The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-08-27
ST. PAUL LETTER

st. Paul, Minnesota, August 25,
1925.-Henry Rines and other mem
bers of the "Big Three" at the State
Capitol are now wrestling. with the
problem of finding suitable office
space for departments set up under
the state reorganization plan, and
CHARTERED in various locations in St.
Paul. 1t is the desire of Mr.. Rines
and his associates to concentrate all
offices which cannot be house in the
Capitol Building at one place, as near
as possible to the Capitol Building.
One very definite offer has been re-
ceived to locate these offices in new
building to be erected near Lexington
and University while the St. Paul
Real Estate Board is planning to
present several other locations nearer
the downtown district.
The absolute necessity of the State
building it's own office building is
every day becoming more apparent
and undoubtedly the next legislature
will be asked to appropriate funds
for a suitable building. The rental
which must be paid to house state Of
fees is commencing to be quite for
midable while efficiency demands that
the departments be centrally housed.
o.
Residents of the state interested,
casually or otherwise, in the location
of district headquarters of the Gov
eminent Prohibition Enforcement
Unit here are reminded of the old
phrase "off again, on again, gone
again, Finnegan" in reading the an
nouncement in the newspapers during
the last few days as to the location
of district headquarters having super
vision over most of Wisconsin and the
entire states of Minnesota, North Da-
kota and South Dakota
r.
The first announcement from Wash
ington was to the effect that head
quarters for this district would be in
St. Paul. This was followed by an
announcement that headquarters
would remain in Minneapolis. Then
it appears from information assemb-
led regarding facilities afforded by
the two cities that the entire fifth
floor of the Postoffice Building in ST.
Paul could be made available with
vault room available in the basement
for any quantity of liquor and also
lots of room in the Postoffice garage
to hold cars operated by special
agents or seized by them in carrying
out their duties.
A definite announcement that
headquarters would be in st. Paul
followed a submission of complete
data as to the local facilities in the
Twin Cities. This definite announce
ment was in turn followed by state
ment in the daily papers that Con-
gresham Newton had stated that the
St. Paul headquarters were made
quate. At the present writing the
headquarters remain in st. Paul
d.
The members of the Railroad and
Warehouse Commission are commenc-
ing to realize that the last legislature
gave them a mighty lot of work and
mighty lot of grief when it assigned
to them jurisdiction over the bus lines
of the state. Some ninety or one
hundred different bus lines have
made APPLICATION for licenses and hear
ings on each APPLICATION are running all
the way from one day to the better
part of a week. Hearings are held
in one city and postponed to other
cities located on the bus line involved
so that there may be full opportunity
for all interests to be heard
Messrs, Bowen, Jacobson, and Mat
son are entitled to receive the fullest
sympathy of all citizens after they
spent the entire summer listening to
the attorneys for the various bus lines
arguing the merits of their respective
clients.
The people of Detroit, when it
comes to ability to get into Canada,
have nothing on the people of the