The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-03-19

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the most astonishing thing of all
was that the house upheld them.
We were in an ugly mood and we
rudely turned thumbs down on the
proposal. g. =
A distinguished senator from st.
Paul told us that st. Paul intended
to rely solely upon the justice of
its cause in this office building
site controversy, but he didn't know
his fellows in the house. How
those boys did tear up the sod.
They showed the lobbyists thing
or two, but twenty-four members
of the house resisted the PRESSURE
and stood faithfully by their be-
lief in the University/avenue site
and went down nghting.M The
state office building was officially
and finally located in front of the
capitol, and the dirt will begin to
fly as soon as the frost is out
of the ground. During the last
two years it has been flying in the
st. Paul newspapers. s,- -. -
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 at
the house and senate main erli
frances have attracted much at<
tention. At hearing before a
joint meeting of the house and
senate committees on Towns and
Counties, advocates of division
packed the house chamber, and in
swift series of cogent and compil-
ing short talks marshalled their
arguments and fired hot shots at
Duluth. In good voice and full of
fire the seceeders gave the COM
mittee this ear-full of facts: st.
Louis county ienasirpm franc e..
Louis county is an empire of $500
square miles, the new county they
desire to create pays 76 per cent of
the taxes of St. Louis county, a
circle drawn with Duluth as a cent
er and the distance from Duluth to
the furthermost point in st. Louis
county as a radius Gust through
Canada, large part of Northern
Wisconsin and includes st. Paul, if
Representative Roseeter who lives
in Granite Falls, Yellow Medicine
county in. western Minnesota, had
to travel to st. Paul to get to his
county seat he would travel no fur
ther than do many st. Louis county
residents, Duluth has gerrymand-
cred st. Louis county so that it has
four of the seven commissioners,
Duluth has spent over 100000 of
county money on it's city streets,
there are 1000 farms in the pro-
posed new county, $4,000 people live
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 in Minnesota by leg
islative enactment, st. Louis county
is larger than the whole tier of
southernmost Minnesota counties
and larger than the state of Con-
necticut. For these and other good
reasons $4,000 people, far removed
in distance, in interest and SYM
pathy from the present county seat
petition the legislature to permit
them to organize for the manage
ment of their own affairs. A bar
rage from Duluth In opposition to
the division bill is expected about
the time that this appears in print.
One Days Work
Up betimes and to the capitol at
eight in the morning for a COM
mittee hearing in the investigation
of the department of education,
across the corridors to a long and
technical hearing at ten o'clock in
the matter of revision of laws for
the inspection of gasoline the UNI
ty-eleventh hearing at eleven
o'clock on the puzzling requests of
the university lunch standing up to
devour one doughnut and to give
one ear to the request for hear
ing on something-or-other hearing
at 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 build
ings locked in the house chamber
under CALI from two until 7:30
listening to the testimony of the
vets and the drys as they tore
each others arguments to tatters
standing up for one minute at 7:30
while the weary house and its rec
ord breaking gallery filed out and
the county divisionists from up
north swarmed in hardening to an
other steady stream of talk from
1880 to 1890 this time on county
division as aforesaid home to din
ner at II p. m. and to call it a day.
We Learn From Them
All this is not as hard as dig
ging ditch for fifteen straight
hours but a bit tiresome albeit
enormously instructive. Ponder
the activities of the state that the
member Of the legislature comes
into touch with in that one day. 1t
is from those who demand to be
heard that we learn about Mime
sofa. Psychopathers a notable ar
ray of men and women disting-
inguished. in their professions and
occupations widen our horizon in
an hour and a half of expert and
enlightening testimony and almost
prove to us that we are all going
crazy college men in poppy talks
bring us a breath of enthusiasm a
swift precipitation of facts and a
petition bearing 100 names pray
ing for a school of business build
ing to take the place of the present
inadequate ramshackle firetrap now
in use pretty and petit a nurse
tells us that for ten years they have
been promised a decent place to
live in but haven't got. it yet agri-
cultural uplifters dit farmers
mostly and intensely practical fell
lows let loose stream of talk
that's difficult to dam and that
reveals to US possibilities we never
dreamed of vets and drys marshall
a mass of statistics none of which,