St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-30
the fine. This takes the sentence away

the fine. This takes the sentence away
from the discretion of the court.
Senator Donnelly said that the house
had very properly appreciated the fact
that where men band themselves to-
gether to conspire against the people
and plunder millions, the fine would
amount to nothing. The combine
could pay their fines and laugh.
They could keep right on conspiring
and plundering, and pay fines as often
As convictions could be secured. 1t
would be physically impossible to effect
a remedy in this way. And then, when
the bill came before the senate judiciary
committee. the thought came. up that a
further safeguard should be provided,
and the words ''or Imprisonment" were
changed to land imprisonment"
Raising Money to Fight.
1--WE are informed" pursued the
Ssaagee "that the Eastern combine is new
engaged in raising mighty fund to
protect these perjured rascals. l have
no doubt of the trutnfulness of the
story" he continued with increasing
vehemence. "When Rhodes was ar
raigned in court OH charge of perjury,
and bail of $1,000 was req uired,
Rhodes attorney detiantly remarked,
That's ali right; we could give bond
of $500, 600 just as easy as $1,000"
Senator CranIall averred that he
would be in fauor of infiicting as severe
punishment upon the coal combine as
any man in the senate. but he feared
the bill, or the amendment, was too far
reaching. 1t would throw into prison
half the merchants and business men of
the state, for they all have combines,
etc. This proposition set Senator Keller
on fire. He replied with all the vehe-
mence that he could enlist, and declared
that the merchants that went into COM
bines to force up prices and rob the
poor should be thrown into Jail.
"That would be too good for them,"
he cried. Feed them on rice and meat
and good bread! No, they should live
on bread and water and be made to
work"
Senator Donnelly suggested that we
live in an age of combines. Ancient
times had their
Snakes and Dragons,
that swallowed the people, and to-day
combines impoveriSh them. In reply
to Senator Crandall, whom he evidently
wished to concillate, he unctiously
stated that he was aware that there
were little tacit understandings among
neighhOring merchants about what
goods and wares should be sold for, but
the arrangement was not ironclad.
Should combine of lesser Importance
be prosecuted and convictions be Sc
cured, no one doubted that the governor
would intervene and that pardons
would be granted, so that no one who
had not committed such heinouS
crime as the coal combine is guilty of
would never darken the door of peni-
Tertiary. Otherwise the people would
rise up in righteous Indignation and
tear down the structure.
In mighty appeal he called upon his
colleagues 10 ''aid in pulling the lordly
scoundrel, Saunders. from his pedestal,
where he sits in luxury, while his
minions are robbing the people," He
had recently received copy OF a book
narrating the history of the famous
Spring Valley, Ill.,. strike, in (which it
was related that The Northwestern
Fuel company and its president. Mr..
Saunders. were prominent among the
actors in that drama" Moreover, Mr.
Donneily had received letter from "A
prominent man who had devoted con-
|, siderable time in investigating the in
eidents of the strike, and this letter
said:
Saunders Persecution Of Cath olics.
zone OF the unwritten episodes of the
Spring Valley matter is that this com
pany, to punish the Catholic clergyman
in Spring Valley, who had stood like a
guardian angel over his flock, began a
systematic crusade against Irish Catho-
lie miners. The congregation which had
been 500 men, dwindled to 200 and the
determination threatened was near at
hand. But Father Power went to
Minneapolis and invoked the help OF
Archbishop Ireland. The archbishop
went to Mr.. Saunders and said:
g This must stop
"SaunderS saw that he had to choose
between feeding his grudge and losing
his Irish Catholic coal buyers. He
promised to stop and believe has done
SO; but this did not come until he had
driven out of the place 60 per cent of
the Irish Catholic WORKING miners.
This created a profound sensation in
the senate. But senator Donnelly was
not done. In one of his wonderful
bursts OF eloquence he made the capitol
ring with his clarion tones in denuncia-
ton of zone of the most corrupt and
dangerous combines that has ever fast
ened its fangs upon the people OF the
nation" He was sorry to conclude that
the American people are the most SER
vile upon the civilized globe. In their
common scramble for wealth, they. in
their inherent weakness, worship the
man that has it, even though amassed
from the life-blood of the suffering
masses; even though that man is
throttlIng the mighty industries. In an
effective perOratiOn he called upon the
friends of humanity to support the
amendment.
Mr.. Crandall alone voted in the mega
tive, and when the roll was called on
the third reading there was not mega
tive vote.