The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-03-20


The state Office building was officially
and finally located in front Of the
capitol, and the dirt VIII begin 70 fly
on Wabasha as soon as the frost Is
out of the ground During the last
two years it has been flying IN the
St Paul newspapers.
County Division.
County divisioniSts from St Louis
county have been swarming capitol
corridors for a week or more Huge
maps of this huge county placed a.
the house and senate main entrances
have attracted much attention At a
hearing before joint meeting Of the
house and senate committees on
Towns and Counties, advocates Of d.
vision packed the house chamber, and
a swift series Of cogent and competing
short talks marshalled their arguments
and fired hot shots al Duluth In
good voice and full Of fire the Sc
ceders gave the committees this ear
full of facts: st. Louis county IS an
empire of $500 square miles, the new
county they desire 70 create pays IS
per cent Of the taxes OF ST. Louis
county, a circle drawn with Duluth as
a center and the distance from Duluth
to the furthermoSt point IN St. Louis
county as a radius cuts thru Canada.
a large part of Northsrn Wisconsin
and includes st. Paul, If Representa-
tive RoSetter who lives IN Granite
Falls, Yellow Medicine county, IN
western Minnesota, had 70 travel %
St Paul to get TO his county seat he
would travel no further than DO many
ST. Louis county residents, Duluth has
gerrymandered St. Louis county so
that it has four Of the seven COM
missioners, Duluth has spent over
100000 of county money on its city
streets, there are 1000 farms u the
proposed new county, $4,000 people i've
in the proposed new county from IS
to $50 miles from Duluth the present
county seat Of st. Louis county,
Duluth's representatives and senators
in the legislature vote sOlidly and
stubbornly TO balk the needs and
aspirations of rural st. Louis county,
over 60 counties have been created u
Minnesota by legislative enactment, St
Louis county is larger than the whole
tier of southernmost Minnesota cOun-
ties and larger than the state OF Con-
ecticut. For these and other good
reasons $4,000 people, far removed IN
distance, in interest and sympathy
from the present county seat petition
the legislature TO permit them to or
game for the management Of their
own affairs. A barTage from Duluth
in opposition to the division bill IS ex-
pected about the time that this ap-
pears in print.
One Days Work
Up betimes and TO the capitol at
eight in the morning for q committee
hearing in the investigation OF the
department Of education, across the
corridors to long and technical hear
ing at ten O'Clock in the matter OF
revision of laws for the inspection OF
gasoline, the umpty-eleventh hearing
at eleven o'clock on the pulling re-
quests of the university. lunch stand
up to devour one doughnut and TO give
one ear TO the request for q hearing
on something -or-other, hearing al one
o'clock for a bevy Of good looking
nurses and a group OF business men
college students, and others who want
100000 right away quick for various
university buildings, locked IN the
house chamber under call" from two
until 7:30 listening to the testimony OF
the vets and drys as they tore each
others arguments TO tatters, standing
up for one minute at 7:30 while the
weary house and its record breaking
gallery filed out and the county d.
visionists from up north swarmed II,
hearkening to another steady stream
of talk from 7:30 to 1890 this time
on county division as aforesaid home
to dinner at HOO p. m and TO call it
day.
We Learn from Them
All this is not as hard as digging
ditch for fifteen straight hours, but
a bit tiresome albeit enormously in
structive. Ponder the activities OF the
state that the member of the legis-
lature comes into touch with II that
one day. 1t is from those who de-
mand to be heard that We learn about
Minnesota. Psychopathers. a notable
array of men and women distinguished
in their professions and occupations.
widen our horizon in an hour and
half of expert and enlightening teSti-
mony and almost prove 10 US that We
are going crazy. college men in poppy
talks bring us breath of enthusiasm,
a swift precipitation Of facts and
petition bearing 1700 names praying
for school of business building 70
take the place of the present made
quate ramshackle, firetrap now IN use,
pretty and petite, a nurse, tells Us
that for ten years they have been
promised a decent place TO live in but
havn't got it yet. agricultural uplifters.
dirt farmers mostly, and intensely
practical fellows, let loose a stream OF
talk that's mostly difficult 70 dam and
that reveals to us possibilities We never
dreamed of, vets and drys marshall
mass of statistics none Of which, If
We may believe both sides, is true. We
find out what the power trust is up 70.
how much money the steel trust
makes and the name Of a new. bug
that's biting something. the tax de-
hnquency Of some sections makes US
dizzy and we don't know what TO do
about it. Hearings often grow tire
some, yet it is a real privilege and
college education TO listen 70 those
who talk to us from the days beginn-
ing to the days end. Their enthusi-
asr, sfirS ne tfev give ne oIirrnr,SeS into