The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-01-03
January 8, 1919.

''No more important session Of the
Minnesota legislature has convened
for several years than the 41st
Minnesota legislature, which will
meet in st. Paul January for a
90 day session" So says the Min
neapolis Journal in its review of the
approaching session. have found
this sentiment everywhere in the air
In Minnesota for the past two
months.
Organization Tuesday.
Each house will meet in its own
chamber for organization at noon
next Tuesday. Lieutenant Cover
nor Frankson. will preside in the
Senate and Secretary of State
Sehmahl will call the House to order.
The House members, after present
ing their certificates of election and
being sworn in, will elect w. /. Nolan
Of Minneapolis as Speaker, will
choose by ballot ten elective officers
headed by Chief Clerk, who will
probably be Oscar Arneson, formerly
publisher of the Chisholm Tribune
Herald, will draw their seats and
Senate and the House will meet in
joint session in the House chamber
for the inaugural and biennial ad-
dress Of Governor Burnquist. It is
hoped that Lieutenant Governor
Frankson and Speaker Nolan will be
able TO announce the Senate and
House committees not later than
Thursday and that the legislature
may then begin the work of the ses-
non.
Eighth District Patronage.
The members of the house from
the eighth congressional district will
probably name the Second Assist
ant Clerk of the House. Harry
Gillespie of. Virginia, who had been
mentioned for this place, will net he
. candidate, and no other candidate
has appeared at this writing. There
ere some fifty clerks, stenographers,
pages and other employees of the
House but so far there has been no
.ciamor for any of these positions
from the Range. Senator Bessette
will probably have the naming Of a
clerk or stenographer in the Senate.
Two Non-Partisans.
There is considerable curiosity as
10 the Non-Partisan members of the
legislature. Well, those I have met
are quite human. Senator w. w.
Wilcox, who beat the redoubtable
Senator Sullivan of Washington,
long "boss" of the Senate, / can
voueh for as an interesting letter
writer. He owns a big farm not far
from Saltwater. Mighty interest
ing pictures of that farm are found
in Senator Wilcox's campaign folder
and maybe those pictures had some
thing to- do with topping George
Sullivan over. Sullivan is contest
nag Wilcox's seat in the Senate.
Anybody is free to guess the results
Of the contest-but history says that
II is . long, long time between sue
eessful contests.
Representative A. C. WEIGH of
Mcleod county is a Non-P Partisan
with a Bolshevist moustache. If
he's got anything else about him
that's Bolshevist haven't found it..
He wears service pin on the lapel
Of his coat that made me like him on
the spot. That service pin has four
stars on it, and two of the sons those
STARS stand for are in France.
What Other States Do.
Prior to the opening of the session
the paved road program, backed by
increased fees for auto licenses, is
skill creating more talk than any
ether issue. have dozens of letters
from members endorsing the idea.
The Pioneer Press Sunday printed
interviews with some fifty members
al approving the good roads plan
except two who refused to commit
themselves. One of these, Repre-
sentative John Wicklund OF, Kandi-
ycAi county slapped the Pioneer