The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-01-26
ing out some of the best Of them.
The Gentleman from Iowa.

ing out some of the best Of them.
The Gentleman from Iowa.
Strange as it may seem the Min
nesota Legislature of 1923 has a
representative from Iowa, NJ. j.
Rohne, whose post-office is North
wood, Iowa, but who lives in and
represents Freeborn county, Mime
sofa. Rohne unwittingly furnished
one of the best arguments of the
evening in favor of the bill when,
speaking against it he declared that
it made the bounty on wolves SO
high, that the farmers in Southern
Minnesota would be able to make
more by deserving their plows and
rushing with rifles to the North. If
Mr.. Rohne's contention is correct.
the wolf bounty bill is the biggest
thing of the session-the menacing
wolf will straightway be exterminat-
ed and the Southern farmer will re-
turn with his pockets bullying with
profits and the critical farm prob
lem will be suddenly solved.
Comes Now the Soviet.
The house committe on University
and University Lands, which isn't
supposed to do anything, and which.
heretofore, has always been true to
its traditions, popped out of it's
shell with bang this week when
it reported two bills that will make
1T either famous or Infamous. Both
of them it recommended to pass
one of them a bill to radically low
er the standards of teachers in the
rural schools and the other a pro
posal to sovietize the University of
Minnesota. Nothing else as upset
ting to the traditions and ideals of
Minnesota has made it's appearance
IN the present session. Both bills
strike straight at the heart of the
best thought and aspiration in Min
nesota. We have been trying for
years in Minnesota to get better
teachers for the rural schools: the
committee proposes to lop off at
one stroke two to three years of
schooling from the training required
Tor rural teachers. It also, and in
the same breath, proposes to make
the state university over into
Little Russia by making the profess
sors and instructors at the univer-
sity judges of their own uUalifica-
lions and fitness. Pierce Butler
voted as regent of the university
TO discharge a certain professor for
disloyalty. For this some folks
wanted Mr.. Butler denied his seat
on the supreme bench; because of
1t some others now want to set I'M
Professors Soviet" at the SUI
What Will the Harvest Be?
What will the legislature of 1923
accomplish? Up to it's fourth week
It has given steadily increasing
signs OF being terrifeally progress
sive. he "reactionaries" have
shot in progressive bill and pro-
gressive resolution, bill after bill
and resolution, so fast that the
radicals" haven't yet caught their
breath. They have made a fair
start with the committee on Uni
versity and University Lands hbis
week, however, and maybe thew
will get around to set the pace
after a while. But they must hur-
Iry, for the stand-patters are said to
have still other radical shots in
their locker.
There is considerable evidence
that the new members of the leg-
lslature for 1923, and thew are
heavily in the majority, are men
and women of exceptional capacity
and experience, and while Gunner
BJornson and his Minnesota Mascot
were probably right when they said
TINS legislature will not set the
world on fire, there are neverthe-
less, signs that it may warm things
up DIT. e