Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-01-10
Speaker May Have Trouble Hold
ing Unru|y in Line.
REBELLION SEEMS BREWING
Leaders In Revolt Are Said to Have
Failed to Get IN on the
Ground Floor.

the house Of representatives is going
to figure in the way of organization
and efficiency is matter of concern
with quite number who set out to
mold it's destinies. Like the senate it
went to bat with perfect score and
a line of harmony that augured we'll
for its future, but dark spots have ap-
peared on the horizon and it looks as
II Pilot Parker will have the time Of
his life keeping the unruly in line. A
rebellion is in the making and the
active ones, I gather, are those who
failed to get in on the ground floor.
While they have not started anything
as yet, still they are grumbling, and
the flash may come at any time. Per-
haps it Is too early to throw bouquets,
but sometimes first impressions are
the best and in the case Of the pres
ent house they run well to Ralph J.
Parker, it's choice for speaker. Named
in the face of field, the entries in
which included the best of the pres
ent membership, the Fillmore county
man took up the reins without any at.
tempt at display or discipline for
those who opposed him. He swung
the gavel with vigor and every time
1t dropped there was emphasis in the
sound of its ring. Those who helped
name him, while favored in the plums,
found they could not count on any,
thing outside of the legitimate. This
slight depression Is INDUCED in to
show what those who are threatening
trouble will have to face, though it can
be said that those constituting the
minority are equal to the occasion
should they deem their cause a just
one. They have live ones among their
number and several of them have the
benefit of much past experience in
legislative way. Plans looking to
general get together, however, are
said to be in the making and the trou-
BILE spoken of may be nipped in the
bud.
In marked contrast is the senate,
where from the drop of the gavel at
the opening until adjournment was
taken three days later, nothing but
harmony and good will prevailed.
Here Senator Sullivan, named pre3i.
dent pro tem., Senator Putnam of Blue
Earth county, Senator Wallace of Min
neapolis, Senator Dunn Of Princeton
and more than a score of others are in
charge and they have overlooked moth
ing in making the organization air.
tight. Actively aiding the majority
Twas Lieutenant Governor Frankson,
the presiding officer. With no attempt
lat concealment the leaders organized
the body, distributed the plums and
without delay got down to business.
pr course there was opposition-there
always is to anything that savors of
the machine-but it availed nothing.
Senator Ole Sageng of Otter Tail
county and Senator Campbell cried
fShame" and then some, and sat
4own. They might just as we'll have
talked to the winds. Machine it is,
and q we'll oiled one at that, but it
spells efficiency all down the line, and
for your benefit, dear reader, some
good legislation is going to come out
Of the senate. Because majority
-. .dod for an equitable distribution of
tho plums in order to avoid friction
and consequent delay, does not mean
that those composing it will vote to-
gether on questions of legislation, but
1t does mean that it will be pretty
near intact on what is beneficial to
the people. Ten years ago-aye, even
= dve-such a get together would have
been rebuked by half the papers in
the state, and those who opposed it
would have been lauded to the skies.
This time the Twin City dailies hardly
noticed the new lineup, while for tho
opposition, it did not even figure in
the prints. Rather it was lauded as a
- new note in efficiency. My, how times
and methods do change!
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Senator Baldwin of Becker and Rep
resentative Carmichael of Dakota
SNlature endorse two bills introduced
Mem calling for the employment of
: convict labor on the roads of the state.
The idea is to use labor not otherwise
employed in the Saltwater prison and
the St. Cloud reformatory and to pay
so much per head for the use of the
prisoners. The use of such labor OH
state roads has been endorsed by a
number of good roads advocates and
= associations.
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President Frankson of the senate
and Speaker Parker of the house will
announce committee appointments in
1.-THE near future and much interest cen
tiers on their publication. This is es-
ipecially so in the house, where an en-
tire new shift will be made. Speaker
>rker has announced that he will
,rmit the farmer members of the
1ouse to name the grain and ware.
house committee and labor also will
have a try at the committee which
will handle it's affairs. This time the
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