St. Paul daily globe., 1885-03-06


session, improving the last occasion by an
appeal to his brother members to deal fairly
by his company by placing all land grants in
the state on the same footing. As
result, when senate general orders
were reached, the committee rose,
the few house bills favorably recon-
mended and a few senate bills to
which there was no opposition were passed,
and minutes past u O'Clock an adjourn
ment was carried. Twelve senate bills were
not acted upon. Excepting file No. 2. no
one OF the bills was of any great Importance,
and the number that thus failed is rather
below than above the average of previous
sessions. The closing session will be held
this forenoon and the speakers gavel will
fall on the sine die adjournment at II m.
GRADED HIGH LICENSE DEFEATED.
The agony over the high license question
ended at 4: 25 O'Clock yesterday afternoon.
The question came up in the house on the
return from the senate of the house bill
amended by incorporating into 1t the graded
feature of Wilson IS senate bill. The senate
amendments resd, Mr.. TurreH moved the
house concur, which motion was seconded
by several parties In answer to Mr.. Collrs-
ter the speaker said he was of opinion
amendments could not be made to the bill
at its present stage. Mr.. Lienau called the
attention of the speaker to the
rule which provided in case of motions to
agree or disagree amendments to amend
ments were in order After reading the
rule the speaker called the attention of the
house to the language. In the meantime
Mr.. Collester, with the announcement that
he desired to offer an amendment, pro-
ceeded TO criticise the bill, among other
things, in that it did not exempt druggists
or dispensareS from its operation. He
further said be could not understand the OBJ
ject of the bill, as no claim was made that it
would decrease drinking. 1t was not, in
fact, claimed to be temperance measure.
II simply took money from some parties and
put it in the pockets OF others. The bill was
an assault upon the personal liberty, because
it compels whole communities TO comply
with certain arbitrary requirements. 1t per-
mitted that kind of personal liberty
at one time in force in Spain, where a man
was privileged to profess any religion he saw
fit, but if he did not declare himself Catho-
lie the thumb-screws would be put to him
until he did. The personal liberty claim for
the bill is fraud. 1t is essentially high
license law, and for the sole benefit, in his
opinion, of st. Paul, Minneapolis and other
large cities of the state, and was direct
blow at the rights of the people OF country
districts. One object claimed for the law
was that it would clean out the low doggeries.
These high-toned, high-license men
don't want the modest little
saloons where the workman in
his frock and the farmer in his jeans can sit
l. 90 Tt -. -
these saloons that make drunkards, but the
high-licensed saloons, with their FURNISHED
mirrors, lewd pictures, brilliant furnishing,
binding gas and attractive music, that make
drunkards, and it is this class of saloons the
bill will encourage, while it will initiate
against the poor man who is engaged in the
business. He opposed the measure because
he could see no good in it, and because its
effect would be to build up the rich aud
gaudy palaces, which faunt their seductive
attractions in the eyes of the young and
tempt them into the paths of sin that lead to
destruction.
Mr.. Durant argued that 10 general amend
ment could be made to the bill, but he was
overruled by the chair, upon which Mr.. Dyar
appealed from the decision of the chair but
withdrew il, it,whercupon Mr.. Turrell explained
that amendments were only designed for de-
lay and to kill the bill. The amendment of
Mr.. Collester was then read and was in effect
that the law should not apply to druggists. At
first Mr.. Dyar accepted the amendment but
withdrew his acceptance, and on a vote the
amendment was rejected.
Mr.. Pattee, in reply to Mr. Collester, said
that gentleman had not touched the core of
the argument. Touching the plea that the
bill was blow at personal liberty, Mr. Pattee
claimed that no man had the right to do that
which did another injury. Would it be
claimed that doggeries were good to society!
He claimed they were not, but an injury,
and when a saloon was deprived Of doing
that injury no harm was done, but benefit
on the contrary. 1t would be an everlasting
disgrace II this bill was not passed, and mem
bers would be held respon sible. Prohibition
had been tried for three years in Northield.
Now they had a S400 license, and the saloon
keepers walked up and paid the amount, and
were making more money than any other
class. He did not claim the bill would put
a stop to drinking but would drive some
saloons out of the small towns and some
small saloons out of the large cities, and
thus do some good, sufficient to warrant the
experiment. The bill is 4 beginning, and
if passed would say to the city OF st. Paul ct
al that they are but the agents of the state
to strengthen its arm in the enforcement
Of law and order. By passing the
law the Legislature will but come up to the
moral sense of the people. II it is not done,
members may prepare themselves to face a
disgraced aud outraged constituency.
Mr.. Daniels moved the previous question,
and the roll being called there were AZ yeas
and nays 36. So the previous question was
ordered. The senate amendments were then
concurred in, when on Mr.. Dyars motion a
call of the house was had.
Before the call of the roll was commenced,
Mr.. Foster took the floor and said he should
be compelled TO vote no, because
he did not believe high license
would advance the cause of temperance.
IL ne thought so he would vote for the bill as
he was temperance man. He did not be-
lieve the gilded saloon is the kind of place
we ought TO aim to create, aud such he be-
lieved was the effect Of this BILL II the object
were to lessen the number OF saloons that |
could be done by a simple measure to limit
saloons to q certain population. high IL |
cense would not, he believed, either lessen
the number of saloons or lessen the amount
Of drinking.
The roll was then called aud resulted yeas
44, nays A, as follows:
YEAS.
Batchelder, Fiddes, Olson.
Bean, Flynn, Pattee,
Blackburn, Griffin, Porter,
Bradford, Hoimstrom, Pratt
Brown, Hush, Saettre,
BnrlinSame, Lee, Smith, J.
CaiHe, Lightley, Snider,
Carson. Mckenney, Snow
Coultsr Ackusick Stanhan