St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-31

for weeks. y before he made the motion to re-
call the bill. As the bill was not delivered TO
the clerk of the committee until the 9Th or
February; and as Hompe's resolution was
offered OH the morning OF the 18th $50 that no
meeting OF the committee could have leen
held on that day., there were but seven days
(exclusive of Sunday. in which TO consider
his bill. There were still fifty three days left
of the session Hompe never once spoke TO
me desiring early action upon his bill. We
had n session of the committee OH the 18th
day OF February but uompe did not appear
at ii. or at any other session OF the committee,
as senators are in the nabit of doing. when
they desire prompt consideration of their
measures. Neither did he give me the
slightest inIimation that he was dis
satisfied, or that he was about to in
troduce a resolution to take the bill
out of the hands of my committee: il he had
done SO | shonld have arranged tor meeting
of the committee Immediately And after he
got il ont OF the hands of the railroad com
mittee he had il referred, March 10, twenty
four days thereafter to another committee
and there it slept until March 81, thirty-four
days after he took it from my hands, and
then he hao TO abandon the original bill alto
gether and introduce substitute for it.
How ROmpe Voted.
But let us look at the vote by which the
bill was Withdrawn from the railroad com
mittee. and remember that there was, at tina
time. an existing combination of the Demo
cratic and Alliance senator's: The vote
stood. yeas, % Republicans. Alliance men
Democrat q st. Paul senator, and the non
descript IIOmpe. Nays II Democrats and [
Alliance men. Seventeen of ''the combine
voted against HomDe; three of the combine
voted with him; while every Republican who
voted voted with Hompe. Is ii any wonder
as DR.. Fish says. that eighteen days after
wards the Republicans gave Hompe
their gum 10 chew" by the lieu
tenant governor selecting him to preside
III his absence. Now l do n OF mean &c
denounce the Republicans-personally theJ
are good fellowS-but the Alliance had en-
tered into a combination. for the session
with the Democrats and the Democrats had
conceded to Hompe the craftsmanship of the
best committee in the senate, and good faith
honor and manliness required that he should
not break up our ranks and give aid and com
fort to the common enemy. and then accent
reward from them. For my part | have no
desire Tor that kind OF greatness which can
be absorbed through the seat of chair; and
the creature VINO would barter away great
popular movement to plant the most ignOble
part OF his most ignoble person. for a few
hours, in lieutenant governors seat: ought
TO be studied with microscope and not with
the naked eve
But Democrats and Alliance men! II YOU
want to know who broke us TO pieces, last
session, set us 70 fighting like wildcats made
the monopoIieS all powerful and prevented
our voting together. in November, 1892. if not
for the same candidates at least, to a large ex-
tent, for the same principles, turn your ewes
to where, by the classic banks of Deer creek,
the artist Of Otter Tail county now sits-ou a
cracker bOX-Studying the senate journal OF
1S9l and eXclaiming, with utter astoniSh.
ment Depicted i'll every line of his intellect
ual counteuauce:
Can such things be-
And overcome lis. like a summer cloud
Without our special wonder?
lGNATIUs DoNNELLY