St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-23
BY MINNESOTA,S LEGISLATORS
YESTERDAY.
THE SESSION EXTRAORDINARY
BUSY DAYS WORK OF soLONs UN-
DER THE BENEFICENT BENE-
DICTIoN OF BoREALIs.
GOV. CLoUGH sNqBs THE VISITORS
Some Important Measures Intro
duced-P. H, Kelly Elected Sem
atOr-Gems of HumOr.
Minnesota has at last

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where it's statesmen are loved, not for
the length Of their bank rolls, but for
their wit and brilliant repartee. The
era Of venalism so much deplored by
w. L. Stead Vandiver is at an end and
the bright sun Of reform Is visible
through the rift Of the clouds.
One days session of the legislature,
under the beneficent benediction Of
BoreaIs Rex and his coadjutors, Reese
and Schiffman, was enough to bring
about this change, which will undoubt-
edly last SO long as the banner of the
polar bear shall wave above the glis-
tening battlements of Fort Karnival.
But the event opened with a frost
even under the ruling of Borealis Rex.
BY command Of his frigid majesty Gov.
/ Clough had been ordered to preside at
the session. Gov. Clough sulked in his
tent, as it were. He didn't appear, and
a committee was sent to his office to
request his attendance. But Gov
| Clough, instead Of getting around and
giving each one the glad hand" had
escaped. The committee felt hurt.
The governor is not in the build
ing" reported Chairman Jacobson yes
terday morning.
That so?' shouted P. H. Kelly.
What county dares hold a fair at
this season Of the year,"
And, as has been written somewhere
in the concentrated wisdom of the ages,
men recognize their leaders quickly, for
the vast assemblage Of Minnesota's
lawmakers thereupon elected P. H
Kelly the first senator of the realm
OF Fort Karniyal under the new
regime, where wit rather than wealth is
the key to political advancement
Twas day. of merriment Every
one looked at the ludicrous side of af-
fairs rather than the serious, although
one or two scoffers, unable to shake
from their clothes the musty odor of
old conditions, We're coarse enough to
suggest that they had heard more ride
ulous measures in sessions that were
not mock.
This session was supposed to be
mock gathering. It was not, purely.
1t possessed social feature to which
1t owed much of it's success, a happy
one, ana yet not unmarried by the sor-
rows that are so necessary to the Weav-
ing of life's chemeleon-hued fabric
| Such occasions as these were the pas
sage of resolutions on the death Of
Representative A d. French, of LIE
Sueur, and Of resolution of sympathy
with II. f. Hartshorn,- who is i'll at his
home and unable to be present. Nor
was the session, mock, as it was called.
ushered in1without a dignified and feel
ing innovation by-t the house CHAPLAIN,
Speaker Sam r. Van SAINT called the
| house to orderoirl n speech of welcome
to the carnival, to ST. Paul and to the
Commercial club. and, as the senate
was one short of q quorum, the mem
bers OF the upper house were glad to
come in out of the cold, and pleasant
remarks were also made by Lieut.. Gov.
Day.
Representative Lockwood wanted q
committee on mileage, and the speaker
named our busted friend" Lockwood
Representative Dingman wanted q
committee on legislative expenses, and
he was appointed. The two commit
tees subsequently, met and reported in
favor OF allowing each member five
cents per mile and. each reporter $3.50
House File No. 3lprohibited the Civ
ing OF any fish or flesh; dinners in ST.
Paul to members from the rural dis
trict. Postponed. -
II. f. No. gave Duluth the control
OF all st. Louis county and directed
Adjt Gen. Nuremberg and Gen. Bend
to protect the interna tional boundary
Col. Kiefer, the hero of the Venezuelan
campaign, on an equal war footing
with Bend and the adjutant general.
Henry johns introduced a bill locat-
ing the capitol on the Feig farm in Kan
dlyom county, the removal to occur in
1896 and to be permanent. Was referred
to the Hennepin delegation
NO. prohibited any resident of WI
mona, F'reeborn, Hennepin or Ramsey
counties from becoming a candidate for
governor, and also prohibited any re-
movals which were on their face in
tended to evade the law 1t was re-
ferred to the attorney general after
Speaker Van SAINT, of Winona, had vain
ly tried to have that county excepted
from the effect,of the bill.
Mr.. Foss had a bill to compel report
ers present at prize fights to forbear
mentioning the names of legislators
! ban1shed to Duluth and compelled to
! eat the city water there The Duluth
members alone voted against this bill
and it was adopted
Mr.. Kelly move that we adjourn
until 2:30. g.
Lieut. Gov. Day-gAIr. Kelly's invita-
ton is accepted. Where shall it be?
1t was nearly sfour o'clock when the
afternoon session opened. Henry Johns
| gave notice of debate on a bill proyid-
ing fixed" instead of struck" juries.
| The committee on supplies reported
bill providing for the equipment of
the wash rooms with one towel and no
| soap, and for furnishing each member
with dictionary, shears, Bourbon ink
| and crutches in order to dodge the
draft. Perhaps the best of the bills at
! the afternoon session in that it was
adopted was the following measure, in
! PRODUCED by that sterling champion of
the liberties of the oppressed-LegisIa-
tor John j. Boobar, drum major of the
| ST. Cloud Bicycle band and wheeIman
extraordinary, to the frozen court of
| Sank Cener. 1t depicts in a master
hand the woes Of the fare-paying leg
| 1slator, and hews to the line in its noble
| endeavors to annihilate the Injustice
| perpetuated by the railroads under the
false colors of an alleged retrenchment
and pa. reform y, .5 policy: The bill was:
Session. H. F. No. 2640.
1 introduced by Sir Boobar, R. j., of the
Province of Dutchy- '
maintain ice houses and crematories for divers
and sundry purposes, and the appropriatine
of money therefor.
| Be 1t enacted by the BoreaIistic legislature
in regular session assembled, at the CAPITOL of
Aurorapolaris. -
Section l. That the following sums of
money or SO much thereof as may be neces-
| sary, are hereby appropriated from anv
moneys now in the hands of the chancellor Of
the excheQuer OF the court of Borealis Rex
not otherwise appropriated or for the hard win
! First-That the sam iof $4,000 be appropri-
! ated for the erecting and equipping in each
congressional district Of this realm good and
! sufficient Ice houses for the purpose of in
/ generating therein during each session of the
! state legislature, certain railway officials of
certain railroads. particularly those in the
houses to be maintained at a temperature of
at least so degrees rbeloy zero for and during