The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-10

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through. That's all there is to that.
We give him a chance He won't take
it. We can carry the First and Sec
ond wards any time and Wen carry
the third for him, if we get a show.
That ought to do" And the cigar man
said it just as though he would have
convinced Sheehan himself, had he
been there
The next step in the plan adopted
by the delegation was to fix upon the
Fourth, Fifth and Sixth wards as ons
district, the whole according to the
concededly reliable figures of FREDDY
Bryant, having a population of over
4z0OO souls Here is where Schiffman
ana JOINS live, and they were hit
where they live. They accredited the
design to Pottgieser, and Senator MID
SO nearly admitted the soft impeach-
ment that he and Henry Johns might
have come to blows had not the sat
urnine Lowenstein, ever peace-Ioving.
handed each a "two-fer'' and stood
between them until the brunt of the
battle was over.
I'VE don't care" said schlffman.
phllosophfcally, but the philosophy
was IN vanishing letters put the
Fourth ward wherever you want to.
we don't care. Give us the Fourth
and Ninth. Well meet the Democrats
anywhere you say. Well beat 'em
foot, horse and dragons. and we'u
turn in Republican majority for the
ucket, but you go on and tie US up
with the West side. We have never
mixed with them and. there are 10 600
Pops over there that ought to be ia
the lunatic asylum" M
Just then Representative Stanles
came came IN and. SehdffnTan shouted: rSay,
staples. can't you let us have Dakota
county or part Of it2 We've only got
$4,000 people in out our district and we
need few more."s ..<rl .Fl3 f'9-
But mine is a Democratic county,
replied Mr.. Staples
ven, they've tied us up with all
the other Democrats, and the Schiff-
blocks
Inc thing that ranked in the Schiff-
man-Johns bosoms mostly was, that
lnefe were in that district AZ. 900 peo.
PIE, while in the new district planned.
consisting of the Seventh ward and
ihe south half of the Eighth, there were
put 10000, little more than half. The
disparity in population was almost sim
!Iar IN the remaining district, consist
ing or the rest of the Eighth. the Tenth
ana Eleventh wards, and the country.
stevens, Lowenstein, Bryant ct al.
Inquired that their plan gave them three
sure republican districts and two
that it was two and two and one
doubtful
Senator Sheehan declares that he
VIII nght the matter out this morning
on the floor of the senate. and unless
some one gets the soothing syrup re-
Ierred 70 above, there seems little rea-
son to doubt the promise
1t appears that every senator in the
Ramsey delegation wants to get back
except senator OZmun, who has a lead
pipe cinch, it Is claimed on the Me-
Kinleyan mission to Guatemala.
Senator Pottgieser figures that nv
combining the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth
wards ne can be restored, and his
friends figure that inasmuch as he
was put on four years ago to save the
tlcket, and that inasmuch as he saved
the goods and delivered them. he is en-
Ctled 10 what he wants this time He
gets 1t so far. But Henry Johns. also.
mas senatorial bee In his bonnet
Perhaps 1T would be more accurate To
say that he did have it until last even
ing. II this present plan sticks he will
nave the stinger removed from the ann
bilious apis.
Senator Stevens figures that he has
fgured his next term, and Senator
Sheehan's too, although the latter can
not see 1t. Mr.. OZmun does not care
much, except that he thinks the Re-
publ1cans ought to keep the Seventh.
and that Is conceded.
When that committee report comes In
today there will be chances fon
mighty fine fighting all along the
nne, as the laconic Grant remarked
during one Of the decisive engagements
Of the Civil War
Mower county had a grievance last
night scarcely less important to that
section than the Ramsey fight, but no
nnal action was taken therein.
otter Tail county also has trouble.
The present bill has four representa-
tive districts. 1t is supposed the Re-
publicans have the best Of It, Senator
Cole thinks so, and wants that plan.
The Pops oppose this and want ala
four elected from the district at large
That is the special order for IL this
morning in committee.
1t will be fortunate, if as reported,
the opposition to the general game and
fish bill has withdrawn it's objections
for the reapportionment fight means a
good day or two more of work
Executive Agent Fullerton, of the
state game and fish commission, whose
scalp was aimed at by one of the
amendments offered to- the bill yegter-
day, but defeated, was In conference
at the Windsor last night with F. T.
lie Clair, Of the Baltimore Packing
company, and others supposed to be
opposed to the bill, and at the close OF
the conference, Mr.. LIE Clair disclaimed
any spirit Of antagonism to Senate
File 475, which is the general bill This
being the case, 1t is expected that IL
will go through with rush.
Whether it was complete surrender,
or whether Fullerton, for the game and
fish commission, agreed to recede from
the position taken by that body in
advocacy of a SIS license for pound
nets in inland lakes on the internation-
al boundary, remains to be seen. There
seems to be reason, however, for be-
lieving thai such In the case.