Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-29
THE HOUSE.

Inc forenoon session OF the House was de-
voted to business, the afternoon to CAB. The
work of the morning was disposed of with
out any unnecessary amount of debate, yet
it appeared as if the members were hardly
awake, for they persisted in introducing mat
tiers long after the order to which they prop
erly belonged had passed. If Speaker Gil
man should refuse to entertain business out
of its regular order the members might be
brought to realizing sense of the fact that
attention is essential to the proper admins
tration of their trust.
There was full attendance of members
after dinner, and many of them appeared to
be distressed by something. Perhaps it was
too much turkey and cranberry sauce; per-
haps it was a speech. The GLOBE spectator,
in the light of subsequent events, concluded
that it was the latter complaint that allied
them. Soon after the gavel fell the House
went into committee of the whole-that
safety-valve for pent-up eloquence-on gen.
eral orders. First came Mr.. Mead's bill to
guard the rights of Minnesota children. It
was read by sections without objection till
the fifth was reached, providing for the pay
ment of fines to the society for the proven
ton of cruelty to animals. member
| moved to strike that section out. Mr.. Mead
was grieved, and expressed himself on the
question. This led several other gentlemen
to express themselves. Then it was found
that there had been verbal inaccuracies in
various parts of the bill. Each speech
brought forth reply, and each reply re-
joinder, until there were recorded on the
faithful fah1afo If %ho II
than seventeen speeches on matter of no
consequence. Finally the bill was recon-
mended for passage substantially as it came
from the pen of its author.
Mr.. Jones' tramp bill was hardly as for
tunate. Its reading progressed quietly for
time, but finally the axe fell in the shape
of. motion by Mr.. James Smith, Jr., to
strike out the second, third, fourth and sixth
sections. Mr.. Jones pleaded elcquently for
the bill in its entirety, and gave some pointed
illustrations of the evils that the people have
to endure from the tramps, and pictured the
great blessings that would follow their sum-
mary suppression. He even attempted to
bride the member from Ramsey by an invi-
tatlon to the dinner to the members of the
press tonight, if he would withdraw his
motion, but Mr.. Smith was inexorable, and
the motion was carried. Mr.. Jones pulled
| down his vest, heaved a sigh that caused the
| chandeliers to culver, and after Speaker Gil
man bad come to his rescue by motion to
| refer the remnants to special committee,
he quilted the hall, with frown for the first
| time during the session mantling his noble
brow. And as he paced down the aisle some
graceless gamin in the gallery whistled
"Tramp, tramp, tramp" very inappropri-
| ately.
Next came the joint resolution authoriz-
ing the State to borrow money for the pay
ment of MIR. Merrill, of text book notoriety
This provoked debate, of course It was
discussed in all it's bearings, the advocates of
the measure claiming that it was but design
ed to fulfill all obligation into which the
State had entered year ago, while it's op-
ponents declared that it was an injustice to
all the districts that had paid for their books
and to those districts that had not taken ad-
vantage of the law. Forty-two speeches
were made on the subject eleven
by Mr.. Comstock, nine by w. M.
Campbell, two by S. L. Campbell, two by
MIR. Hicks, two by J. A. Smith, three by j.
N. Stacy, and the remainder by various other
Representatives. Eloquence rang through
the hall from east to west and from north to
south, and when everybody had become
weary it was voted to recommend the reso-
luton for passage.
Two or three other bills provoked debate,
and finally the committee rose and reported
progress. The net results of the day were
not very tremendous, but the members gain
ed $50 each for postage stamps and got rid
OF one or two d'sagreeable subjects.