Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-01-12
LEGISLATIVE LETTER
By FRANK N. EDDY

WIS LUZ
p1on Of the worlds commonalty, ;
landmark to Americas yet unborn
generations, an ideal that many viii
strive to attain but none will eyel
reach.
Mr.. Dunn, however, can stand or
his own merits, without looking like
anybody. He is a practical. hard
headed lawyer. He won the largest
carnage verdict from Railroad com
pany ever secured in this state in ?
legal contest With the best lawyers in
the Nation. He has shown marked
fairness in the selection of his com
mittees and clearly demonstrated his
fitness for the position his colleagues
have honored him with, ~but it does
not enhance his reputation to have his
sycophantic admirers slap him on the
back and tell him he looks like Lin
coin.
An effort was made by the Demo-
Gratis to secure minority representa-
ton on the House Rules Committee,
but it was oyer-ruled by the Republi-
can majority. This was mistake.
The National House of Representa-
tlves under the administration of ev-
cry party, always comedies a minor
ity representation on the Committee
on Rules. It is the custom of every
legislative body. The Minnesota
House. Of Representatives stands
alone in denying such representation.
Political fairness and political cour-
tesy demanded that the minority can
didate for Speaker be given a place
on the Committee on Rules. .sIt is
great to have a giants power but it is
tyrannical to use it as a giant"
The Senate was opened in form and
manner as provided in the constitu-
ton.
Another legislative amateur, Sam
uel Yipsilanti (for that is what the
W stands for) presided over the op-
enlng with dignity, decorum and
eciat. Very few people know what
eciat is, but he had it; frock-coated, |
bishopric-looking, one
would never imagine that anything
but state-craft most profound ever oc-
cupied his thoughts or that he ever
lid anything but turn over the leaves
Of treatises on parliamentary law. He
also used a gavel in the opening
le held it in both hands. That is be-
5allse IN his early days he used to /
split rails with a beetle and heI.
pounds the table with it as though he
we're driving a wedge into a tough
'urr-cak log. He also used to skin
nuskrats, and he skinned them with
he same neatness and dispatch that
le "skun'' his opponent in the late
Sam also knows how a
nusk-rat's headquarters taste roasted
'ver brush-wood fire, and-let the
worst be known-he was some ball
'layer. He sure could pitch, but we
lope he will never address a Senator
Who may question his decisions, the
Fay he did an umpire who called him
ut when he tried to steal second in
famous ball game between Argyle
nd Warren. "Out! oh, you pop-ey-
d son of Jezebel; Out! oh, Abraham
saac and Jacob! Out! I was sitting
[oWn on the base before the ball
ouched the catchers mitt. Out,
a come over there and smash your
op-plece if it were not for splintering
ny fists on solid bone and getting ar
ested for hitting blind-man Out,
n you conceited caricature OF
numbering, b]ithering idiot. Oh, why
ont you get a mule doctor to treat
GU for myopia? Out, vow! -"
he dash represents words that would
.eep this article out of the mails.)
No one to look at Sam would mag
ne he had such command of Ian
'uage. Sam is all right. Keep your
we on him. EIe has only got started
nd there is no telling where he will
and before he stops, but it is to be
loped he will practice nights and on