St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-02
Yeas.

Allen, Day. McHale
Ayers, Dean, Mcmillan,
Barr, DOnnelly, O'Brien,
Brown, Eaton. Peterson, s. D.,
Burkhardt, Geissel. Smith. E. r,
CaneStorp, Grinnell Stevens,
Craig, Guderian, Stockton,
craven, klester, TaWney-26.
Daugherty, Lienau,
Nays.
Dedon, Leavitt, Phillips,
Erickson, Lommen. PrObstfeld,
Crate, Mayo, Sanborn,
Hompe, Mott, Sevatson,
Kelly, Nelson, Woods.
Committee reports were taken up
next, and continued for about half an
hour, when the calendar was put over
for the day and the senate went into
committee of the whole with Senator
Allen, of Carlton, in the chair. Senator
Crandall's game bill was quickly dis
posed of. and the veterinary surgeons
bill was next taken up. This provoked
a lengthy discussion, and several i'm
pOrtant amendments were added. After
recommending this measure the senate
took a recess until o'clock.
The afternoon session was devoted en-
tirely to work in committee of the
whole, and under the guiding hand of
Senator Allen no less than eighteen
bills were disposed of. Hardly any dis
cussiOn came up until Senator Sevat-
sons bill authorizing the abatement of
certain taxes in cases of actual settlers
purchasing land from railroad com
panies was reached. The bill was in
the interests of settlers in the senator's
county. Mr.. Donnelly wanted the bill
made local, but the Jackson senator
thought this would make it unconstitu-
tional, and the matter was finally settled
by motion to report progress, which
was carried.
Senator Hompe's bill to compel the
writers to
Sign All Articles
published in newspapers next came I'D
and was the subject of long and. at
times, amusing discussion. Senator
Hompe narrated the causes which led
him to draft the bill in question. The
particular men Mr.. Hompe seemed to
be after were the writers of communi-
catious in papers who attack others un-
der assumed names.
Senator DonnelIy wanted the bill
amended, and, while upon the floor,
took occasion to deliver one of the most
amusing and humorous efforts of the
present session. His subject was his
newspaper enemy, the Republican
morning organ of st. Paul, and before
he concluded he had the senators in con-
wilson's and the galleries applauding.
He said:
Donnelly.s Humorous Speech.
This bill. if it becomes law, will do away
with the impersonality Of the public press.
In the beginning of the history of newspa-
perdom the editor stood sponsor for every
article. / have i'll my library bound vol
ume of a Philadelphia paper, published be-
fore our great revolution of 1776. of which
the illustrious Benjamin Franklin was ed
itor. He was responsible for every word in
the paper 1t was his paper. But in these
later days we have fallen OH changed condi-
tions. We have reached the age of corpora
tlons. The newspaper is no longer per-
sonal organ; 1t is an impersonal utterance of
consolidated capital. When it speaks il
speaks not for an individual, but for
thing: for an artificial person: for a
corporation. 1t falls upon It's victim with
all the force of its hundreds of thousands of
dollars of capital. For instance Mr. Chair
man, suppose the Pioneer Press (ailuded to
by Senator John Day Smithl, because it
thinks you stand in the way of its selfish per-
sonal interests. makes an attack upon you.
The imagination of the reader as he peruses
that attack at once behoIds that towering.
colossal structure, fourteen stories high on
the corner of Fourth ard Robert streets with
a mortgage for every story and a lie for
every crack laughter and, Mr.. Chairman,
you are crushed, ,eXpunged under the gigantic
burden of stone and plate glass But sup
pose, Mr.. Chairman, that fierce attack on
your good name lad terminated, petered out