St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-24
ENDED IN PRAYER.
The House Of Representatives
Joins in the Singing Of
the Doxology.
BoIsTERoUs LAST NIGHT.
Personal Encounters Mar
rowly Averted by Speak
er Van SAINT.
AND STAPLES HAD A CHUCK
How the Legislature Failed to
Appoint a Guardian for
Bob Dunn.

The final proceedings in the house
were taken at noon yesterday, when
it was called 10 order for the purpose
of approving the journal and hear.
| ing such reports as had been delayed
until the last day. There was, as
expected, a renewal of the fight on
senate file 4, when Mr.. Cant moved
| to correct the journal in such a way
as to clearly show that the bill was
passed on the 23d day of the month.
Of course every member of the house
knew of his own personal knowledge
that the bill was passed on Tuesday
morning, but with the grave
stupidity and dignified pigheadedness
Of so many United States senator's
they put it on record that the bill
was passed on Monday. The morn
ing papers which go to press at $3.50
o'clock, chronicled the passage Of
the bill at 3:05, and there were 900
competent witnesses to the fact that
it was passed at that hour, but the
lawyers who drew the bill contend
that the supreme court will bake its
brains on the house journal and de-,
clare with the same solemn stupidity
that the bill was passed on Monday.
After thus discharging it's grave
function the massed intelligence of
the body polite descended from the
high intellectual plane upon which
it had been operating, and descended
to the serious business of distributing
the leftover stationery and unused
ink wells.
The journal, as read, was approved.
Mr.. Feig submitted the full. text of
a dissertation on What Seen and
What 1 Have Not Saw in Ny Inves-
tigation." The report was adopted
after some evidences of querulous-
ness on the part of Mr.. Mallette, who
did not like the reflection on Mile
Laos county officials.
Photographic groups of the house
were presented to the speaker, chief
clerk and sergeant-at-arms, each of
whom made feeling responses to
these demonstrations of the esteem
in which the faithful officials were
held by the house.
For the last time the chaplain ap-
preached the throne of Grace on be-
half of this house. He asked that
the members of the house join in
singing the Long Meter Doxology,
and as the chorus of deep bass voices
Joined in the inspiring music the good
old pastors voice trembled with
emotion and his eyes filled with tears
as he struggled to control his sur
prise that there, were members who
knew the Long Meter Doxology.
KICKAPOO WAR DANCE.
The proceedings of Monday night,
| briefly chronicled in yesterday s
| GLOBE because of the late hour of
| the adjournment, would have excited
the enviouS admiration Of the partici-
! pators in Kickapoo war dance.
| There was not as much noisy hilarity
and good-natured boistrousness as
usually marks the last night of a ses-
sion, but there was enough genuine
trouble and unassumed viciousness to
satisfy the most fastidious taste. 1t
was after 2 O'Clock when the word
come in that the senate had concurred
! in the house amendments to S. F. 4,
Senator Stevens founding which-puts
the finishing touches on the constitu-
ton of the state. A dozen motions
had been made to ADJOURN. J. N Jones
was in the aisle yelling Justify, for
recognition and shaking his fist at Mr.
Staples, who was in the chair, when
Mr.. Jacobson got the floor.
'Mr. Speaker, I understand the
senate has concurred in. the house
! ,l,,a4 20 A T
motion to adjourn will not be enter
tained," he said. With that he
scooted into the senate to see what
had become Of that end of the circus
and Mr.. Staples coolly held that Mr..
jacobson still had the floor. Mr..
Johns, Mr.. Dahl, Mr.. Cant and Mr.
Jones protested, rose to a point of or
der moved to adjourn and demanded
a call of the house. but the speaker
patiently waited, like Mary's little
mutton, for Mr.. Jacobson to re-
| appear. When the latter returned and
made a motion to put the bill on its
final passage the house, which had
been boiling, now bubbled over. Alb
soIutely disregarding and totally ignor-
ing twenty or thirty members who
were demanding to be heard, Mr..
Staples accepted the cue from Mr..
Jacobson and recognized no one but the
friends of the bill. Things were ap-
| preaching climax, Mr.. Johns was in
| the midst of the aisle yelling like a
small boy at game of base ball. Mr.,
Dahl was dancing can-can on his
desk and Neil McInnis gave unmis-
taxable evidences of an intention to
take the speaker by the neck, when
Speaker Van SAINT assembled the steps
and Mr.. Staples Joined Mr.. Jacobson
on the floor.
The excitement instantly subsidized
and members expressed confidence that
the speaker of the house would see
fair play. In this they were not mis-
taken, for he promptly put the mo-
4 tion to adjourn, which was as prompt.
ly voted down.
Mr.. Cant made the point of order
that 1t was past the constitutional
hour for the transaction of business
and the whole house was therefore out
of order. The speaker refused to rule
on this point, but ordered protest te
that effect entered on the Journal, the
date of the protest being April %
1885,
AS stated in the GLOBE of yester-
day, the bill was declared passed by
66 votes. While the roll call was being
made Mr.. Jones paid his compliments
to Mr.. Staples : for the high-handed
manner in which he had suppressed
every member of the house except the
friends of the bill, and declared that
| such tactics were sufficient to drive