St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-03
DONNELLY TO BLAME.

The GLOBE does not blame Mr.. Don
NELLY for his wish to put the bad dog
of his laundering legislation on some
one. 1t does not blame him for being
angry and using tilllngsgate-th being
the only weapon of defense with which
his Creator;endoWed him-when his mis-
takes are exposed and his liability for
them fastened on him. The GLOBE is
not only willing to use its space to dem
onstrate Mr.. DoNNELLY's phenomenal
capacity for doing the right thing in the
wrong place when he essays practical
craftsmanship. but it gladly accords
him it's space to make his ability in that
direction more prominent by his eX-
plantations.
But we must insist that Mr.. Don
NELLY's quarrel is not with the GLOBE,
but with the constitution of the state of
Minnesota. 1t is not even with Re-
publican attorney general or Demo-
cratic state auditor, but simply and
singly between DoNNELLY, with what
ever power of comprehension he may
have, and the constitution with its very
plain English words. 1t does not follow
at all that because the present attorney
general and the Democratic state au-
ditor, and even the editorial writer of
the GLOBE, are able to comprehe nd that
when the constitution provides that mo
money shall be appropriated except by
a bill" it means bill and not joint or
other resolution, or order. or any other
of the vehicles Of legislative will. that
they are either fools or idiots, even
if Mr.. DoNNELLY says so. 1t may not
have occurred to him, but it is serious
fact, that the constitution of the state is
superior in authority to Mr.. CUSHING,
the senate ruleS or the house rules, and
controls the attorney general and the
auditor, as we'll as us lesser mOrtals, in
GLIDING Mr.. DoNNELLY himself
1t would be much more to the point it
Mr.. DoNNELLY should cite instances
where money has been appropriated in
this state by JOINT resolution than it is
to abuse the officers Of the state, the one
charged with the duty Of auditing the
expenditures of the state and the other
in advising him as to the law governing
him. In the absence Of such prec
edent the GLOBE directs the attention
set him by Mr.. BJoRGE, of his party,
in the session of '9l. 1t was thought de-
sirable to continue after adjournment
the grain investigation begun by the
house, and Mr.. BJoRGE. never III con-
gress and only term in the lower
house and not sage or statesman,
introduced Ii. F. 1865, entitled "a bill
for an act to appropriate money to carry
on an investigation begun by com nit
tee of the house, ETC."
In regard to Mr. DoNNELLY's expla-
nation of his very singular amendment
of the proposed constitutional amend
ment of 81, by which he inserted the
word railroad" before the words
sleeping car companies" the GLOBE
feels bound to accept it, although it is
at the sacrifice of its regard for Mr..
intelligence. 1t regrets
that there are people who are not so
charitable as is the GLOBE, but that is
another matter. We recall in this con-
nection that when Mr.. DoNNELLY of
fered his amendment a fellow senator
ask him in surprise what he meant by
it, and on DoNNELLY'S explaining that
he wanted to make it clear just
what sleeping car companies were
he asked him what other Sleep
ing cars there were, and the Sage blandly
and complacently replied: "Well, there
Notwithstanding berths in steam
boats, you know"
In conclusion, the GLOBE begs to re-
mind Mr.. DoNNELLY that on several
occasions during and after the session
of 1891 it asked him why, as chairman
of the railroad committee in the senate,
he had no meeting of his committee and
introduced no measure regu lating those
voracious corporations, and that he kept
silent. 1t knew that Mr.. DoNNELLY
had made the legislative control of these
corporations a leading feature in his
canvass. posing then. as now. as 1.-THE
one man" who was fighting them, and
that in the composite organization of
the senate be stipulated that the Al
lance SHOULD have the railroad commit
tee and that he be chairman of it. Ii
he did not wish to be chairman of that
committee to formulate and present and
defend measures restrictive of the rob-
berries of these corporations, it is very
fair question to ask him what he did
want it for?