The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-09
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Parole Board Grilled.
Our new committee on crime
prevention" has its hands full.
Capital punishment all by itself,
seemed at first a sufficient load, but
interest in capital punishment is
tagging. The indeterminate sent
ence and the parole board now have
the center of the stage. Thus far
they have weathered the storm
pretty well but demands for their
abolition, for public hearings before
the public board, and for an extern
sion of the minimum sentence for
certain offenses are making the
committee sessions interesting.
Judge Nels T. Moen of Ottertail,
chairman of the committee, presides
with all the vigor of a radical and
all the caution of a conservative
and has thus far kept crime in the
committee well in hand.
Rep. F. A. Green of Marshall,
chairman of the motor vehicles COM
mittee, wrestling with the problem
of automobile taxation and motor
bus regulation, is entitled to state
wide sympathy. Nobody is satisfied
with the present law and if the new
law raises any money nobody will
be satisfied with that. A compre-
hensive act to regulate motor bus
ses, H. F. 405 has been favorably
reported from this committee.
All the tax problems of the state
are weighing down the shoulders of
Rep. Tom Girling of Hennepin who
has been a member of legislature
so long that the mind of man run
meth not to the contrary. Toms
shoulders are broad, however, and
they haven't sagged bit under the
burden. His fine sense of humor
keeps him always youthful and re-
lieves many tedious moment and
sometimes tense moment. Tom
has one standing joke of his own
invention with which, sooner or lat
er at every session, he initiates some
new member of the house The
opportunity did not come for FIVE
weeks this session but the other
day it arrived. A new member
pleaded to be excused from voting
because he did not know enough
about the bill under consideration to
cast an intelligent vote. Rose then
the gentleman from Robbinsdale.
MIR. Speaker" said he, 81 have
searched the constitution of the
State of Minnesota and the stat
utes thereof made and provided,
but in them all / have never been
able to discover anything that re-
quires any member of the legislat-
ure to vote intelligently upon any
question"
St. Louis Still Squabbles.
Harmony does not hover peace
fully over the St. Louis County
delegation this session. In fact,
discord is just what "they amt got
nothin' else but" The redoubtable
Billy Bernard, cast in the part of
guardian of the treasury for st.
Louis County, has done nobly so
far. He has saved the working
people who make up the bulk of
the voters in his district almost the
value of whole German mark
apiece by fighting three st. Louis
County bills on the floor of the
house-even if the time consumed
did cost the state several thousand
dollars. Spending 100000 on an
aviation field did not arouse Billy's
opposition, but a salary adequate to
give the country schools the best
poSSlDIS HudHdScHleHC or SuIncl6nC
legal help to carry on the affairs of
the biggest county in the state
is not fright" and Billy is determin-
ed to "be right" as he valiantly an
nounced on the floor of the house.
The st. Louis County delegation
meets and agrees upon a policy un-
animously with the exception of the
dissentient Billy, but Billy summons
the Nonpartizan League and envi-
Gus Southern Minnesota, and occa-
sionally his colleague, Rep. L. A.
Barnes, to his aid, and overturns
the will of the majority in his own
county; that is, sometimes he does.
Billy is really mighty fine fellow
but he looks so hard at that bloc
of working people" votes in his
district that he can't see the county
and its interests at all. Meanwhile
the rest of the state chuckles to see
st. Louis County a house divided
against itself-chuckles and thinks
tonnage tax more intently than
ever.