St. Paul daily globe., 1892-11-05

Pherson and on to Waseca county, Civ
ing to portion of the citizens Of our
county much-needed outlet for
their produce. AS representative of
the county of Blue Earth, ! believed
1t my duty to defend the rights
of her people. no matter where they
were located in the county, and l
did take the floor and oppose the pas
cage Of Mr.. Bells bill. THIS YES not a
contest for the interests of lie people ot
the state. for Mr.. Bell agreed with
friends of the Duluth u Winnipeg, in
the face of the whole house, to exempt
that road from the provisions of his
bill. This left the forfeiture of only
the grant to the road to Blue Earth
county. 1t came out in the discussion
that the Great NCrthern.that has been
always opposing the construction OF
this road, would receive of the grant, If
forfeited. $4,000 acres of said lands.
This was not disputed. and the contest
narrowed down to fight between the
Great Northern Railroad company and
the directors of the grant to the Duluth,
MankatO IL Southern. Mind You, these
directors are not great corporation, but
citizens living along the proposed line.
Your senator, George Barr, represent
ing Blue Earth county, and l took sides
with the people OF our county, and L be-
lieve we were right. The grant does
not expire until next month, and the
next legislature is the proper body to
then forfeit it.
The next charge is that the temper
ance committee was packed. Well, the
two PrOhbitiOniStS of the house were
placed Oh the Committee, and, with the
Republican members, constituted ma
nA
like. If all the committee had been
ProhibitioniSts. it would have made no
difference, as the house would not favor
them-a condition that can hardly be
laid at the door of the speaker.
Now we come to what this vlllher
claims as 1.-The most damnable act OF
political periidy.' Now let us review
this '.dannable act" We will find, as i'll
all of the other statements. that the
author is utterly false; that there is no
cali for such language.
The Australian ballot law was before
the house when the question came up
as to how the checking should be done,
the Democrats generally taking the
ground that the voting should be sim
pIified as much as possible under this
new law, by allowing a voter who
wished to vote ticket to do so by
checking the governor, and II he chose
he could check any name on another
ticket and scratch the corresponding
one on his own. while the Republicans
generally favored checking every name
voted for. The main feature of the bill.
its secresy, was not disturbed in either
case. 1t was an honest difference OF
opinion, and there was nothing "damn-
able" or ''perfidious" about it.
This deceiver of the people goes on to
show how eXtravagant that illusion"
legislature was, and compares it with
the one preceding it. He does not tell
you that 100000 of the appropriations
were made to reimburse eXtravagant
officials who had oyerdrawn
their funds, moi that the state refOrma-
tory fund had been overdrawn $4,000.
He does not mention the tact that $780,,
600 was loaned to the twine
at Saltwater, and
will again revert To the statee
neither does he state that an effort was
made to load down the appropriations
by Republican members, so that cry
Of extravaganza could be raised at the |
next election "A fact that is proven by |
the TRADE under consideration.
He does not state the fact that capitol |
repairs were were charged up to legiS- |
ative expenses. and that when the |
speaker and chief clerk demonstrated |
against it, we were told that the proper |
;und had been overdrawn and that it |
was necessary to pay the bills; and that |
We signed them, not thinking that we |
we're then helping to make Repub-
lean campaign document.
Now, Mr.. Editor, have been through |
his shameless record" and have stated |
he facts and have given the data" so |
hat any man can look the matter up |
md satisfy himself; and | now drop this
o me unpleasant subject and leave |
your readers to judge which the |
shameless" party is.
E. T. CHAMPLIN.