armful Of bills to meet these con-
litions. The result is a vast number
If bills introduced, most of which
mean little and in which no great body
lf men is interested.
But after all, the legislature has
lone fairly well with the administra-
ion measures, provided those which
are now waiting on the calendar of
me or the other of the houses are
aiken up and passed before the close
If the session.