St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-07

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sidered by the committee. and prac-
tieally new bill. Therefore the rules
must be suspended or else the bill must
I take the course of other bills.
| Senator Stevens made the point that
repeatedly the president had ruled upon
! the very question under dispute. The
! president had a hundred times declared
| that If the votes are cast for measure,
! every rule of the senate is suspended.
| This applies to every sort of legislation
save the passage of bills. Senator DON
nelly supported this theory, but
Senator HOmpe WOuldn't Have 1t
that way, and he cited an action upon a
former bill. Senator SanbOrn stated
that the committee on finance had
recommended the substitution, and this
was adopted. 1t substituted the house
file for the senate file. ana it was upon
the motion of Senator Tawney.
Senator LeaYitt apOlogized for pro-
vOking the interminable argument. He
had never contemplated stirring up
| such a controversy, but he reiterated
his declarations that the bill must go to
the committee, and to shut off further
loss of time he moved the previous
question. The motion was lost, Al to
Dedon. Glader, HOmpe, LeaVItt, Little,
! Morse, j. w. Phillips, Probsttield and
SevatSOn.
The bill was then given its third read
ing, and Mr.. HOmpe jumped to his feet
to renew the assault upon the measure.
! Thereup0n Mr.. Stevens raised the point
of order that the senate was acting un-
der the previous question. The presi-
dent ruled the point not well taken, and
Mr.. HOmpe was given the floor He
began by scoring Senator Stevens for
trying to Squelch an expression of the
views of the minority. In an inSinuat-
ing tone he said he would not revert to
the methods that had been employed to
hurry the bill through.
Then came an exposition of
the Meat I'm the COcOanut.
The county commissioners of OtterTaiI
had implored him to approve the bill
and it might have been unpopular and a
cOntraventiOn of political capital for the
senator from Otter Tail to 90 contrary
to this instruction. This was followed
up by denial of the claim that the
greater portion of the expenses will
have to be born by the two cities. To
make good this argument he took the
hypothesis that if the wholesale houses
or st. Paul pay a gOodly portion of the
taxes of st. Paul the country-the
farmer and cOnSumer-payS all for the
reason that the taxes are added to the
cost Of the goods. Then he declared
with emphasis that the country builds
the cities and pays all the taxes. The
remainder of his speech was fully as ex-
travagant as this. Again and again he
groaned that the farmer is burdened
with all tbp 70 toyac ba ii
this includes less than one-fOurth of the
people of the state, and he made the
surprising assertion that his arguments
were incOntrOvertible.
In debating another important bill"
said he, II made the declaration that
sprung from race that never changes
their mind when they think they are
right, and the senator from Dakota with
his wit, for which we have no superior
in the United States, Instantly got the
laugh on me by saying
Neither Does the Jackass.,"
He then urged that he verify believed
it would be better for the welfare of the
state ii we had more jackaSSes. He re-
terred to the solid phalanX of forty
votes that confronted the opponents of
the bill.
Senator J. w. Peterson said the Good
hue county commissioners had in
Structed him to approve the bill, ana he
proceeded to claim that two-thirds of
the people OF the county believe the
building erected eight years ago should
last ten years longer, and they are not
favorable to removing the capital by
any means. and the speaker declared
that to pass the bill would be to enact
the worst measure i'll the history of the
state legislatures.
Senator Dean was given the floor to
censure Mr.. HOmpe for the eXtravagant
language he had used, and he scored
and t1Ogged the Otter Tail senator with
out mercy. Then he took up the alb
stract question of taxes and discussed
1t III convincing way. together with
the question OF population. lie exposed
the fallacieS of the figures that had been
presented by Senator Hompe. Ramsey
county pays something like one-fourth
of the taxes of the state, and he thought
the country is to be congratulated that
1t has the big cities to pay the state ex-
penSeS for the maintenance of the !
states institutions. The three leading
counties pay per capita tax of s.. .2S. |
while all the balance of the state nav |
only 76 cents. He had not intended to |
give statistics, but he felt that the state |
mentS of the senator from Otter Tail |
should not go unchallenged.
IusidiOus destinations.
Senator Leavitt conceded that he be- |
lieVed the bill would pass despite the |
of the contesting members, |
He, too, took fling at the methods |
to engineer the bill through. |
and then declared that he verify be- |
lieved that he would be false to his con-
and that he would violate his !