The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-13
SENATE WAS MUCH EXCITED
UNTIL 1T WAS DISCOVERED THAT
THE SENATOR'S CLERK
HAD 1T.
is Referred to Its Author for Amend
ment ON the Eve of Its Pas
sage.

ton was precipitated in the senate yes
terday morning Immediately after the
chaplain's prayer, when Senator Wy
man excitedly informed the more
aristocratic section of the state legis-
lature that the Hastings hospital 10
cation bill had been stolen from his
desk. He had locked the bill in his
desk Wednesday evening when he went
home, and when he went to look for
IL on his return he found the contents
of the desk in disorder, and the bill
was missing. He hoped that the mem
bers of the senate would unanimously
consent to the immediate passage Of
duplicate bill Certainly no friend of
Anoka would have stolen the bill, but
1T was stolen.
Senator Durham, almost as excitedly,
resented the fnsinuation that the bill
had been stolen by any Anoka man.
Senator Schaller was just as excit-
ed, and he denounced the thief in I'M
measured terms. He was either fool
or villain, or both, probably both.
1t was particularly unfortunate as he
had torn up his copy Of the bill Sen
Rtor Wyman thought copy could be
secured, but in a few moments he an
nounced that he had found the bill,
and it subsequently developed that it
had been in the possession of L. G..
Ahlstrom, who is clerk of the finance
committee, of which Senator Wyman
Is chairman, and to which committee
1t had been returned Wednesday.
Senator Durham suggested that Sen
Rtor Wyman should retract and apollo
gize. Senator Wyman said he should
do nothing of the kind, unless some
senator other than the one at Anoka
thought 1T necessary.
The bill was then recommended to
pass.
Senator Durham moved that the bill
be laid on the table, giving as his rea-
son that a bill to locate the asylum at
Anoka was pending in the senate.
Senator Sheehan moved that both
bills be made a special order for 2
o'clock yesterday afternoon. 1t was
decided that this would require sus-
pension of the rules, and two-thirds
vote, as the motion was made out of
The regular order.
The motion was lost by vote of 80
TO II, as follows:
Ayes3B9rr culkin; Durham Fuller, Hodge,
Jones, Knatyold, Peterson, Spencer, Theden,
Thompson, Thorpe, Whitney, Wyman-17.
Nays-Collester. Cronkhite, Currier, Dunn.
French, Greer, Hanna, Hanson, Heneman,
Tits, Keller, Larson, Lloyd, Miller, Macarthur,
McHale, OZmun, Pottgieser, Re!shus Ringdal
RoverUd, Scha1er, Sheehan. Smith, Sperry,
stebbins, Stevens, Stockton, Sweningsen,
Wing, Yale, Young-32
Absent-Cole, Masterman, Morgan. Potter,
Seyatson.
The report Of the committee was then
adopted.
A pair of petitions in relation to the
bill for the prevention of the spread Of
the San Jose scale We're referred to
Senator Greer, the author Of tn orig
inal bill.
Petitions were also presented asking
the enforcement of lower freight rates
and the county option.
The finance committee killed H. r
R55, the bill appropriating $4,000 for the
relief of the sufferers from storm and
Drought in Roseau county.
The house Amendment to senate
file 154 was concurred in on motion or
Senator Heneman. 1t relates to the de-
tachment of villages and cities from
the townships in which they are To-
rated.
Senator Stevens stated that the Pub
fishers association had asked that it be
granted hearing on the French bill
to repeal the newspaper libel law and
Senator French consented to it's defer
ment for a few days. The hearing will
be had Monday at noon.
When general orders were taken UP
In the afternoon, the Stebbins state
fire marshall bill, which was under con-
sideration at the adjournment Wednes-
day was again taken up. Senator Row.
erud said he thought 1t was a scheme
to create new office and wanted the
salary provisions struck out. Senator
Potter said it would be false economy
to fail to pass it as 65 per cent of the
hres In the state were incendiary. SEN
ator Sperry said the bill should be re-
named "a bill for an act to aid insur-
RnCe companies in avoiding payment Of
claims against them" If the fire COM
panies did not have nerve enough to
begin Investigations of such fires, then
they did not deserve such assistance
Then the bill created a special tribunal
for the trial Of such cases, not being
content to pursue its inquiry in the
regularly established courts. He moved
that the bill be indefinitely postponed.
Senators Wing and Heneman said