Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1915-02-24

I1lSLlcHl, II Is Sdiu III CdpiCOl CAC1cS,
has been decided upon by State Audi
tor J. A. o. Preus and Governor Ham
mond and his successor may be de-
cided upon within the next two weeks.
A Minneapolis newspaper man, it is
reported. has been agreed upon by
Preus and Governor Hammond for
the job. Sherman has made one OF
the best immigration commissioners
the state has had since the creation
of the department, but unfortunately
for him he was Lee booster during
the fall campaign. Practically pro-
tege of the Todd county gubernatorial
candidate, and to whom he believed
he owed much for help given him
during his early years, Sherman made
no bones regarding his sympathies.
Secretary of State Schmahl, who is
the third member of the immigration
commission. has made strenuous OBJ.
jections to Sherman's removal.
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There is at the present time bill
in the house abolishing the immigra.
ton department. The committee on
accounts and expenditures, of which
Representative Sawyer is the head, is
behind it and the reason given is that
the department is not self-support1ng.
How the immigration department can
ever become self-supporting the com.
mittee does not say, but it makes the
assertion that it is not, and that is
all there is to it. Instead of abolish
ing the department a legislative inves
tigation of it's affairs and those who
want to use it for their own political
and pecuniary ends would be better.
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County option is to be passed upon
in the house this week At the last
meeting of the house temperance com.
mittee date was fixed upon for spe-
cial consideration of the measure. The
early part of the week rumOrs were
strong that the liberal element had
the game beaten, but in the last few
days there has been change in sen.
timent and it looks very much as it
it's hackers would put the bill across.
Perhaps at no previous session of the
house has there been as much trading
as in the case OF this particular meas
ure. 1t has been largely responsible
for the delay in putting over other
needed legislation and those interest
ed will be glad when it is disposed OF.
Backers of the county option measure
say they have majority of four. The
other side claims a margin Of two.
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1t looks pretty much as if the ct.
flciency and economy bill, the product
of former Governor Eberhart'c COM
mission of thirty, was due for the junk
pile. Hearings have been held week
ly on the measure since its introduc.
ton, but they have been slimly at
tended. This week what is believed
to be the final blow was given when
Representative Gordon Of Browns
Valley called up and had passed his
resolution providing for a committee
Of twenty to draft another efficiency
and economy bill. This bill is to be
along department consolidation lines
Representative Spooner of Morris
made strenuous objection to the new
order of things, but he was compelled
to bow to the inevitable. The house
was overwhelming in it's endorsem ent
of the Gordon demand
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The death of Michael Doran at st
he n Nf n
the leading figures in state Demo
cratic politics. Mr.. Doran broke int
the game shortly after his arrival IL
the state in 1857, being elected count!
treasurer of LIE Sueur county. Late
he represented that district in tn
legislature for a number of years
He was a delegate to the natiOna
Democratic convention in 1854 an,
! had always taken prominent par
IN the affairs of his party in the state
| During the first Cleveland admins
| tration the firm of "Me and Mike,
| P. H. Kelly of St. Paul and Mr.. Doran
| came into existence, and during MI
! Cleveland's two terms these me-
handled the patronage of the state
| Mr. Doran was eighty-seven years oil
and was at one time rated a million
aire, but reverses depleted his estate
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| Senator Pierre Hilbert of Stearn
county has served notice on the ser
/ ate temperance committee that
need no longer count on him in its de
| hberations. He will refuse to NEE
with the committee any longer. Ser
ator Hilbert's kick is that the con
nittee gives too much thought an
consideration to temperance bill:
which in his opinion intrude on pei
sonal liberty He thinks liquor in tn
home should not be disturbed.
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IF Representative T. T. Morken c
/ Crookston has his way the inebriat
/ hospital at Willmar will be turned il
to an asylum. He has introduced
bill providing for such. In M
4 Morken's opinion it is wrong for tn