The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-15
Senate Ready
to RevOte on
Interim Bill
PREPARATIONS MADE TO PASS
SENATE BILL SIMILAR TO
THAT PASSED BY HOUSE AND
DESIRED BY GOVERNOR.
(By Charles B. Cheney.)

(By Charles B. Cheney.)
The Minnesota state senate is get
ting ready to back up. The retrograde
movement will be made as gracefully
as possible, but there will be no mis-
taking it's direction. The state reor-
ganization bill as finally agreed upon
in conference will be far from the
bill the senate passed.
The bill, in fact, is likely to be so
close in it's resemblance to the house
bill that it will take careful reading
to tell the difference. 1t will be the
interim committee bill in almost the
exact form desired by Governor
Theodore Christianson.
That is the outlook as the confer
once committee of ten begins it's work.
The committee itself is loaded heavily
in favor of the house bill.
The five house members are solid
on that proposition. The senate con-
ferees are four against one, with A.
!. Rockne alone to contend for the
senate draft. He is not particular
about the senate form either, except
in one particular He wants to save
as much independence as he can for
the state board of control.
There may be some concession to
the board of control in the conference
report, but it will not be the "Rockne
amendment" What other concessions
are made to the senate view will be
rl:nor ones and they will relate to the
various consultations. The house has
yielded on these in two cases, as com
pared with the original BILL 1t has re-
stored the rural credits bureau and the
livestock sanitary board. 1t might a.
compromise yield one or two Other
agencies.
The house is set on its bill, how
ever, with better than 80 votes stand
ing for the Governors economy plan
out of 13O members. The senate is sc
close that it is easily tipped either
way The Rockne amendment was put
on by minority of the senate, the
vote standing 33 to SO with two op
ponents of The amendment absent
On test with all the senators present
it is likely that the Rockne amendment
would be defeated, and administration
supporters believe they could carry &
motion in the senate agreeing prac.
tically to the house bill.
Some of the senators have beer
hearing from home since the former
vote, and are said to be looking for q
way to get back in line for the bill
1t was noticed in the house that the
Rockne amendment was not offered te
the bill in that body. 1t had been ex-
pected but did not appear The reason
according to capitol gossip, is thai
friends OF, the board of control wanted
to avoid discussion on the merits Of
it's building and purchasing activities
Gre house member who had been max
ing an individual investigation wa
all ready, it is said, to take the flool
! if this amendment was offered, an,
give some results of his inquiries.
4 No scandal was threatened bu
an intimation that contractors had pu
something over on the board of con
troll in getting it to recommend Ger
tain improvements, which the hous
refused to make.
i Farmer-labor members who wer
jubilant when the interim bill seme'
tn be wrecked by the senate's action
are somewhat wiser today. Some o
them are beginning to realize tina
defeat of the bill would have tn
finest possible move for the Cover
nor's political future. 1t would hav
aroused resentment against the legis
lature and sympathy for the Cover
nol in his fight for an economy sys
tenn.
/ Though the farmer-labor contingen
in the house was not solid, and con
tanned few supporters of the Cover
nor's plan, nearly all of the minorit
vent for the Devoid amendment whe
It was offered by Henry Spindler. Tha
was the most direct thrust of all a
the heart of the bill, and the recor
shows that so of the 35 votes cas-
for it were by farmer-labor member.
The three conservative members @
the house who voted for this amend
" ment were j. H. Masek, L. C. Spoor
er and R. A. Wilkinson.
Farmer-labor members who contrif
uted to the 90 negative votes on thi
amendment were S.,P. Anderson, Wa
ter Day, Lewis Herfipdahl and S.
Stockwell Besides them C. M. I've
son, Mrs. Hannah j. Kemfer, Josep
Kodak and August Smith, who hav
stfiliated more or less with the fal
nler-labor wing in the past, but al
not in "good standing in that part,
stood for the bill and against tn
:. vital amendment
When it came to the final vote j
the house there was scramble fo
the bandwagon and 2 farmer-labe
, members voted for it, only IA votin
no. That accounts for the 110 |
le final roll call on the BILL