St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-28


helly; compensation, $40 per day. The
railroad committee, of which DonneIly
was chairman, did not need clerk:
they held but five or six meetings dur
ing the winter; but the state paid 500
10 provide place for one of the friends
OF the great reforiner."
Fixed His Friends.
The election Of a senate postmaster
was unnecessary. In former sessions
the house official had attended to our
mail; but another of ''the great reform
er's" friends had 10 be provided for,
and another $500 went from the state
treasury. In order 20 get these places
MIR. DOnnelly had TO help other senators
get positions for their friends, so that
it was not long before all previous SEES
slons OF the senate were thrown in the
shade with respect to the number of
employees. One file clerk had always
been deemed sufficient. but in order
to get soft snap for resident
of Dakota county, Mr.. Donnelly
formed combine with Senator Sanborn
and the result was two were elected:
namely, Ed Newell and Ned Blaidsdell,
OF Ramsey county. See pages 1886. In
order to keep peace i'll the family myself
and other Alliance senators submitted
to these smaller outrageS on the taxpay-
ers, fearing to endanger important leg
iSlation. But some Will say these were
only small matters. Later / shall show
how the great man voted on the larger
appropriations and important bills. Tn
to this time the Republicans had us at a
disadvantage as far as a record for econ.
only was concerned.
Policy of the Enemy
They now seemed to think it good
pOllcy 10 neip US 10 everything asked for
and more too; there seemed to be a con-
cert OF action among them to delay leg.
lslatlon by long adiournments, over
Sunday. from Friday noon till Monday
afternoon, or longer if they could. AS
we drew pay whether we stayed or not,
each day. cost the state about Sl.6OD.
In this work they had valuable ally in
Mr.. Donneliy. At noon Friday, Jan. 16,
the senate adjourned until p. IN. Mon
day, two working days. by the following
party vote: Yeas, Republicans ID, Dem
ocrats 9, Alliance 6; total 80. Nays, Re-
publicanS 3, Democrats 6. Alliance 6;
total Is. Not as good a showing for the
combine senators as we shall show
later. Mr.. Donnelly used his great in
nuence In favor of adjOurning. Here
was direct loss Of over 50, 600; the vote
Will be found on page 81.
At noon on Saturday, Jan. "a, adj
iourned till Tuesday. Yeas, Republi-
cans 16, Democrats II, Alliance don
nelly, Borchert and LaDue). Nays. Re-
publicans 5, Democrats 8, Alliance @
a loss of u days, or about 400 On
Saturday, Feb. Z, adjourned till Tues
day. Yeas. Republicans Is. Democrats
8. Alliance 8 Oonnelly, Borchert and
Sevatson). Nays, Republicans 3, Demo
Gratis 4, Alliance 9. See page IT'S. L
think this enough of this line. We also
made number of efforts to change the
time of meeting from 10 a. m. to or
$3.50. Not great hardship for men
VINO, at home, often commence work at
5 a. m.
DOnnelly Was the Cause
of our defeat each time, except once,
see page 734; when Oh motion of Sen
ator Leavitt the senate adjourned to
meet at $3.50 a. III. On this the
vote was Republicans. 3; Demo
Gratis, 6; Alliances. Against. Re
publicans, Il; Democrats, 3 Alliance,
1-Donnelly. On meeting the next day
at $50 a. III. there were but twentY-four
senators present, most of those voting
no, including DOnnelly, abseuting
themselves; as it took twenty eight to
make a quorum we could do nothing
until after 10 a. m, see page T35.
The same state of affairs occurred
often of two or three hours du-
ration. 1t is quite common for legis-
latlve bodies, that are behind in their
work, to hold evening sessions; al
though we had hundreds of bills await
Ing action, many of them of great inl-
portance, we found it impossible to Sc
cure a single evening session until
within few days of the close of tie
session, and
Hereby Charge Donneuy,
and defy successful contradiction, with
being the most responsible for this
state of affairs. Another fayorite meth
cd with our Republican friends, and
perhaps the most fruitful, to kill time,
was Tor some of them, usually John
Day Smith, to get up in the morning
to which he would reply in white
heat. In this way hours, days aud
weeks were consumed in idle vapor-
lngs, in which blackguardism was the
most distinguishing feature. BY these
methods many of the measures de-
manded by our people were defeated.
Among them the bill to elect the rail-
road commission; being House File No
lis. 1t was buried beneath a mass Of
bills: On April Is we attempted 10 suS-
pend the rules; this took Sc votes,
olliOuSH 20 NOulO pass Il DlII. L lit VOIe
was yeas 33,nays s; Republicans and l
Democrat. Not voting, Is. See pages
1886. On page 1884 is the record on
an attempt to suspend the rules on
House File $50. An act TO tax certain
railroad lands. The vote was yeas 81,
lacking but one vote of suspension.
The same fate overlook House File ia,
to reduce the rate OF interest; see page
2046.
How Bills Were Killed.
Many more important measures died
the same way; because they could not
be reached in their regular order, and
Mr.. Donnelly, who appropriated nearly
half of the time of the entire session in
useless talk, is mainly responsible. Yet
he is held up by his organ. the "Wild
West" before the people as the one
bright star i'll the political armament,
and thousands of honest, but deluded,
men regard him as demigod: while the
men who worked hard TO accomplish
something for the people, and were true
to their Alliance constituents, are being
denounced as set of traitors. But we
are not through with him vet; some of
the most damaging matters are yet 20
come. Although he voted with us on
suspension of the rules, because the
monopOlists did not need him, we sue
ceeded i'll forcing the real traitors to the
peoples interests on record in many
Important cases. JOHN 3. HOMPE.