St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-07
separation of the wheat from the chaff than
had been done by the senate reporters OF the
session lust closed.

separation of the wheat from the chaff than
had been done by the senate reporters OF the
session just closed.
Senator Comstock warmly endorsed the
sentiments expressed by Senator Castle.
Senator Hickman said he could bear wit
ness to the fairness and impartiality of the
journalists and so could the senate.
Lieut.. Gov. Gilman said that if he had a
voice in expressing the views of the senate
as to the reporters, he would heartily concur
in the sentiments expressed BY Senator Cas-
tie and other senator's. The resolution was
unanimously adopted.
Senator Sergeant offered a resolution ten
dering the thanks of the senate to Secretary
Jones for the faithful, gentlemanly and eff
cient discharge of his arduous duties.
Unanimously adopted.
THE ''wooDCHUCK" SESSION
was presided over by Senator Comstock,
president pro TEN. of the senate.
Senator ''John Jones'' introduced bill to
remove the capital of the tate to Minneap-
oils. The bill provided that the city of Min
neapolis should raise 100000 to pay for
another capital building by subscription.
Senator Pllsbury wanted the bill passed
under suspended rules, on the ground that
it was "local measure.'
Senator Billson wanted to amend by in
serting Duluth in the place of Minneapolis
in the bill. Lost
Senator Rice wanted to amend by remov
ing the capital to Kandiyohi county, it being
central, etc. Carried.
Senator Billson moved that the lake
wbereon the capitol should be placed should
not be drained without the consent of the
people of the state.
Senator Rice said if the bill passed he
should revise his opinion of the present
legislature, which has been very profuse in
less meritorious expenditures.
Senator Waite thought second state
prison would be much more appropriate
''woodchuck'' for Kandiyohi county. The
bill passed as amended.
SPECIAL LEGISLATION.
Senator Blake offered the following con-
current resolution:
WHEREAS. 1t is painfully apparent that
the modest and difddent senator from Kan
diyohi county has lamentably failed during
the present session to secure ''woodchuck''
or any other kind of ''chuck," and
WHEREAS, We believe virtue ought to be
much better rewarded than it has been in
this case; therefore,
RESOLVED, That the senator aforesaid be
and is hereby authorized and required to
take, keep and appropriate to his own use
for the term of his natural life the building
known as the state capitol, to remove the
same TO the lands of the Kandiyohis, where,
surrounded by his numerous progeny, he
may in his declining years sit in the shade
of its classic walls and recall to memory his
many victories in the cause of virtue, moral
ity and the rights of the poor and the OPP
pressed.
While the resolution was under discussion,
with an excellent prospect of its speedily be-
coming part of the law of the common
wealth and monument to the wisdom of the
woodchuck session of the senate of 1885, the
braZen tongues of clamOrOus time announced
from the church steeples that the hour of high
noon had arrived, and that the ultimate
period of power of the woodchuck legislature
had been reached and that the resolution had
perished for want of time, and the senate ad
journed sine die.
IN THE HOUSE.
As early as 9:30 yesterday morning men,
bers began to assemble in the chamber for
the closing session of the house of the twen
ty-fourth Minnesota legislature, but it was
1918 when the usual scenes of the last hours
of session, in which ordinary Legislative
decorum is very largely supplanted by bur-
lesque proceedings, was inaugurated by Mr..
Snider of Hennepin as speaker pro TEN. call
ing the body to order, or more properly, dis
order, as his assumption of the speakers
chair seemed but the needed signal for
awakening all the spirit of mischief latent in
the minds Of members. A great laugh was
raised by DR.. Murphy gravey proposing a
committee TO inquire into the condition of
his friend from Blue Earth, Spaulding, who,
he understood, had had bad night of it in
passing woodchucks. Then, on motion of
Mr. Edmond, 1t was voted that all mem
bers should be permitted to smoke and pelt
their fellow members with paper balls. The
latter part of the privilege was most zeal
ously improved, and at times the flight of
printed bills, newspapers and even reports of
state officers was wonderful to behold Mr..
Myers, the gentleman who ON one occasion
gravely assured the house his constituency
had been reduced by the encroachments Of
railroad monopolies to diet of straw, was a
favorite mark for paper missiles.a half dozen
or more members once fairly burying him in
their paper offerings, to which a few chairs
were added in the way of ballast All the
time perfect food of resolutions were be-
ing sent up and read, most of them being
hits and burlesques of some incident of the
session, such as declaring that section 262 of
the penal code should only apply to the God
dess of Justice surmounting the
capitol and the senior member
from Washington (Durant); authorizing
Mr.. Canning to build the Duluth d
Winnipeg railroad; Mr.. Thompson to pay the
tax proposed by senate file No. 2 on the
lands of the St. Paul & Sioux City company,
and another gravely reciting that whereas
j. j. Hill possessed
ONLY ONE HUNDRED BULLS;
and whereas. there were 104 members of the
house: therefore, resolved, that Mr.. Hill be
ordered TO purchase four more bulls so there
need be no discrimination in their distribu-
ton to memb bers," and many others of the
same general character. Finally Mr.. Snider
was deposed by Mr.. Teubert as speaker pro
tenn, but that gentleman declining to as
sumo the honors, he was seized by Messrs.
Myers, Fiddes, Griffin, Edmond and Snow
aud forcibly installed in the speakers chair,
where he caused much merriment by his
original wsy OF putting motion, viz: "All
who favor viii say by indicating by saying
that you vote aye"
Mr.. Teubert was soon supplanted by Mr..
Duraut as representative OF the Democratic
party, as also tie ladies' man of the house.
who signalized his elevation to the position
By making a really happy little speech, in
which he said he accepted the honor not for
himself. but as his party's representative and
also out of compliment to the ladies, in his
opinion the two chief factors on which de-
pended the future prosperity Of the state.
Tne state and corporations interested in the
development of the state we're spending large
sums Of money to bring in immigration,