St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-07
WINDYWAR0F WORDS
Donnelly Returns to the
Hompe Attack With Fresh
Vigor.
Some Seathing Remarks on
Extravagant Appropria-
ton Bills.
Hompe's Record on Duluth
& Winnipeg Land
Grant.
What Friends Wrote Donnel-
Iy on the Course Of
Hompe.

Hompe charges that was in favor of
all sorts of reckless appropriations, and
was the chief cause why the tax rate
had to be increased at the last session of
the legislature. If this charge is true
it would, and ought to lnjure the AL
lance organization and the Peoples
party.
Let us see how much truth there is in it.
On motion to pay b. +. Irvine S35 for
services as postmaster during the first
seven days of The session | voted no Up.
94); again l voted no on the same cues
ton Up. 109), but it carried 81 to II.
At every session OF the senate, for
years, the senator's newspapers have
been paid for by the state. | am to be
credited with new departure. There
was little steal effected, but not until
the last days of tie session. On Jan, q,
1891, page ~, | voted TO indefinitely
postpone resolution to give IS cents
per day TO each senator, or S2,02l.25, in
all, for newspapers. l both spoke
against it and voted against it. Jan. %.
a motion was made to make it 25 cents
per day to each senator. | voted no.
Lost; yeas %, nays 25. On Feb. II it
was moved 10 give % cents per day.
Lost; yeas Is, nays %. | voted no..
April Is the motion was renewed, page
94I. / moved that it be laid on the
table. Lost; yeas 81, nays a. l voted
yes. Then it was reduced to 20 cents.
Lost; yeas %, nays %. l voted no.
But the newspapers continued their
fine work, and on the last night of the
session they secured, by vote of %
yeas TO IA nays, resolution to give
each senator and officer Is cents per day
during the session. l voted 10. Hompe
lodged. as he always did at the critical
moment. | say he lodged because he
is recorded, the next moment, AS pres
ent and voting. This took about $1,000
out of the taxpayers for the benefit Of
the st. Paul dailies. The state, as L
told them, was under no more obi ga
ton to pay for the senator's newspapers
than it was to pay for their cigars or
whisky.
Musty Records.
Feb. &c (p. 326) voted against giving
a clerk, al IS per day for the session, to
the committee on engrosSment. Carried;
yeas SO. nays 6. ! was one of the SIX.
March %. $40 Il motion was made TO
appoint one clerk and foT committees
where | thought no clerk was needed.
Carried; yeas 80, nays u. voted no.
April %. 500 a motion was made to III
crease the pay of the duorkeeper, as
SistaI : doorkeeper and sergeant OF the
gallery from $3 to 50 per day. Carried;
yeas SO, nays 8. | voted no. Hompe
not recorded as voting. April 10 Up. 500,
motion to increase tine salaries or the
assistant secretaries from s. to SO per
day. Lost; yeas "a, nays q. voted
no. April Is (p. 909), resolution to pay
$3.50 each to two persons for tele-
phone and telegraph service. Lost; yeas
%. nays "a. | voted no. On March IA,
resolution offered to purchase 100 copies
of the ''Globe Almanac" for each Sena-
tor, at 90 cents each (tOtal, 81, 100; lost,
yeas %. nays II. | voted no. Hompe
not voting; he was present at roll call
moment before. April Is. Up. 1910 reSo-
luton 10 print 5000 extra copies OF the
legislative manual; carried; yeas ~,
nays IA. | voted no.. Same day, reSo-
luton topay man $50 for taking charge
OF and cleaning a committee room; lost;
yeas, 25, hays A. / voted no. April 20
(p. 1860, resolution to increase the pay
of pages from $3.50 10 So: lost; yeas q;
nays b. / voted no. Hompe not vot-
ing; lie was present at roll call a
moment befure. He subsequently (p.
1860 voted for this resolution and 1t
passed. April ~ Up. lU99). resolution 10
pay the clerk of The committe OH roads
and bridges for TWO months before he
was appointed; lost; yeas II, nays %.
! voted no.
In most of these cases of eXtrayagant
appropriations, not only voted against
them but made speeches denouncing
them. | think the record of my votes
conclusively establishes that Hompe
misrepresented NE in this particular, as
he has in every other In fact, the only
instance which HOmpe is able to find,
after diligent search of the senate
journal. where have been liberal with
the peoples money, as he says, was the
case OF my vote fer $40 for postage
stamps to each senator, and my vote to
pay the semi official reporters of the
senate; but in both cases the people got
their money returned to them; in The
one instance in postage stamps On let
tiers and documents, and i'll the other
Information as TO the action Of those
they had sent To the legislature to rep
resent them. So that may justly claim
that my record is in every respect in
vulnerable.
Duluth and winnipeg.
And then the Otter Tail statesman