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

Allen, Day, McHale,
Ayers, Dean, Mcmillan,
Barr DOnnellv. O'Brien.
Brown, Eaton Peterson, s D.,
Burkhardt Geissel, Smith, E. L.
CaneStorp, GTinnelI. Stevens,
Craig, Guderian, Stockton
Craven. Kester, Tawney-26.
Daugherty, Lienau,
Nays.
Dedon, Leavitt, Phillips,
Erickson, LOmmen, Probstfeld.
Crate. Mayo, Sanbom,
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
CrandalfS game bill was quickly dis
posed of, and the veterinary surgeons
bill was next taken up. This provoked
a lengthy discussion, and several inn
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 up
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 writer's of cOmmuni-
cations in papers who attack others I'M
der assumed names.
Senator DOnnelly 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:
Dcnnelly's Humorous Speech.
This bill. if it becomes Il 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 a bound vol
ume of a Philadelphia paper, published be-
fore our great revolution of 1716. 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 on changed condi-
tons. We have reached the age of corpora
tons. The newspaper is no longer per
consolidated capital. When il speaks it
speaks not for al individual, but for n
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 alluded to
by Senator John Day SMITH, 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
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 ouE