St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-25
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This committee was to consist of five
house members and three senators :;
each party was to have senator APP
pointed by the lieutenant governor. /
refused as before. See page 1047. Sen
atOr Peterson, ). D., moved that the
vote whereby So F. 443 was indef-
nitely postponed be reconsidered; this
was carried by yeas, %; Repu blicans,
%; Democrats, 2-Keller and Geissel;
Alliance, 2-Donnelly and Sevatson.
Senator Lienau. who had previously
voted with the Republicans, had gone
home. Two Republicans, Peter son, s..
d.. and Glader. who had been with us
in this m easure. joined their comrades.
Nays. 1S; epublicans, 9; Democrats,
9; Alliance, z. The bill was. however.
laid on the table. See page 1850. 1t
may be of interest to note that Senator
GeiSsel. Democrat, and Senator Sevat-
son, Alliance, who changed their posi-
tiOn on this bill, were both appointed on
the grain committee by Mr.. Ives. 1t
may be that Mr.. Donnelly knew what
he was talking about when he offered
me position on that committee.
would call the attention of our read
ers to a Unknown as III. +. 237, Armorv
bill In both branches of the legisla-
ture were a number of members who
were officers i'm our state militia. These
men had succeeded in passing the
aforementioned bill through the house,
providing for the erection of armorIes
for the national guard; that is, the
county commissioners of each county
where company of the national guard
existed were required to build a suita-
BILE armOry for SAID company at the ex-
pense of the county. This came up the
last day and night of the session, and it
required suspension of the rules TO
consider the bill. We succeeded in de-
ieatlng number of attempts made by
the friends of the bill to suspend the
rules. On one occasion, see page 1914.
the vote stood 81 to Is, lacking but two
votes. Mr.. Donnelly stood by us
in opposition to the measure. in
the next attempt made they succeeded
by vote SO to 10. See page 1856.
Seven of the ten were Alliance men,
bers. At this time Mr.. Donnelly voted
for the bill and this gave them just the
number necessary and the bill passed
by vote of SO to IL. We regarded the
bill as an
Outrage on the People
of the counties where the different
companies of the National Guard are
located. and made hard fight against
1t. and were deeply mortified when Mr..
DIS vote defeated us. / have been in
formed that the law has since been de-
clared unconstitutional. Thus we
might go on with number of bills
where Mr.. Donnelly voted and talked
against the principles for which the AL
lance stands, but we will not weary
our leaders further OH this subject OF
late we have been looking over the
House Journal of 1887 and find similar
inconsistent and eXtravagant methods
employed there to those we have noted
in the foregoing columns, but we will
not take them up.
The browning burlesque of last win
ter's session was Mr.. Donnelly's mani
festo, whereby he sought to cast all the
sins of omission and commission for the
whole session, then just ended. upon
the heads of the Republican and Demo
cratic members.
We will devote little more space to
consider Mr.. Donnelly's action as an
Alliance man during the few years that
we have had the honor of personal
acquaintance with him, and then we
are done. JOHN B. HoMPE.