The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-03-26
Legislature Has Passed Few I'm
p01dnt Measures to Date.
MANY BILLS AWAITING ACTION
More Than Sixteen Hundred Have
Been Introduced in Both
Branches This Session.


twice-a-month pay bill there were few
that could be called important Mos
of them were curative acts and loca
measures. In both houses at the
same time the bill hoppers were
glutted and those in charge held ou
little hope in the way of relief. The
one effort of those concerned IL
blocking progressive legislation seem
ed to be directed at aiding in every
thing tending to delay. While the
passing of many laws is not always
the test of merit, still with some PEG
pie ii counts, and those who are fig
uring on such are due to be badly dis
truly, however, it is rather the real
good few laws that count, but even
here the 1915 aggregation has not
make good. There is still time, but
the chances are not of the best On
Saturday a total of over 1,600 bills
had been introduced in both bodies,
with the house leading. Probably a
third of these have been consigned to
the junk pile, but the others were
either in committee or on general
orders awaiting either decapitation
Or promotion to the calendar. During
the week one or two days were given
over to the consideration of these
waiting bills, but the few that were
advanced or disposed of had not made
any appreciate reduction in the
growing pile.
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Some say that the nonpartisan fea-
ture of the two bodies is responsible;
others that it is a one-idea bunch
and still others declare that with the
passing of politics the leaders have
disappeared. There is no doubt that
the nonpartisan law is responsible in
, irresponsible free agent, and further
there is no doubt that instead of a
collective condition of minds every
member is a law unto himself, with
his particular district as his only
guidance, but above it all stands the
lack Of leaders. The only business
done so far has been through the me-
dunn of special orders and it received
a crimp the other day when the rules
committee forced through rule COM
polling two-thirds majority hereafter
in order to again secure a special or
der. They say the telephone, liquor
and other interests were responsible,
but l have nothing absolute to back
it up. l will say though that at no
time in the recent history of the
legislature have telephone lobbyists
been so much in evidence about the
legislature and the hotels as this
year. One falls over them at every
turn.
AS last weeks house program doped
1t out Governor Eberhart's efficiency
and economy bill should be we'll on
Its way to the senate by this time,
but the fates have arranged other
wise. Instead it will be considered
this week and as / write this Repre-
sentative Spooner, who has taken up
the cudgel for the measure, and
Charles Warner of Aitkin, Represen-
-.
Y. Gordon of Browns Valley, who re-
gard the whole thing as a Hammond
political game, are bucklng on their
armor for the fray. When the bill
came up for special consideration last
week the Warner-Lydiard-G Gordon com
bine forced delay of a week. so the
bill might be printed and laid on the
members desks. They prevailed
overwhelmingly. That the bill will
be radically amended is certain. AS
to its complete defeat am not SO GER
tain. 1t is said the Hammond lead
efs have been swinging the whip, but
20 far the effects of the quirt have
not been noticeable. The oficehoId-
ing contingent are against it to
man and they have the support of a
laAge. number of the members. The
fact that the university is behind the
measure is influencing some of the Cd.
position.
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The taking of the state census this
year as required by the constitution
has gone glimmering and in conse.
quenee the hopes of a number who
figured on profiting have been blasted.
The senate did the work and did it
plenty. The bill providing for the
taking of the census was killed in
the committee of the whole. It was
generally understood that either
Henry Rines of Mora or James Arne-
son of st. Paul would have profited
If the measure had prevailed. They
were picked to head the taking of
the census. Secretary of State
Schmahl, who would have been in
charge, also loses out.
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That the corrupt practices act as
applied to elections in Minnesota Is
not to be ignored was forcibly i'm
pressed on the body polite when the
supreme court handed down deci.
sion sustaining one of it's provisions
This provision covers the publication
and circulation of literature calcu-
lated to influence voters and which |
may be belittling in it's character. |
AS a result Miss Anna Connolly o. |
son, county superintendent of schools
Of Roseau county, who lost to Eddy |
Billberg in a rather warm campaign,
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