The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-08-13
BY r. w. HITCHCOCK
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is bit more ornate than necessary. 1t
is a pleasant room, however, and at one
end is a fine, recessed painting of
trout stream with a background Of
north woods. In midStream is q fisher
man casting. At first glance it is just
a fisherman, but closer inspection re-
veals that it is Judge Holt engaged in
his favorite paStime. THE boots" pro-
tests the judge, they put too fine a
pair of boots on mel" BY hook and
crook they kept the judge out of the
room until the painting was completed
and then had "a gala little surprise for
him. He admits that it is good like
ness-all but the boots.
Minnesota has one congressman who
seldom or never makes a speech on the
floor of the House of Representatives
but whose constituents nevertheless find
his speeches, printed at great length
and with an enormous mass of detail, in
the appendix pages of the Congress
Sional Record. He is Ernest Lundeen,
member of congress from the third con-
greSsional district of Minnesota.
On June 18th of this year, Mr.. Lun-
deem rose in the House of Representa-
tives in washington and asked per-
mission to proceed for two minutes"
He said a few sentences and then asked
to have his remarks extended in the
Record. On July 9th this speech" was
published in the appendix of the Con-
gresSional Record and covered a space
of 3O1a pages, which, at the Congress
Sional Record cost of $50 per page, set
the taxpayers of the U. S. A, who are
you and I, back some 81, 525.
, This speech of Congressman Lun-
deems is an interesting document. 1t
is a history of the farmer-labor party,
and of pretty nearly a thousand and
one other things. Among the subjects
treated of in the speech" are Charles
A. Lindbergh, ST., the attitude of Sena-
| tor Bob La Toilette during the war, the
Declaration of Independence, the origin
of the first labor party in the United
States, the territorial governors of Min
nesota, Bryan Democracy, Henry
George, IgnatiuS Donnelly, Eugene V
Debs, the Communist Party, Abraham
Lincoln, detailed tables of the votes cast
for Socialists in all parts of the United
States and for their opponents, etc. etc
Although the speech" contains the
farmer-labor platform of 1886, the Bull
Moose platform of 1912, the Working
Peoples Nonpartisan League platform
of 1920, the Constitution of the Farmer
Labor Federation of Minnesota, and the
La Toilette Independent-Progre
platform of 1924, it fails to give the
farmer-labor platform of 1884. In
Guided in the speech" also are COM
plete list of delegates to the farmer
labor conference of 1923, occupying g
page and a half. a detailed table Of
presidential votes from 1900 on, list
of all populists elected to congress, anc
several pages of tables of votes cast II
Minnesota since statehood.
In the same July 9th appendix of thu
Congressional Record was printed
another speech" by Representative,
iLundeen on Public Works in Minnesota
covering II and one-half pages. Twt
other speeches" by Representative
Lundeen also appeared in the same ap
pendix of July 9th. Altogether on tina
date Mr.. Lundeen occupied 531a page
Of the Congressional Record.
An examination of the Congressiona
Record for the Seventy-Fourth Con
gress, which convened in January AM
adjourned in June, reveals 1929 page
of speeches" by Representative Luz
deem, put out, so far as the Congress
sional Record alone is concerned, at
cost of $6,125 to the taxpayers.
These speeches" in large measure re
veal the character of Congressman Lun
deems work in Congress. The man
perfect volcano of research alon
4 radical political lines.
1 Congressman Theodore ChristianSo
2 finds himself in somewhat of dilemm
as the republican candidate for Unite
: States senator in Minnesota. He doe
S not know yet for certainty with whor
he must contend. The farmer-labc
: party has no sympathy for Mr.. Chris
i tianson's difficulty, but it is vastl
e annoyed and worried to find itself i