The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-11
RANSEY'S0nE WANT
WILL ASK FoR NO OFFICES AT THE
COMING LEGISLATIVE SES-
SION.
MONEY FOR THE NEW CAPITOL
is ALL THAT THE MEMBERS FROM
THIS COUNTY DESIRE THIS
WINTER.
Several Good Men Aspire to Posi-
tfons-GOssip About the Makeup
of Committees.


CT the offices in the coming legislative
session. But that is not saying Ram
sey county is going to be backward
about asking for what she wants this
winter For some time the lawmakers
OF the county have had to be quiet
and modest as well, because of the
capitol fight. But this winter it will
he different. The capitol has been To-
Gated and the state is committed to
its erection in st. Paul.
est Paul will come to the front this
year as she has not in many years
n the legislature, said member Of
the Ramsey county delegation yester-
cay 1--WE have no axes to grind, no
ermities to controvert, and are making
ro pledges on the fight for offices.
When we do make pledges we shall ex
act one in return, and you may be sure
we will see to it they will be fulfilled.
Last session the capitol fight kept ev-
cry man on the delegation as dumb as
Oh oyster. This year we will knock
crooked job when we see it, without
fear Of losing a vote. The only thing
we want, and our interest in this is
identical with that of the state, is an
additional appropriation to push work
Oh the new capitol. Every member or
the delegation will work for that end,
and there will be some pretty fine work
done with the outside delegations to
accomplish that end.
1.-THE chief difficulty we have to con-
tend with is the prejudice of the coun-
t1y against the two cities. There il,
always more or less jealousy on the
part of the country members every
time either ST. Paul or Minneapolis
asks for anything. This fault lies not
with the country members, but with
their constituents. It will be easy
enough to convince a country member
that more money appropriated for the
capitol will be an advantage to the
state at large, but his constituents
will see it and perhaps raise cain with
the country member the next time he
comes up as a candidate.
''Under the law certain per cent
Of the entire annual tax levy is avail
able for work on the capitol It was
believed that within ten years the value
of taxable property in the state would
increase so that the entire sum needed
to complete the capitol would
be raised in that period. This year
the taxable valuation of st. Paul ha.,
been materially reduced. We shall
lose some money there. During the
past two years the entire sum availa-
hle has been only about $125, 900 an
nually. That is not enough Tt is pos
stble for the state to transfer money
from one fund to another if the Iec.is-
islature will permit. That is what we
shall ask for this winter. We want
money to press work On the capitol
There's plenty of money in the school
fund that we could use if the legisla-
ture will so order. All that is nee
eSsary is permission for the capitol
fund to borrow from the school fund.
the amount thus loaned to be repaii
later as the amount available from
the annual tax levy becomes larger
Ii Is possible to let contracts cheaper,
labor is cheaper, material is lower now.
and will be this winter, than will be
| POSSIBLE next year or the following
years when there is certain to be a
! return to good times and higher prices.
| The expenditure Of this money now
| would mean employment for hundreds
| IN this dull time. The early comple-
ton Of the capitol is as much a neces
! s;ty to the state at large as to st. Paul.
inns Is the fight we shall make this
| winter. If we can persuade our fellow,
| legislators for the country that the CITY
| CT st. Paul is not asking this for her
own sake, we shall be successful and
| the new capitol will be completed ali
| the sooner. That's all St Paul is 60
Jig to ask for this year. To accom-.
Ensh this end we are going to be good
fellows with every body else, ask for
| nothing, give all that we can. But
! you can make up your mind that the
ramsey county delegation will not
Keep so much in the BACKGROUND as
| during the Ia Sf SQSCin,,
! The list Of candidates for the speak.
| ersh1p is becoming a long one Henry
| Feig, of Kandiyohi, is one of the latest
to bob up. Mr.. Feig is said to have
the support of the entire Seventh dis
| tr1ct, but the friends of w. B. Douglas
| OF Moorhead, are disposed to DISPUTE
that claim. Mr.. Douglas did more thar
any one else to help re-elect Congress.
man Eddy, and the people of that dis.
trfct are grateful for his work. and
Eddy himself has already put in 8
large plug for the Clay county aspir-
| ant. j. D. Jones, of Long Prairie. was
in the city yesterday, talking over the
| situation with such of the representa-.
| tfves who have drifted in to hav,
hand in the preliminary struggle
Jones, it is conceded. is thus far the
strongest man in the race. The Todd
| county man doesn't claim to have The
what he thinks Of his chances. c. F
Staples and ]. F. Jacobson are both il
the field, but it is likely that either
| will withdraw, If the friends of the
other insist. The two men have beer
such close friends that with one in thu
| speakers chair the other is pretty GER
tain to get the pick of the best commit
tees or whatever he may ask at tn,
hands of the speaker. Joseph Under
leak, of Olmsted, is a strong candidat,
also, and has the support of a larg,
part Of the delegations from the south
ern part Of the state. Hennepin ha.
two candidates, E. E. Smith and Judg,
Hicks. But it is not very probabl,
that Hennepin will ask much. In thu
event that Mckinley should invit,
Senator Davis into his cabinet, Their
would be a vacancy in the United
States senate that any number of Min
neapolis people think they should fill
Ex-senator Washburn is having him
self interviewed in Chicago, sayin,
pleasant things about Mckinley, and Ii
other ways getting in trim for the sen
atorial lightning If it should strike il
his neighborhood.
Congressman Eddy was at tn
Windsor, yesterday, looking as fresl
as could be expected after the rigor
of two months campaign. Mr. Edd-
had been at home but once, and tina
for a few hours, since the middle O
August. All the time he has spent il
| the Seventh district campaigning a
as never candidate fought in this stat
before. He said yesterday that, al
though he fully expected to be re
elected, the result of the ballot was
surprise, and that his majority wa
larger than he had hoped for 9TH
campaign made against me was bite
and thorough" he said yesterday, IAN
l really thought the detection the Dem