St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-18

When the legislature meets and the com
mittees begin to hold regular sessions, some
IF the officials who have been occupying
he committee rooms as permanent quar-
teIs will be obliged to move and give way
20 lawmakers. The railroad commission
and the grain inspection force. which have
oeen in the larger committee rooms opening
from the senate chamber, will be moved
from the capitol building. The grain in
spect ors viii have headquarters in the Cap
it0l block at the corner Of Tenth and Wa
basha. and the railroad commissioners will
probably secure rooms for there private
conferences in the block just adjoining,
while Secretary Warner will hold down
their official quarters at the capitol. AS
Ed Harmon, who has charge OF the capt.
fol building, and understands deal more
nf the affairs Of state than
he is usually credited with.
remarked. Der Authorization wos run
oud Tor der immigration business, und Mr..
Young, he kinder finds that he dond have
no job any more, so he dond stay in his old
room until der legislature meets, und he
finds out whether they renewS der abbro-
Driation." The room occupied by Secretary
state treaSurer's, and this Will be used dur
ing the winter by the state board of boiler
inspectors. The dairy commission also has
e committee room, the one used last session
bv the house railroad committee. and it will
probably be necessary TO secure quarters
elsewhere for the regulators of the butter
product. The repairs that have been under
way at the state house since early last sum-
mer ale nearly complete, and it is expected
that when the new officials shall have taken
their oaths of Office the entire building will
be IN ship shape for them.
AN INTERESTING PLACE.
The state capitol is just now one of the
most interesting places in the capital city.
i great many visitors come up there every
lay Some are newly-elected officers who
Want 10 look over the rooms they will in
habit after the ides of January, and they
walk the corridors with proud step, as if
Of ownership. Some of the visitors are de-
.eated candidates Tor state positions. who
come up apparently to look at the quarters
Of their successful rivals, with about that
air of jollity and fun that cheracteriZes the
faces of the mourners as they walk up to
take last look ''at the remains" But by
ar the larger number of visitors are men
Who want TO interview Mr.. McGill, TO secure
one of the plums that he is entitled to pass
around. either for themselves or friend.
Mr. McGill stays in the inner loom of the
suite used by the insurance commission. with
the door shut. TO get at him one must pass
directly in front of the desk of Mr.. Shan
drew, Mr.. McGills deputy. Gen. Mark ID.
Flower is often there to help Mr..
Shandrew stand off the visitors, and
he sits with his feet upon a desk,
and a smile of confidence on his face.
a great many men get past these two SEN
tinelS, however, and so numerous are his
callers that MI. McGill hardly has time to
answer his private correspondence. When
the gOvernor-elect is busy the visitors in
waiting drop across the corridor, and with
Secretary Warner of the railroad commits
sion, discuss the probabilities of the present
commissioners being reappointed or guess
who will be the next private secretary to
the governor. 1t is understood that Mr..
McGiIl has instructed Mr. ShandTew to
make out set of numbers, like those used
in the BARRIERS shops and to compel
all who set foot within his private
room to come in the order of arrival,
always excepting Gen. Flower, who has
the right of way in advance of all corners.
The Lord and Mr.. McGill only know
what these calls of the various applicants
amount to, and neither Of them give out
anything definite in the matter" said one
Of the state house officials who will quit his
present job early in the year of our Lord
1887.
IN THE AUDITORS OFFICE.
The deputies and clerks in the Office of
the state auditor wear calm and trusting
look that is not noticed in some of the other
Offices. OF all the officers elected for the
next two years Auditor Braden in the only
one who is there now. and the fact that he is
to remain may account for the undisturbed
looks that lie peaceful on the faces of his
subordinates. Deputy Kenyon goes about
his work just as he has for the past two or
three years, and there is no vision of empty
coal h0ds in sight, apparently. He seems
TO have deep-seated conviction that long
after Gen. JennisOn has packed his grip
and said goodbye. and when the last echo
Of Sam Nichols heavy bass voice shall
have ceased to resound through the CORR
doris: when another man shall sit in Charles
kittelSon's chair. and other lips and other
tongues their tale of law shall tell in the
attorney generals Office, he will still stand
at the same desk ana with the same suavity
as Of yore. answer the thousand questions
that an anxious public fires at the auditor
daily. Whole volumes might be written
if the gossip of the officials as to who will
have desk room beneath the state house
dome next year should be printed. The
railroad commissioners. to a man, say they
are content. If appointments come their
way, all We'll and good; if not, somebody
else will find that it is no soft job to be a