St. Paul daily globe., 1893-04-21
: A LAMB SELECTED
To Be Led to the Slaughter on Be
half of the Minnesota Ticket
Brokers.
Plans Deliberately Laid to Quickly
Test an Alleged UnCOnsti-
tutionai Law.

No attention will be paid to the bill
passed by the legislature and signed by
the governor, commonly known as the
'ant-scalpers' bill, by the tclt
brokers III ST. Paul and Minneai
oils; at least by the more
prominent and wealthy offices.
1t has been definitely decided the act
will be fought tooth and nail in the
courts aud every effort made TO cause
the measure to be dead-letter. The
grounds upon which the fight will be
made will be the alleged unconstitu-
tlonality of the bill. Notice has been
sent out of a meeting to be held i'll Chi
cago, April %, for the purpose of dis
cussing the best plans for fighting the
bill and creating fund for the defend
ing of any and all brokers arrested on
the charge of breaking the law. which
| will go into effect July ~. 1898.
A very unique line of aggreSsiYeness
will be adopted by the brokers. They
will try to have one Of their members
arrested On the charge of breaking the
| law on the day that the bill goes into
effect, and the victim has been selected.
The man chosen for the sacrifice is
| Clarence E. COrbett. local manager for
the firm of Mckenzie u Frey, and he is
prepared to undergo the slaughter. He
expects to be the first man arrested,
and then will take his chances of going
to Jail. In speaking or the matter he
SAID last evening:
II have no fear of the outcome. The
firm with which 1 am connected is pre-
pared to stand by me and will do so to
the last. | will probably be arrested the
first day after the bill goes into effect,
and then will begin the fight on the
e. t..5tltutionality of the bill. l am sure
that We will win. 1t has been tried time
and time again and the brokers have
always come out winners of the fights.
Mckenzie u Frey have Offices in the
cities of st. Louis, st. Paul, Minneapolis,
Chicago and Indianapolis. Every office
is in a state where the bill is in effect,
with The exception of Minnesota. anu
tile bill here will be in effect July
10, and there is no effort to
stop the brokers from doing business.
1t was tried in number of instances,
but the persons who were prosecuting
always made failure of the prosecu-
ton. The courts always ruled that the
law was unconstitutional, and the cases
were thrown out OF court. In Chicago
there have been a number of attempts
on the part of the railroad cOmpanieS to
get the brokers into trouble, but they
never made a success of the cases. Chi
cago, i'll spite of the law, is one of the
headquarters for the brokers, and they
do business there without fear OF mo-
lestatiOn. | am not afraid that any
thing will c)me out of the affair.
The Milwaukee and Northern Pa
cif;c roads will make all attempt to get
us into trouble in St. Paul, but they
will not succeed. | do not know what
action the other brokers in the city will
take, but | know that we Will stick to
the business till the last, and our Gus
toners will derive the benefits which
we can give them by the scalping of
tickets. We will prepare for the
coming trouble, or possibility of
trouble, by dispOsing of our
tickets and mileage at reduced rates, a