The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-27
PRACTICALLY PUT TO SLEEP
MIR. JACOBSON'S ATTITUDE GAVE
RISE TO OPPOSITION TO THE
BILL
DEBATE CAME TO PERSONALITIES
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Sent Back to the Committee With
Orders to Report When 1t Gets
Ready.

tariff ON grain and hard coal. 1t is
true that the house was not in favor
Of so drastic measure as that pro-
posed by Mr. Douglas, but 1t Is equally
undeniable that half Of the pleasure
some of the members derived in fight
ing the bill was that they might sit
down hard on Mr.. Jacobson.
The forenoon session of the house
brought out practically all there was in
favor Of the bill and also the pith Of
the argument against it; that is, the
constitutional question as to the right
of the legislature to pass such a law
which would be anything more than
can now be secured by appealing to
the railroad and warehouse commits
sion.
The bill was debated all day long
and it was finally referred to the rail-
road committee, where it is likely TO
receive even a cooler reception than
that extended by the grain and ware
house committee. It is generally con-
coded, even by the friends Of the bill
that it can not pass, and it will prob
ably never again disturb the house.
The friends Of the bill wanted to have
it placed ON general orders and a par
Eamentary struggle over the question
whether the reference should be made
to the railroad committee or the COM
mittee of the whole. The vote to refer
the bill to the railroad committee
brought out the enemies and friends Of
the measures. Those who voted to refer
the bill to the railroad committee were:
Messrs. Abbott, Anderson, Barta, Bas-
tyA1
Cunningham, Dale, Dare, Davies.
Drommerhausen. Dunn, Eigenbrodt.
Ferris, Foell, Hartshorn, Hicks, Hill,
HOLSTER, Holmen, Jameson, Johns,
Kraker, Laing, Larson, Lillman, Lit
Teton, Lovejoy, Manchester, Mansfield,
Meyers, Munger, McElhaney, McGrath.
Parker, Reeves. Scctt,3 Schmidt, Smith.
Snodgrass, Snyder, .Torson, Underleak,
Vail, williamson, Yates, Jones-5O.
Those opposed to the motion to refer
and were friendly to the bill, were:
Messrs. Belden, Bergley, Brusletten
Dahl, baltimore, Donnelly, Douglas
Dyer, Emerson, Finney, Fosnes, Foss,
Froslee, GilbertsOn, Goar, Goss, Gron-
dahl Hall, Hayter, Heimerdinger, Hen
derson, jacobsen, Johnson, Kelly, Lay
Martin, Mattson, Mcdonald. Mclean.
Olds, Peterson, Poetz, Reiner, Samp-
son, Scribner, Sloan, Staples, Stone, st.
John, Trewe, Vigen, Woods.
The contest over the bill started in
with fair and honorable discussion
Of the measure upon it's merits, but
before it closed it had drifted into per-
SonalltieS and charges of bad faith. al
most verging upon open insult Mr..
Lovejoy and Mr.. Jacobson made state
ments upon the same subject which
We're exactly at variance, and it was
hardly matter upon which they could
have been mistaken.
The personalities began when Mr..
Johns, who is a member Of the railroa d
committee, announced to the house and
the speaker that he would resign from
the committee on railroads He had
made a semi-humorOus declaration
earlier in the day that this committee
had had only a few bills before it, all
which 1t had killed except one, a bill
of Mr.. Jacobsons which he said it was
still considering. He insisted that his
committee had been slandered and in
suited, and he offered to write out his
resignation at once and present it to the
speaker. 4ET
Mr.. Jacobson got back at Mr.. Johns
by saying that the railroad committee
had retained his bill which was one of
the first introduced for 40 days, and it
had sneaked back in a cowardly man
ner. a.e
Mr.. jacobson meant the remark for a
reply to Mr.. Johns, but it came to Mr..
LOvejoy, the chairman of the commit
tee, like a slap in the face, and Mr.
Lovejoy is not accustomed to turn the
other cheek. He denied the imputation.
He said that Mr. jacobson had been
treated with consideration. At one
time he had waited 35 minutes for Mr.
Jacobson to appear before the commit
tee, according to his request, and had
sent a messenger to notify him, but
Mr.. jacobson did not come.
IF the gentleman says that I request
ed to be heard in regard to my bill,
he says what is not So" retorted Mr..
Jacobson.
''I say he did say So" was Lovejoy' s
rejoiner, and it looked like diamond
cut diamond for a moment. But Mr..
Jacobson said no more and the sky
cleared again.
After the bill was referred to the
railroad committee, Mr.. Jacobson NOV
ed to have it reported back in 10 days,
but the motion was lost.
The house spent two hours during
the forenoon session in a hot discus
sion Of the proposition to Arbitrarily
fix the rates of freight on grain and
coal by distance tariff carefully
drawn up and graduated to suit the
demand for a reduction of rates which
has been manifested principally in
Northern Minnesota. The matter I'M
der discussion was the reports from
the majority and minority Of the COM
nittee on grain and warehouse upon
the Douglas bill Oh. F. 1922 which has
been the bone Of contention in that
committee for the past two weeks. Mr..
Douglas asked to have the bill amend
ed so as to raise the graduated sche-
dUle of rates from q to 2 cents; and,
Also adding rate ON potatoes by the
car, making it the same as wheat,
which was done. The majority report
ed in favor of the indefinite postpone
nNent of the bill; the minority submit
ted their views in the following:
We. the members Of the committee on grain
and warehouse, to whom was referred H. F.
$685. being bill for an act to fix reasonable
maximum rate of reight to be charged by
railroads and common carriers for transport
ing cereals and coal, make the following mi
nority report: II II
The said committee has heard all parties
appearing, and finds: Z
First-That the existing rates of freight upon
coal and grain charged by the railroads Of
this state are extortionate, unjust and I'M
reasonable.
Second-That such rates are very much
higher than the rates of freight charged upon
other railroads in other states under like
Third-That four attorneys appeared before
this committee representing railroads inter-
ested, and not one of them In lengthy explain
atoms furnished or pointed out a single rate
either upon grain or coal, in any state in the
United States between any two stations,
where the freight charged Is as high in
minnesota except one, and that Is upon wheat
on the Union Pacific railway west OF Omaha
Fourth-It appears to the members of the
committing that the bonds and stocks of sons