The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26
NO MORE COUNTIES
PROPOSED REORGANIZATION OF
CASS AND BELTRAMI KILLED
IN SENATE.
VICTORY FOR PINE KINGS.
THEN FOLLOWED THE HASTINGS
HOSPITAL BILL, WHICH WAS
PUSHED THROUGH.
DAY OF BATTLES IN SENATE.
THeden's Anti-Department Store Bill
Argued at Length, Pro and Con,
During the Afternoon.

The pine kings have won the victory.
Open as was their opposition to the
house bill for the organization of Cass
and Beltrami counties, it was not the
less successful, as was shown by the
vote yesterday morning, when the SEN
ate beat the bill % to q, although the
real strength of the bill was p votes,
Senator Whitney's object in voting no
being in order to move a reconsidera-
ton.
1t was worthy Of remark, perhaps,
that. while Senator Potter, who has
been fighting hard for T. 3. Walker
throughout the contest, changed his
vote and went for the Hastings hospi-
tai at the eleventh hour, not quite all
the Hastings contingent voted against
this bill when it came to a showdown,
although some of them voted in half
hearted way as though hoping the
secretary would not hear them.
1t was a day Of battles in the senate.
This bill kept the house Of lords under
a call for over half an hour, the Hast
ings hospital bill was pushed through
under similar pressure and the after
noon was devoted to an exploitation
of the arguments pro and con the The
den anti-department store bill.
A call Of the senate was resorted to
when the calendar was reached at 11:30
the first bill thereon being the house
bill for the organization of Cass and
Beltrami counties, and the Hastings
hospital bill being No. 6. Only six were
absent, but Senator Culkin asked for
delay. Nearly half an hour was spent
under the call. Senator Whitney then
spoke in behalf of the bill. He did
not think the Hennepin county SEN
ators should interfere with matters in
his district, because it might increase
the taxes of a few men who happened
TO reside in Hennepin. He had been
threatened with political death if he
pushed this bill; he would deserve it
if he failed so to do.
The bill was lost by vote Of q to
%. Mr.. Whitney giving notice of mo-
ton to reconsider.
Yeas-Barr, Cole, Culkin, Dunn, Durham.
Hanson, Heneman, Hodge, Howard, Iltis.
Knatvold, Macarthur, McHale, Ringdal, Sevat-
son, Spencer Stevens, Theden, Thompson,
Thorpe, Wing-A
NaysLCol.ester Cronkhite. Currier, French,
Fuller, Greer, Hanna, Johnson, A. G., John
son, W. E., Jones, Keller, Larson. Lloyd,
POttgieser, Reishus, SchaAer, Sheehan, Smith.
Sperry, Stebbins, Sweningsen, Whitney, Wy
man, Yale-29.
The hospital bill was next taken up
and another call of the senate was
again INDUCED in. Only one absentee
was noted, and after Senator SchaI-
Ter briefly urged the passage Of the
bill and the roll call resulted as fol-
lows:
Yeass-Collester, Cronkhite, Currier. Dunn,
French. Greer, Hanna, Hanson, Heneman,
Iltis. johnson. w. E., Keller, Larson, Lloyd,
Masterman Morgan, Macarthur McHale, o.
num- Potter. Pottgieser, Reishus. Roverud,
Schaller, Sevatson, Sheehan, Smith, Sperry,
Stebbins, Stevens, Stockton, Sweningsen,
Theden, Thompson, Thorpe, Wing, Yale,
YOung-SS.
Hodge, Howard, Johnson, A. G., Jones. Knat-
void. Miller, Peterson, Ringdal, Spencer, Wy
man-15.
Not Voting-Whitney
Senator Durham then sent to the desk the
following protest:
The undersigned dissent and protest from
the action of the legislature in passing H. F
699, on the grounds:
First-That the building of a fourth asylum
for the insane is now entirely unnecessary
as shown by pubic records and the reports
of proper committees.
Second-That the location of a new asylum
at Hastings in that part of the state where
and against the interests Of the people of the
state
Third-That the setting aside of the acts OF
the commission to locate q fourth ASYLUM
by changing the location of the fourth
asylum from Anoka to Hastings is a violent
arbitrary, unprecedented act, done in a vio-
lent, arbitrary and unprecedented manner
and establishes bad precedent, which will
not be q good example to be followed by
future legislatures.
And we therefore dissent and protest and
he cd
on the journal of the senate.
d. C. Durham, S5th District.
WIN. E. Culkin, 3Sth district,
S. B. Howard, 34th District
Senator Yale objected to having the
protest printed in the journal. He said
there was scarcely a day but what
some senator was voted down on a
proposition that he believed to be right
and none of them ever thought of ut
tering protests of this kind. There was
no use whatever in numbering up the
Journal with verbiage of this sort
Senator Culkin said that, under the
senate rules, any protest signed by
three or more members was to be en-
tered on the journal. He held that the
lieutenant governor had no alternative
but to order the protest entered. He
added that, as this was about all the
AnOkaites would get out of it, the sem
ate should not deny them that small
boon.
The senate then took a recess until
ESQ when the Theden occupation tax
bill was a special order, and it was
considered with Senator Yale in the
chair.
Senator Theden opened the debate
He said the bill aimed to enforce the
theory that the privilege Of selling two
classes of goods was greater than that
Of selling one, and that these privileges
increased in greater ratio as their num-
ocrs increased. He read the provisions
IF the bill as to taxes, as follows:
One line 81 year; two lines, so year;
hree lines $25 year: four lines, 800 year
I've lines, $3.50 year; six lines, 81, 900 year;
thirteen to twenty lines, 5000 a year; over
twenty lines $4,000 a year.
Senator w. E. Johnson said that he