The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-31

further stipulated that the debate
should proceed, but that a second cali
pc held before the final vote was taken.
For second time the governors mes.
sage, vetoing the Hastings bill. was
reported by the clerk, and the battle
royal was on
Mr.. Staples, the Hastings champion.
opened the ball with formal motion
TO reconsider the bill by which the vots
was passed, Whereupon several men,
Ders took issue with him in the position.
among them his own coIleag que Mr.
Donnelly, who contended that the bill.
not the vote, must be reconsicered
Speaker Jones held that Mr.. Staples
motlon was not in order and that the
question was whether the bill should
or should not pass over the veto Mr..
staples, having taken a fresh start
opened the battle. After explainiIrz his
friendly relation personally with Gov.
Clough, he expressed the view that the
matter had resolved itself into a ques-
ton of opinion. The veto was a con-
stltutlonal right, but the governor had
gone beyond his right when he had
vetoed without apparent good grounds
the actlon, by large majority of both
branches of the legislature He pro-
ceeded to criticise the wording of the
veto in referring to the matter Of
public policy and the need of main
tanning justice and fair dealing.
| Clough's statement that the acts Of
| the commission were the acts of state.
was, Mr.. Staples thought, an argument
Tor the Hastings supporters Mr.. Stap-
les then reviewed much Of the fight
which has already been gone over. in
Guiding the acts of the commission
winch Mr.. Staples said the governor
declared had done nothing untoward
or irregular He made the further point
that the commission had taken action
favorable to Hastings, and that the
legislature had followed this up.
When the vote was taken, Mr. Stap4
les said 6212 per cent Of the Joint bodies
decided in favor of the Dakota county
city, after careful consideration. and
that the governor had taken advantage,
py ms veto, OF the entire legislature
The second speaker was tha-~atber
representative of Hastings Oh. the flool
OF the house, Ignatius Donnelly Fol-
lowing the cue of Mr.. Staples, he said
nc had no personal hostility to Gov.
ClOugh. He had been told that some
OF the people on the floor expected him
to attack the chief executive, but he
wanted to say that nothing was fur
ther from his mind. He said that the
governor and he had been personal
friends for a long time and although
they had differed politically the gov
ernor had the same right to his opin-
ION that he demanded for himself
Nelther have l any hostility to
Anoka," Mr.. Donnelly went on, II ad-
mire the people of any community
that will stand up for their rights and
for their own building This emula-
ton has made up a prosperous peo-
pie. The extraordinary growth of St.
Paul and Minneapolis has been great
ly caused by this emulation" In sup
port of this doctrine from a literary
standpoint, Mr.. Donnelly quoted from
Shakespeare the familiar lines, "emula-
ton hath a thousand suns" He also
disclaimed any i'll feeling toward any
gentleman who had sustained Anoka
upon any of the other votes, and said
that if the question was still what il
had been at the last time it was taken
up and the proposition should be sim
ply whether the asylum should go
either to Anoka or to Hastings, he
should blame no man for expressing
his preference.
same case. 1t is now a question Of
whether the veto should be sustained
and IL the veto were sustained IT
meant that there should not only be no
asylum at Hastings but that there
should be none at Anoka. He insisted
there was absolutely no chance for
Anoka to get the asylum in case Hast
lngs were defeated, besides, Anoka
standing in it's own way. He had been
told that there was some proposition
to locate a wOmans refOrmatCry at
Anoka. (The crowd Snickered audibly
as Mr.. Donnelly proceeded tc show
that any further opposition on the part
OF Anoka, would effectualIy destroy
any chances there might be for such
an institution
Donnelly said, starting on new sub
ject, that the veto power is a mis-
take. 1t is relic of king-craft When
William, the Norman, the most power
full and terrible brute who ever SAT- on
throne, came over from the continent
and conquered the king Of England on
the battlefield, he formed a despotisni
based upon the doctrine that all power
was lodged in the king and the own
ership Of land should be in the king.
Out of this grew the feudal system: all
legislation had to be brought to the
feet of the king for his approval Grad
ually England has evolved from this
system, so that neither king nor queen
of Great Britain since 1907 has exer-
cised the veto power. This wag on the
occasion when Queen Anne vetoed the
act for the colonization of soldiers into
Scotland
There are eight states III this union.
Notwithstanding the fact that our in
stitutions are copied from those Of
Great Britain, in which the governor
has no veto power. These states are
Rhode Island, Delaware, MARYLAND
Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Tennessee and Ohio. 1t is an un-
American institution, a relic Of king
craft. England has abandoned it all
except in form, and here we have it
in it's reality. | have nothing to say
against the governor of this state He
is an excellent gentleman, but in no
respect is he intellectually superior to
any one gentleman on this floor. yet
in his message he says, 1 know more
than all Of you. When my head was
anointed with oil and became gover-
nor, my wisdom became greater than
that of the entire legislature. I dent
think Gov. Clough would insist upon
this in private conversation. but his
acts speak louder than his words.
Ordinarily, according to Cushing's
manual only questions Of constitutions
al law are made subjects of the veto. !.
but this is no constitutional question.