St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-20
WANTS TO SECEDE.
Senator Spencer Declares Du-
luth Will Withdraw From
the State.
TIE BRIGHTEST DIADEM
Will Cease to Pay Tribute Be-
cause a Normal School
Was Refused.
TIE BRIGHTEST DlADEM
THE SENATE DISPOSE OF
Appropriation, Pine Land and
Several Other Important
Bills.

In explaining his vote upon the
| appropriation bill Senator Spencer
was primed with narrowing feel
| ings, and gave utterance to the
most remarkable statements that
have been made upon tthe floor of
the senate. 1t was in line of the
secession speeches in ante-bellum
days. He spoke as follows:
This is the first time | have ex-
| planned my vote this session, but L
wish to enter my protest against the
| infamous conduct of this senate in
voting down certain measures in con-
nection with this BILL and l went to
! serve notice, give due warning, that as
a result of it, Minnesota will lose her
brightest and richest diadem The
| next decade will witness a difference
L have voted for a majority of the
items in this bill, but st. Louis county
is paying more than her proportion,
| and getting nothing out of it. l want
| you to distinctly understand that
! within the next ten years the north
! ern tier of counties will not be a part
| OF this state. You have been getting
everything in the past, but l give you
falr warning you will not get much
more. much longer from the Fifty
/ fCurth legislative district, as a result
or the Infamous treatment the north
ern part of the state has received.
Senators have given me their personal
pledge that they would support certain
| measures, and they turned around and
voted the other way. This is no idle
threat, as you will see. The Sixth
congressional district does not get
what belongs to her She has twenty
couhtles-larger than the rest of the
state st. Louis county has poured
hef money into the state treasury
YOU can put that in your pipe and
smoke it,
Senator Spencer did not state that
resolution has passed the Wisconsin
legislature to appoint a commission to
confer with a similar commission from
this state to discuss annexation of
Duluth to Wisconsin, but he probab Iv
knew 10 had passed. He probably
sees a long fight before him, before
congress and both states will agree
to the cession which he limited at
Several senators laughed at the
speech of the senator from st. Louis
oiio OliiCio al
lusions to it.
Senator Young said that in the face
OF the threat of st. Louis county he
would vote aye. Explaining his vote
Senator Thompson said he thought the
senator from Duluth was not right
or Just in his threats. He believed
that if another vote was taken to es
tablish another normal school three
fOurthS of tha
against 1t. He voted for the bill,
IN THE CRUCIBLE.
Senator Knatvold Immediately after
reading the journal moved to strike
out the $4,000 item in the general ap-
preparation bill for the Duluth normal
school building. Senator Spencer be-
gan filibustering movements He asked
call of the senate and on a motion
to suspend proceedings under the call
asked for the yeas and nays. Further
proceedings upon the call being sus-
pended, Senator Greer amended the
original motion by including the items
of $1,000 for the railroad and ware
house commission. The two matters
were divided. A roll call being taken
upon the motion to reconsider the
vote by which the report of the COM
mittee upon the appropriation bill was
| amended the report was reconsidered.
When a vote was demanded on the
motion to strike out the normal school
item, Senator Spencer again demanded
a call of the senate. Upon a roll call
the item of $4,000 was stricken out.
The motion to strike out the $1,000 ap-
preparation for the expenses of the
railroad and warehouse commission
was discussed at length along the
same line as the evening before, with
| the addition of washing some political
linen. Senator Greer intimated that
Senator Ringdal was voting additions
to the appropriation bill for partisan
| purposes. Senator Ringdal said he
was glad to see that Senator Greer was
| ready to admit that the Republican
party had disregarded pledges of
| economy, but he challenged any one
| to point out a vote of political bias cast
| by him in the senate.
| Senator Sheehan alluded to Senator
| Greer voting for an appropriation for
sheep shed and pig sty, and yet he
voted against an appropriation to
| maintain an important department of
| the state. He was interrupted by sew
| eral senator's, who wanted to know
1 if the money was not to be used for
| attorney fees. Senator Sheehan said
| the fund was to be used in defraying
| expenses of witnesses in cases to Sc
| cure reduction in freight rates. The
| motion of Senator Stevens was adopt
| ed, which prevented the appropriation
! from being used as attorney fees. A
| further amendment was offered to
| make the appropriation $1,000 a year
| for two years. This amendment was
| lost. The motion to strike out the
s., 900 a year for the commission was
| lost.
Senator Stevens asked leave to
| amend the bill by re-inserting the
| two items for publishing reports of
| the geological and natural history sur
vey, but upon the statement that a
motion to adopt the report of the
bill was pending and that a confer
| ence would be had upon the bill
| he Gid not insist upon the motion.
| The report of the committee upon the
bill was adopted and the bill was put
upon its final passage, receiving A
votes and none against it.
| When the bill came back from the
house later in the day Senators Wy
man, Yale, Stebbins, McHale and
| Sevatson were named as the senate
members of the conference committee
asked by the house upon the senate
| amendments to the general appropria-
| ton bill.
| PINE LAND BILL.
Senator Schaller moved to adopt the
report of the special committee rec
ommending amendments to the pine
land bills. The report was adopted
and the senate in committee of the
whole with Senator Wyman in the
chair took UP the pine lands bills.
The amendments of the special COM
mittee to the Staples bill were incor-
| porated in the places they belonged
A motion was then made to recon-
mend the Staples bill for passage
Senator Potter moved to substitute
the senate bill and pointed out his
| objections to the Staples bill SEN