Thus controlling all appropriations!
the cabinet has a most effective fclub
over new members, who cannot get
local bills through, or secure appropri
ations to increase their prestige at
home excepting by this cabinet consent,
given on condition that they do the bid
ding of the cabinet Refusal to play
the game as directed invites with
drawal of all favors and even more po
tent means of discrediting the member
among his home people.
The bulletin states that actual brib
ery is reduced to a minimum in Minne
sota. legislature. The necessity for
buving and selling members was large
ly obviated by the fact that such com
ponent parts of the pool interest as the
Minnesota Liquor Dealers Association
were so largely successful in electing
friends at the last elections. Paying
a member's pre-election expenses or
otherwise influencing his success may
constitute a form of bribery, but hot so
direct as the money itself. Tha pool
accomplishes its work by more subtle
methods of a coercive nature, already
pointed out, rather than bribery*
There were forms of bribery, such as
tickets to the theatre and the leg-pull
ing operations whereby grafters
through the introdution of threatening
bills compelled certain interests to
"come down" with the cash to buy
them off also inducements in the form'
of "tips" on the market of stocks.
