The Ely miner., 1926-12-24
STATE CAPITOL CHATTER
wollan, Special Writer for The Kly Miner
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| lac mining iAtNS
never faced more Unstable pro-
never faced more unstable prospects
for the future"
Verify, it is to be hoped that
to emulate the sagacity CD of the
fellow who "killed the goose that
laid the golden eggs
| The members of the state commits
sion of administration and finance
better known, for short, as the Big
Three-have been extremely busy
for many weeks on their first bien-
NAL budget, as provided for by the
organization act.
Blanks were furnished to all state
departments and boards for making
their respective estimates of ex-
pendituds for the cofming two years.
After these had been filled out and
submitted, the Big Three held
lengthy conferences with all heads
of departments, going into detail as
to all estimated expenditures,
penditures for the coming two years.
wherefores"
Besides, the Big Three have
personally visited nearly every state
stitution-education penal and
charitable-to get first-hand infor
nation, as to needs for repairs
alterations or new buildings, new
equipment, etc.
Although, under the law, the Big
Three should have 81 omitted its final
budget estimate to the Governor by
Dec 1, they are still working on it,
anu will be for 10 days or two weeks
more.
Then will come Gov. Ted's tussle
with it-with probably funIthur
: "cuts" before its submission to the
Legislature.
; And then the real test.
: 1t will be test of strength be-
tween the new organization system
and the old political ''log-roll.ng"
tatics as regards legislative appro-
priations. And it bids fair to be a
Imost interesting test.
However, Minnesota taxpayers
; can rest assured that the budget as
submitted by Gov. Ted will be within
: the maximum of $14O,000,000 for
the biennium, which he set in his
4 campaign speeches.
***
\ Only three weeks now until the
legislature convenes-and there
S seems to be an ominous silence anent
o proposed legislation.
Y Is it the "calm before the storm?"
Usually, in the past, members
r elect have rushed into print many
n weeks before opening of the session
r with stories about bills they had pre-
e pared for introduction. So far, at
least, there has been mighty little
d of this kind of advance notices, and
n it's causing some of the old-timers
S not little anxiety.
n However, it might be just as well
g to apply to this situation the old
n saying that "no news is good news,
e and just await developments.
Why borrow trouble?
Y The endorsement of Speaker John
d A. Johnson of Preston, for re-elect-
a ion as presiding officer of the
S house will, l believe, meet with
general approval, regardless of
: factional differences.
: He made host of friends in the
S 1925 session by his eminent fairness
: and his desire to deal squarely with
all interests, as we'll as by his firm
: ness and tact. With the experience
: of one session behind him John A.
n should prove one of the best speak
: els of the house in the states history.
g But between now and the opening
a of the session on Jan a, he has some
d hurdles to make that are not with
out danger. Special reference is
S made to the task of committee as
: sigments, particularly chairmanships.
y With 102 members voting for him
Y for speaker and only 43 committee
: chairmanships to dole out, the speak
: er-elect has some job on his hands to
r satisfy everybody. Of course that
d just can't be done. It's not in the
It cards. From this viewpoint, it would
= have been better for him if he had
r some fairly stiff opposition. He
/ could then have scratched off his
. list" all who had voted for his OPP
: ponent
e Everything at last weeks caucus
n was harmonious fact, it was
), harmony spelled with, capital "H." F"
h If history repeats itself, such a
e start does not necessarily mean an
e entirely harmonious session. AS a
e friend of mine remarked
: 'It reminds me of the adage
e labout the month of March-if it
comes in like lamb, it's almost
e certain to go out like a lion. With
y such a quiet start it wouldn't sur
/, lnrise me if the session should end in
n a roar"
J, All right, letter roar-that won't
It make us newspaper boys bit mad.
n ***
Agricultural Note Bull on the
e oof is. worth about four cents a
y pound; it's worth about 20 cents a
n pound in bullogna, and worth tens of
a thousands of dollars on the leg
r isIative floors.
t Every legislature, forsooth, has
r it's quota of Spanish athletes" for
n throwing the ''bull" is no longer an
occupation exclusively confined to
t the Castilian matadors.