St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-11
HITTING BACK AT HoRR.
Members of the Ramsey County
Delegation Make Some Re-
marks.

Members of the Ramsey County
Delegation Make Some Re-
marks.
The members of the Ramsey county
delegation in the house are not eX-
actly angry, but just a little vexed, at
the repeated adverse criticisms of G.
W. Horn. of Hazel Park. Mr.. Horn
has INDUCED in a good many remarks
tinged with sarcasm and chuck full
of bitterness. directed at the delega-
ton as whole and at two or three
members in particular. Two such
complaints were fled by Mr.. Horn in
the daily press yesterday, and Messrs.
Johns and Warner were selected as
targets for Mr.. Horr's sarcasms.
Mr.. Johns was disposed to be face
tious when his attention was directed
to the articles in question. He laugh
ingly declared that he would take a
week off after the adjournment of the
session, when there was not much do
ing, and tell Mr.. Horn about it. 1.-The
trouble with Horr." said Mr.. Johns,
sis that he is too much in earnest in
the belief that he knows all about
matters of legislation. There are
probably 100000 people in St. Paul,
counting all the school children over
five years old, who know fully as
much about legislation as the gentle
man from Hazel Park, and yet he is
doing all the talking for all of them.
1t IS somewhat singular that the peo-
pie of his locality have so long per-
mitted him to hide his talents under
real estate office bushel, and IL his
pretensionS to superior wisdom and
nlatchless virtue have any foundation
in fact, the people of Ramsey county
who are possessed of sound and we'll
balanced minds and whose regard for
the welfare of the community over
balances their greed for newspaper
notoFiety. know that the Ramsey
county delegation are doing the best
they can. Mr., Horn is only one out Of
10000, and has just one chance in
100000 of controlling this delegation.
When he points out one single act of
his whole life in st. Paul which gives
him the title to pose as a public bene-
factor l will patiently listen to his
tiresome tale of woe, but at present he
is only q small bean in two-bushel
sack, and the delegation has too much
important business on it's hands to
waste any time apologizing to him for
its course. Personally I have been
working sixteen hours a day for sew
eral weeks on house and committee
work, and if I gave Mr. Horn the share
one person out of 10000 you will see
that it would be very short. Fact is,
this interview has overdrawn his ac-
count"
WARNER WAKES WARM.
Mr.. Warner was not disposed to at
tach to MIR. Horr's pronunciamentoes
all the Importance claimed for them
by the author, and speaking for him
self, declared that the delegation in
the press and hurry of these closing
days, had too much to do to waste any
time answering impairment questions
from persons not authorized to speak
for the public. 81 do not blame Mr..
Horn for seeking to protect his personal
interests provided he goes about it in
a proper way, but when he imagines
he can invoke the power of the press
to club this delegation into the support
of an unwise bill simply because it's
beneficent provisions apply to his
unproductive Hazel Park real eS-
tate, he makes q mistake. 1t was pro-
posed as a compromise measure by
those who opposed the bill to abolish
the water front tax, that the tax be
abolished on all property upon which
the tax shall have been paid for ten
years. This appealed to those citizens
who have paid this tax since it was in
augurated, the great majority of whom
would in a year or two be exempt
from further taxation, but this would
not exempt Mr.. Horn, and of course
this is not satisfactory to him. In
passing this bill in the form we did
we were influenced largely by the rec
concentrations of the committee of for
ty, and the expressions of individual
citizens, any one of whom was fully as
competent to speak, though possibly
not so much interested as Mr.. Horn. A
great proportion of the tax, under this
law, fails upon nonresident property
owners, which is another argument In
it's favor. 1t is obviously an injustice
to a large portion of the taxpayers to
abate the sum of the tax on one lot
and make lot in the next block pay
have been only recently extended in
the one case. If the tax Is abolished on
Mr.. Horr's lots, which have only paid
the tax one year, the men who have
paid it for nine years ought to have
eight years tax refunded.
'As to the howl about the salary
bills, which Mr.. Horn raises as kind
of a. side issue to his personal griev-
ance, it need only be said that the
public will not be misled or deceived
by this pretext. Every sensible per-
son, and they constitute the great ma
jority, knows that the constitutional
amendment prohibiting special legis-
lation places us in very peculiar and
Instantaneous position, when it
comes to legislation affecting Ramsey
county. It is very difficult, almost i'm
possible, indeed, to pass laws affecting
Ramsey county without affecting Hen
nepin, which is so near us in point of
population that a provision for one Is
liable to affect the other. Hennepin
county has a strong delegation here,
and it is a good deal easier to kill or
delay a bill than it is to pass it. One
of our bills, which affects them, is
promptly challenged by them, and it
is only by the support of outside mem-
bers that we can push our bills. and
Hennepin county, having larger vote
than we, can trade to better purpose
than we could, if we tried. The dele
CATION is doing the very best it can,
and will redeem it's pledges to the
people without reference to the clack-
ing of any self-constituted guardians
and without fear of the dreadful ven
geance of the Infatuated lamb from
Hazel Park
M'KENNEY'S SAY.
Said Representative Mckinney: "Mr.
Horn need not lay the f1attering JUNCTION
to his soul that the delegation has
been in any sense walked up by his
newspaper articles. So far as I am
concerned, and, as near as can learn,
the rest of the delegation feel the Ga me-