St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-22
cL0UGH ON LIQUOR.
GOVERNOR DECLARES AGAINST
TAKING DRINKABLES INTO
THE STATE HOUSE.
KING AND GOVERNOR CLASH
OVER THE "REFRESHMEyTs,, FOR
THE EXTRA SESSION OF THE
LEGISLATURE.
CRISIS IS NARROWLY .AyERTED
Only the Most Diplomatic of Inter-
mediaries Prevent II Serious
Clash of Auth ority.

dictate. 1t had been supposed that in
the midst of the carnival pleasantly
all distinctions of the common govern
ment would be abandoned, but the
governor of the commonwealth of Min
hesota, by right Of an enormous pop
uIar majority has declined to bend the
knee to Borealis Rex. Relations were
bit strained between the two govern
nents at one time yesterday, but
through the diplomacy OF representa-
tives Of the belligerents such an I'M
derstanding was arrived at that there
is no apparent danger of hostilities be-
ing reopened today.
The knife that opened the sore was
the edict of Borealis in which the state
legislature was convened in special ses-
sion; not that the governor wanted TO
call the aggregation together himself,
for he expressly disclaiIns any person.
al feeling of indignity suffered, but the
elaborate programme arranged for the
aforesaid session was the thing that
brought the dlgnitarieS to q clash.
1t had been intended to call the ses-
sion at high noon with eclat and sew
eral cases Of beer, etc, the eclat being
IN the senate chamber and the other
articles well cached in the cloak rooms.
perhaps, but, at any rate, comfortably
contiguous to the scene of action, in
order that quorum might be main
tanned
Gov Clough, old war horse that he
is, scented the battle from afar. He
remembered how Lieut.. Gov. Majors,
OF Nebraska, went down to defeat when
he tried to drop the lieutenant part,
chiefly because it was charged that
he had permitted debauchery in the
state house, and with an eye to the
lrnt ~ tI,a lon ii
haps, truly respectful of those solemn
and dignified critics who are never car
ried away by the enthusiasm of popu-
lar movements, the governor promptly
decided that it was time to call a halt
He did not even call in Tams BiXby
He passed the message right along
| that no beer, champagne cOgnac alco-
hol spirits frumenti, aqua vitae, nitro
glycerine, blue label, white seal, ale,
| porter, stout, nectar, gin, rum, nor
pulQue would be allowed in the state
house today under pain of the severest
executive displeaSure and the peremp-
tory propagation of the sitting SEES
sion.
Senator Wade, of Mississippi, was the
diplomat intrusted with the bearing OF
the executive ultimatum to his royal
reXlets, Borealis.
When the senator from Mississippi
presented his credentials to Ambassa-
dor Darius Reese, of the Indictment
kingdom, frown passed Yer the US
| ually serene countenance If SorraliS
diplomatic coadjutor. SO serious did
he consider the situation that before
he presented the governors message
to the king he held hasty conference
with Envoy Schiffman. They were
10th 70 assume any responsibility in So
menacing a crisis, and accordingly laid
the documents in the case at once be-
fore i3oreaiis Rex.
AS soon as the king had combed the
ice from his whiskers he read the pa
pers, and then came a tempestous
scene, according to the most VerGcious
chronlclers of the inner court. At first
Borealis Rex was inclined to try is
sues with the temporal rulor, but hay
| ing received information that part of
the officials at the state house were al
ready guarding their doors with guns,
he decided that discretion was the
better part of Valor, and his reply to
the missivc borne by the senator from
the South was couched in naught but
the most diplomatic language.
Borealis gracefully indicated his en-
tire inGisposition to invade any of the
sacred rights of the governor of the
commonwealth, and pleaded infantile
innocence of the plot for the desecra-
ton of the state house. With the US
ual renewed assurances of his most
distinguished consideration, he begged
leave to sign himself most fraternally
yours, BOrealis, with a big b.
How much Of a curtain lecture the
king gave Ambassador Reese and En-
voy Schiffman is not known outside of
the regal chamber, but at a late hour
last night it was announced that the
refreshments" for the extraordinary
session OF the legislature would be serv-
ed at place convenient to, but not
in, the capitol.
And Gov. Clough will hold the w. c.
T. u vote solid.