The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-02-20

finance and appropriations committee
is varied and interesting, covering
every phase of state government and
state activity; the toll of it is con-
tinuous and unremitting and often
tiresome; the appropriations commit
tee of the house two years ago held
nearly eighty sittings.
1T Isn't Fair.
One way of securing money from the
sess your soul in patience. For in
stance, eight years ago psychopathic
hospital was located at the state uni
versity The sponsors of the bill
pointed out that no building, no doc
tors, no nurses, were provided for in
the bill 1t wouldn't cost the legis-
lature a cent. So the bill was passed
and a psychopathic hospital was To-
catede by law at the university. With
that as a foundation, friends of the
idea have been laboring for eight years
to get money from the state for the
building After that is secured money
for the doctors and the nurses will be
difficult to get; the state will just have
to put that up. Incidentally it's
s350,0O0 they want for the building this
year.
Then there is the state park OF the
making of state parks there is no end
When community finds it particu-
larly tough work getting bill thru for
a state park, it often promises, in the
,foiy "A all
Forever, in these cases means couple
or three legislative sessions. Then the
community, with its park safely tucked
away, appears in the legislature thru
its representative and complains that
''it isn't fair" that it should be re-
quired to support state park and
pleads for a law that will relieve it of
the charge. The Legislature of 1929
created a certain state park upon pro-
fuse protestations that the locality
would maintain the park forever 1t
is probably too soon for this locality
to appear at this session and allege
unfairness on the part of the state
But another community which got
state park many years ago upon max
ing a pledge of maintenance, bluntly
accused the state the other day of not
playing fair, and, the legislature being
complaisant, unloaded all future costs
on the state.
March of the Communists.
Last week small army of COM
munists marched on the state house.
Hardly had the speakers gavel fallen
and the chaplain's prayer been intoned,
when they thrust aside the doorkeepers
and burst in the main door of the
house chamber, and the whole rag-tag-
tail of them, terrible with banners,
that is with terrible banners, streamed
down the main aisle, a noisy, yelling
mob. While the girl pages ran for
their lives, the mob leader, one Powers,
communist candidate for mayor of
Minneapolis, climbed on the pages
bench below the speakers rostrum and
the clerks desk. Pounding the desk,
every sentence punctured with cries
from the mob crowding behind him, all
up and down the aisle and out into the
corridor, he demanded twenty-six mil
lion dollars from the legislature.
Legislature he yelled, I'VE want it
now, and if you don't give it to us,
We'll take it." BY this time the COM
back of the chamber and had packed
the galleries. A lady communist, with
her black hat hanging perilously On
her best back hair, excitedly said she
was from the range and damned the
steel trust" Tax the steel trust for
the twenty-siX million you must give
u.s. she screamed. A ten-year old boy
who had been snatched from school
for the purpose, was hoisted on the
clerks desk and piped, I'VE workers
are starving. If you do not give us
twenty-siX million, we are here to take
it," Another maiden from the range
ripped the lid clean off language for
dahl talked to the mob and told them
he was going to introduce a bill for
ten millions for them. But they did
not seem to trust Comrade Youngdahl.
One of the speakers said Youngdahl
had been cast out of the communist
party. Its lie" shouted Youngdahl
and by George, he cowed the whole
crowd of them
Finally, exhausted with three hours
of communist ranting, they left. They
took with them what food they could
steal from the defenseleess lady who
runs the capitol cafeteria, but not. no,
not the twenty-six million.