New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-01-27
LEGISLATIVE LETTER.

long hours eacn Gay WORKING on Oils.
The time Seemingly wasted at the
beginning of the session is not all waste
For one thing, it takes little time to gel
the senators and representatives out O
the groove of life at home, and into thu
legislative grind. For another, the lei
surely pace of the early weeks gives the
members time to get acquainted with
each other and with legislative processes
and that is by no means waste.
However, the fact that the usual
delay prevails at this session has already
finished whatever hope there might have
been that the legislature at this session
might get down to work early and quit
earlier than usual.
There isn't the remotest chance, now,
apparently, that the session will end a
day sooner than April e, which, being
the ninetieth legislative day, is the last
day it can sit under the Constitution.
Speaker to be elected.
To do away with any further Speaker
ship fights Representatives Corning and
Bendixen proposed a constitutional a.
mendment making the speaker of the
house elective by the people, and pro-
viding that he shall not be a member of
the house.
The house adopted the Spooner reso-
luton providing for independent house
action on the efficiency and economy bill
by special committee Of fifteen, but
not until after a debate that at times
threatened to become stormy, and that
contained hints not only of opposition
to the bill, but Of the old Gordon Flowers
speakershiD fight.
Would Cut Interest Rate.
Representatives John H. Boyd of
Crookston, Oscar T. Stenvick of Bagley
and Burt Weld of Slayton introduced
a bill proposing to cut the maximum
legal rate of interest from 10 to per cent.
Cold Storage Eggs To Go.
Representative Swanson proposes in.
new bill to prohibit the sale of cold
storage eggs except when the purchaser
is told what they are.
To License Billboards.
Representative E. N. Nelson of Du-
luth this morning introduced bill au-
thorizing counties and communities to
regulate outdoor advertising of all kinds,
and to license and tax it. This includes
billboards, street car advertising, etc.,
and communities are given full power to
regulate or prohibit such advertising.
Would Cut Appropriations.
Representative Guilford of Mime
apolis, following out a suggestion in
Governor Hammond's message, this
morning offered resolution directing
the appropriations committee not to let
the total appropriations exceed those
made in 1911, which would mean con-
siderable cut from the figures of 1913.
Woman Suffrage and County Option.
In all probability, the senate will get
two of the most mooted measures out
of it's way next week.
By the middle of the week, according
to present indications, that body will
have voted on both county option and
woman suffrage.
The plan is to make both of them
special orders, woman suffrage first and
county option second; and the idea
yesterday afternoon was to make woman
suffrage special order for Tuesday and
county option special order for Wednes-
day. That means that on these days
the measure allotted to each day will be
brought up, debated, and voted upon
to die if defeated, and to go on to the
house if passed
The senate committee on temperance,
Senator P. A. Gandrud of Sunberg
chairman, met last Wednesday to con-
slider the official county option bill,
introduced by Senator F. H. Peterson of
Moorhead to supplant his unofficial.
The expectation of the friends of the
bill was that it would be acted upon
promptly and as majority Of the COM
mittee members are favorable to county
option, that means that it will be recon-
mended for passage and motion made
that the bill be made special order for
Wednesday.
Opponents of county option had indi-
Gated desire for hearing on the county
option bill, but hearings, arguments,
debates and the like have very little
bearing on the fate Of the measure,
though. The bill is old-is substantial
ly in the same form as the county option
bill that has made it's biennial appear
ance, for many sessions everybody is
familiar with it's provisions and with the
arguments pro and con, and all of the