The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1921-05-26

and accordingly quite few profited.
Ordinarily conservative, the senate
was the chief offender this time and
it passed out gratituties almost with
out limit. Every employee received
from 25 to 40 per cent increase in
pay in order to bring them up to the
house maximum. Where the house
in the goodness of it's heart conferred
a gift of $3.50 on each of the telephone
and telegraph girls in the employ OF
the Tri-State and the Western Union
companies the senate added $500 to
each. House gifts of $25 each to the
capital char-women were increased to
500 by the senate and like increases
were made be the same body in the
case of the capitol janitors, elevator
operators, electricians and other en-
ployes. The total was not far from
$4,000. That the limit in this re-
spect was reached this time is un-
questioned and it means that the real
deserving will suffer at the next ses-
sion. Simply another case OF the
pendulum swinging.
To listen to the Townley adherents
the rising cost of government can
only be curbed through the medium
of the nonpartisan league. Then too
there is the progressive and parlor
Socialists whose confidence in their
ability to bring about the millennium
is only equalled by the surfelt OF
regulatory laws they are constantly
trying to put over. Minnesota has
been in the clutches of the so-called
crowd for the past ten
wears now and it will have to be adj
mitted that the experiment has by
no means tended toward thrift. A
glazing example is North Dakota and
as for the Gopher State, the house
and senate records offer little in the
way of negative Nonpartisan League
votes in respect to expenditures or
legislation providing for such. In the
houses of the 1921 session more than
1000 bills were introduced and with
few exceptions each was designed to
nick the state treasury in some way.
AS to proposed repeats of any exist
ing statutes such could BIT counted on
the fingures of the two hands.
.
Weary rests the head that wears
a crown all of which Mike Holm, who
the voters of the state enticed from
Roseau county to preside over the
office of Secretary of State is begin
ming to realize. During the session
of the legislature Secretary Holm
was quite fearful that the Depart
ment of automobile licenses would be
taken away from him, but it was not.
He is not so sure now but what he
made mistake. Offsetting the $500
600 or more which he received for
the enforcement of the new licensing
law is a line of grief, the limit Of
which Mike knoweth not and which
may have an effect on his political
future. While the new automobile
license law is entirely the product of
the late legislature, Mike is the goat
has added heavily to the pauroSage
when complaints are many The act
of the office, but at the same time it
has made lots of trouble for those in
charge.
State Capitol circles again receiv-
ed a creditable official addition this
week when Governor j. A. o. Preus
named O. H. Smith of Lester Prairie
and A. G. Rutledge of Bemidji to the
two vacancies in the state depart
ment of immigration. Mr.. Smith,
who is the editor and publisher of the
Lester County News becomes the
head of the department and Mr..
Rutledge is his assistant. Mr.. Smith
succeeds j. S. Arneson, who reigned
to enter the road show game.
The late legislature created sever
al interim commissions, the chief
feature of which was a SIS day
grab for those legislative members
named to serve on them. AS result
there was m,ite ruSh for recopni-