Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1915-04-21

The average court will have to do
some lively hair splitting in order to
legally ignore the action of the leg
islature.
While the two legislative bodies I'm.
doubtedly have the usual quota of po-
litical barkises l cannot say that
their activities have in any way
cinched their chances as far as try
at the big jobs is concerned. Repre-
sentative Lydiard of Minneapolis.
they say, is going after the mayoralty
OF his home town and it is reported in
some quarters that Speaker Flowers
has gubernatorial ambitions, but if
their ambitions are realized it will not
&c because Of their legislative work.
Both are good fellows, and in the case
o. Speaker Flowers all speak of him
with respect, but both are suffering
under a handicap and the handicap is
the very body of which they are a
part. Representative Spooner, it is
reported, still has the congressional
bee, and in the senate friends say
Senator Sageng would not be adverse
to trying for the governorship four
years hence
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The house has passed the MoelleI
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the senate was gracious enough to al
low its advancement to the calendar
What the finals will be, however, is
another thing. While the manly art
has been under the ban for some
years in Minnesota it is Surprising the
number who hope for it's legalized
return. For two weeks now friends
Of the Moeller measure have been
bearing down on house and senate
members to support the measure and
the feature Of the whole thing is that
those active in the matter are not en-
tirely confined to the sporting element
I lave seen any number Of so called
business men advocating it.
Like every preceding legislature the
present gathering has not been with
out the usual number of lobbyists.
They have haunted both house and
senate persistently and their activi.
ties range all the way from booze to
motor boats. Of course the liquor
lobby is always present, for while
it learned long ago that the button
hOling of members did not bring
about the best results, still it had to
keep track of bills and watch pro-
cedure of the same, and such has
been it's principal work this session.
What it learned was transmitted to
those higher up by long distance wire.
One of the active Hobbies, though, has
been the department store owners
and manufacturers, who are opposed
to the minimum wage law. The law
is now in the courts to have it's con-
stltutionality passed upon, and the
activity of the lobby has been direct
ed at heading off any further appro-
priation for the maintenance of the
commission in charge. In this, how
ever, the lobby was unsuccessful, inc
house Friday under suspension of
the rules agreeing to it's support to
the extent of $4,000 a year.
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There is a chance for the Rustad
and Gordon bills providing for linn
tied return to the old political con
vention. The senate passed the Rus.
tad bill and the measure is now in
the house awaiting consideration.
Friends of the measure believe it will
prevail. Another election measure to
receive favorable consideration at the
hands of the senate was the bill wip-
ing out the second choice feature OF
the present primary and election
laws
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Former Governor A. o. Eberhart is
not making any attempt to hide the
fact that he hopes to succeed Moses
e. Clapp of St. Paul as United States
senator Seen at the ST. Paul hotel
the other day he admitted his candi
dacy without any reservations what
ever, but explained that it was en-
tirely too early to show any activity
at this time. While he expects to see
former Attorney General George T.
Simpson and other notables in the
same he is confident that the fight
for the nomination will be between
himself and Senator Clapp.
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Former State Treasurer julius H
Block, who figured prominently in the
last campaign as a candidate for the
Republican nomination for state audi
tor, has been spending some weeks
in the Twin Cities and the report is
that he has something up his sleeve
in a political way that will soon make
the other fellows sit up and take no
tice. AS | get it Mr.. Block is organ.
izing the Germans of the state regard
less of party and that success is at
tending his efforts. According to the
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