The Ely miner., 1923-03-02

the slogan of the national women's
party; a specific law to meet each
specific i'll is the cry of numerous
and united opposition. When wo-
man meets woman, then comes an
interesting tug of war. Ana 194
mere men in the legislature are not
entirely unhappy over the situation.
Radicals Show More Pep.
The Farmer-Labor Party in the
legislature, herein called radical, is
beginning "to shoot" if we may be
permitted to indulge in vulgar leg
islative parlance. Up to now the
radical element has contented itself
largely with bills for multiplying
various works of preceding legis-
latures, but now it begins to take
the offensive. At least we may
safely say that bills to impose the
LaFollette presidential primary in
Minnesota, and to force cash pay
ments to the unemployed are suffi-
ciently Offensive" to arouse very
bitter opposition.
The unemployment bill proposes
to take every employer of three
or more persons by the neck and
compel him to pay every employe
he discharges $1.50 per day for
thirteen weeks. 1t is House File
CAT and is popularity known as the
Hobo Subsidy Bill.
The presidential primary proposal
is also a sit-up-and-take-notice
measure. 1t was drawn by the La
Toilette organization known as the
Peoples Legislative Bureau" and
it is said that it is being introduced
| in at least nine states this winter
1t provides that the people shall
| vote at the June primaries for
| president of the United States and
that the candidate receiving the
| most votes in each party shall name
all of Minnesota's delegates to the
| national convention of that party.
L. A. Barnes of West Duluth ap-
pears as one of the authors of the
| bill and if the bill gets the vote of
every one of it's authors will
| uoll at least ten votes in the house.
Mr.. Barnes is also one of seven
authors of the blanket women's
rights hill.
| They Are Watching Us.
| IL interest on the part of the
people makes for good government,
as we have so often been told, Min
nesota Legislatures ought to be get
ting better. The demand for copies
of the bills introduced and for
other information concerning the
legislature was never so great as
it is at this session. Due to this
demand the house has been COM
PEELED to vote the hiring of five
additional stenographers. The total
number of stenographers employed
by the house is now % and the
senate number is 20. Mrs. Gene
We've Beddor is chief stenographer
in the house. "She makes us work
at high pressure, declare the 2S
typlsts and stenographers under her
direction, "but she does it so sweet
ly that we all just love herr. And
she does it so efficiently that while
the III men members of the house
don't love her they come lust as
near to it as they dare. The senate
has no chief stenographer, but if it
had no doubt she would be almost
as nice as Mrs. Beddor.
Orators and Lawmakers.
Inc house has not developed any
|! thlng more than good takers in
debate thus far this session but the
senate is already threatened with a
reputation for oratory. Senators
who can make the welkin RING on
the rights and sorrows of the farm
er are host. There are a lot of
new senators that are not a bit
Dasn1ul. They speak right out in
pretty much every meeting of the
senate and then they are satisfied
ihey go to hearings" and embrace
the opportunity to declaim. When
sne senator from West Duluth. Mr.,
MORN, gets under way, labor arpu-
ments, facts and figures crack and
pop all over the senate chamber
ike the rapid fire of a machine
gun. When the senator from Vel.
low Medicine, Mr.. Solberg, stands
up you know that everybody NOT
under cover, the farmer onIv ex-
cepted, is going to get it good and
plenty. When the senator from
Polk, Mr.. Buckler, rises, poems of
praise for farms and farmers in
stanzas unnumbered are sure to he
sonorously sounded. If the univer-
sity is to be defended the senator
from Hennepin, Mr.. Sweet. does #
in distinguished accents and force
full phrases while if the public ey-
aminer is to be pilloried there is
nobody that can do it quite so
neatly and completely as our own
Michael Boylan. There are other
oratorical big guns, rapid fire guns
and death dealing sawed off shot
guns but we just can't catalog the
whole senate in one legislative let
| ter.
! As Others See Us.
A member of the legislature may
: sport around home with his official
title of Honorable" and get away
with it, but to the reporters who