St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-15
SEVERAL BIG SURPRISES.
Enemies of the administration
Will Have to Eat Crow.

Special to the Globe
BISMARCK, OAK, Jan. 14.-It will be
a painful surprise to the opponents of
the administration, who for year or
more have been sounding the alarm that
the Democratic government was hasten
ing the territory to financial ruin. to
learn that Dakota is nowhere near bank
ruptcy. From the treaSurer's report it
appears that in number OF funds,
created by Republican legislature two
years since, there are large SURPRISES,
and already Mr.. Patten has introduced
a bill into the council authorizing the
auditor to convert these uneXpended
balances into the general fund,
thus rectifying the Democratic
error of conducting the financial
affairs of the territory upon an ecOnom-
ical basis. When Towner county was
created, six or eight years ago. it was
carved out of Cavalier and ROlette, but,
through an oversight, was not included
in any legislative district. Twice since
then it has been lost in the shuttle, while
the northern districts were being sub
jected to the gerrymaudering process.
Four years ago it sent representative
here, who demanded seat in the lower
house on the ground that Republican
institutions sprang into life from the
principle that there should be no taxa
ton without representation, but the
United States congress limits the men,
bership of that branch of the legislative
body to forty-eight, and, as none of the
representative would volunteer their
seats to the standing gentleman from
the Mauvaise Coulee valley, he retained
home without the honorable prefix
to his honored name. Whether
this shutting out of Towner county
was the result of a job or merely an
oversight. will perhaps never be known.
But Mr.. Cameron has undertaken the
task of getting it on the list and unless
council bill No. 81 is secretly buried in
one of the numerous yawning graves
in the committee rooms, it will be at
tached to the Eighth district.
Mr.. Dollard has signed articles to
wrestle with the GrRco-Roman. catch
as-catch-can, in fact all-round champion
taxation problem of the world. OF all
ages. This terror has thrown all states
men who have had the hardihood to
tackle it since the days of Lycurgus,
and the odds against this modern Da-
kota law-giver are appalling. He wants
to make capitalists contribute their pro-
portion to the public Golfers, and tax in
GdUSlDlc HtdItus IL CUuiCS DGioic tlC
legislature in the guise of measure to
deduct the amount of the mortgage
from the assessed valuation of real es-
tate and require the mortgage to come
down with the difference-the face
value of the mortgage. Mr. Crawford,
however, wins the novelty in the legiS-
IatiOn contest. He has introduced a
bill abolishing the herd law, Oh the
local option plan. This infringement
on the temperance methods will excite
violent opposition from that quarter.
At least one feature of the bill will, and
it is reported that already an amend
ment has been prepared by champion
of the ''holy cause" which will be
offered at the first opportunity. 1t is
not that the enemies of whisky care
anything about how stock is
kept out of the growing. waving grain
fields, from which the hated intoxicant
is made, that arouses this opposition,
but because Mr.. Crawford thinks that
only owners of agricultural lands in the
county which shall propose TO abolish
the herd land, should be allowed to vote
upon the question. Now, the temper
ance captains see at glance that,
reasoning from analogy, only drinking
men should be allowed voice in the
decision of the question whether or not
LIQUORS can be sold within certain geo.
graphical limits, and this, of course,