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


state Is a party.
s. f. $50, to appropriate $4,000 for
additional service in the office of the
public examiner. of banks.
EXPERT PRINTER.
The committee on public accounts
and expenditures yesterday submitted
Its report, and concerning the office of
state expert, printer has this to say:
Your committee have examined the
books of the state expert printer for
the years Of 1891, 1892 1898, 1894 and
md the same kept in a very unsatis-
FACTORY manner. It Is impossible from
the books and warrants on file in the
secretary of states office to form any
tning like an intelligent idea of this
department.. This committee furnished
the. committee on printing such in
formation as it had obtained in re-
gard to this matter and presume that
SUCH committee will make proper
recommendations to this house,
THE TAX LEVY.
Owing to the defeat of the LLOYD
Dill, appropriating by indirection $780,
ooo to the road and bridge fund, the
committee on ways and means has
neen enabled to present tax levy
Dill which calls for s960.OOO a year for
the next two years. which will fix the
ieVy at 70 mills, thus accomplishing
what mas been the aim of the Re-
publican managers since the begin
n'hs OF the session, namely, the reduc-
tlon or z mill in the tax levy.
LII oruer 10 do SO. however, it was
necessary to cut the appropriations for
mo
ments nearly in half. The governing
boards or the various public institu-
ions declare that these Institutions
nave oeen crippled. many of them al
most totally. by the juggernaut of the
appropriation committee, but with the
expenses already incurred 1t was alb
soicteiy necessary to cut the ap-
preparations in order to keep within
the TAX levy promised in the cam
paign.
MOB WAS ON HAND.
The respective hosts of the Windsor.
Merchants and Clarendon set out a
delightfully."- appetizing lunch In the up-
per cloak rooms during the evening
and the same was promptly gobbled
up and guzzled down by the mob of
hungry spectators which infested the
galleries and the Hobbies, although the
members made a desperate, and in
some cases successful. dash for share
or the viands. While not uniformly
successful in securing proyender. the
members were gratefully appreciative
OF the hospitable instinct which
prompted the landlords to furnish the
spread.
NOT A REPUBLICAN.
Representative Henricks, of Kittson
county, repudiates most uncondition-
ally, unequivocally, and finally the
statement contained in a statement
of Minneapolis paper that he pres
ented his views on the silver question
as a Republican. Mr.. Henricks is a
dyed-in-the-wool Popuiist, and feels
much aggrieved that he should have
been classified among the gold bug
protectionists.
After the members had RECALLED them
selves with what they could struggle
for with the mob they seemed to have
gathered good deal of strength. suf-
ficient. indeed, to knock out the first
three bills which came in from the
senate, among the number being Sena-
tor Towards proposed constitutional
amendment for the adoption of the
voting machine. The Litchfield nor
NAL school was also knocked endwise,
and Senator Pottgieser's bill to extend
the terms Of certain corporations went
the same way
Mr.. Staples introduced a Joint resolu-
ton providing for the appointment by
the attorney general of the state of an
assistant at $40 day in cases which
he could not give his personal atten-
ton. The resolution suffered a severe
defeat. only receiving forty votes. Mr..
Dahl sustaining a rebuke from Mr..
Staples for having given. notice of de-
bate. Mr.. Douglas was not satisfied
with the verdict of the house and
moved a reconsideration, citing the
magnificent" work of the special at
torney who had prosecuted the pine
land cases, thus disclosing the fact
which had already been apparent to a
good many members, that the pur-
pose of the resolution was to pro-
vide a fund for the further employment
of Attorney Richardson to prosecute
the unfinished land cases.
Mr.. Littleton made this point very
clear in a lucid statement to that eff
feet, in which he was warmly sup
ported by Mr.. Dahl. The motion was
voted down almost unanimously.
thanks to the, earnest opposition of
Messrs. Littleton and DAHL
Mr.. Warner wanted to take I'D a
senate insurance bill, but the house
said him. softly nay, and the bill
slept.
Mr.. Boobar asked the suspension of
the rules to pass a bill to pay the
St Cloud reformatory 5000 for build
ing the stone steps to the state
capitol built in 1891. He secured the
suspension of the rules and the bill
was passed
Mr.. Malette secured the passage of
Senator Dunham's bill to allow the
opening of new roads and Mr.. Reeves
had equally good luck with Senator
Young's bill to allow counties to Sc
cure lands for public purposes.
The Stevens bill again came to the
front. A lively debate over the meas
ure began, and was still in progress at
3:15 a. m.
At o'clock J. N. Jones moved to
adjourn, calling attention to the fact
that it was past the hour when any
business could be transacted. The mo-
ton was numerouSly seconded, but
Mr.. Jacobson insisted that the motion
should not be entertained. Mr. Staples,
who was in the chair, refused to en-
terrain any motion except that made
by Mr.. Jacobson, and though several
members excitedly demanded recc~ni-
ton the chair refused to recognize
them. and Mr.. McInnis
After two hours of continual wrang-
ling and repeated alterations be-
tween members, the house finally, at
O'Clock a. m, reached a vote on the
Stevens bill, the measure receiving G5
affirmative votes.
Before the vote was taken, a formal
protest was filed and entered upon the
journal by Mr.. Cant and McInnis. of
Duluth, and Mr.. Dahl, of Hennepin,
setting forth that the hour for the
transaction of business had passed.
The speaker declared the bill passed
and its title agreed to, and the house
adjourned. Before -adjourning, Mr..
Jones, j. D., formally protested against
the supplementary. discourteous
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