St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-23
Hear Cy Wellington, at the Jackson
street rink, this evening.

Hear Cy Wellington, al the jackson
street rink, this evening.
A. ii. Hall. of Minneapolis, the au-
burn-haired and astute confidential
manager of Congressman Snider'S cam
paign, is putting in good deal of time
In st. Paul just now. Perhaps ne
thinks it is necessary, under the cir
cumStanceS. He is quite wrotil over a
report that ST. Paul may give the cap
tain black eye on account of the fail
ure of the public building bill. on the
theory that he was responsible. Said
MIR. Hall:
Nothing is ever gained by abuse and mis-
representation in politics. 1t always reacts.
and the truth is hound to come out The
fact of the matter is that Mr.. Snider did all
he could with that bill aid did more than
probably anybody else could
How do you make that Out?'
Just this way. The bill for an appropria-
| ton for public building in st. Paul was in
troduced in the senate by Senator Davis and
in the house by Representative Snider in the
early part OF the session of congress just
closed. These bills called for an appropria-
| ton of $1.500.0 @. The senate bill was
passed, but it was found impossible to secure
| so large all appropriation III the house. and
| substitute bill was then introduced by Repre-
sentative Snider appropriating Sso0,600.
| This bill was favorably reported to the house
/ from the committee IL March. This report
| was secured i'll the face of considerable OPP
position as the committee has for years fol-
| lowed the rule TO appropriate not TO exceed
/ $500, 900 in the first instance for any public
/ building, and before this congress ali I'M
| usually large" number of public building
| measures demanded recognition. Before the
session was half finished it was discovered
+ that the committee had recommended
| the Appropriation of S20,O00.0u0 for public
| buildings. Upon this discovery Speaker
| Reed declared his intention of denying rec
| ognition to all of those bills, aud since May
no public building bill has been passed by
| the house.
! Prior to this date there were passed by the
| house q few bills of this nature. but they
were all for small buildings, none of them to
| exceed sou, 900 in amount, or for defieien-
cies to complete buildings already in con-
| struction. OF course great pressure was
| brought to bear by the advocates of the large
number of public building bills hung up
| by Speaker Reeds attitude and the weight of
| this pressure from all made it the more diff
| fieult to persuade Mr.. Reed to make any ex-
| ception TO the rule for any considerations
| whatever. Nevertheless Mr.. Reed was finally
| persuaded aud arrangements were perfected
| with the Republicans and some Democrats
| that few OF these bills should receive recog-
| milton and be passed during the last days of
| the session when, under the rules. unani
| nous consent for consideration of a measure
| is not necessary. The bill was so called
up. but after the passage Of the
| tariff bill, many members having absented
| themselves wnen this bill was reached, there
| was not quorum in the house. and Demo
| cratic member made the objection Of no
| quorum. as since learned. by arrangement
| with Mr. Tarsney, from Kansas City, who in
| sisted that the st. Paul bill should not pass
! unless the Kansas City bill passed at the
same time, and SO the measure failed TO pass.
Had there been a quorum during the last
| three days of the session, the bill would have
| passed. There are but two large public
| building bills before this congress, the st.
| Paul and Kansas City bills. Two large bills
! passed the last congress, for public buildings
| at OmahL and Milwaukee. The bill for an
increase of the appropriation for the Mil
| waukee building before this CONGRESS failed.
| Neither this nor the Kansas City bills were
| recognized for passage. The present situa-
| ton of the measure is this: Speaker Reed
| has promised to assist i'll bringing up the
measure for passage early in the December
session of this congress. On the floor all of
/ the Republican members are personally
/ pledged to its support, and many or the DEM
ocrats have been persuaded as to its merits,
| among them the great ebjector, Mr.. Holman,
| from Indiana, who is satisfied with the bill,
and has promised Mr.. Snider that he will
vote for it. and Mr.. Springer has agreed to
| give the bill his hearty support. Its fate, as
soon as it can be considered on the floor, is
| certain. There is no doubt but it will become
| a law during the early part of the session of
this congress to convene in next December.