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[Entered December 6, 1902. at Willmar, Minnesota, as second class matter,
under act of March 3, 1879]
(A special correspondence to the
Willmar Tribune by Tom Lawson).
St. Paul, Jan. 13—The opening
day of the session saw the proposed
senatorial combine given its final
quietus. The matter came up on the
motion of Senator Duxbury giving
the senate authority to appoint its
own committees. It was defeated by
a vote of 16 to 40. This vote, how
ever, does not represent the senti
ment of the senate on the abstract
proposition that the more progressive
policy would be for the senate itself
to frame its own organization. Rath
er it was an indication of the want
of confidence of its membership in
the reactionary faction which orig
inated the movement. The prevailing
opinion undoubtedly was that the
motives they professed was not those
which inspired the couise they elec
ted to pursue. The senate believed
their purposes were sinister, and the
majority declined to ha\ any part in
them.
ARGUMENTS THAT HAD WEIGHT
While there was no debate on the
resolution offered by Senator Dux
bury—the speaking being confined
entirely to the argument made by- the
mover and Senator Sullivan of Still
water against the virtual surrender
of power involved in turning over to
the lieutenant governor a function it
was the duty of the senate to dis
charge—it was nevertheless clear
that the contention of Mr. Burn
quist's friends that he was elected
with the plain understanding on the
part of the voters that he would
name the committees had great
great weight. In effect, it was con
tended, he was delegated by the peo
ple to do the very thing it was pro
posed that the senate should take
jaway from him the power to do. This
.would amount to a usurpation of the
people's rights which a progressive
sedate should be the last to sanction.
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WILLMAR, MINNESOTA. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 15. 1913
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delay a change of procedure would
involve and on the difficulty that
would unquestionably be found in
getting a committee on committees to
agree on the personnel of the organ
ization. However, as I have already
intimated, the real reason for declin
ing to make a change in the method
of organizing the senate was that
the members of that body had not
confidence enough in the men who
proposed it to turn the task over to
them.
RADICAL LEGISLATION
PROPOSED.
This matter being disposed of the
senate lost no time in getting down
to the business of the session. The
second day a large number of bills
were introduced, and they have been
piling up ever since. Their progres
sive character is notable. Senator
Sageng is sponsor for a measure giv
ing the elective franchise to women
Senators Moonan and Lende acknow
ledge the authorship of a measure
designed to give the people a more
dnect voice the making of laws.
Their initiative and referendum bill
is said to embody many new features
expenence has shown to be desirable.
Senator Cashman is to the front
again with his distance tariff bill
which it is believed will meet this
year with the approval of the legis
lature. The recall is provided for in
another bill. A bill by Senator Fos
seen proposes the unsexing of the
idiotic and those guilty of a certain
class of crimes. Senator Coller pro
poses to amend the primary law so
as to make it more nearly conform to
the system in vogue Germany. And
so it goes. Senators appear to vie
with each other as to who should be
the more radical in designing meas
ures to effect organic changes in our
laws. The program already mapped
out, if given the deliberate consider
ation which it should have, is suffi
cient to occupy the entire session,
and as yet we have scarcely seen the
beginning of it.
LEGISLATIVE "BARNACLES."
In the house insurgency is still la
tent. Until Speakei Rines announc
ed his committee the members of the
house thought it the best policy to be
on their good behavior. Nevertheless
there was quite a ruction the other
day when the committee on rules
made its' report. The progressives
being in the saddle seem to. have con-
ceived it to be their duty to so ar
range matters that their authority
would be unquestioned. Acting on
the assumption that, as John Lennon
puts it, the rules committee is rather
the personal cabinet of the speaker
than representative of the house
membership, it had been made up en
tirely of those who in the preliminary
campaign for the speakership had
had been Mr. Rines' partizans. When
Mr. Pf aender, who appears to be re
garded as the Democratic leader,
protested, and asked that the Demo
crats be given representation, Mr.
Lennon, in addition to defining the
status of the rules committees as in
dicated above, woke the ire of a fire
eating Southerner who represents
Washington county by referring to
members of the minority party as
barnacles. While the personal con
flict threatened was happily averted,
that this represents not unfairly the
attitude of the organization towards
the minority party is indicated by the
fact that the house was whipped into
line to defeat Mr. Phaender's propo
sition which anyone familiar with
parliamentary proceedings must re
gard as eminently air. If the motion
had been made after the committee
assignments had been announced I
question whether it would have been
defeated so easily. There is no
gratitude quite so overflowing as that
of a politician who is inspired with
a lively sense of favors to come.
AN EFFECTIVE MACHINE.
Given a committee like that ap
pointed by Mr. Rines, regarding its
mission as indicated by Mr. Lennon,
and given also committees so organ
ized that a majority of their mem
bership are to be depended upon to
pull together, it only remained to give
the committee on rules the right to
dictate to other committees when
they should meet, to make Mr. Rines'
authority much more absolute than
that of any of his predecessors. This
authority it asked at the hands of the
house. The protest against it, how
ever, was so loud that it was aban
doned, after a lively tilt in which a
number of prominent members took
part. The opposition to it agreed in
contending that Czar Reed was a
mere tyro compared with those who
proposed to so tie up the Minnesota
house. Possibly it wouldn't be as
bad as that, and there is no warrant
to conclude that Mr. Rines would
abuse the authority vested in him,
but that in evil hands it could easily
be made an engine of misgovernment
there can be little question. Real
progressives would be the last to set
a bad precedent of this character.
SOME GUBERNATORIAL RECOM-
MENDATIONS.
The governor in his annual mess
age deferred measurably to public
sentiment in endorsing the initiative
and referendum. Otherwise it con
tained no surprises. Two recommen
dations he makes seem to meet with
practically universal approval, one
that the many irresponsible boards
now holding office be merged in a res
ponsible department, and the other
that the fee system be abolished,
There is little doubt that this lat
ter is greatly abused, and that be
cause of it the burdens of the tax
payers are unnecessarily increased.
The most conspicuous examples of
unearned fees going into private
pockets are perhaps those collected
by the governor's secretary and the
clerk of the supreme court. Theie
should be no delay in putting these
offices on a salary basis.
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
Mr. R. C. Dunn, who is perhaps as
well informed as anyone on the sub
ject does not agree with the gover-
nor as to the need of a department
of public domain. It is his opinion
that there is not enough to do in con
nection with state lands to justify
the organization of an expensive de
partment to manage them. It may
seem to* be anomalous that they
should be under the charge of the
state's accounting officer, but they
have really been all along a separate
bureau, and if they were not too
great a tax on the auditor's time
when the public lands were much
greater in extent than they are now,
and when they were covered with
valuable timber, Mr. Dunn agrees
that he should have ample leisure to
attend to them.
A NOTABLE OMISSION.
The failure of the governor to
make any reference to the desirabil
ity of a stricter regulation of the li
quor traffic has been remarked. It
is thought the more surprising be
cause renewed attention has been di
rected to the matter as a result of
the investigations of a senate com
mittee" during the recess. This com
mittee has not definitely decided
whether to renew its investigation
with the ampler authority it may now
be given or to make its report using
only the evidence already accumu
lated. This was sufficient to indi
cate that saloons in the larger cities
at all events are quite generally con
trolled by brewers, and that they cat
er to if they do not actually foster
and protect an illicit traffic more de
moralizing than any other. The gov
ernor's critics contend that the situ
ation is sufficiently grave to warrant
at least passing reference. Some of
the sympathy he was so ready to ex
tend to the wives and children of fel
ons or to those suffering from the
white plague he might it is thought,
have reserved for the innocent vic
tims of the drink habit.
GO-AS-YOU-PLEASE METHODS.
So far nothing has been done in
either branch of the legislature look
ing towards the adoption of a defin
ite program of legislation along eith
er the lines laid down in the gover
nor's message or any other. It is
thought that this plan worked so ad
vantageously at the special session
that it might very well be carried
farther. Now there is no attempt to
systematize the business of law
making. The suggestion is that the
committee on general legislation
might well take up the matter, keep
track of the progress of bills and
make arrangements for the prompt
consideration of those which appear
to be of the greater importance. Cer
tainly the matter should not be left
to luck. The result of such a policy
two years ago was that many of the
more important measures were JosJ in
the hurly burly of the last days of
he session. This cost *the slate
among other things a special session
of the legislature and a very expen
sive state wide primary law.
Why not cut out some of the money you have
been spending foolishly and invest $6.00 to
$10.00 a month in a Kimball Piano?
I will give you practically
three years to pay for it, and meantime get the full use
of the piano in your home and will save from $100 to
$150 profit other dealers a a ask—and get.
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WJLLMARQTRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARYQIS, 1913''
REFRESHMENTS IN THE
CAPITOL.
There has been a good deal of
scandal occasioned by the introduc
tion into the state capitol on the oc
casion of the governor's reception of
intoxicating beverages for the use of
his guests. It is not alleged that
these were used to excess but it is
thought that it would have in better
taste for the governor not to have
countenanced their presence in a
public building. It has been intimat
ed that it is against the law, but this
is no doubt a mistake. Probably,
however, if the governor had been the
only person concerned in the matter
no attention would have been paid to
it. But while the milder punch was
served in the rotunda, the ardent
mnAJSSSSSSi
It is used in every civil
ized country on earth. It
has received the gold medal
and first prize at every ex
position at which ithas been
exhibited. A
Itwill mean more to you and
your baby than anythingelse
on earth .that money can
buy.
spirits were served in the secretary
of state's office which opens off of it.
An effort was therefore made to put
the responsibility on the secretary of
state and the secretary of state alone
by a St. Paul publisher who has a
crow to pick with him.
A PUBLISHER GETS EVEN.
We have to go back at least to the
election to get a proper understand
ing of the matter—perhaps farther.
The Dispatch and Pioneer Press at
that time lost no opportunity to give
publicity to criticisms of the Secre
of State and aid and countenance to
Mr. Norelius who was opposing him.
Now the secretary of state is a mem
ber of the printing commission, and
when a short time ago that commis
sion had the treasurer's report to
give out—a job that nets the pur
chaser something over $2,000 for
which he makes small outlay—Mr.
Schmahl with the association so ar
ranged matters that this fat take, in
stead of going to the Pioneer Press
as was customary was given to the
Volks Zeitung, a St. Paul German
daily. That is really what is behind
Mr. Thompson's sudden accession of
virtue, and why he expressed himself
as so much shocked to learn that
persons attending the governor's
banquet were treated to whiskey in
the secretary of state's office.
AFTER THE WHOLE BUNCH.
The indignant publisher has not
content to discipline Mr.
Schmahl. It looks as if he were out
to get the other members of the com
mission, Walter Smith and Sam Iv
erson also. About the time the at
tack was made on the secretary of
state Mr. Smith received anonymous
ly a communication, which on being
opened proved to be a pamphlet on
each leaf of which was a question so
worded as to convey the implication
that he acted the part of a very bad
man indeed in giving out of the
printing patronage to which refer
ence has been made. As no one in
the world cares two straws about the
manner in which this publication is
made except the publishers who make
money out of it, it is scarcely too
much to infer that the anonymous
pamphlet referred to and the attack
on Mr. Schmahl owe their inspiration
to a common origin.
MORE SCHEMING.
The rumor that has thus early been
given circulation that Sam Langum
is a candidate for secretary of state
has a double edge. With one it bites
the offending Julius with the other
it makes a hack at Sam Iverson.
Sam's gubernatorial ambitions are
rather more than suspected. But we
ean't have a governor and a secre
tary of state from the same county
and Langum's home is also in Fill
more Neither can we have a gover
nor and secretary of state both Nor
wegians, and both Sams are proud of
their Norse blood. So that, take it
all in all, it is very plain that an of
fended editor is not without his re
sources, and that if he has influence
and ingenuity it is not always whole
some to arouse his ire.
Items From Exchanges.
Recently a silver fox whose hide
is worth $1,000 was captured near
Hutchinson.
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Snow or no snow Glenwood Ski
club will give their annual tourna
ment February 11th.
S8S
The Dawson Sentinel tells us that
the fishers of Lac qui Parle pulled in
something like 20 ton of carp at one
haul.
S S
The new Minnewaska Hospital of
Starbuck, a thoroughly modern and
sanitary building will be ready for
occupancy within a few days.
S 8 S
Mr. Gesme will build up here a
modern poultry ranch, which he will
carry on in connection with his pho
tograph business.—The Paynesville
Press.
sss
There has been considerable talk
at Redwood Falls of organizing a
base ball league between eight or ten
of the surrounding towns that usual
ly have fast teams.
One of the large elevators at
French, on the N. P., just across the
line in Otter Tail county, containing
20,000 bushels of grain, was debtroy
ed by fire Tuesday afternoon.
Some of the inhabitants of Lac
sui Parle have got the "railroad fev
er" again. They have already got the
station located and part of Watson
on the point of moving over.—Daw
son Sentinel.
The Granite Falls Bank has moved
into a fine new building, which is said
to be one of the finest in the state
outside of the large cities. This bank
was organized in 1878.—Dawson
Sentinel.
I I S
On New Year's day W. A. Hunt
ington and E. E. Lockerby went out
for a rabbit hunt. While in the woods
southeast of town they saw some
bees and on tracing the bees to their
headquarters found a bee tree. They
proceeded to then hunt honey instead
of rabbits.—The Paynesville Press.
I
Mme. Sarah Bernhardt and her
company passed thru the city on her
special of seven coaches, enroute
from Minneapolis to Winnipeg, Mon
day morning about 8:15. The spec
ial was making 70 miles an hour to
reach Winnipeg at one o'clock to fill
her engagement.—Thief River Falls
News-Press."
I
I M. Ealnes, editor of the' Star-
Ibuc.k
Times was placed under arrest
Wednesday afternoon on a charge of
Copyright Hart Sohaffner & Marx
Sheep skin lined Ulsters
criminal libel. The warrant was ser
ved by Sheriff Gilbertson. The com
plaint was sworn to by the editor of
The Herald and was based on this
statement made in last week's issue
of the Starbuck Times. "Give some
more graft to the Glenwood Herald,
and smile, Mr. Taxpayer, smile. You
pay."—The Glenwood "Herald.
185
During the past two or three weeks
an association of Collmwood farmers
has been in the process or organiza
tion which will have for its purpose
principally the disposal of several
thousand bushels of seed corn, to
farmers thruout the northwest.—The
Dassel Anchor.
SSS
The Holloway Herald has been
sold by W. N. Thompson to a stock
company composed of business men
of Holloway. Reuben Gunderson has
been appointed editor and publisher.
We welcome Bro. Gunderson to the
ranks of Swift County's pencil push
ers.—The Murdock Voice.
SSS
Henning Wallen, of Hutchinson,
was convicted of incest at the re
cent court term in McLeod county
and given an indeterminate sentence
in states prison, not to exceed ten
years. He has appealed the case to
the supreme court, and is out on
$6,000 bail.—Litchfield Independent.
SSS
The People's Store was broken in
to last Tuesday evening and the cash
register tapped for a sum around thk
$5.00 mark. The burglar made his
entrance through •the baek way, but
in departing he was more particular,
the front entrance being preferred
and left open at that.—Olivia Times.
On last Sunday morning the meat
maiket of C. M. Dolan in the village
of Danvers was entered by burg! r«s.
The safe was blown open. Besides
getting $30 in money the burglars
look the money chesc over to the de
pot for it was found there alom ith
some checks and papers. Swift
County Monitor.
We are in receipt of a letter from
J. J. Bickel of Sutherlin, Oregon, in
which he says that lettuce, cabbage
and other vegetables are still in the
garden-and that he picked apples in
Comstock's orchard on Christmas
day. He speaks of catching a 32 lb.
salmon in the Callapoia river a short
time ago.—Olivia Times.
Philip Randall of Renville has been
appointed deputy postmaster of the
Minnesota House of Representatives
for the coming session of the legisla
ture. Representatives Holmberg and
Hopkins secured the appointment for
him and so notified by wire Monday.
Mr. Randall is a deserving citizen of
the county and his friends are much
pleased over his appointment.—Olivia
Times.
A party was in town the other day
on his way to Alaska, with four dogs
he said he was going to use when he
got there, for transportation pur
poses between several points he in
tended visiting. He owns a mine
there or did which he claims to have
discovered in 1902 before the rush
for that eldorado was begun and
from what he said it may be of fabu-
Overcoats of all descriptions for Men, Boys and Children
Now is the time, and this is the place, and here you will find the right coat for you.
This store is the home of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes
lous value now, but he did not state
what it was worth.—Granite Falls
Tribune.
S S S
Some of the residents of the north
end of city were rudely awakened on
Monday night by cries of "murder"
and actually thought that a crime
was being committed. Upon exami
nation it was found that the party
making the outcry was a delirious
patient from the hospital who had
made good his escape and was under
the impression that some one was at
tempting to murder him.—Montevideo
Commercial.
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A bell and telephone system has
been installed in the hospital at Ben
son that gives each room an electric
bell for calling the nurse and a tele
phone connection with the exchange
direct from the room. The wholo
system was put in by the Swift Coun
ty Telephone Co., as their donation
Staff
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Dr. Christian Johnson.
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WILLMAR TANNERY
Many robes now on hand for salo.
Black and Brown horse hide robes.
A nice lot of 100 tanned dot*
skint. Some of these ace made
np into robes. Anyone wishing* to
bu3£ tanned dog* .skins should call
soon before they are all made up.
We reline and repair old robes.
Bring them in.
Fur mittens for sale.
Important Votioe—All skins for
tanning* should be salted at ones
after skinning* to keep them from
spoiling*.
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•37 First St W a Minn.
THERE'S one fact about these
fine clothes of Hart Schaff
ner & Marx that we're selling
so many of that ought to make
them especially interesting to
you.
The fact is, they're made to fit the
designers of these goods study the hu
man figure and make clothes for it in
all dimensions for large men, tall men,
short stout men, large fat men.
It's really remarkable how skillfully
the makers have produced sizes that
fit all these different figures. Of
course for men of regular build, a good
fit is a matter of course.
We guarantee your satisfaction
you needn't take, or keep any clothes
that don't satisfy you.
10/o off on all Overcoats
Fancy Overcoats with or without belts
Black Overcoats with velvet collars
Black Overcoats with convertible collars
Plush lined Coats
Fur lined Coats
Sheep skin lined Short Coats
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WILLMAR BETHESDA HOSPITAL
Corner 3rd St., and Litchfield Ave
'Phone 282.
Operating Rooms Open tt
the Profession.
to the aood hospital cause and need
less to say it is a valuable addition
to the hospital equipment and a gift
muen appreciated.—Swift County
Monitor.
For a mild winter this has them al
beat to a frazzle. F. C. Campbell
reports striped gophers as playing
about on the prairie at J. Luekert's
farm they are troubled with snakes
creeping around the yard, and on
Tuesday Blois Barrett told us that
some of the farmers in town that day
were complaining thatmosquitos were
getting bothersome. Surely Califor
nia has nothing on us when it comes
to mild winter weather.—Browns
Valley Tribune.
For good pastime and healthy ex
ercise try Weber's Bowling Alley.—
Advertisement.
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