St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-23

house for the Introduction of appropria-
ton bills. The committees will this
week get to work with their pruning
knives. 1t is manifest that if the taxes
are to be kept within present limits
large amount of cutting" will have to
be done. This will be done largely
upon special appropriations for public
institutions and the numberlesS re-
quests for aid III building wagon bridges
and grading roads.
The fight over the Currier bill will be
inaugurated tomorrow afternoon, and
merry time may be expected. The
combine will certainly go to pieces
over this bill. 1t is said the railroads
are stoutiy opposed to the Currler bill,
and from the avalanche of petitions
presented to the house against its pas
sage may be said TO be leaving nothing
undOne to defeat it. The one Objec-
tionabe feature in the bill, to the rail-
roads, is that relating to the distance
tariff. If the bill becomes law, the short
line would virtually control all business.
There is much to be said for and against
this distance tariff, and the action
thereon by the legislators this week is
certain to be fraught with the graveSt
Importance TO the future prosperity of
the state.
Nh McGuIres committee to investi-
gate the alleged nOn-inspectiOn of wheat
at Duluth and other points will get to
work this week. The charge that 30, 900
bushels of wheat have been shipped out
OF the Zenith city without inspection is
very grave. and every one who has had
personal dealings with Grain Inspector
ClauSen know that. so far as he is con-
cerned, he will be most anxious to have
the matter investigated. A great many
of these charges are mere 'hearSay
statements" but the sooner they are
mailed to the counter" the better. The
tendency of the day is to place too
much Importance upon these flying
rum0rS.
I. Cole does not intend to sit quietly
By and allow newspaper writer's to make
untrue charges against him or any COM
mittee with which he is OF has been as
S0ciated. Mr. Cole was with commit
tee which visited the Fergus Falls
insane hospital. Upon the return
of the committee, some person,
in bill TO Chief Clerk Smalley indicat-
ing that the committee had INDUCED
pretty freely in Pommery Sec. Milwau-
kee beer and Imperial whisky. The
bill bore on its face the evidence of
fake. The daily newspaper men re-
fused to notice the thing, but some
weekly editors got hold of ii, and are
attempting TO make political capital out
OF It. Mr.. Cole therefore clinches the
matter by having a small committee to
investigate and report.
The keyes Australian law is now be-
fore the senate. The Winona states
man, assisted by Mr.. Trip. of Henne-
pin, deserve great praise for the admi-
rable bill they placed before the house.
If it passes the senate in the same way
AS it was sent in. the state will have
ballot law uneQualed in its simplicity by
any other state in the Union. With so
many candidates to vote for, and with
so large a foreign element in our popu-
lation the election machinery cannot
be made too easy or too simple. This
has been the end and aim of MeSsrs.
keyes and Trip, and the Minnesota
elect IS cartNir to become a
mo el one for other states.
: Mr.. Doyle makes an excellent hit in
his bill creating commissioner of agri-
! culture. With so large a proportion of
the citizens of the state depending upon
agriculture for their livelihood, IS 1t not
IRE has not before been created? There
is vast amount of good work such an
OFFICIAL can accom- plish-work which will
REPAY the farmers hundredfold for the
small expenditure which such an Office
would cost to run. Mr.. Doyle has shown
his deep interest in the farming COM
munity by the Introduction of this bill.
A: commissioner of agriculture is inf
nitely more necessary than dairy COM
missioner, whose work in the past has
been merely nominal. Mr.. Doyle is GER
tain to vigorously agitate the creation
of this Office. Though he does not fig-
ure much in debate, he among the hard
est-wOrking members in the house-a
man of the people, one who knows their
wants and is not afraid to back up his
convictions by his vote.
There is much to be said in favor of
state game and fish commission. But
this is not the first time such a commits
sion has been placed before the legisla-
ture of the state. Two years ago sim
liar bill to that introduced in the house
Saturday was before the legislature and
defeated: 1t is very likely the same
fate awaits this new bill. There is a
belief among citizens, and a natural be-
lief too, that we have already sufficient
commissions and boards. Nothing can
be done nowadays without board or
commission, and the result is citizens
can hardly turn to the right or left
without infringing in some. way or
other upon the prerogatives of these
commissioners. The people are becom-
ilfg borcd with this kind of thing, and
for that reason the state game and fish
commission is not likely to run the
gauntlet OF the present legislature.
viii Gov. Merriam sign the bill to au
thorize trnst companies to do a private
banking business? is question inter-
esting many legislators The question
has become all the more interesting
from the leakage of the fact that bank
ers are attempting to influence the gov
ernor TO veto the bill. These bankers
are Of the opinion that. if trust COM
panieS are given this extra power, their
interests will, to some extent, be inter
fered with. Mr.. Stone, of Ramsey,
who engineered the bill through the
house, laughs at this. He argues that
it will not hurt banks in any way, and
points to the fact that he, supporter
of the bill, is director of one of tie
largest banks in st. Paul.
AT THE THEATERS.