Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 1, 1911, Page 4

a! PAGE FOUR. GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, (911. Brand Rapids Weralds' Review Published Every Wednesday By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rapids, Minnesota, as Second Class Matter. ——————————————oo Official Paper of Itasca County ———————————— Senator D. M. Gunn was selected | as the Eighth congressional district member to serve on the special sen- ate committee om reapportionment. ‘his recognization of his ability is no small compliment to the Grand) Rapids senator. D. M. Guan is class- ed among the ablest men in the Minnesota senate, pte ee SUE ea “Desperate diseases require de- The opponents are desperately perate remedies.” of reapportionment desperate remedies diseased, and must be applied. No compromise should be made with ‘the rascals who taok oath of office that they would support the constitution and are now laughing at the obligation they took with uplifted hand. The Minnesota spoate appears to be in meed of a leader of heroic proportions—one big and brainy enough to force these recalcitrants to do their duty as the state constitution says they shall do it. If needs be let morthern Min- nesota “Coxyize’ St. Paul. If that fails the people of this: section shoula putuse lo pay taxes until they are given just legislative representation. Pua Sia Austin Herald deplores counties of southern The the fact. thald the Minnesota have been misdirecting their energies for years—that they have been fishing for whales in a washtub. “We dwelt im a valley of visions and had a nightmare when The rushed through the census returns came in. settlers have been southern Minnesota to the northern the state,” says the Herald. And this it attmibutes to! the neghect to properly advertise the agricultural part, of land in Whe southern part of (Le is probably some ‘truth in this, but the majority of homeseekers who are allracted to Minmesota are un- able tof pay the high price asked for part of the and, furthermore, even if they laud in the souhtern slate; lad the money they would not pur- chase in that section when they can secure farms with virgin, soil—farms that have not been “worked to death”—in northern Minnesota fou less than a fourth of the price per acre. REAPPORTIONMENT. The lieved News Tribune has never that. be- | reapportionment would be secured, now or ever, without the stiffest kind of a fighy. Fairness, a sense of justice, even public desire, does not easily dominate selfish, or | political ambition and the greed of interests. | The opposition has come in just | ways we foretold. One place, however, the tacticians of reaction | have missed their guess. The time has passed when tonnage tax be used as a club over Northeastern Minnesota. That is a highwayman process that will be met as highway- men should’ be met by men of hones- ty and courage. The purpose of such a measure at this time is too patent; its object is too barefaced; the method is too brutally coarse to cause anything but repulsion. Northeastern Minne- | soia is through cringing before this | favorite weapon of selfish interests and the grey wolves of politics. It is even through arguing with those hoxest, deluded mortals whom argument makes only more unreason- able. If these prefer tp follow grey wolves, that is their privilege; if they prefer to ally themselves with the worst elements im Minnesota politics and be led by them, that is their privilege—Duluth News Trib- une. sordid, the can | stitution we now have. | mot you are bound by the organic law j of the state exactly | why strike it out? | will not vote for any other kind of | Teapportionment than that prescribed | Objection was made first by Senator OUTCOME VERY MUCH IN DOUBT Legislature Divided on Reap- portionment Question. UNIVERSITY DEFICIENCY BILL Some Features of Measure Severely | Criticised by Members of Both Houses. *St. Paul, Jan. 30.—To reapportion or not to reapportion—that is the ques- tion. The longer the legislature is in session the more serious is it seen to be. The hard road a simple resolution introduced in both houses at the sug- gestion of the joint reapportionment committee had to travel is an indica- tion of the strenuous opposition any measure for redistricting the state on which the committee can agree is bound to meet later. + be +e The resolution to which I refer re- cites in its preamble the constitutional provision that any reapportionment made must be in proportion to popula- tion. It then goes on to declare that in the opinion of the legislature the senators should not exceed sixty-three in number, nor the representatives 126. In the house J. N. Johnson of Canby, explaining that he had no ob- jection to the resolution, but “didn’t like the whereases,” opened the fight with an amendment to strike out that part of the preamble. This roused the war dogs. Mr. Congdon was sur- prised that anybody was afraid of the preamble. It simply recited the con- | Stitutional provisions verbatim and did not bind the members a single jota more than they were already | ‘bound by their oaths. +t + Mr. Johnson none the less insisted ' on his amendment. This brought Bob Dunn to his feet. “The, man,” he said, “who would vote for any other | or different kind of reapportionment than that presented by the constitu- tion which members are freshly sworn to observe and to obey comes danger- ously near committing perjury.” Then, turning to Johnson: “You call your- selves progressives,” he taunted “You profess great faith in the peo- ple. You loudly declare your devo- tion to equal rights. And yet in the matter of representation you want to | make distinctions.” Suggesting that the day may come when, in the inter- ests of good government, it may be necessary to restrict the political priv- | ilege of populous centers, “That,” he continued, “is not now the question We are face to face with conditions, not theories. It is our duty to redis trict the state at this session. There is only one way we can do it and that is according to the terms of the con How in God's name,” he cried emphatically,” can you advocate any other kind of reap- portionment than that demanded by the constitution which a few days ago you solemnly swore to obey.” Saeial gee iat Spooner of Morris also took up the gauntlet. Shaking his hoary locks the gladiator of the house sprang into the thick of the fray. “Why,” he de-| manded,” should the constitutional provision be stricken out of the reso- lution? What is behind’ this amend- ment? The preamble may be super- fluous, because whether it is there or the same. But I challenge you to say whether it is not because, in de- fiance of the constitution, you want to deprive the cities of the state of pro- portional representation? The cities may, under a constitutional reappor- tionment, get a larger representation What if they do? We can not help it. We can only reapportion the state ac- cording to the constitution we have. There is no other course oper to us if we reapportion at all. As for me, I by the terms of the constitution, be- cause I have sworn that I will not.” ies : All this occurred when the resolu- | tion was being considered in the com- mittee of the whole. The speeches of Dunn and Spooner settled the matter. They had the opponents of reappor- tionment at a disadvantage and they made the most of it. Johnson had no answer ready, whatever the merits of the position he took may have been. On the amendment being put to a vote it was defeated—71 to 44. The resolution was recommended for pas- sage without further objection. Later it came up for final passage and went through without trouble. ++ ¢ In the senate the same resolution has had even harder sledding. It had been before the senate up to the close of last week’s session several times. Wilson of Minneapolis. He thought the senate already much too large and would prefer to have it, like the sen- ates of Wisconsin and Michigan, be- tween thirty and forty. Further con- sideration was deferred at that time, although there was an evident dispo- sition to make trouble. Later the res- olution was again brought up on a | itol as will be difficult to resist. i This appropriates $600,000 odd for de- | ficiency in maintenance and for the) | state drainage board has been re- | Ralph, the engineer of the board. And ‘misrepresented by them, he should be j Tight of it. motion to suspend the rules and pass j it. This motion was put to a vote and defeated—22 to 40. The opponents of reapportionment were jubilant and claimed the vote foreshadowed the certain defeat of any reapportienment measure. It was, however, no certain) test, a number voting not to suspend | the rules who are known to favor re-' apportionment. Indeed, if the resolu- tion is defeated ultimately, as it may be, even that will not be decisive. | Members may balk now who by the! time a bill is ready may change their; minds. Public sentiment has to be) reckoned with. Such an exhibition of | it may later be made at the state cap- bt ok The university deficiency appropri- ation bill is having a hard time of it. completion and equipment of a num- ber of university buildings. of Park Rapids on the ground that in the construction of buildings the re- gents should not have gone beyond the money appropriated for them; that if they were satisfied with utility there was money enough to complete | them; that the excess was for orna-| mentation to satisfy esthetic tastes; | that the eauipment contemplated was | unnecessarily elaborate; that in addi-| tion to the requirements of the bill other demands of the board of regents were excessive. He wanted all educa-; tional appropriations considered to- gether, so that the primary and sec- ondary schools—the schools of the people—should get their proper share and the educational structure not be- come top heavy. bk be While, in spite of the opposition of Dr. Stone and others, the bill was crowded through the house, it has yet to run the gauntlet of the senate and there are a bunch of chaps there wait- ing to club the stuffing out of it. They have already got action in committee One day recently they took a whack, on the initiative of Senator Nelson, at the equipment of Elliot Memorial hos- pital. Among other items found was $40 each for bed pans; $9 for single iron cots—ordinary hospitals are sat- isfied with those which cost $4; $32 for dressirg tables, and so ox. This is regarded as substantiating _ Dr. Stone’s claims that the simplicity on which the most eminent surgeons pride themselves does not characterize the plans of the university specialists. ++ + The proposed investigation of the stricted to the investigation of Mr. this, too, after some difficulty. There were members of the house committee on drainage who wanted the whole | matter of the state drains gone into. They were overruled, however. So far as Mr. Ralph is concerned, the charges made against him at the meeting of the committee are such that, if there is no foundation for them or if he is the first to demand an investigation Now that it has come he says he wel- comes it. The charges extend back many years and refer to the construc- tion of many ditches and the proceed- ings in connection therewith and the payment therefor. The preamble to the house resolution asking for an in-} vestigation recites that in these mat- ters charges of negligence and incom- petence are made against Mr. Ralph. As a matter of fact the charges go deeper than that. It must, however, in justice to Mr. Ralph, be said that members of the drainage board ex- press every confidence both in his in- tegrity and faithfulness and in his capability. The investigation will no doubt demonstrate which side has the Representative Warner, who probably knows as much about the drains and the swamp lands of the state as any man in it, was promi- nent among Mr. Ralph’s accusers, and Representative Spooner is, among oth- ers, also zealous in the matter. The); committee appointed by the speaker | will begin the investigations called for by the resolution within a day or two. ‘ t+ + + “Never again,” declared Senator Denegre, holding up his hand to} heaven in solemn affirmation as he | withdrew his bill. And he gave evi- dence of a complete change of heart | by loudly professing his faith in wo-! man suffrage. The purpose of the bil! | in question was to give a married man | the right to dispose of his real prop- | erty without his wife’s consent. Talk | about women not being interested in| politics!’ They were onto Denegre’s bill in a minute and they proceeded | forthwith to make his life a burden, From one end of the state to the other the club women got busy. They de- claimed, they resoluted, and, detrac- tors say, they scolded. In St. Paul they held meetings, called the sena- tor before them, and gave him a wig- ging he is little likely to forget in a hurry. The unfortunate man stood it as long as he could; then he ran. Aft- erwards he tried to put a better face on it and said the women needed ed- ucating. He admitted, however, that he had neither the time nor the incli- nation to undertake the task of in- structing them. The ladies, on the other hand, scoff at the very idea that Denegre could teach them anything and venture the assertion that, as a result of their efforts, he himself has learned a few things; so there. + + + A joint resolution has been adopted in the house urging that provision he’ made for a nonpartisan tariff com- mission. The vote was unanimous, JOHN LAWSON. Opposi- | tion in the house was led by Dr. Stone |, MORE POWER FOR P.O. DEPARTMENT Appropriation Bill Carties Amend- ment fo Penal Laws. PLAN WAS DEFEATED ONCE. Some Objection Found Among Repub- licans to the New Progressive League. _ Senator Owen of Oklahoma Accuses | Senator Bourne of Appropriating His | Platform Ideas. By ARTHUR W. DUNN. Washington, Feb. .—{Special.]—For years the postoffice department has been trying to enlarge its powers in the matter of excluding certain papers | and obnoxious publications from the} mails, and it has finally won in the} eostoffice appropriation bill which re- cently passed the house. In that bill, is a provision as follows: “That sec-! tion 211 of the act to codify and revise the penal laws of the United States fs | amended by adding thereto the follow- ng: ‘And the term “indecent” within the intendment of this section shall in- clude matter of a character to incite arson, murder or assassination.’ ” When section 211 was originally un- der consideration in both the senate and house there was a bitter fight over the attempt to have this amendment inserted. Its opponents asserted that the amendment was intended to give the postoffice department greater pow- er over the press, for the department could alone determine what was “mat- ter of a character to incite” the differ- ent crimes named. The provision was rejected in both senate and house. It was not so very long ago that the whole country was wrought up over the Penrose bill, No. 1518, which was | about on the same lines. The protests against this bill poured in to such an extent that it was killed upon the re- quest -of its author. Wo one seems to have been interested in the amendment to the revised. istatutes in the postoffice appropriation | ‘pill. A point of order by any one man would have killed the provision. Why All Do Not Join. Opposition to the new Progressive | Republican league is found among quite a number of men who are pro- gressive Republicans based on the the- ory that, while the progressives may be able to work together for many re- forms, the general movement will be retarded by the adoption of a pro- “It is like this,” said one of them, “While I can agree with Senator La Follette on half a dozen different mat- ters and work with him to cause their adoption, there are others upon which we disagree. Now, if we form an or- ganization and attempt to put down on a sheet of paper a set of principles we will find ourselves unable to agree, and those upon which we can all unite SOdddbdetedectecdecpocteteecgecgortocdoctoctoo sfocdoctond sleedoeteetectoofoolordor dee esdorfordor will be endangered. “There will also be a fear that the organization is a move to lead men out ef their party, and party allegiance is of considerable consequence to many men. The traditions of the party and what it stands for are sacred to many of us. Besides, it seems to me that many of the reforms we are seeking can be best accomplished by working in the party and with those who are likely to be antagonistic if measures are put forward by the new progres- Bive league.” Appropriation of Platform. | It caused considerable amusement when Senator Owen of Oklahoma said that Senator Bourne of Oregon had ap- propriated for the Progressive Repub- lican organization the platform which Owen had constructed. Only a year ago Bourne made a speech out/ining the Oregon plan, and Owen followed it with a speech highly commending Bourne’s speech and saying that it ought to be read by every person in the country. Bourne and Owen were joint advocates of measures by which the people were to regain full contro) of their affairs. Many times William J. Bryan has asserted that Theodore Roosevelt ap- propriated the principal planks in his platform. Then it has been recalled that many of the reform measures urged by men of both parties were pro- mulgated by the Populist party twen- ty years ago. It is difficult to prove patents upon progressive measures. Wasn't One of Them. Congressman Helm of Kentucky was making a vigorous speech against in- creasing salaries the other day, and he referred to the bill passed by the house which would increase the pen- sion payments by $45,000,000. “Did you vote for or against that pill?” asked Congressman Hobson of Alabama. L “I voted against it,” declared Helm. “It may defeat me, as mine is a close district, but I opposed it.” ; Very few men can be found who will acknowledge that they opposed the pension bill, and.as there was no rec- ; rd vote no one can say who did vote ainst the bill when it passed. | A Large Trade. | From the Straits Settlements, in the orient, of which Singapore is the cen- ‘ter, the United States buys goods to the amount of $20,000,000 a year. Probably a large share of the pur- chase is sugar, but, even so, it shows a big trade from that faroff portion of the world. The same region only buys $2,000,000 worth of goods from this country. , | Ce eee ~ Clothes Make The Man The old saying that clothes do not make the man has been exploded and in the present age the man who wishes to succeed pays particular attention to his per- sofial appearance. 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