St. Paul daily globe., 1891-04-18
DAY IN THE SENATE.
The Anti-Pinkerton Bill Fails to
Pass by One Vote.

The Anti-Pink erton Bill Fails to
Pass by One Vote.
The senate took another inning at the
election bill yesterday morning as soon
as the opening exercises were over
Senator Leavitt started the ball rolling
by moving that the Keyes bill be re
called from the house. He stated that
he made the motion for the purpose of
giving the Republicans chance to
stand by their promises to recede from
the senate amendment. An acrim onious
discussion ensued, in which the senator
from MeekeI answered a volley of bill
ingsgate from John Day Smith in his
usual cutting manner. The gentleman
from HennepIn was greatly disturbed
over the statement made by Senator
Leavitt regarding a promise made by
| him (Senator Smitn) to vote for the
| election bill as it came to the senate
In answer to the speech by Senator
Smith Mr.. Leavitt said
| 81 desire to say that the gentleman from
| Hennepin, when l went around here last
Saturday asking senators, regardless of party
| to pass that election bill, said that he would
| vote to pass that bill as it came from the
| house He had violated his word. and when
he said that he was not ashamed of his
course he believed there was no shame left
IN the gentleman from Hennepin.'
After a brief discussion the matter
came to vote. Senator Brown was the
first to explain his vote, which he did in
| the following emphatic fashion:
Il am Democrat and 1 feel that I can
| check my ballot as the Republicans may de-
| sire. l am not surprised that the Republi-
! cans are afraid of the Australian system, for
wherever it has gone into effect they have
gone down before it. and l honestly believe
| that the Republicans for this reason have
complicated this measure as much as pos
sible'
The vote went on from this point, the
motion being defeated by vote of 43
nays to yeas. Senators Bell, Craig,
Craven, Leavitt, Mayo, Morse and Phil
| lips voted yea. The Republicans sud-
denly seemed to have lost all desire to
amend the bill.
Senator Sevatson secured the passage
| of resolution inStructing the secretary
of state to furnish the senators with
bound copies of the senate journal, the
senators and employees being requested
to turn over all file covers to the state
| department at the close Of the session.
number of committee reports came in
| at this time, and then the senators began
to pick out bills from OH the general
| orders and request their passage. In
| this way Senator Cralg'S two bills pro-
| viding for the adjustment of the swamp
| land grants of the state passed. The
first one compels all railroad companies
| entitled to swamp lands to make their
selections within year, and the second
authorizes the state land commissioners
| to make the selections for them in case
they fail to comply with the provisions
| of the first bill.
The worlds fair appropriation bill
| came up next, and was discussed at
length. The committee amendment in
creasing the appropriation from $4,000
to 100000. was stricken out, and an
amendment adopted prohibiting any
part of the $4,000 from being used to
pay premiums. The bill then passed by
| 46 yeas to 4 nays, Senators Crate,
Leavitt, Probstfeld and Lommen voting
! no,
| A recess was then taken until 8
| o'clock.