St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-30
Blaine. Alger and Allison Said
to Be Booked by Ben
jamin.
They Are Considered by Astute
Politicians to Be Cabinet
CertaintieS.
Level-Headed Arkansas Leg
islators Send Berry Back
to the Senate.
Special to the Globe.


ell received messages from the gov
ernor to-day approving the bill repeal
ing the gross earnings law, and the
joint resolutions providing members
with codes, session laws and $40 worth
of stamps. The bill providing for a
joint committee to investigate the affairs
! of the jamestown asylum passed. and
Cameron and Erickson were appointed
committeeman from the council. A
couple of hours were consumed in a
red-hot discussion of the uSury bill. 1t
passed with an amendment making the
acceptance of usury misdemeanor, in
stead of FORGETTING all interest. Poin-
dexter introduced a resolution call
ing on Secretary Mccormack for
full account of the dispo-
sition of fees received for
notary public commissions. This has
the same object as PattOn's house reSo-
luton asking the governor for the same
information. Atkinson introduced a
bill requiring insurance companies to
pay the face value of policy in case Of
loss. Representative Hunter had his
| baby in the house to-day, which excited
more interest than the proceedings.
! The speakers gayel was necessary to
| divest the members attention from
! this pleasant domestic scene to the
! reading Of the veto message. They per-
tanned to two joint resolutions. one pro-
viding members with six newspapers,
the other appropriating funds for extra
clerk hire. They were made the special
| order of business for tomorrow at 5
O'Clock. Aitkens. the broken-hearted
and defeated candidate for the speaker
ship, stopped smoking his cigar
cite long enough to introduce a
resolution censuring the GLOBE
| correspondent Tor reporting converse
ton between several members regard
ing CaSs countys representatives, and
! threatening to eXpel the offender if he
does not behave himself in future. 1t
was through the influence of those
members said to have been slandered
| that the facts in the case were not
adduced. The following appropria-
| ton bills were introduced: By Nulter.
$4,000 for the Madison Normal school:
by Parkin. $1,000 for printing the laws
passed this session in the newspapers:
by Trude. for the Rapid City school of
mines, 100000; by Bennett, $4,000 for
Grand Forks university. Mr.. White
wants to exempt from taxation all lands
used for public highways. Mr.. Cooke
introduced the regulation woman'S suf-
| frage bill.
| HIRED HELP HUSTLING.
| Some of the hired help around the
capitol for which there is no provision
in the organic actor territorial constitu-
| ton, or wherever such things are at
tended to. have had rocky road to
travel since their home supply of funds
was exhausted. One of this class of
clerks was heard to remark that he had
stood his landlady off SO frequently
with reports of the progress of the bill
making special provision for him and
| his kind that he would frequently go
hungry rather than sing again this Oft
repeated song. He was eXaggerating
the case, of course. but there has been
some Inconvenience experienced
from this source. The bill should
have been introduced earlier in the ses-
sion. but was neglected in the general
| rush for positions. The cierkships have
been given out regardless of civil sery-
tributed strictly upon the basis of Serv-
ice to members personally. and the men
have been favored to the prejudice of
the ladies. There are dozen or more
fair applicants for places, several from
distance, who have lent the
CHARM OF THEIR PRESENCE
to the narcotic sessions with a regularity
that deserves a rich reward, but they
have been outrageouslv slighted so far.
Up to date Fletcher, of Brown. has led
all members in the number of bills in
troduced and the really startling char
acter Of the legislation proposed. He
is radical in his views, and appears
to bel ieve that the talismanic words
''Be it enacted have the power of rev.
olutioniZing and reforming the world.
His railroad bill. should it ever become
law, would be worse than paralytic
stroke to the corporations at which it is
aimed. Then that boarding house
measure. making it a felony for tired
and hungry traveller to get meal or
bed unless he has the collateral" to
pay for it, is so cruel in conception that
it is thought some For the-preyentiOn"
society will send lobby here to Stay it.
But one day since the session opened
has the bill clerk performed his duties
without writing that name at least once,
and often frequently. No fault can be
found with the provisions of the Cas-
selton agricultural college bill, for it is
said to have been drafted by a gentle
man who comes as near being about
right as they are ever made, but the
Cass county delegation here doesn't Oc-
cupy very
ENVIABLE POSITION,
and. if it doesn't go through on its mer-
its alone, then the chances are against
it. 1t is now claimed by the friends OF
Fargo that the members from that dis
trict were not any too jealous in trying
to secure the constitutional convention
for that place. the reason assigned be-
ing that the city gave the. straight Re-
publican legislative ticket a majority in
the late election. and this was thought
to be good opportunity to impress
UPON the metropolitan mind that 1t
mustn't do so again-if the rural ''dees-
tricts' object. Everybody krows now,
what the GLOBE stated week ago, that
the original intention of the Grafton
element was merely to secure a hand
some complimentary vote, if possible,
and look very pleasant when pointing
out the fact to their constituents as evil
dence of how near they came to seeur-
ing a choice plum against great odds:
but the gentlemen from the Sixteenth
antagonized certain Of their natural al
lies, and the Grafton men accepted the
concession from the house as a great,