The Saint Paul globe., 1897-02-08

that the governor will scrutinize 1t
carefully before affixing his signature
Lest he be outdone at his own kind
Of game Senator Henry Keller must
look to his laurels or Representative
Louis o. Foss, hailing from Wendell in
the county of Grant, will snatch from
his brow the coveted, and, up to this
time, ably defended wreath.
With shrewdness to be commended
this Mr.. F'oss did not everyday at the
start, but by careful attention to the
rules of the track felt out his compe-
tftion we'll and then cut out his run
ming. Senator Keller has UP to this time
had but one measure of the red, white
and blue order. and it cannot be said
for it that it ever got as far as the
| senate calendar. Not so with Mr..
Foss. Having thrown out several
straw bills whose death could mean
nothing to him, he has during the past
few days pushed one Of his pet meas
ures to a vote, which, even if unfavor-
able to him, was still unconrfortabIy
close. His Morbid Sentimentality''
bill was ON Saturday brought UP for
! the consideration Of the house with a
handful of real bills smothered by
bunch of impossible amendments, and
carried out amidst the laughttr, not
tears, of the committee Of the whole.
Mr.. Foss has given notice Of a motion
| to reconsider. and his friends say he
has other bills.
The outlook for reapportionment,
which m
but bright last week, is now considered
| very good. The two houses have
finally got together on the matter of a
committee, and although there was a
concession on the part of the house as
| to the size of the committee, the sub
committee to which most Of the work
will be given will probably contain a
good working majority of the house.
President Gibbs has not yet named the
| senate part of the joint committee, and
when he does there will be a meeting
| for organization.
| Judging from the calm, yet careful
manner in which the preliminaries
| have been brought up and attended
to in the Hastings-Anoka insane hos
! pital struggle, it is a safe prophecy
that the matter will be the subject Of
a battle royal. Although there has yet
been no appearance of war in the or
| dering of the printing Of the records
and minutes of the commission named
| two years ago to select a site, it
! is patent to those who have
posted themselves as to the
| situation that it will be a
battle waged hard and long. The
! Anoka people profess to be quite as
willing for legislative investigation as
are the Hastings people, a fact which
| the latter were not prepared to be-
lieve when they asked Representative
| Staples to introduce the resolution.
What immediate benefit will come to
| the people Of Dakota county If they
should succeed in having the situation
reversed and the hospital given back
| to Hastings does not appear.
| But, nevertheless, they want it, are
| prepared to make a hard tussle for 1t,
and the intimation is made that the
| Republicans and others Of the county
sent back Ignatius Donnelly for the
special purpose Of directing the mill
| tary movements of the Dakota county
| fighters. Time will show whether this
| is the case or not.
Some of the most prominent mem
| berS of the house, as we'll as a few of
| the senators, are agitating the matter
| of passing the statute now in force in
| Ohio, placing a tax on express conf
| panies. A senator two years ago got
| after the express companies, and after
| a hard fight succeeded in getting them
under the jurisdiction of the state rail-
| road and warehouse commission.
| The express people appealed to the
| courts, where the action Is now pend
! ing. The Ohf0S statute levyfng an ex-