St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-06
unable to do anything at all but
create expense.
MINNEAPOLIS WITH US.

unable to do anything at all but
create expense.
MINNEAPOLIS WITH US.
Messrs. Dingman and Robbins, of
Minneapolis, asserted in dignified and
forceful terms that they did not be-
lieve the best citizens of their city
would favor or countenance any move
ment to take the capitol from st.
Paul. 1t would not be fair or wise to
allow any partisan spirit to array one
section or city of the state against an
other. They were solidly opposed to
the Jacobson amendment, and in favor
of the bill as amended by Mr.. Kelly.
The old bill, Mr.. Robbins said, was
unwise and impractical in many of it's
provisions. His constituents were
broad enough and businesslike enough
to desire to see the work begin, SO
| that some benefit should be conferred
on the army of unemployed. The pro-
posed bill was safe and good and
should be passed by all means. He
also believed a reduction could be
made in the tax levy and still leave
a very large surplus in two years.
Mr.. O'Reilly, of Hennepin, also spoke
earnestly for the bill on the ground
that the state should do her part to
relieve existing distress among work
erS.
Mr.. Jacobson spoke again for his
amendment, and Mr.. Mallette aroused
him to a vehement pitch by asking
some questions the Lac qui Parle law
yer could not get away from. Mallette
clinched his point by the statement
that he would rather spend the states
money among the people than to
hoard it in banks at a very low rate of
interest, and sometimes lose it all.
Mr.. Feig made an attack on the site
as being incomplete and inadequate
for a state capitol. He assumed that
the tax to be levied would impoverish
every man who owns a piece Of prop
erty. He raised his voice (and it takes
a derrick to raise heavy things) in be-
half of the down-trodden people in his
section, who would be Mortified by the
passage of the bill The Minneapolis
affair was lauded quite eloquently,
amid copious draughts of ice water.
Mr.. Jones, J. N, and Mr. Scofield
spoke as earnestly as Mr.. Feig for
Jacobson's amendment, and were
backed up by Messrs. Foss, J. H.
Smith and Holman
WIZ AND WISDOM.
Messrs Cant and Grondahl argued
for passage Of the bill and defeat of
the amendment, and Mr.. Boobar threw
in few witty remarks in it's favor
that set the big audience to laughing
most heartily.
He said: II am opposed to the amend
ment. The. fearfully bad atmosphere
in this room ought to have long ago
convinced Mr.. Jacobson, who desires
to come back here many more
times, that this rookery has outlived
its usefulness. l want to come back
myself but If this thing keeps up where
will the state get its representatives.
Mr.. Feig'S hard struggle for breath is
to me another evidence of the fearful
risks we take in coming to the present
| capitol. There is no use in stringing
the Improvement through ten or fifteen
years, until all our ambition is dead
and our eloquence lost. / come here in
the morning fresh as a daisy, and go
away limp as a Kandiyol1i milkweed
and tired as a Hayward Juror. In self
defense, must vote for a new capitol
in which to work in the years of great
usefulness yet ahead"
1t was several minutes before the
laughter ceased, and then Speaker Van
| SAINT made the most logical and telling
speech of the day in favor of the bill,
and against the amendment. 1t was a
brief but ciear-cut and forceful state
| ment Of conditions and the duty con-
| fronting the members. If he felt The
passage of the bill would increase the
tax levy he would not support it. He
| severely denounced the attempt to ar
ray the farmers against the city, and
wanted the question settled at once,
and out of the way forever.
JAKE WINS A FALL.
The vote was then taken on the ia
cobson amendment, and it was adopted
by the following vote: