The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-15
He IS FOR ANOKA
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by him If we get a chance. I do not
know that there has been any such
change Of sentiment as would war
warrant the belief that either branch u.
the legislature would pass the Anoka
bill, but we can try. The Hastings
people, If they oppose us on any ground
of lack of urgency for the construction
Of the hospital, will be no less neon
SiStent than We"
Representative Staples, who is second
to none in his loyalty to the Hastings
cause, said last night: What will be
done with it? 1 do not know The
finance committee will determine it. 1t
is not a question Of Hastings VS.. Anoka
now. 1t is a question of whether or
not the state shall expend that money.
AS 1 understand it, the legislature has
decreed that it does not want to so
eXpend that money. l do not believe
the governor will veto the omnibus bill
to coerce us into voting for the meas
ure, as is suggested"
Representative Dare, equally prom
inent in the ranks OF the Anoka forces,
said last night that in his opinion, the
suggestion of the governor was proper
and timely. While so far as he was
concerned, personally, he had been con-
WINGED that the present hospitals, with
the additions proposed would be able
to care for the patients for the next
y
be crowded again and during the two
years succeeding, the present condition
would be repeated. He believed that
something should be done preliminary
to the proper care of these patients two
years hence.
The communication was referred in
the senate to the finance committee as
above stated. and there is consider
able speculation as to what will be
done with 1t by that committee.
There are only four AnOka faction
aries, if the term may be pardoned, on
that committee, the chairman, Senator
Wyman and Messrs. Hodge, Spencer
and KnatvOld. All four have been un-
faltering in their allegiance to the
arrayed the other seven members Of
the committee, Stockton, Sperry, Barr,
Masterman, Stebbins, Wing and Yale
Where any break can be made in these
ranks by the governors message is
hard to predict. Senator Stebbins Is
from Rochester, and If the Anoka bill
passes, the assumption, naturally, is
that it means a decrease in the ex-
penditureS at his own home, so that
local loyalty might be expected to re-
strain him from breaking over the
traces at the crack of the admnistra-
ton whip Senator Masterman has
fought early and late for the Hastings
cause. anu White ne IS Known TO De
10th to antagonize the governor, his
best friends do not credit him with a
disposition to turn the other cheek in
the Biblical way after one has been
pounded until it is black and blue. 1t
is said that the governor has hopes Of
bringing Senator Stockton into line
through the persuasive eloquence Of
Assistant Dairy Commissioner julie
Lawrence, who is quite a power in Rice
county politics, but whether or not he
is to be disappointed in this remains
to be seen. Senator Barr, one of the
members Of the committee, is general
ly understood to be stanch and true
in his fealty to Hastings and his
friends say that so far as his senatorial
future is concerned, his record has
been such that the Clough machine
could not afford to fight him.
Neither have there been any signs
of weakening on the part of Senators
Wing and Yale, who have from the
first been aligned on the Hastings side
and may be expected to remain so.
1t is expected that the finance COM
mittee will meet this forenoon to take
action on the communication, as the
omnibus bill is a special order for this
afternoon, and there the consideration
of this will be assisted by the prompt
disposition, one way or the other, Of
yesterdays sensation.