The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-06-28

the pine timber cut on school section.
SO, town AZ, range 26, and that the
timber remaining uncut on said section
be sold to the highest bidder as pro-
vided by law, a recommendation that
saved to the school fund between twelve
and fourteen thousand dollars and
which the courts sustained nine
months later. The majority report,
based upon the opinion of the attorney
general, Endorsed the steal and white
washed the auditor. After hot de-
bate, lasting four hours, in which the
nefarious practices of the pine thieves
were thoroughly exposed by the writer,
by a vote of so to 20 the minority re-
port was rejected. (See page 1922 house
journal.) On the Monday following,
the last working day Of the session,
after protracted struggle, the rules
were suspended, and there was not a
vote to spare, and the following resolu-
ton offered byR. G. Dunn, was adopted:
(See pages 829, $50 and S31 of the house
journal.) 49, T.. 5{@
WHEREAS, It has been publicly al
legged that the sale of the stumpage on
section SO, town AZ, range 26, of school
lands, was not conducted according to
the provisions of chapter 269 of the
General Laws of the State of Mime
sofa for 1885, governing such private
sales OF school lands, and that said sale
was irregular, illegal and invalid,
therefore, I
Resolved, That the house of repre-
sentatives, the senate concurring, does
hereby request the governor to take
such prompt action as he may deem
necessary to secure a full and further
investigation in the court of the sale
OF the pine stumpage on section 36,
township AZ, range 26, by the State
Auditor, to the firm of G.. A. Smith &
Co., of Minneapolis, and that the gov
ernor is hereby authorized to EN- ploy
counsel and incur such expenditures as
the proper conduct of such judicial in
| vestigation may require and the inter
ests of the State of Minnesota may de-
| mand.
Yet Senator Eaton, in his paper, the
Buffalo Journal, of June Goth, has the
brazen-faced effrontery to assert that,
1.-THE record also shows that every
time the house voted on the subject Of
investigation there were overwhelm.
ing majorities in favor of it and in the
senate there was not solitary vote
against it,"
The above resolution passed the
house about 10 A. M. Monday, and was
sent into the senate a few minutes
later. (See page 852 senate journal.
The lobbyists of the pine ring ther
exerted themselves to defeat the reso
luton in the senate. Dunn's persist
ency in the house snatched victory
from the jaws of defeat. The last hope
OF the ringsters was the senate. Thirty
pages of proceedings in the senate in
tervened before honest and untirine
Senator Leavitt succeeded in getting
the house resolution called up. (See
pages 881 and 1872 senate journal.
Then we find that senator A. Y. Eato1
and II other senators voted against the
resolution voted against referring the
matter to the courts for adjudication
and defeated the resolution. We quote
from the senate journal, pages SS1 ani
1872.
Messages from the house being un
der consideration,
Mr.. Leavitt called up the house reso
luton relating to pine land investiga
tion, section SO, town 20, range 26.
Mr.. Leavitt moved that the rules b.
suspended an3 the resolution be con
sidered at this time,
| And the roll being called, there were
yeas 81 and nays IL, as follows:
Messrs. Allen, Borchert, Brown
Burkhart, Canestrop, Craig, Craven
Daugherty, Day, Dedon, Donnelly
Erickson, Glader, Crate, Hammer
Hompe, Kelly, Kiester, La Due, Leav
lit, Little, Lommen, McHale, Mayo
Morse, Mott, Peterson J. w., Peterson
S. D., Probstfeld, Sevatson, Tawney.
Those who voted in the negativ,
were:
Messrs. Barr, Dean, EATON, Nc
Mlllan, March, O,Br1en, Phillips, San
born, Smith 3. r., Smith John Day
Stevens, Stockton.
So the motion to suspend the rule
did not prevail.
Had it not been for the indefatigabl,
Senator Leavitt, ably seconded b,
Senator Donnelly and other friends Q
the people, the pine investigation
would have died right there. and thel
and the pine barons would have con
tinued to rob the school children o
the State without let or hindrance
But Senator Leavitt finally succeeded
during the closing hour of the evenin.
session, in again having the resolution
called up, and this time it passed, bu
Senator Eaton did not vote for it, an,
he is recorded as voting immediatel
before and after the vote on the reso
luton was taken. (See pages 900 an,
9O1 senate journal. And be it remem
bered Senator Eaton had been an
pointed a member of the joint hous