St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-31
BROKE HIS PICK.
Representative Staples Stacks
Up Against a Hard
Game.
WOULD STOP THE GLOBE
From Criticising the Mistakes
Of the Pine Land Com
mittee.
WOULD STOP THE GLOBE
LEGISLATURE AT WORK.
Representative Dare Intro
dueeS an Anti-Pullman
Car Bill.

For the first time since the beginning
of the present session there was an eX-
hibitiOn of what is known in newspaper
parlance as "live natter in the house
yesterday. The occasion was the IN
Production of what seemed a very harm
less and inoffensive resolution by Rep
resentative Sutton. The resolution
read as follows:
Whereas, The legislature of 1893 ap-
pointed committee for the purpose or
investigating the sales of pine land
stumpage. and whereas, the said COM
mittee has formulated and submitted
vuluminous report 10 the governor ana
Legislature of this state.
Be it resolved. the senate concurring,
that joint committee of five. three
from the house ana two from The sem
ate, ,De appointed to analyZe and consider
the said report and recommend TO this
legislature suitable legislation covering
the investigation.
Resolved further. That the committee
| so appointed shall have authority to
summon witnesses and demand papers.
and that it shall have free access TO and
consultation with the land department
OF the state in preparing the report.
The speaker saw in the resolution
something indicative of trouble. and
looked aRXiodsly over to Representative
| Staples seat, evidently expecting that
gentleman to object. Mr.. Staples. how
ever. was busy in the task of scaling IL
cents off of a requisition for house sup
plies, and did not catch on until just as
| a vote was called. He asked to have the
resolution re-read, which was no sooner
| done than
Staples RridIed Up.
| He would have saddled up, too, if it
had not been for the extra expense, but
aS it was he contented himself with
| looking wise and saying nothing.
The resolution was put anu its adop-
ton carried, when Atr. Feig suggested a
rell-calI, as some expense might be in
CURED.
| Representative Warner asked if the
! resolution was satisfactory to the pine
| land committee. This afforded Staples
| the opportunity he so much wanted,
and he at once launched into what he
evidently intended for a severe attack
on the GLOBE and its representative on
! the floor of the house. 1t was not par
ticularly severe, however, and consisted
merely of
a WaudIin Statement
that the lumbermen were paying to
have the pine land committee abused,
with the ultimate view of weakening
his influence OH the floor of the house."
| He declared that the resolution was
| ''instigated'' by the GLOBE or its ac-
credited representative, and that it was
| aimed as blow at the committee and
himself personally. He also druled
| little on the familiar old string which Is
| ever the resort or imbeciles anu lncOm-
| petents who have no better defense, that
| the representatives of capital were con-
| spring against him.
Before corking up the flow OF his elo-
| quenee, MIR. Staples explained that the
report which the committee had sub
mitted was only partial report, an d
intlmated that the legislature would be
! regaled by a further deluge of the same
character as the eighty y-eight pages Of
| promises which is contained III the reg
| uIar. or first report. He made the point
especially strong that the lumbermen
| were paying for the persecution of the
| pine land committee. and lntimated
|
! though his statements were as Studi-
| ouSly vague as the statistics OF Ills COM
mlttee.
Mr. Staples made no attempt 10 eX-
plain any OF the discrepancies in his
| committees report, nor did he deny
| single one of the specific statements
made by the GLOBE i'll the article which
so panied him. His whole statement
amounted to the general proposition
| that the united capital of the lumber
| business was going 10 be used to crush
| him {Staples), and that the GLOBE was
| to be tile instrument. He then sat
| down. Be it known to all persons by
| these presents that Representative
Staples knows enough to sit down when
| ne gets tired of standing up.
After Mr.. Staples Lad subsided Mr..
jacobson took the floor and stated with
some clearness and fair recognition
of the influences other than the GLOBE
which had criticised the action or the
committee. explained that the pine land
committee had bill i'll course of prep
aration which il had not yet been able
to present. He declared that the COM
mittee would
Make a Final Statement
which would satisfy the legislature and
to explain or justify the procedure by
which $1,000 had been unlaWtully taken
from the school fund.
Mr.. Sutton'S resolution was tenn
porarily tabled, with the understanding
that it would again be called up.
The author of the resolution subse-
quentlY explained that his purpose in
Introducing the resolution was simply
to make the reading OF the report duty
on some members, since it was per.
fectly clear that no one would read it
unless especially enjoined to do so. BY
placing the matter in the hands of a
committee it would be possible to get
some intelligent conception OF the mer
its of the report.
As to the silly charge of Staples that
the GLOBE ''instigated" the resolution,
it is scarcely necessary TO say that IL is
of piece With the other silly clap trap
with which Mr.. Staples has been feed
ing the public to cover up the
Worse Than Tncompetency
of the committee OF which he has con-
suituted himself the mouthpiece. 1t is
true that the GLOBE has several times
exposed the hypocritical claims and
buncomb partisanship of this committe,
and 10 this extent, and no further. can
this paper be charged with Inspiring
Mr.. Sutton's resolution.
Should any question of veracity be
raised between the reporter and Mr..
Staples, it will be the misfortune of the
latter that his reputation for truth and