St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-05
WHAT IT ALL MEANS.
The Soupes OF Certain Grain
and Elevator Bills Be-
comes Known.
HoskIns and Olson Are Devot-
ing Their Valuable Time
to Drawing Them.
Donnelly Calls Attention to
the Direction the Coun-
try Is Drifting.
Senator Lienau Gives Good
Reasons for His Resolu-
tons on Immigration.

tons on Immigration.
''rhe sum of 'steen hundred thous and
dollars is hereby appropriated for
state elevator at Duluth"
The above paragraph has been read
in the two houses as part of so many
bills that the members are beginning to
wonder what it all means. Some have
supposed that these bills have been sent
to the members by their constituents
from various parts of the states, and
that there is, therefore, an overWhelm-
ing demand for line of state elevators
from Oneota to Minnesota points, and
that the farmers Of the state want these
StOrehOuseS regardless of cost, and as
soon as men and money can erect them.
But this deluSion has at last been dis
PEELED. The origin of these numerous
bills, or large part of them at least,
has leaked out, and as result an I'M
healthy miasmatic air surrounds Du-
luth elevator bills, and bids fair to keep
the whole lot in the committees Of the
two houses during the balance of the
session. 1t is common saying as we'll
as an established fact that stream cam
not rise above IFS source. Ii the source
be in a low, narShy and unhealthy
place. the entire course may be eX-
pccted to be little different.
And the source of these grain and ele
vatoT bills is decidedly unhealthy, as
will be evidenced to all who know the
men who have been spending their time
during the past few weeks drawing up
these
Hard to Draw TO
proposed laws. They are two in num-
ber Eric Olson, of Martin county, and
Frank Hoskins, of Henning. This
precious pair are working separately,
but along the same line. As an adviser
H0skinS has ex-RepreSentative Henry
Feig, while OiSon'S mainstay is eX-Re-
preventative Mattson. of Wilkin county.
HoskinS and Feig spent some time III
consultation with Gov. Nelson yeSter-
day, and several more attempts to throw
sand in the eyes of the farmers OF the
state may be expected in day or two.
Having lost the clerkShip Of the sem
ate committee Oh grain and warehouse,
Mr.. HoSkins may he figuring for clerk
ship under the state administration,
likely place in the grain Inspection
department. OF course, HoSkins knows
nothing about grain, but qualifications
cut no figure; he supported both Nelson
and Feig in the late campaign.
The event OF Yesterdays session OF
the state senate was speech delivered
by Senator DOnnelly in committee of
the whole, the body having under con-
sideration Senator Lonmen's bill to
create court to have jurisdiction in all
cases coming up under the laws regu-
ating railroads and elevators in the
state In this speech Senator DOnnelly
entered vigorous protest against the
centraliZing of all power in the national
government. The question before the
committee was the reference of the bill
to the judiciary committee. to which
the Sage did not object, but after stat
Ing his position he said.
States Have Rights.
This bill is rendered necessary by the
recent decision of the supreme court,
which reversed the decisions OF the same
court made fifteen years ago III the So
called granger cases." and declared
substantially that the states, the SOver-
eign states, had no power to control the
railway corporations, which we're Great
ed by themselves, but that the states
and their creatures, the corporations,
are co-equal in poWer-children of one
birth-and must settle their differences
in the courts Oh terms Of perfect equal
ity. That decision was Wide-Sweeplng
If the nation. We sit in the midst of an
accomplished revolution. We sit here.
the representatives of sovereign state,
shorn of all power. Our railroad COM
miSSionerS tell us they have no means
10 enforce their DEGREES. No man thinks
it worth while to attempt, and no rail
road corporation thinks it worth while
to resist anything we may do here.
Oar Power rs Gone.
Our hands are tied. A body is above
uS-the supreme court Of the United
States-paeked by the railroad corpora
items with their attorneys, who are able
and ready to bring to naught anything
we may attempt here. The prophecy of
Thomas jefferson has been fulfilled:
That the Judiciary would yet concen-
trate into its hands all the power Of the
nation. We have become a judicial
deSpolism, run in the interest OF organ
lied capital. State lines are swept
away; state sover6ignties are a thing of
the past; the supremacy of the people is
gone. This is the mightieSt and most
| terrible revolution that could sweep
over free people The senator from
| Ramsey (SanbOrm says that the SOW
ereignty OF the states is divided into
three c0-eQual brancheS-the legislat-
ure, the executive and the judicial; and
| he seems to think there is nothing
wrong il one of those, the judicial, is
! placed in control Of the other. |, by
leave. differ from him. The sovereign
power rests in the law-making power;
Inc executive simply executes the laws
when made. and the Judiciary inter
prets them. If the legislative function
were not exercised there would be no
! laws to execute and none to interpret.
| it never was intended by the trainers of
! the government that the power which
interpretS the laws
Should Negative Them.
We borrow our language and InstItu-
tons from England, and in England the
laWmaking function alone represents
the ultimate power of the people of
England. An act of parliament is ON
nipOtent. 1t could sweep away the
| queen herself. And to the honor of the
English people be it said. they would
| not, for one instant, permit bench
OF Judges TO neutraliZc the determined
purpose of the whole kingdom. No
court sits above parliament with a
sponge to wipe out its DEGREES. They
! realize that absolute power must rest
| somewhere, and that it is safer to leave
it in the hands of the whole people than
to place it in the hands of a few men
Our government has ceased to be re-
public; it is an olgarchy. Whoever
controls the selection of the judges of
the supreme court of the United States
controls the United States. We may
continue to exercise the forms of self
government, but the real power mas
passed from us. Our laws are not laws
until they are indOrsed by that court.
In little things we may legislate, but in
/ great things the lines are drawn to-
geLher at once, and the republic sits on
its launches.
And so we attempt, in this bill, to
whip the devil around the stump"
and meet the trick of the supreme court
by another trick; but when we have got
past that subterfuge the court will IN
vent another,
shall vote for the bill, but have no
hope that it will accomplish anything.
The remedy has got to be broader and
| dqpppr than that The nnODle nliSt rise