The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-13
Observation-Disclosures

St. Paul, April 6.
If members of the legislature do
not succumb to nervous prostretion
during the next two weeks, it will
not be for lack of cause. The leg
isiator's nerves are all on edge.
All the big measures of the session
are clogging the runways in the
closing days; special orders on state
wide measures are set for almost
every day of the remainder of the
session and there is a clamor and a
scramble every day for additional
special orders. Meanwhile On the
list of general orders, which is never
taken up, are some four hundred
or more local bills, pet measures,
cherished woodchucks; how to get
action on these things is the de-
spairing thought of almost every
one of the 1913 members of the Leg
islature.
A large number of local bills will
be taken care of under an agree
ment for night sessions to consider
local bills only. Fifty such bills
were disposed of at two evening
sessions ten days ago. Another
list of fifty is being prepared. In
addition a special order of one local
bill for each member is being ar
ranged. But even these pulmotor
methods will leave scores upon
scores of local measures, of no
state wide significance but of i'm
mense Importance to the individual
member, dying on the calendar and
on general orders.
The list of state wide measures
pressing for consideration is more
chan enough to occupy every re-
naming moment of the session
all the appropriation bills, thirteen
crime bills, street car and motor
bus regulation, good roads program,
state owned elevator, all labor leg
| islation, motor tax revision. income
| taxation, .icooperative marketing
| measures, and dozen others to say
nothing of a full half dozen time
consuming investigations" For
the past ten days and more motions
| and resolutions and even the rout-
| inc business of both houses have
been crowded almost off the order
| of business and the time of the
| legislature has been taken up al
most exclusively with debate on
various state wide bills-a DAY for
the welfare bills, another day on
bills to revise judicial procedure,
whole sessions on the school bills
two days and more to the wet and
| dry debate, etc, etc. Still there is
more to come. The close of every
session sees a jam in legislation
but old timers in the legislature say
that this years jam is one of the
worst in the history of the state
It's a Trouble Maker.
The rural credits bill has beer
the biggest trouble maker of the
session. The bill, designed TO give
relief to the farmr. was considered
by the committee on markets anC
marketing composed of 81 mem
bers of the house. The intense in
terest of the members of this com
mittee in the rural credits bill anc
the bitter fight waged over It in
the committee disorganized the WORK
of every other committee in the
house for many weeks. Finally The
bill was passed on to the senate anc
everybody heaved a sigh of relief
but now it transpires that soEie pro
visions of the act may be unconsti
tutional and the consideration OF
this matter may plague US IN the
closing days as it did in the open
ing weeks.
/ Too Much Intolerance.
The Legislature of 1928 has beer
nervous from the day of its be
ginning. The economic condition
of the farmers of the state to-
gether with the fact that taxes are
becoming practically confiscatory in
many parts of the state, has made
the legislature impatient of every.
thing that cannot be translated in
terms of relief in dollars and cents
The disposition to give fair con.
sideration to other measures has
been lacking. AS the session has
advanced the legislature has grown
more and more inpatient and more
land more intolerant. The women's
bill of rights was ruthlessly denied