The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-01
HOUSE CONQUERED IN III.
FEIG'S MEASURE TO SET ASIDE
81, 500 FOR FIELD INSTRUC-
TION is ONE.
NO REVISION OF STATUTES NOW.
Beet Sugar Industry VIII Have to
Get Along without State Aid-NO
Fire Marshal Money.

Tee Oh appropriations, mas the repuIa-
ton of being as conscientious a man as
any member on the floor of the house
and he must have experienced a pang
yesterday when several Of the members
whose bills were acted upon unfavor-
ably by the committee, showed a dis
position to criticize the committees
actions
It was Immediately after the opening
Of the afternoon session when Mr.
Dare begged leave to make a report
The first measure was H. F. 523 Feig),
to appropriate 81, 500 for field instruc,
ton in butter and cheese making The
committee recommended indefinite
pCStponement. Mr.. Feig entered a sub
stitute that the bill be sent to general
orders. 1t was, he urged, put in at
the instance Of the dairymen's associa-
ton which was anxious to make plans
for the following up Of the young men
who learned butter and cheese making
in theory at the agricultural school.
Mr.. Dare said it was opposed at the
meetings Of the committee, whereat
Mr.. Feig grew warm, and said the OPP
position came from the state dairy and
food commission, and that if this de-
partment was to run the legislature he
wished to know it. Mr. Sloan, of Steele
county, came to the rescue of the com
mittee. He said the bill was not wanted
by the dairymen of the state, and fur
Their alleged that Mr.. Feig had shrewd-
ly had the bill referred to the agri-
cultural committee.
In answer to Mr.. Feig's queries, Sloan
admitted that the president of the as
ISOLATION had appeared and favored the
passage Of the bill, and that the AL
bert Lea convention in December had
advocated the measure, but intimated
that the chief requisite for member
ship in the association was the possess
sion Of the 81 admission fee. This Mr.
Feig thought was a reflection upon the
dairymen of the state, but Mr.. Sloan
stood his ground, and the matter grew
most interesting when Mr.. jacobson In
terpOsed his person and speech and
suggested that the bill would advance
the policy following graduates of the
agricultural school to see if they had
properly learned their lessons The
passage of the bill he knew was SIM
ply the beginning and next year there
would be necessary an increased ap-
preparation and an extra assistant
Now was the time to cut off any need
less expense. In this view he was
seconded by Mr.. West who, although
mailing from dairy district, had heard
no request for this sort of legisia-
ton, and Mr.. Won Lehe who gently
minated that many Of the members
OF this association referred to lived in
cities and knew little or nothing about
dairying. He cited Jens Grondahl. OF
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gentleman being not only q member of
the association, but also Of the appro-
prlation committee. The substitute
motion was lost, and the committee re-
port adopted.
Judge Littleton's bill, to revise and
annotate the general statutes Of the
state, came next, and Mr. Schmidt
interpoSed the substitute motion to go
on general orders for the committees
indefinite postponement recommends
ton. Mr. Schmidt said that the law
yers wanted this revision made. The
statutes had not been revised for
thirty-One years, and some parts of
them were outrageously inconsistent
and contradictory.
Mr.. Jacobson again came to the fore
and commended the policy of the
committee. This revision, he said.
would cost the state something like
$4,000 and the state needed it less
than It did either two or four years
ago when bills to provide for 1T were
lost. Again the substitute motion was
lost and the committee upheld.
The third bill proved no exception to
the rule of the day 1t was H. F. 928.
just introduced a day or two ago by
Judge Abbott. 1t called for an appro-
priation of $4,000 for the encourage
ment of the sugar beet industry in
this state, and also provided for the
establishment of an experimental sta
ton at Winnebago City, the purchase
of machinery, etc, etc. When the
fatal recommendation was read from
the committee, Judge Abbott rose and
was recognized.
Just one word" he said. "The time
has come when this state should recog-
niZe the need Of encOurag cling this
great industry, and If we allow this
opportunity to pass by we shall be
behind our sister states" He made q
strong plea for the need of this station
with machinery for the production Of
unrefined sugar. Mr. Feig, with a per-
fectly straight face within ten minutes
of the time he made his own vigorous
protest against the committee action
asked If the gentleman Judge AbbotO
assumed to place his own knowledge
and Judgment against that of the COM
mittee. The house thought this was
further that the southern part of the
state paid taxes on land assessed at
from SIS to $50 per acre, and had borne
its share of the expense Of the state
capitol and the state university.
Mr.. Scott thought this was a good
bill and that because the state had
granted bonus to the long line spin
ming tow industry. the sugar beet in
dustry ought to be looked after.
Mr.. Jacobson explained that the state
had some years ago covered the sugar
beet matter by bonus. and the house for
the third time put down the substitute
motion and adopted the report of the
committee.
An audible laugh went up when Rep
resentative Schmidt, in a brief speech.
made the usual demurrer to the fndeff-
mite poStponement recommendation on
his bill to create the office of state fire
marshal. He realized that if he did
not make it strong the matter would
be regarded as a joke, so he went at it
hammer and tongs. His bill had been
sent to the committee, in his absence.
from general orders, where it stood for
some days, and he wanted it sent back
there where the house could pass upon
it's merits.
The committee, with several members
absent, had been divided on the recon-
mendation, and he felt it was only fair
that the house should be allowed at
least to consider the measure
Mr.. Dare said he understood there
was no opposition to the recommends
ton at the meeting, but it afterwards
developed that Messrs. Lovejoy and
Basford had voted against the action.
and Laing, although he voted with the
committee, was not sure the bill was
not all right. The members of the
house were disposed to think the bill
might have some good points. and if