The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-01-21
MORAL ISSUES TO
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House consider the bill separately.
What if the House does break with
the Senate on the proposition, the
bill is to be slaughtered anyway and
one branch will do as well as anothe:'.
1t is early in the game to judge
of final consequences. But it looks
now as though the railroads were to
be let alone this session. So far there
has been but very little talk of ego
ing after" the public carriers. On all
sides the opinion has been expressed
that they are having their troubles;
you will remember that the gross
earnings operating in Minnesota de-
creased $6,445, 29O during the first six
months of 1914 as compared to the
same period in 1918. This ought to
entitle the railroads to some consider
alton.
C. M. Bendixen of Morgan thinks
he made an Indian" gift to the rail-
roads of that "three cents a mile for
the first five miles" clause in his 2
cent fare lawof 1918 and now he is 60
ing to take it back, if he can. Ben
dixen told the writer that the inter-
probation the Supreme Court recent
ly placed on his bill allowing the
railroads to add 5 cents to every pas
senger fare was not the one he in
tended. "Ben" wanted the RAILROADS
to have the benefit of the Is cents
for the first five miles travelled.
This applied mostly to five mile
trips, he said, as the railroads are
compelled to make out ticket even
for this short distance But he want
ed them to get but II cents for a six
mile trip instead of II cents as the
Supreme Court decided should be the
Interpretation of the word "other."
1t was on this one word in the law
that the difficulty rested. The ques-
ton was whether it meant Tradition
al' or different" distances.
Those who have their ears to the
ground and thinking of the interests
of the grain inspection system have
suggested that perhaps it might be
well for this 39th Legislature to
do something to head off the foisting
of Federal inspection upon the state
True they have not thought out a
plan as yet, but simply make sug-
gestions. The proposition is well
worth consideration by thinking peo-
pie. So get busy as solons may need
your suggestions before they are
through with this session. Charles E.
Elmquist of the Railroad and Ware
house Commission, recently appeared
before the Senate committee on agri-
culture in Washington, D. C. on a
hearing on the Moss bill and made an
eloquent plea for the Minnesota sys-
tenn. He told the committee that for
ten years the grades of less than
two and one-half cars of grain out of
every hundred inspected have been
changed by final appeal to the appeal
board"
Perhaps you saw the new governor
while he was stumping last fall. You
of course have seen his photographs.
Ii you did not meet him and get &C
quainted short description of the
man may not be amiss at this time.
Gov. Hammond is governor. You
may rest assured on that point. He is
very dignifed, which dignity he car
rles In perfectly natural manner.
The new governor is not a mixer. But
on the other hand he is far from the
"grouchy bachelor" type. One thing
the new executive does with a visitor
is to greet him with a smile and also
to chow him out" with a smile.
So far in his two weeks of admin
lstration the governor seems to be
trying to do all the work himself. He
will learn in due time that it is i'm
possible and will probably allow much
OF the routine work to fall upon the
broad shoulders of his secretary, c..
M. Andrist, the former professor with
build like Hercules.
Governor Hammond has endeavor-
ed to see every visitor to his office.
whether he be of high or low degree
lie has played no favorites so far. If
the writer may be allowed to guess,
1t looks as though the new Governor
was trying to be just governor and is
making no attempt to build I'D a ma
chine for use in 1916. His appoint
ments so far do not bear out the
mark of partisan politics. He is in
no hurry to "ring out the old, ring in
in the new" Time may reveal the fact
that Governor Hammond wants all
sides and parties on his side and
maybe is making his appointments
with that end in view.
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1t surely is impossible to please
everybody. C. E. Vasaly, chairman
of the Board of Parole, will no doubt
agree with this statement. He has
been in hot water for a week because
his board paroled Matthew McNabb.
convicted of white slavery, and did
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