St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-10
OUR FOUR SENATOR'S.
Sanborn.i Lienau. Stevens and
< 81 ~. - Dean Hold Over.

Sanborn. Lienau. Stevens and
= 81 ~ Dean Hold Over.
st. Paul and Ramsey county are now,
as in all their past history. ably repre-
sented in the upper house of the state
legislature. This city, being the seat
of the state government. and the princi-
pal business and trade, center of the
commonwealth, has always been deeply
interested in matters. of state legisla-
tion. and, as rule, the most foremost
citizens have been chosen to look after
this work. The list of the names of the
men who have been sent to the state
senate by this county in the last thirty
five years shows some of the reasons
for the prominence st. Paul has
gained in the history of the state.
Gen. George L. Becker, DR.. j.
II. Stewart, William Sprigg Hall,
Edmund Rice, l. V. ID. Heard, G. ID.
Gilfillan, Chauncey W. Griggs, James
Smith Jr., Col. William Crooks, r. F.
Drake, William Pitt Murray, Robert A.
Smith and Albert Scheffer are some OF
the names on this list. Is it any Won
der that with such men in the upper
house the influence and the voice OF old
Ramsey should be recognized?
And in the state senate elected In the
fall of 1890 this county again sent four
of the same class of men TO the upper
house. In politics the senators are not
very evenly balanced, the Republicans
having more than their proper share,
but in ability, energy and power for
doing the things the people OF this
county demand and need. they are very
IxoI nd n a n
1891. whatever of legislation this county
needed was secured by the active CO.
operation of the four senators. Two are
LAWYERS, MeSSrs. Sanborn and Stephens.
while the other two have spent their
lives in the walks of business life. The
latter are Hon. c. Ii. Lienau and Hon.
w. B. Dean.
Gen, John B. SanbOrn,
the Nestor of the delegation. is one of
the far-sighted men who came here
in the early days and remained.
He has been a leader at the bar
of the state from almost the day he
pitched his tent on the soil of st. Paul.
In the great struggle of thirty years
ago he entered the service of his coun-
trv, and won distinction on a number
of the great battlefelds of the war.
Always Republican, and always prom
inept in politics, he is farthest removed
from the partisan, and delights to be
known as low-tariff Republican. For
the dull, dreary routine of the work of
the legislature he has no liking, and,
while he does not say so, it IS plain to
the observer that he longs for the strug-
giles OF years ago, when session
of the legislature was not considered
complete without some exploit like the
performance of the gentleman from
Pembina," who got away with the bill
removing the state capital from st. Paul
to st. Peter.
Hon. Charles HI. Lienau
was one of the pioneers of Minnesota,
but first cast his lot in the fertile valley
of the Minnesota. Carver county, for
ogniZed his abilities and his merits, and
made him her representative in
the legislature. In those days
he was younger than he is
now. but not particle more
active, while the experience which
years have added have ripened his
| Judgment and enlarged his vision.
Like two of his colleagues. Messrs. San
born and Dean, he was elected two
years ago without opposition. In the
senate he proved hard worker, and ac-
complished great deal for the county
aud state. His struggle in behalf of the
cultivation of the sugar beet almost
I wrung all appropriation out of the leg
+ islature after the insane asylums had
gobbled up about everything in signt.
Hon. Hiram Il. Stevens
| issone of those persistentiy wide-awake
/ legislators who always get through their
| measures before the final rush. A tire
| less student and as clear-headed a law.
| yer as there is in the state, in the two
/ terms Mr.. Stevens has served in the
| upper, and lower houses he has done
4 more than any other ten men to straight
! eneut the real estate and title law of
tIiesstate. He is one of the most careful
and effective members of the senate,