St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-02

were it not for the fact that his motive,
revenge, is so well known, he could
make life burden to his eXcellency.
Even as it is, he will let no Democrat
hold job that is soft as dOwny pill
lows are" There are two Republican
members of the house who have refused
to enter this combination to
prosecute the administration that
are being criticised rather harshly
by some violent partisans, but
Time, the only just judge of mems ac-
tons, will smile apprOvingly upon F.
Fl. Adams, of Griggs, and j. B. Well
come, of Ward, for declining with thanks
to be whipped into party lines on this
barbarous measure. There are no two
men in the house who can better afford
to act independently, for their records
as straight Republicans rank second to
making the most noise about the mat
ter. Gov. Church has generally given
good reasons for his vetoes, and
the fight against him is waged purely
Oh personal and party grounds. EX-
Attorney General Hughes took issue
with him on the grounds assigned for
vetoing the JOINT resolution providing
for the appointment of special COM
mittee to investigate the Yankton
asylum trouble, but that was merely
difference of opinion upon fine legal
point. The governor needs no further
defense or his administration, so far as
the finances are concerned, than his
message upon this subject. The trans
parent effort of Pierce's st. Paul organ
to reveal mares nest in this cOnnec-
ton deceived no one. The difference
in the statements of the governor, treas
urer and public examiner referred to is
due simply to the difference in the
dates of these documents.
THIS is STRICTLY GENERAL,
With No Personal Feature, and
No Member Should See His
Features in 1t.
Special to the Globe.
BISMARCK, Feb. LIT may be pleas
ing to the vanity of some pompous shoe
string legislators to deceive themselves
into the belief that they are extending a
courtesy" by permitting reporters to
occupy desks Oh the floors of the houses,
but they can't whereas and resolve the
public into regarding the matter in any
such light. This is an antiquated idea,
handed down from an age of romance
that, perhaps, should never be profaned
by contradiction, and surely never
would be if some people didn't try
to make the newspaper men feel
that they were under obligations to in
dividual members for the courtesy"
and impress upon their minds that this
is string on them that should bar any
adverse criticism of either the men or
measures that furnish amusement for
observers in the gallery. Of course the
truth regarding this matter is that it is
merely an arrangement, mutually bene-
fetal. If there were no reporters pres
ent these same men would not neglect
their private business to come here and
pose as Solons for 81 a day and liberal
mileage. They want the fame. or no
t0riety, or whatever it really is that
they acquire upon the floor of the houses
and they can have this longing satisfied
in no other way than through newspa-
per reports. When they copper this
statement everybody knows they will
lose, and to expell any one reporter
from the floor can be exceeded in
puerile idiocy only by threatening to do
SO if he doesn't perform his work ac-
cording to their elevated ideas of ire
spectability." More than this, many of
them are ever seeking personal 'putfs."
and are as appreclative as semi-profes-
sional musicians and sensible to criti-
ciSm as
sTAGE-STRUCK GIRLS.
1t matters not whether the item per-