The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-04-12

Senator George Lommen, not quite
so debonair as usual, voted AYE" In
desperation The "ayes" now had 80
votes, one short of a majority. If
they could only find Senator Laura
Naplin, she might save them But they
never found her; she walked right
past the sleuths who were seeking her
and into the senate chamber and
calmly voted NO. ALI of which amused
many people but ruined the day for
Senator j. D. Sullivan and his duck
pass bill.
The Interim Epidemic.
An epidemic of interim committees
broke out early in the session and 1t
now has reached alarming proportions.
If it is not checked, when the legis-
lature adjourns two weeks hence,
there will be enough interim COM
mittees provided for to fit every mem
Der of the legislature out with an as
signment. It's serious state OF af-
fairs. If the legislative doctors do not
find some means of curbing this new
disease, the first thing the people of
Minnesota know, they will find them
selves with a legislature on their
hands the year around.
We have had couple clerks check
ing up on the interim committees pro-
posed. They have not succeeded in
running them all down as yet, but
thus far this is what they have re-
ported-an interim committee to in
vestigate the pollution of waters, an
interim committee to probe the uni
verSity, an interim committee to study
the iron ore tax problem, an interim
committee to draw up plans for SOL
dierS and sailors monument on the
capitol grounds, an interim commit
tee to investigate electrical power in
Minnesota, an interim committee to
find out what is the matter with
Ramsey county, one to shake up and
rearrange the judicial districts of the
state, one to look into the report that
there are 100000 feeble minded per-
sons in the state some of whom must
be in the legislature if the number of
interim committees proposed is any
thing to go by, an interim committee
to study judicial procedure, one to
operate on that rapidly swelling goitre
of state school aid, one to see what
can be done for the peeve that the
senate has got against the economy
and efficiency commission, one to tax
the banks and another to tighten the
burden of local taxation, one to revise
the laws just as if the legislature
isn't busy enough at that already, one
to fix things up for the soldiers and
one to find out if the ten millions
dollars worth of farm lands that the
rural credit board has foreclosed on
is worth ten million cents. There
are lot more but our typewriter is
tired.
A Sixty Million Legislature.
The mounting demand for state
money has stopped and the red of it's
mercury is just above the $50, 900
mark, the highest it has ever reached
in the history of Minnesota. There is
just one reason that it does not go
higher. In order to introduce any
more bills for appropriations, we must
now, at this time in the session, get
the consent of the governor. Try and
do it!
Legislative appropriations for the
biennium threaten to top $4,000, 600
just for things that are absolutely
necessary. We have hopes of holding
them to that figure, but if our efforts
prove unavailing we know that Gov
ernor Theodore Christensen can be
depended upon to do his duty. The
legislature, however, is earnestly try
ing to do its duty and to succeed it
must deny requests for some $4,000
600 of more or less desirable things.
The Legislature of 1929 has it's coat
off and its sleeves rolled up at last
Working nights 'neverything. In
fourteen weeks it has ground out
only some $50 laws; it must turn out
$50 in the next two weeks if it is to
be as prolific as its predecessors. No
body is worrying much about it ex-
cept few Of us who are afraid it
may succeed.