The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-07

this promises to be an exceedingly busy
day in the smaller branch of the state
law-making body.
The senate committee on taxes and
tax laws met yesterday afternoon to
consider the Reeves house bill for a
cent ton tax on iron ore 1t was
a semi-public hearing That is to say.
accredited representatives of interested
parties were admitted, but not the Eoi
polloi. Arguments against the bill were
made by Judge Chandler, ]. H. Cotton,
Of Duluth, and c. H. Petit Of Mime
apolis, the chief claims made being
that the tax was not only eXorbitant.
but that the ground taken by the bill
that the state could impose an extra
tax on mineral lands was in conflict
with the constitution.
The committee will hear the advo-
Gates farther when it can find an op-
portunity.
There are two special orders in the
senate this afternoon, and the first
of these, in point of time, at least. is
the reapportionment bill, which is on for
2:3O. What will be done with the bill
10 ltIQ " IOT0l0Il. Inc members OF
the committee say it is as equitable
a measure as their combined genius
could prepare. The Republican leaders,
on the other hand, aver that the caucus
committee, which was appointed one
from each congressional district, some
time ago, has not passed on it, and
that therefore, no member of the party
will be bound by the lash of the whip
to support the bill.
t1,in
and whether its representatives in the
two branches will stand by their neigh
bcrs, cannot as yet be told. The Second
congressional, on the other hand gains
one, and yet they are not all satisfied,
and they are fOretelling a fight which
promises, should the contagion extend
sufficiently far to defeat the bill en-
tirely. Duluth, too, is kicking, but prob
ably to no avail.
The accompanying map shows in a
way, the manner in which the aportion-
ment subject has been approached by a
legislature so overwhelmingly Repub-
hCan, that there are hardly any party
lines, and it reveals some unique cogi-
tations on the part Of the leaders of
the elephantine party.
This map depicts some of the methods
by which the partition of Ramsey coun-
ty is planned, and not the least signi-
ficant fact in the whole, is the magic
legend at the bottom, Figures correct.
F. S. Bryant" The figures are not hard
to obtain. The G o b e has had them
from time to time. They appear in
the census reports, some of them, and
they are all in the legislative manual
recently issued, so that any member Of
the Legislature might easily get at
them. Why an expert accountant
should be asked to verify them, would
seem entirely unnecessary and gratui-
tCus, were it not a matter of general
knowledge that Freddy" Bryant was
one of the wheel horses of the Repub-
ican party during the recent campaign.
1t is practically the same as signing the
map, 80. K, The Republican party"
The fight in Ramsey is one Of the amusing
things The reapportionnient committee fig
ured out that by tying the Third, Fourth and
Ninth wards together it could figure out a
safe Republican plurality year in and year
out, especially as John Lind got only one ward
of the three, and that by but seventy-seven
votes. That plan, however, left the Fourth
and Fifth wards together, and Henry Johns
does not like this. The Fifth ward even went
against Mckinley last fall and while It was