The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-01-03

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can be wr,ing from either Senator
Sullivan or Senator Works. Both in
sist that they viii have enough
votes to give the combine the power
Of appointing committees, but the
fact that their list of supposed
supporters includes senator's who
are known to be absolutely opposed
to their plan is sufficient to prove
the combines weakness.
Failure of the Conference.
Sullivan and Works foresaw their
defeat last week when they attempt
ed to get number of senators
into conference in st. Paul, but
failed. Only Senator Harry F. Weis
of lie Sueur, Senator Julius Collier
Of Shakopee, and Senator C. f.
Cook of Austin appeared. These five
members denied that any conference
had been arranged, but on the day
of the meeting Senator A. A. Poehler
OF Henderson, democrat, is under.
stood to have told one of his friends
that he had been invited to meet
the combine leaders in st. Paul.
Poehler, however, did not attend
the conference
Minneapolis Journal: Lieutenant
Governorelect J. A. A. Burnquist
appears in a peculiarly inconsistent
attitude in his objection to the or
ganiZation of the senate through
committee on committees. Mr..
Burnquist takes the position that
he should be allowed to name the
committees, organize the senate, and
in that way, so far as the infer
ence goes, control the legislation of
the next senate session.
Two years ago, when a member
of the house, Mr.. Burnquist voted
to organize the house through a
committee on committees, after he
had been defeated for speaker.
w. /. Nolan, defeated candidate
for speaker of the present house,
but slated as chairman of the i'm.
portant committee on rules, propos-
ed the resolution for which Mr..
Burnquist voted. Mr.. Nolan ack-
nowledses he offered the resolution
and Mr.. Burnquist Acknowledges he
voted for it.
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