The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-03
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CAPITOL BILL PASSED nv THE
SENATE IN p TIE OF PRO-
TEST.
DOES 1T CREATE A DEBT?
THE QUESTION RAISED TURNS ON
A POINT OF CONSTITUTIONAL
LAW.
OES 1T CREATE A DEBT?
KELLER CAUSES AN EXCITEMENT.
He Threatens to Vote With the Pop
ulists to Get Even With the
Majority.

HapitOl bill, although some members of
the opposition tied string to it, The
point was raised that it created a debt
and therefore required a two thirds
vote for passage, under the constitu-
ton. The friends of the bill urged
that 1t did not create a, debt, but mere
ly provided for the issuance of certifi-
Gates, or promises to pay, against
certain fund yet to be paid in, and not
against the state in truth, within the
meaning Of the constitution.
w hen the capitol bill was reached on
The calendar, Senators Knatvold and
howard made speeches against the bill
It was passed, however, as follows:
Ayes-Culktn, Currier, Dunn, Fuller Han
Lloyd. Masterman, Miller, Morgan Near.
Thur Ozmun, Peterson, Potter, Pottgleser
Schaller. Sheehan, Smith, Spencer, Sperry,
Stebbins, Stevens, Stockton, Theden, Whit
ney, Wing, Wyman, Yale-31.
NOes-COle, Collester, Cronkhite, Durham
French. Greer, Hanna, Heneman, Howard
Hits, A. G. Johnson, Jones, Knatvold, Nc
Hale, Relshus, Roverud, SevatsOn, Swening-
sen, Thompson, ThOrpe-20.
Senator Howard then sent up the following
protest:
We, the undersigned members of the SEN
ate of the Thirtieth legislature of Mime
sofa hereby dissent and protest against the
passage of House File 625, on the ground that
1he bill is invalid and void because it has
bers; whereas, section 8, article g. of the
constitution, distinctly provides that no meas
ure seeking to create a debt Of the state shall
Take effect till it has passed by the vote Of
two-thlrds Of the members of each branch Of
ehe legislature, to be recorded by ayes and
mays on the journals Of each house.
5. B. Howard, Thirty-fourth District.
James Hanna Forty-second District.
P. NJ. Ringdahl, Fifty-frst District
E. s. Relshus, Sixteenth District.
}. Q. Cronkhite.
Whether the protest was just a bluff
or whether it was designed, in the case
OF the similar protest against the
Hastings hospital bill, to give Gov
Clough an excuse for a veto, remains
TO be seen. Some incline to the latter
belief
The first excitement Of the day oc-
CURED a little after the opening, when
Senator Keller asked a reconsideration
of his BILL S. T. 459, to prevent lumber
and boom companies from turning logs
loose In the river between Brainerd
and st. Cloud. He said these logs
damned against bridges and did great
damage to them, as we'll as to dams, In.
take pipes Of water works, and other
property, involving millions of dollars.
Senator Fuller, who had secured
The indefinite poStpOnement of the bill,
SAID the bill would do great damage to
business interests along the upper river
The lumbermen could not do business
unless they were allowed to sort their
logs as long as the river was open.
They could not be blamed for damage
done by such floods as the present
especially when the best booms in the
state had been carried out at Minneap-
oils within day or two
The courts had held, however. that
the boom company was liable for dam
bye arising from its negligence, so that
the city of st. Cloud or any other suf-
ferer had legal PREPARATION.
Senator Miller raised the point of
order that, as Senator Keller had not
been present when the bill was in
definitely postponed, he could not
move for a reconsideration.
Il have as good a right as a Pop"
shouted the Senator from Stearns.
Under what ruler"
Il am the author of the bill"
Il have read the rules. and 1 have
been unable to find that"
Read the rules at home. I don't
Dwe you anything"
Senator Schaller moved the recon-
sideratiOn to end the colloquy, and
Senator Keller charged that the oppo-
sitiOn to his bill had been backed by
one of the highest salaried lawyers in
the country, and. while he had three
members of the committee pledged to
1t, he had lost one Of them.
Senator Fuller said only one mem
Der of the committee ever favored the
bill. and that was the author himself
Senator Smith voted with me-"
Shouted Keller.
out of senatorial courtesy"
on a viva voce vote the motion to
reconsider seemed to be lost in the
thunderOus volume of noes. The
Etearns county senator was frantic.
Hereafter / vote the Pop ticket" he
rOared. "Oh-h-h-h--h combine! You
Pre making Pops every day. I have
been a sound money Democrat, and I
stood by you, but you won't stand by
me Oh-h-h-h-God bless you!"
But the tone of the last remark
hardly signified sincerity.
Il hope every Populist on the floor
will vote aye" remarked Senator Rel
Senator Keller rushed to the Cotton
wood mans desk and fervently grasped
his hand. You are my friend" he
exclaimed; help me beat this COM
biDe."
this outpouring of good fellowship the
merry ha-ha," and this angered the
seeding sound money Democrat still
more, so that, while still cordially shak-
Ing hands with Reishus with his right,
he shook his clenched left at Senator
Fuller.
But the threat of the Stearns county
patriot was apparently not without
effect. for when he got a roll call the
Republicans ran all kinds of dangers
Of Sprained ankles, broken collar bones
and buffeted shins in their efforts to
prevent the Sank Center rush from
breaking around the end into the Pop
ulist goal.
The vote was:
Ayes-Collester, Cronkhite, French, Greer,
Hanna, Heneman, Iltis, Johnson, A. G.,
Jones' Keller, Larson Lloyd Macarthur, Nc
Hale Ozmun, Peterson, Pottgeser Refshus
Ringdal, Roverud, Schaller, Sheehan. Smith.
Sporty. Stebbins, Sweningsen, Thompson,
Whitney, Wing.-30.
NoesLCole, Culkin, Currier, Dunn, Fuller,
Hodge. Knatvold, Masterman, Miller, Spen-
GER. Yale.
The Spencer bill, providing a new
plan for the reorganization Of insol-
vent banks, was taken from the table
on the motion of Senator Thorpe, to
HOncur in the house amendments, and
WAS discussed at length. Senator Nc
Hale said he believed the bill should
be killed Senator Schaller thought 1t
could be amended so as to give the
boor depositor q show. Senator Stevens
said that some legislation was impera-
lively demanded for the protection OF
deD0sitors. Senator McHale insisted
that it would work an injustice to the
creditors who did not either formally
assent to or dissent from the plan pro-
posed.
Senator Thorpe said that. under the
present law. a small number of deposit
tors or creditors might hold off and
demand that they be paid In full at
once. thereby preventing other deposit
tors and creditors from recovering
their claims, as they might under re-