The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21
GEN. CHILDs HoTLY SCORED
FEIG SAYS ANY STUDENT COVI.n
HAVE WON GREAT NORTHERN
CASE.
Judge Hicks Joined With Those
Who Lost Their Hends-Comnit-
tee Strengthens TangIe.

HICKS episode as the first event of last
night. 1t was in some respects the
most stirring Of the session. 1t was
not exactly like the one in which Judge
Hicks referred to the questionable mo-
rality Of each member of a 1unketing
committee taking his stenographer and
hying himself off to some distant
part of the state in quest of evidence.
Mr.. Jacobson stopped the judge just
as his speech approached that forbid
den subject.
When the Jacobson bill Oh. F. GID
providing for the appointment of a
special joint committee to prosecute
the Mountain Iron and similar cases
was reported back from the senate
amended quite out of recognition by
its author, and providing that the at
torney general should prosecute these
cases and have $4,000 with which to
do the work, Mr.. jacobson coolly and
deliberately moved that the house non
concur in the senate amendments. He
said he did not believe the state should
pay $4,000 to an officer to perform his
sworn duty
Mr.. Grondahl reminded the house
that the bill as amended by the SEN
ate was practically the same as it
would have been had the house adopt
ed the amendment which he (GrondahD
had presented at the time the bill was
under consideration.
Mr.. Feig stated that he should stand
by the recommendation of the author
of the bill (Mr. Jacobson and should
vote for inconvenience in the senate
amendments
Mr.. Jacobson again resumed his
statement of the case. He said he
shouiS never vote - X, ( any money
to a man TO prosecute this case who
had worked against one of the Duluth
& Iron Range forfeiture cases clear
through, and who besides had legally
declared himself against the legal
grounds upon which this bill was predi-
Gated
Il do not want the house to be mis-
takes about my position he went on.
Il do not care to sacrifice the adj
vantage which we already have by
putting it in the hand of an enemy.
L am sorry this is the case, but it Is
the truth nevertheless. The attorney
general had an official duty to per-
form, and he should have attended to
this before
Mr.. Coe was greatly worked up by
this onslaught upon the attorney gem
eral. He said he was surprised to hear
such statements from the mouth of
the gentleman from Lac qui Parle, par
ticularly when he referred to a man
who had stood for the people in the
famous case to prevent the consolida-
ton of the Northern Pacific and the
Great Northern roads He said the
eyes of the people would be upon the
attorney general and he could be re-
lied upon to do his duty.
Mr.. Feig replied that the eyes Of the
people were also upon the legislature
He had heard a good deal about the
suit of the attorney general-so much,
indeed, that he was sick OF it. He did
not believe it was so famous a cause;
in fact, he did not believe there was a
law student who graduated from the
university who could not have prose-
cuted this case to a successful issue
Judge Hicks had listened to the de-
bate i'll at ease. He raised his leonine
| head ready for the fray, and his eye
betrayed the fire which smouldered in
his breast. He expressed surprise at
Mr.. Feig's remark about a law stu
dents case, and reminded that gentle
man that a circuit judge of the United
States court had decided the other
way, and this judge was leading
lawyer of st. Paul, where he was in
the practice of his profession.
Then Judge Hicks started in upon
| ~denunciation Of what he characterized
as the junket committee, but he had
not gone far before Mr.. jacobson call
ed him to order.
You made a speech upon this same
subject once before that was a disgrace
to the state" he shouted.
Judge Hicks was angered to the point
of an explosion. He tried to proceed
and a squabble ensued. He insisted
that it was simply question who was
to receive the S. a day; the bill as pass
ed, provided for the expenditure Of
$35 a day for a junketing committee;
this amendment presented by the SEN
ate, simply proposed that this work
should be done under the direction Of
the attorney general.
Mr.. Foss urged the members to throw
aside all prejudices and deal with the
question squarely. He wanted the
house to nOn-concur in the senate
amendment until further efforts at a
compromise.
Mr. Grondahl again took up the
cudgels for the senate amendments. He
said he challenged Mr.. jacobson to
show that the attorney general would
not act fairly. Mr.. Jacobson claimed
that he had not been fairly quoted.
He had not said that the attorney gen
eral had expressed himself about the
Iron Mountain case, but he certainly
had expressed himself on the Duluth
& Iron Range case. Mr.. Grondahl pro-
ceeded, and had said but a few sem
fences, when Mr.. Feig arose. Mr.. Gron-
dahl asked: docs the gentleman wish
to say something's" and the house
laughed as the largest and the smallest
mem ers Of the house faced one an
other
Mr.. Feig finally was accorded the
floor only to say that the senate had
killed about every good bill that the
house had passed this winter
Eyes, and you voted against most
of them yourself" Mr.. Dahl remarked
soto voce.
After this Mr., Feig urged the housa
to reject the senate amendments, even
if it killed the bill and completed the
! record.
/ Mr. Donnel1y made an elaborate
| speech in defense Of the house BILL and
/ called attention to the fact that the
! senate amendment struck out the name
! of state auditor from the bill. He in
! sisted that this was In effect castin;a
/ a brand of suspicion upon that Of
/ fetal. who had been active in his e.
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