The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-14
IT COULD NOT STAND THE FROST
IN SENATOR SREEHAN'S DIS
TRiCT.
BIG FOUR is UNFORGlvING.
IN IL WAR TO THE Hit NOW WITH
REESE, SHEEHAN AND SCHIF'F-
MAN
Sixth District Sensational Contest Is
Set Tor Tomorrow by the EIec-
tiOns Committee.

Many good Republican hearts in
! the senate breathed a sincere Amen"
as Chaplain Forbes yesterday morn
| ing invoked the Devine blessing on
| them, that they might be guided in
| the walks of peace. Blessed are the
| peacemakers. according to the good
| Book, and number Of the senators
on the Republican side yesterday put
| in a strong credit mark on their &C
| count of blessings.
1t is almost needless to say that the
! OyertureS for peace came not from
! Sheehan's side, the big four" as they
| are termed. Lieut.. Gov. Gibbs friends
| want to bury the memories of war in
| the dreamy wreaths that curl from the
pipe of peace, but Sachem Sheehan, of
the Furrst ward, at the latest bulletin
| last night, had not sheathed his dirk,
nor did he give promise of any festal
| pleasure, 50 agreeable as this would
! be on the other side.
The committees on municipal cor
| porations and on reappOrtionment
we're not named by Lieut.. Gov. Gibbs
! yesterday morning, no doubt pending
| the report of the ENJOYS of peace who
| tried to get Sheehan back into the fold
with the good little boys. Senator Tim,
however, proved obdurate, and little
wonder. when his bosom friends of the
big four have openly avoWed their in
| tentiOn of disinheriting him and throw
ing his political birth-right on the open
market if he dares but coquette with
the smiling but not guileless sirens of
the Gibbs house.
1t is expected however, that the
| president will announce his committee
| today, and it will then be seen whether
! the First ward belligerent will grace
| fully accept whatever he may draw, or
thrust away from him the paltry hon
orS of what his friends insist is a de-
Ginning house. I'VE are the ones,'' said
| one of Sheehans friends last night.
| I'VE may not have as many commit.
| tee places as a lot of these other folks,
but We'll have more fun, and don't you
forget it. | guess We'll be heard from
between now and the end of the SEES
sion about as often as it is worth while,
and some of these people who have
| mOnkeyed with the buzz saw will
be going around the senate chamber
looking for pieces of thumbs and miss
ing fingers
Tomorrow ought to be a good day in
the senate. Under the three days rule
| the appointments sent in by Gov
ClOugh Tuesday morning may be sent
in, taken from the table, and, Judging
from the spirit which animates some
of the senators from DR.. HeWitt'S bail
! iwick, the limit will not have gone
more than a few minutes when an eff
fort will be made to take them from
the table and have little executive
session.
Then the meeting of the committee
on election to determine whether or not
IL. II. Dunn shall sit in the seat which
FRANK Day has previously kept warm
will be Of interest. 1t is not definitely
known as yet whether the argument by
counsel will be gotten at that day or
not but the committee, it is said. pro-
poses to push the consideration of the
case to an early decision. And, by the
way, 1t is said that if Mr.. Dunn sue
ceeds in getting seated, a place will be
made for him on the judiciary commit
tee.
Ii current reports are true, Eli War
ner is IN the boat Of an enterprising
young man who has contracts for more
spo1ls than he can deliver The ap-
polntment Of Elmer H. Dearth as in
Surance commissioner was a sad blow
to the late chairman of the state CEN
trail committee, and now it is said that
1t was none other than Eli who promis-
ed I'm Sheehan the judiciary chair
manshdp. Stevens was to be turned
down TOR deserving the party at
critical stage during the CAMPAIGN of
1884 CfAdrmanW Warner told the lieuten-
ant governor what was expected Of
him, but when the lieutenant governor
gave 1T out that Senator Sheehan would
get that craftsmanship, the friends of
hnK l.
that it was a toss Of a cent from then
to the finish which way the thing would
go at the end. Now the big four IS
after Gibbs, of course, and Warner
because he did not produce, and be-
cause they say he is too domineering
anyway, and wants to run the whole
machine, and has not the proper re-
spect for the other workers in the ranks
of the party, and all in ALL the doughty
Eli surely has merry problem of
craftsmanship to solve before he can
restore himself to the position of pres
tige he had few short weeks ago.
Furthermore, the Sheehan peo-
pie say the Stevens folk fought a
dirty" fight They claim that one of
the arguments used to defeat Sheehan
was that he was the instrument of
Clough, that Clough wanted him there
to assist in hts schemes, the nature Of
Which, WdS SO O0nOnl1naISQ that the
Il o b might be sued for libel were
exact terms used here, and that on this
fcrcible presentation of the case votes
were lost on the floor Of the senate
Tuesday morning sufficient to cost Sem
ator Sheehan the defeat of the Greer
resolution.
speaker Jones will this morning an
nounce the names Of the represent atives
who will act for the house in the Joint
committees to investigate the matter
Of raising sugar beets In this state,
and also those for the joint committee
Oh reappOrtionment.
The standing committees named yes
terday are for the most part satisfac-
torily made up, and little time will be
lost settling down to the business which
is to come up for the consideration of
the members.
Representative Donnelly's resolution
in relation to indemnity school lands
has been made a special order in the
house and will come up for debate this
afternoon at 2 o'clock.