The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-18
CHANGED HIS VOTE
SENATOR CRONkHITE DEFEATS
HODGE BILL TO HELP COUN-
TY AUDITORS.
NO MONEY FOR AN0KA NOW.
BIG BUDGET OF BILLS PASS
Eixtv-One Being Approved by the
More AristOcratic End of the
Legislature

What. with passing siXty-one bills OF
one sort and another, and slaughterlng
q dozen or so more, it Is needless, per
baps. to mention that the senate pro-
ceedings yesterday would have been
very tedious but for the sensation OIL
the afternoon, when Senator Roverud
charged that illegal practices" had
been resorted to secure the passage OIL
the Hodge bill extending the terms OF
the present county auditors to January,
1901. Senator Roverud's resolution was
as follows:
Whereas, 1t has been reported that the
county auditors under the auspices OF the
County Auditors Association OF Minnesota
have resorted to Illegal methods in the pas.
sage of S. F. $40, to extend the terms OF
county auditors to five years; therefore,
Resolved. That the bill be laid over until
Tuesday, and that a committee OF nVe De
appointed to investigate the methods en-
bioyed by said auditors association in be-
half of this bill, said committee to nave 1ull
power to summon, swear and examine VIII
hesses and make proper report OF same.
The resolution was not adopted, now
ever.
Senator Hodge said if the bill had
been pushed by any 'damnable lobby,
he was not Gin with it. e"
unconstitutional, but Senator Hodge
called his attention to decision OF
the Minnesota supreme court, to the
contrary effect.
Senator Stevens called attention to
the fact that many of the men who
were opposing the bill had as strenu-
ously fought any bill to relieve the
people of the state from the exorbitant
fees of clerks of the court. He thought
that was inconsistent.
The bill seemed to be passed on the
roll call, receiving tWenty-eight votes.
but Senator Cronkhite Topped, and it
was beaten, as follows:
Yeas-Barr, Currier, Durham, French, tul-
Ter. rama, Hanson, Heneman; Hodge, Hts
Johnson, A. g., Keller. Lloyd, Masterman,
Macarthur. McHale Ozmun, Potter, Pottgieser,
Schaller, Smith, Stebbins, Stevens, Stockton,
Sweningsen, Whitney, Young-H
Nays-Cole Collester, Cronkhite, Culkin,
Dunn Greer, Howard, Johnson, w. E., Knat-
void Larson Miller, Morgan, Reishus, Ring
DIAL Roverud, Sheehan, Spencer, SPerry, me
den. Thompson, Thorpe, Wing, Wyman-29.
There were some singular compllca-
lions in connection with the defeat OF
the bill. When the roll was called the
first time, the ayes still lacked one or
two of the requisite tWenty-eight, but,
as Secretary Langum read through
the roll a second time, the missing
quantity was just supplied, and the
auditors present were gleeful in the
knowledge that they had tWenty-elght
votes. Judge of their CONSERVATION
when Senator Cronkhite, of Marshall
county, suddenly changed his vote to
no, and the bill was lost again.
The finance committee reported the
Anoka hospital appropriation unfavor-
ably, but withoue offensive emphasis,
and its sting was further soOthed by
the fact that Senator Stebbins dissent
ed from part of the majority report
which was:
Mr. Wyman, from the committee on
finance, to whom was referred the
message of his excellency, the governor
of Minnesota, relating to an apprOpria-
ton for a fourth hospital for the in
sane at Anoka, would report as fol-
lows:
"A majority Of the committee is Of
the opinion that owing to the division
of sentiment in the legislature on the
question involved in the message, it is
too late in the session to pass a bill
making the appropriation asked for in
the message. And with all the facts
in the case before it, and with full
knowledge of the needs of the insane,
the joint committee of the senate and
house of representatives fully provided
for the insane until the next session
of the legislature convenes. And, in
the judgment of a majority OF the
committee, the question of an appropri-
alton to build the fourth hospital for
the insane at Anoka, should be referred
to the next session of the legislature
for further action"
The dissenting report was:
LAS one member of the finance COM
mittee, 1 hereby dissent from that pOr-
ton of the finance committees report
on the governors message, which says
that the needs Of the insane have been
fully provided for until the next ses-
sion of the legiSla ture, and in thus dis
senting l desire to call the attention
of this senate to both the majority
and minority reports of the committee
on insane hospitals, which reports were
made after a long and careful exam
ination of the same.
"A. T. Stebbins"
Among the important bills passed
were the Dunn BILL to require ma
jority of all those voting in a general
election to amend the constitutions; the
Douglas bill. to give women the right
to sit on library board; the Red river
flood relief, and the fax bounty bill
The BARRIERS license bill also passed,
with little opposition.
The first bill on the calendar to which
any opposition appeared was the Sven
ingsen anti-insurance compact bill, and
it failed of passage by two votes, as
Yeas-Cole. Cronkhite, Culkin Currier,
Dunn, French, Fuller, Greer, Howard, Knat-
void. Larson Lloyd, Morgan, McHale, Or
Schaller. Sheehan, Stevens. Stockton, Swen-
lngsen, Thompson, Wyman-26.
Nays-Barr, Hanna, Hanson. Heneman. IL
It's. Johnson, A. c., Masterman, Macarthur,
Ringdal, Spencer, sperry, stebbins. Theden,
Thorpe Whitney, Wing, Yale, Young-1S
Senator ~Stebbins gave notice that he would
move to reconsider tomorrow.
Senator Ringdaps bill to abolish the
railroad and warehouse commission
was recommended for indefinite post
ponement by the railroad committee
The author, however asked that it
be placed on general orders, explaining
that in his opinion it should either
be given more power or abolished. The
motion was lost, however, the only
senators voting In the affirmative being
Crenkhite, Howard, Macarthur and
Ringdal
Senator Keller rose to a question OF
privilege. and explained that when he
charged that the bill for gross earn
ings tax on express companies was a
leg puller, he did not refer to any sen
ator but he did mean that it had been
pushed two years ago by a member who