The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-03-22
LEGISLATIVE LETTER

must go?
Senator Magnan of Stevens: The
senator's up North know best about
their own affairs I think we ought
to defer to their opinion about a
thing which concerns them primarily
So they voted on the amendment of
the senators from the North cutting
down the area affected, % for the
amendment and 38 against it, SO the
amendment was lost.
Senator BeSsette of st. Louis Gre
firing back stage among the house
members: I just was up Ito the ros-
trum and told Charley Orr that he
voted against us and that hoped the
senate would keep it up and make
him sit there all the afternoon with
out his lunch.
Senator Mackenzie of Sibley: I offer
an amendment to postpone the bills
going into effect until after the joint
commission has reported.
Representative Reed of ST Louis
(sotto voice. from the side lines: One
way to kill the whole bill.
Senator Sullivan, j. D. of Stearns
(sotto ditto0 Lot of meat in that
amendment.
Senator Carley of Wabasha: I sus-
pect something wrong here Who's
back of this? Is it E. w. Backus?
Is it Shevlin- Carpenter Co.? Is it Some
Body Else? I suspect.
Here the senator glanced darby at
the galleries.
Senator Carley: Maybe they have
an influence here listening to us; if
they have let them hear.
The galleries heard alright. They
must have heard down on Robert
Street also for the senator was en-
phatic.
Senator Putnam of Faribault: (After
four hours This is just. one of our
biennial blow-offs regard this bill
as perfectly useless measure so that
all who desire can vot AYE" with per-
feet safety.
So all but 6 of the 81 voted "aye".
Act III.
Scene: The House chamber.
Looking down on 131 house members
sprawling at 131 mahogany desks over
which books and papers are scattered
indiscriminately was the noble but
counterfeit preSentment of Abraham
n.
son in the flesh.
On the desks and in the air, newly
flown over from the senate, the Ship
stead-Newton bill.
The spirit of E. w. Backus Is also
there, but where he sits, into whose
ear he whispers or whose tongue he
wags seems to be q matter of some
dispute.
Mr.. Speaker: The hour of three
o'clock has arrived, the hour set for
the Special Order on 8. F. 1866
Voices: What's that?
Mr.. Speaker: The clerk will report
the bill.
Reading Clerk: s. F. 1855, A Bill to
Set E. w. Backus Down Hard, To Sc
queSter Most All of Northern Mime
sofa, To Preserve Natures Beauties
Invoilate Forever la Oberholtzer, To
Endow the WeyerhauSer Interests with
a Multi-Million Monopoly or to Raise
Hell Generally, take your choice ac-
cording to your own particular fan
tasy or prejudice.
Representative Hastings of Lake:
Mr.. Speaker, offer an amendment.
Several Members: Why, this here
amendment would move the southern
limit.
Mr.. Hastings: It would do just that
and that Is just what we want 1t to
do. The people up there ought to
have something to say. This bill
pinches their toes something awful.
The people up there don't see why
you have to keep jumping on them all
the time. When you are not snorting
that we haven't got anything, you're |
trying to take away what we've got.
Mr.. Speaker, Sportsmen are not the
only thing in life. Some of us are
trying to till the land, just like you |
have done down In Southern Mime