The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-09-29
Senator Rockne
Spikes F. L. Claims
Shows Up Discrepancies of State
ments Made BY Lyon County
Legislation

The farmer-labor regime is charg-
ed with ignoring fundamental les
sons in economy and encouraging
lobbyists to invade the capitol, in
an open letter by Senator A. J.
Rockne, of Zumbrota in this weeks
issue of the Zumbrota News.
In a blast against Senator Emil
Regnier, of Marshall, farmer-labor
spokesman and party campaign
manager, Senator Rockne charges
Senator Emil Regnier with an at
tempt to keep Olson's skirts clean"
in a deliberate campaign of mis-
representation.
Senator Rocknes reply comes as
an answer to charges made by
Senator Regnier in an address at
the Blue Earth County fair at
Garden City.
"Ordinarily campaign arguments
such as these made by Senator
Regnier would pass unnoticed but
coming as it does from the Cover
nor's special representative and one
high in the farmer-labor party
councils the statement can hardly
pass unchallenged," Mr.. Rockne
stated. 1.-THE senator from Mar
shall with 80 legislative days of ex-
perience behind him, has evidently
overlooked some of the fundament-
al principles of our government.
1.-The reason for the increased
appropriations lies largely in the
fact that the Governor in his in
augural address to the legislature
declared that no parsimony would
be tolerated and that the action of
his predecessor in holding down
appropriations would be frowned
upon," he continues in his state
ment. This assurance furnished
courage to a lot of lobbyists who
made it their business to sty around
the session from beginning to close;
and resulted in some appropria-
tons that were unnecessary and
would never have been made had
these same lobbyists not known
that they could easily get by in the
Governors office, where in the past
the veto power had been used by
His Excellency, Governor Christian
son."
Senator Rockne declared that the
economy record of Senator Reg
nier in the legislature was incon-
sistent with his campaign state
ments. Senator Regnier sponsor
ed 43 bills, twice as many as was
sponsored by any other sponsor
from the rural districts, he said.
Just four of these bills, if passed,
would have cost the people $780,
900 600.
TN the Senate Journal, we find
this senator the author and spon-
sor of bills for state electric pow
er plants, involving an expenditure
of at least $58,OO00eO Of the tax
payers money; introduced for state
banking similar to the State Bank,
of North Dakota which would
have involved at least $1O,OOo,0O0
I to $20,OO0OOO of the states money;
for appropriating 100000 to aid
certain school districts wherein the
owners of land not paying taxes
would get aid; bill taking $40, OO0,-
900 to pay 81 daily to every indi-
gent over 60 years of age, Senator
Rockne says.
Suffice it to say that the argu-
ment Of the Senator from Lyon
county, in charging the appropria-
lions and finance committees with
extravaganza is not borne out by
the records, and when his record as
to what he, as the Governors
spokesman on the floor of the sem
ate, proposed in the way of state
expenditures is considered, it
makes interesting reading these
days when economy happens to be
the watchword and the hope and
only hope for success of the polit-
teal parties in the s9te of Mime