The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-04-01
CONFERENCE FOR
TELEPHONE BILL
REP. MINETTE PUTTING UP
HARD FIGHT TO SAVE PET
w. MEASURE.
COSTS Sc, 959 To MAKE DOCTOR
PUBLIC EXAMINER MAKES IN
TERESTING STATEMENTS
ABOUT UNIVERSITY.
Especial to Sank Centre Herald.)

Especial to Sank Centre Herald)
St. Paul, April 1.-Representative
Frank E. Minette of Sank Centre is
fighter. .s-...
In this-his fifth term in the Leg
islature-the Stearns county solon,
farmer, teacher and former mayor
has demonstrated that he knows what
he wants and is bound to get it if
human effort can bring it to him.
This veteran of the hardest fought
mayoralty contest ever staged in
Sank Centre is showing his mettle in
the battle before the present session
for passage of the Minette- Burrows
telephone bill
Mr.. Minette saw his measure pass
ed unanimously by the House. One
vote was marked against it in the
Senate. But the bill was amended.
The so-called referendum clause was
eliminated in the upper branch. Now
Mr.. Minette will have his bill consid-
cred by a conference committee of
the two houses.
There is always a first in every
thing.
Mr.. Minette has the distinction of
getting the first conference commit
tee named in the present session.
When the bill was returned to the
House as amended, the gray-haired
Sank Centre solon insisted that the
House refuse to concur in the amend
ments. He got what he was after.
By vote of 81 to 40, the lower
branch acceded to his urgent appeal.
The bill will now be considered by
a committee, whose members will be
appointed from both branches. What
the future holds cannot be foretold.
1t is not likely that the senators will
wish to recede from their position af-
ter passing the amended bill with on
ly one dissenting vote. On the other
hand the House members of the COM
mittee, if they live up to precedent
established by the body as whole,
must stand out for having the amend
ments stricken. If the committee
cannot agree, a second conference
committee will need to be appointed.
Delay may mean that the bill will
not be passed. But the measure is of
such great importance and so much
public attention has been attracted
to it, it hardly seems possible that
the measure will be allowed to fall
by the wayside.
A similar bill negotiated the two
branches two years ago but was We
toed by former Governor Eberhart.
s'There was a silence deep as death;
And the boldest held his breath
For time"
1t is a far stretch from poetry to
politics. That is, in general way.
But these lines somehow seem to
have peculiar fitness to a situation
now prominent in Minnesota affairs
of state.
They seem to express in very pat
manner the status of the Efficiency
and Economy bill. This bill is the
one prepared by committee under
the direction of Republican COVER
nor and grabbed up by the successful
Democratic candidate for office, who
in a special message in addition to
an exhortation in his inaugural ad-
dress sought to have the bill made
law at the present session.
The majority of observers agree
that the bill is practically dead. 1t
may be brought back into the House
but seems sure of defeat in the SEN
ate.
The bill is peacefully sleeping in
committee. Even its boldest support
ers are figuratively holding their
breath.
But.
"For time"
That three-word Gift" from the
poets creation hits it off admirably
it would seem.
Breath is being held but for a
time. Just wait until the campaign
starts two years from now and then
hear the Glamour for reviving the
issue.
No less man that Representative
Gunnar Bjornson, chairman of the
Republican state central committee,
told the House opponents of the bill
would find the subject matter of the
measure will be real live topic in
1916. i.
Representative Lewis. c. Spooner is
against slog-rolling" of claims a.
gainst the state.
He said that there is too much trad
ing going on in this sort of legisla-
ton. He suggested that the district
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