St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-23
WOODCHUCK GOES.
The Stevens Bill Passes With
Some Of Its Sin Miss
ing.
QUEER CLOSING SCENES
Staples and Jacobson, as
aai Usual, Run the
House.
ALL OTHERS SUPPRESSED.
Three Hours OF Vicious Work
After Time Had Ex-
pired.
QUEER CLOSING SCENES?
IL OTHERS SUPPRESSED.


day was the busiest day of the en-
tire session, and although the house
has kept well up with its work,
and stood much nearer the complete
limit than the senate, every member
was on the qui vive to secure recog-
milton for his favorite bill before 1t
was everiastingly too late. There
was, of course, the usual attempt to
increase the pay of house employees,
and a resolution which had been in
troduced for that purpose was re-
ported back unfavorably by the
committee on legislative expenses.
A red-hot fight ensued on the part
of the friends of the employees, and a
two-thirds majority voted to in
crease the pay, but the house had
early in the session adopted the
rule that it required three-fourths
to Overrule the report of the COM
mittee on legislative expenses, and
as this called for IS votes it was
found impossible to pass the resolu-
ton, and members took it out in
cursing the stupidity which permit
ted the adoption of such a rule.
The first fight of any consequence
over the passage of a bill was when
Senator Lloyds bill to transfer
$150,000 from the general revenue
to the road and bridge fund came
up. Mr.. Jacobson made one of his
hardest fights on this bill, represent
ing that it simply tied up $500 to
be appropriated by the next legis-
lature for roads and bridges, and
that this sum was simply taken out
of one pocket and put into the
other. 1t had to be raised by taxa
ton, and as the benefits were local
the taxation should be local. If
the amount were distributed pro
rata among the counties, as was the
probable purpose of the bill, RAM
sey and Hennepin and ST. Louis
counties, (which did not need it,
would get more than half of it.
Mr.. Mallette made a strong argu1
ment for the passage of the bill, and
was warmly supported from the
country. II Mr.. Robbins, Mr.. War
ner and others sided with Mr.. ia
cobson. Mr.. Dahl, of Hennepin,
supported the bill. On the call of
the roll, and before the result was
announced, Mr.. Dahl, thinking the
bill was lost, voted no in order to
be Imposition to reconsider. Had
he let his vote stand the bin would
have been passed, for Mr.. Gron-
dahl also changed his vote for the
same purpose, and the bill only
lacked those two votes of passage.
The vote stood as follows: -
Ayes-Anderson, Baston, Bickford,
Brevig, Buck, Cant, Chisholm, Christ.
ensen, Craig, Cross, Damp, Dingman,
Dressed, Ellingsen, Feig, Ferris,
Finney. Foss, French, Furlong, Gum,
Guttersen, Hartshorn, Henricks, Hoeff-
ken, Jones, J. D., Jones, J. NJ, Knute-
ae t Matb dtsleton Ma dNekwood Mans
Metealf Nicholson, Moore, McGrath,
Nash, Nelson, Parker, Rice, Richard
son, Robfllard, Sampson, Schroeder,
Sederberg. Shell, Sivright, Smith, b.
hi Na Strang, e., Sutton, Vigen, zier-56, ::
Dare, De Laittre. Downs, Dresser.
Foreman, Geissler, Gerlach, Gibbs,
GofeS GfonQahl, Jacobson, Johnson,
T., Johnson, E. c., Juliar, Kelly. A. B..
Kelly, P. H. Kendall. Leach, Muliin
Mclnnis, Mckenneyr Nieman, O'Reilly,
Reeves, Robbins, Sander, Schurmeier,
Scofield, Smith, C. A., Smith, ]. M.
Soule, Staples. Swanson, Tallman,
Taylor, Torson, Underleak, Underwood
vogel, Warner. Woodbridge, Wright.
Mr.. Speaker-50 >
Senator Ozmun's bill to prevent cor
rupt practices at elections was another
measure which had close call. and
showed through with only three votes
to spare. Mr.. Dahl showed that under
the provisions of the bill it would be
possible for the enemy of a candidate
to bride a vote and subsequently unseat
the candidate by this means.
Senator Greer's bill constituting one
years desertion as lawful ground for
divorce had the same vote as the o.
mum corrupt practice bill, namely, 62,
and was therefore passed.
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