St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-16

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Representative Haven-There is moth |
ing in his Nane's) argument. If. as the
gentleman from Hennepin says, the oil |
inspector gets but $3.50 year. cannot |
understand why he should be about |
here fighting a senate bill which pro-
poses to give him 81, 400 year. The |
senate file has been drawn with care
and covers all the points of the inSpec-
ton law.
Representative Smith, have no in
terest in these bills above that of a citi
zen. We understand that the fees of
the oil inspector have been public
that the oil inspector received $4,000
last year. but the oil inspector stands
back and says you don't know anything
about it. Well, it would be very easy
for the oil inspector to come in here and
show what he does get. But he doesn't
do it. The gentleman from Hennepin
QIane) has drawn sheet over his head
and comes here and cries to the farm
ers: ''Boo!" ILaughter.] Now, don't
think that he is going to scare them.
This senate bill does not interfere
under which the gentleman from
Hennepin acknowledges no explosions
of Oil occur. That is all we want, then,
as to inspection, and this senate bill
simply provides for the mode of COM
pensation for the Gil inspectors. All l
desire is that we put this office upon a
business basis and remove this public
scandal of the oil inspector receiving as
much as all of the judges of the SUI
preme court receive together. Outside
of the question of politics l can see no
reason why we should not pay the oil
inspector as we do any other officer. Ii
tho rnSnlfS nf tho law q c
satisfactory as he says they are. why
should we pass the complicated law of
the gentleman from Hennepin, which Is
sc complicated that he says we could
not understand it? The trouble is this
question of the salary, and not the law
of inspection.
Mr.. Lane and Mr. Smith here become
involved in wordy discussion as to the
degrees OF ignorance possessed by each
in regard to the merits and dement's of
thr present oil inspection system. Mr..
Lane paid Mr.. Smith compliment:
''He is one of those thin-skinned, rosy
checked, brightfac gentlemen, who
shiver every time they are criticised,
and because some newspaper says this
oil business must 20 he ShiverS and
kicks.''
Representative Smith-It makes no
difference to me whether the st. Paul
GLOBE or the Minneapolis Tribune
favors this senate bill. Mr.. Lane has
staked his all on this bill. and the gen.
tleman from ReDVille Davis and the
gentleman from Mcleod (Sumner) have
worn the soles off their boots and holes
in the carpet of this house trOtting back
and forth to Mr.. Lanes seat in the in
terests of his bill.
MIR. Ives wound himself up i'm an in
tricate spiders web at this juncture
(haying just arrived), trying to find out
where he was, and the house was ON
these bills.
what does Mr.. Lane say about it?"
Representative Heidemann-I move
that we take recess of five minutes to
allow Mr.. Lane and Mr.. Ives to confer.
RepreSen tative Lane-lf the gentle
man from Brown will retire to the tele-
graph Office for a minute a roar of
laughter we will Straighten this out.
Mr. Ives made the point that it was
diScOurteSy to Lane to substitute
senate bill for his, although Mr.. Lane
had offered no serious objections to q
motion to this effect. Mr.. Lane got up
| and said that he had been treated with
10 diScOurteSy.
Representative Young opposed the
senate bill.
Representative Benson-I well re-
member Mr.. Lanes statement to this
house that the present inspection law
| was a beneficial one. What we want it
| to do is to remove this Scandal-an
| office so rich that it enables the incum-
bent to give to the governor and his
wife presents of two or three thousand
dollars year. l think the good sense
Of this house is to pass this senate bill.
Representative Dunn-I am no par
ticular friend of the present oil in
tal,D l,a,
been made that the country papers are
bowling for this reform. fail to find
| this howl anywhere but in the Demo
| cratic papers, and among those who are
enemies to Gov. Merriam and Mr..
! Nichols. don't believe it is our busi-
ness to pass bill sent here by the SEN
ate. The senate is not very courteous
| to the house. Under the senate bill the
deputies will get all the fees and the
state not nickel-they'll steal it all.
Representative Sevatson opposed the
| senate bill and favored Lanes.
| REPRESENTATIVE Hoyt-Mr. Lanes pc
culiarity in discussing a bill which he
| favors is to surround it with mystery,
and to make it appear complicated.
| We can only remedy this oil inspection
evil by passing this senate bill. This
| Lane bill. and these amendments at
| tached are measures only presented to
kill off any legislation on this subject
and to permit the oil inspector to go on
| for the next two years drawing these
enormous fees. 1t is only right that
these fees charged on the consumer by
the oil companies, should come back into
proper for this legislature to refuse to
| do something to remedy this evil.
Representative Morgan-When we
| find a man receiving $4,000 or $4,000
| for services that are not worth One-third
| of that. it is our plain duty to stop it.
| This matter has been stencil in the
nostrils of the people of this state for
the last five years.
| A motion to substitute the senate bill
for the house bill was carried by vote
of SO to q. This was blow under the
ribs for the oil inspectors friends.
| Some leaned over and whispered to
| Dunn:
I'VE can kill it on third reading"
Representative Hay moved that when
the rose the senate bill be recommended
to pass. Then the anti-reformers be-
gan an attempt to kill the bill with
amendments. Representative Eastman
amended to make the Inspectors salary
so per cent of all the fees collected.
Representative Haven The only
object Of these amendments is to kill
the bill.
Mr. Lane sprang to his feet and cried
out:
''You might as we'll face the music
now. 1 DOM believe that you can ever
pass this senate bill. Let US agree on
compromise. You have only thirty
seven votes for your senate bill, and
don't believe you can get any more.''
Representative Hoyt-These amend
ments are to kill the bill. And We'll
take our chances on passing this senate
bill without any suggestions from the
gentleman from Hennepin.
Representative Smith-We will face