St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-23


bearing to coincide with the directors,
he said: 'Then, Mr.. Speaker, I move
that the bill be laid upon the table"
This was seconded and .promptly ear
! ried, and then. without having got
ten off his feet. he coolly continued:
The bill now being on the table
move to take it from the table for
amendment and further considera-
tion," and he resubmitted his amend.
!, ment. Before the house could fully
Srealize the status of the bill the
amendment was adopted, as was one
by Mr.. Douglas, more clearly setting
forth the specific application of the
!Mil to certain companies, including
mining companies !
Mr.. Kelly, P. H, said the sentiment
was general and undisputed that the
original purpose of the bill was vi
clous, that it was conceived in sin
and born in iniquity," but admitted
tnat the amendments sheared II of
much of it's harmful design.
A WOLF IN DISGUISE.
q Mr.. Dahl said the members were
piaclng themselves in an absurd posi-
non. They admitted with "a lfnanim
ity that must be fiattering to the au-
tnor OF the bill that in the form in
winch 1t was originally presented it
hao not a redeeming feature, and
yet around the rotten framework
tney We're attempting to build I'D in
me FORM OF amendments a bill which
ene people We're asked to support. All
ADMITTED that 1T was a wolf in dis
sulse, and to trim off it's ears here or
ies tail there made it none the less a
wolf
MT. cant touched the quick of the
Dill when he read tn DIVISION re-
iatins to the dining, parlor and sleep
ing car companies. and showed that
.here was not q worl In the clause
ieiating to them that rro1 .ded for
their taxa ton. 1.-The word tax does
hot occur m any connection as long
as the various companies enumerated
IN THIS paragraph are under discussion.
NOT until YOU come TO anil pass q
iuu malt and get into another. and
separate paragraph is there the slight
est provision for imposing a tax. It
SIMPLY provides that there NAV be
imposed upon" the companies named
something that Is not mentioned any
1urther until the question of sleeping.
ana other car companies is entirely
dismissed, the sentence reading abrupt-
~ without saying what shall be .irn
posed"
MT. Cant also called the attention of
the mouse to the fact that not three
men IN the house understood the vague
anu carefully Ambiguous terms of the
Dill. 1t was not the purpose of it's au-
thor to have 1t understood
Mr. Dahl here sent up an amend
heht TO strike out all the meaningless
language or the first dozen lines after
'the enacting clause, and thus place
the Pullman and other car companies
unuer exactly the same rules as the
other companies. This amendment
was voted down. and 4 roll call WAS
taken on the bill. 1t was passed with
out any amendments for the purpose
oI placing Pullman cars under the
operation OF the law, and the ouIy
proper title for the bill as passed would
pe AN act to exempt sleeping, din
ing and parlor cars from taxation" II
r's only just to the members, however.
no state that a majority of them
thought Mr.. Jacobson's amendment ef
} fected this end. The vote on the bill
was as follows:
Ayes-Ahlstrom, Anderson. Barta.
Baston. Bickford, Blagik, Boobar. BOX,
efId. Brainerd, Brevig, Buck, Burke,
h 66nisnoim, Christensen, Cross. Dare.
ingsen. Feig. Ferris, Finney, Geissler.
fGerlaeh, Gibbs, Cores, Gum. Gutter.
sen, Hartshorn, Henricks, Hoeffken.
fioiman. Jacobson, johnson, E., John
= + T. K 81, J9nes. J.; D., Juliar. Kelly.
h hiffttieton. Mathieson. Meilicke Met
CALI, Nicholson, Moore, MulIin. Nc.
aGrath, McKenney, Nash. Nelson, Me
, man, t fsahrhkier,s Reeves. Rices Richard
sehurmeier. sco6eId, sivrigh t't Smith
=. A, Staples. Sutton, Swanson, Tay,
1or, Torson, Underleak, Vigen, Vogel.
warner, Woodbridge, WrightL75.
La Miays-G Dins,ro Craig Dahl, Dale. De
Johns, Mansfield. Maliette, Dds
OEeilly, Post, Sander, Sederberg'
Smith, J. NJ, Soule, Taliman. IInde1.
wood, Zier-22 ECl 60. N1i.
other bills passed during the day
were as follows:
.. 4. foI, JOINT memorial to congress
relative to deep water ways to the east.
D. r. 476, to provide for elementary
normal instruction in state high
schoois and to appropriate money for
the same.
5. f. 6f7. relating to the control of
infectious diseases.
:. f. 7Ol, relating to boulevards. etc.
3. f. 335, relating to powers of coun-
ty commissioners
). f. 546. to amend section 30 of chap
ter l45, General Laws 1885.
.. +. 142, to amend chapter 131, Cen
eral Laws 1881, relating to building and
loan associations doing general bust
ness.
s. F. 63S, Substitute for S. F. No.
40 to provide monument to mark
site of Fort Ridgley.
.. f. 424, legalizing and confirming
village ordinances and contracts in
certain cases.
.. II. 70, to prevent corrupt practices
IN elections, and to limit the expenses
OF candidates and political committees
and to provide penalties.
5. F. SIS, TO prevent the adulteration
of candy.
ST. 613, relating to the care of fish.
FOWL. or game for human food.
s. f. 5O2, to amend section six. of
chapter 81 of General Statutes 1878. re-
lating to divorce.
- f. 5A, to appropriate the income
derived from investments in the in
ternal Improvement land fund to the
internal Improvement or road and
bridge fund.
s. F. gu, to protect owners of bot
ties, etc, used in the sale of soda water,
etc.
S. F. 4O4. to amend section $50. Cen
eral Statutes of 1879
THE BILL AS PASSED.
s. F. 4. the bill over which SO much
discussion and so many left handed
compliments have been INDUCED in. is,
as will be seen, fearfully and won
derfnlly constructed thing, being in
many respects like one of the German
sentences quoted by Mark Twain in
which he declared that the subject and
predicate were on opposite sides of the
Atlantic ocean. With the para
mount clause knocked out and the
amendments all in, it reads as follows:
fThe legislature may impose, or pro-
Yfse for the imposition of, upon the
property within the state of any and