Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1915-01-13
Legislative Session Promises to
Be Interesting. !
CONSIDERABLE FEELING EXISTS
Close Fight on Organization in Both
Houses Has Caused Much Bit
terness Among Members.

AcSOId Ae6lSidtuIo Is going 10 De SOlue
strenuous affair. Everything points
that way and the prediction has some
backing in the closeness of the con-
test for. speaker in the house and the
vigorous battle offered by minority
in the senate over the question of
patronage distribution. Both were
pretty scraps. OF course you have
heard how H. H. Flowers of Cleve-
land won out over Sam Y. Gordon for
speaker of the house and how George
Sullivan of saltwater and Senator
Putnam Of Blue Earth, with fortyesix
other stalwarts, put it over in the
senate on the. question of patronage.
Well, they did, but I question if ma
jority of those concerned came out OF
it all with whole skin. AS they say,
all is fair in love or war, and politics
is no exception to the rule, built is a
dollar to cent that at least four of
these who aided in putting Flowers
across will have to answer to- their
constituents for their sudden change
Of front. AS to the senate, we'll, some
might call the scrap in that body over
some forty or fifty jobs undignitied,
still we all respect the man who
brings the bacon home and this is
what those who joined the leadership
of Senators Sullivan and Putnam did
The memory of it all will be cold be-
fore the next snow flies. My bunch
is that the senate, when it gets down
to business, is going to deliver the
goods. In the house the closeness OF
the contest for speaker and the un.
willingness of some of the LIE Sueur
mans hackers to forget the scrap has
caused some bitterness and no one
would be surprised if open warfare
was not declared soon by the minor.
ity. Speaker Flowers is big enough
to head such Off and if he takes the
advice of those who want to see him
make good he will get busy at once
and smother few of his hot headed
friends. The speaker of the house
this time has the hardest job on his
hands of any previous presiding Off.
Ger. The mailed fist won't go. 1t is
going to take a gloved hand to keep
the house in order.
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Senator Campbell of Hennepin
did duty in the house, is member of
the senate this time. This mention,
perhaps, is hardly necessary, as Camp.
bell, since coming to the upper body,
has not failed to let those around him
know that he is senator. The Hen.
nepin county mans long suit is ora.
tory, the constitution and the people,
keeps him on the floor pretty much
of the time. In the senate newcomers
are supposed to listen and vote, not
talk.
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County option made it's appearance
in the senate-reared it's hooded head,
one Twin City paper described it
| and a companion bill is expected most
any time in the house. Senator Pc
terson of Clay county is the author
and he announced that he will ask
for an early vote. Though both houses
have been organized the committee
assignments have not been made in
either and those members pledged to
county option are anxious to know
the makeup of the committee that will
handle temperance matters. In the
house Speaker Flowers has said that
he will insist on an early considera-
| ton OF the county option measure, as
he is anxious to have it out of the
! way so that other and more important
! legislation can be taken up and con-
sidered.
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The usual resolutions calling for the
Investigation of this and that have
not as yet made their appearance in
either house, but you can bet that
they will be offered in due time It
| is almost certain that the investiga-
| ton of the Minneapolis chamber of
commerce, a feature of the house two
years ago, will be repeated and that
the game and fish commission will
| come in for an inquiry. One or two
| of the game wardens have not been
| acting to the satisfaction of some of
the members and their alleged mis-.
conduct will be looked into. AS to the
Minneapolis chamber of commerce,
| the new Equity exchange is not going
| to let the opportunity get by to again
try and put it in bad with the farming
and grain growing element of the
state. (. S.S
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Jackknives, fountain pens and 9th
or desk trifles are missing quantity
this time. The secretary Of the
state, who in the good old days al
ways fitted out the members of the
| house and senate with these particu-
lar articles, refused point blank this
time to invest in any stationery what
ever. ,t552''If they want 'em let en- buy
them, was Secretary schmahl's an.