St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-08

Il
Hon. o. NJ Hall, the Third districts able
representative in the Fifty-secnnd congress,
ran up from his Red Wing home yesterday
and spent the afternoon in the Sanity City
He has entirely recovered from his Illness
and now looks stronger than at any previous
time i'll several years. He has been working
almost day and night ever since he has been
strong enough, and feels not little satisfac-
ton over the fact that he IS pretty well
caught up IN his work. In speaking of the
work of the late legislature Mr. Hall said:
Il have just finished annotating my copy
of the statutes, and | find that, while but
comparatively few laws were passed. those
that did go through will compare favorably
with the work of any previous Legislature.
In fact they appear to me to be unusually
well digested. feel. too, that the legislators
are entitled to considerable credit for the
number of bad measures that were killed. 1
notice that there is an attempt to cast the re-
sponsibility for the lavish appropriations and
expenditures of the session upon the Demo
cratic and Alliance members, which is alto
gether wrong. From my observations
should say that the Republicans, under the
lead of Smith and few more like him. set out
to make everything as obnoxious as possible
to the people. with the idea that the majority
would be held responsible. Anything in the
shape of good legislation would be opposed
by the solid Republican vote, while every
thing that would be distasteful to the people
received tie solid support of the same party
All this should be placed before the people,
TO the end that they may hold the proper
parties to account"
what do you think of the outlook at the
coming session of congress :''
The Democratic majority is very large, but
do not believe the hopes of our enemies
will be realized. Nearly all of our members
are afraid of trouble, and for this reason will
do all they can to keep things running peace
fully. OF course, with the president and the
senate against US, our work will be mainly
negative
How do you like the new Third district?'
Il am sorry that some of the counties in the
old district have been left out. You may
smile when mention Kandiyohi as one of
these, but have great many warm friends
in that county. Swift and Chippewa are two
more that am sorry are 10 be with US no
more. The new district is certainly quite
compact. and the bill restores Sibley and LIE
Sueur to their Minnesota valley brethren.
which, owing to the close connection be-
tween them and the other counties Of the
Eighth judicial district. ought to be quite
satisfactory"
Mr.. Hall very carefully avoided all ques-
tions as to his choice for speaker, and evi-
dently proposes to be in a position to sup
port the man who seems most available. He
is great admirer of Congressman William
l.. Wilson, of Wes. Virginia, and it would not
be at all surprising if he should prove his
first choice.
''There goes Democrat who can be elect
ed to congress from the Sixth district" re-
marked Senator Geissel, of Morrison county,
to party of friends in the lobby of the Mer-
chants as tall, smooth-shayen and rather
handsome man passed by. The remark
turned all eyes on this gentleman, who was
none other than Hon. D. T. Calhoun, the
eloquent and able attorney of St. Cloud, who
received the unanimous nomination of the
Democracy of Minnesota for attorney general
last fall and at the election which followed
ran nearly up with the head of the ticket
against as popular a man as Attorney
General Clapp. The popularity of Mr..
Calhoun in the counties where he
principally practices his profession and is
best known can be gauged by the returns of
the late election. a glance at these will con-
vince any one of the wisdom OF Senator
Geissers remark. At the election last No
vember the vote for governor in the three
counties of Benton, Stearns ard Morrison
was divided as follows:
Wilson. Merriam
Seni9n'. steapn9 '..'''....'..--'a Ss SIs Slg qg
otedl liia. -.....-s.. .--o,Slo 1,@4J
Morrison ..................1,325 SAG
Totals ... .....5,708 2,29l
Wilson'S majority, 5,501.
The people of these three counties knew
David T. Calhoun, and, in spite of the fact
that he did not spend day in electioneer-
ing, the vote stood as follows for attorney
general:
Calhoun. Clapp
Benton. Observation-Disclosures. Csc 2i2
Stearns. Observation-Disclosures. 4.544 $40
Morrison. Observation-Disclosures. 1877 373
Totals. s.....-............ 7.197 1.464
Majority for Calhoun. ), ,T33.