Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1912-12-13
VIII Dominate Both Branches
Of State Legislature.
CAUSED SURPRISE TO MANY
Aines' Easy Victory In Speakership
Contest Astonished Those Who
Expected Bitter Fight.
Especial Correspondence

St. Paul, Dec. 10.-With the coming
session of the legislature less than
four weeks off more than one interest
has its ear to the ground in the hope
Of catching something that will per
NIT of preparation. With the progress
Sfve element in control their desire
for information is natural, but the
chances for satisfying their curiosity
| do not seem the best in the world.
Sealed lips are in evidence every
where and leaks are few. AS predict
ed in previous letter, Henry Rines,
publisher at Mora, will be the speak
er Of the next house and his installa-
ton means the organization of the
house of representative on a thor
oughly progressive basis. The new
idea in politics will dominate every
committee; it will initiate and steer
| legislation; it will control employees,
and there is every reason to believe
that it will dominate in the senate.
Late conferences between Lieutenant
Governor BurnQuist and Mr.. Rines
| point to some kind of a house and
senate committee alliance. They
were together on several occasions il
ST.. Paul last week, but neither would
talk. With all of this knowledge, the
| fact that those whose business suffers
or profits by reason of legislation are
worried is only natural and their de-
sire for advance information mat
ter of course. The brewery interests,
I know, are fearful Of the outcome,
! the get rich quick boys see trouble
ahead and the corporations see laws
that they certainly will insist are
against good business. So you see
this is sure a disQuieting period.
| X !. i.
The early ending of the speaker
ship contest, with Rines the winner
and the finish band wagon move
Ment in which more than two-thirds
of the house Republican majority got
aboard, is puzzle to many who
looked for a spirited contest and a
different ending. 1t could not have
been any different; the other fellows
were simply not on the job. To tell
1t plainly the hackers of P. H. Nc
Garry and G. W. Brown, the rival can
didates, could see only one thing, a
scramble for the plum on the part of
the progressives with their own candi-
dates the benefciaries. Lay back and
wait was their advice and this Nc
Garry and Brown did. But the pro-
gressives did not fight; for a wonder
they got together, and that is all there
is to the story. Ernest Lundeen, a
Minneapolis progressive in the last
session, was brought out in the hope
of stemming the tide, but even he
failed Out of it all comes the knOwl-
edge for the progressives that in
union there is strength and my opin-
ion is that this knowledge will be car
ried into the session.
i. 4 !.
Following a closely guarded meet
ing Of the board of directors last
week the Great Northern Railway
company added $21,O0O,O0 to it's cap,
ital stock, making a total capital OF
1921 100000. The issue, which it is
said has already been subscribed for
to the last dollar, is a mere news
mention and is old at that, but com,
ment upon it for the reason that
would not be surprised if the issue
and the necessity for 1t were not
taken up by the coming legislature
For the past three sessions ambitious
and farseeing lawmakers have been
endeavoring to get through law
compelling domestic railroad corpora.
tons to get permission from the state
before issuing any stock and there
are those unkind enough to say that
this issue was in anticipation of a
repetition of the act and It's possible
passage. The issue is now a part OF
the company's articles of incorpora
ton and is immune from attack. Mr.
Hill says the money is for better
ments and the construction Of new
lines. He knows.
j. i !
Representative Albert Pfaender Of
New Ulm struck St. Paul last weel
and there was blood in his eye. Hi.
anger was because of the honoring Of
requisition from Illinois by Governor
Eberhart for the return to that state
Of a client of Mr.. Pfaender and the dis
| covery when his client reached Chi
cago in the charge of detectives tina
the whole thing was for the purpose O
blufing the said client out Of sum O
money which he owed on some notes
AS Mr.. Pfaender put it, the reQuisiti0l
machinery of the state had simply
been used, and without any investiga
ton by the executive department, tt
enable Illinois creditors to collect
debt. Right then and there he prom
1 ssed' some reforms in the issuance ant
honcring Of acquisitions and said i
would be one of the FIRST hills he run,,l1