The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-31
ARE STILL VERY MUCH
ALIVE!
ANoKA MAY ASK FOR MONEY,
AND HASTINGS TALKS OF GIVING
THE GOVERNOR ANOTHER
CHANCE.
GOSSIP OF A COMPROMISE.
Said That a Bill May Come In to
Establish Two District Hos
pitfalls in the Rivals.

Shall 1T be peace or war?
The all-pervading air of peace that
prevailed in corridor and elsewhere,
last evening, would have delighted a.
Quaker.
Ask almost any member of the legis-
lature if the cruel Anoka-Hastings war
was over, and he would answer yes
but with a mental reservation that was
almost audible in it's artless enthu-
siasm.
What is to be the next step?
1t seems to depend on who gets the
speakers eye first, there seeming to
be disposition to let the house tackle
the subject. Anoka people will demand
All appropriation, according to some Of
their leaders, for the construction Of
a hospital there. They may mot be
able to get majority to carry it, al
though they are sanguine, that with
proper encouragement, they may be
able to get majority for a small ap-
preparation.
Some of the more belligerent of the
Hastings contingent last night, were
talking Of amending the bill for a hospi-
tai at Anoka, by striking out Anoka
and inserting Hastings and sending the
amended measure up to the governor
again to see if his nerve still remained
the same.
There seemed to be no serious thought
that the fight was over, it being con-
coded that while the bills on which it
was fought out were dead, the enmities
engendered in the fight were still alive
at
and possibly cut a large figure in the
campaign of $685.
The exact status of the Anoka site is
IN dispute. 1t is a matter of common
consent that the state has the site and
some one else the money. Whether or
not the failure of the passage of the
bill revoking the action of the commits
sion is negative ratification of it's
selection, remains to be determined
by some legal tribunal, possibly The
Anoka people claim that the Anoka
site was regularly located and that it
remains so. The majority report of the
committee, which was adopted by the
house, and this part of it by the senate,
was not that 1--WE revoke the action of
the commission" but that 1--WE recon-
mend the passage of a bill to revoke
the action of the commission" An ad-
dit1onal clause recommending the ap-
preparation for Hastings was not
adopted by the senate, although it was
by the house. The Anoka people claim
that the very wording of this recon-
mendation shows that the action of
the legislature is purely negative, and
that the action of the hospital location
commission must stand until it Is regu-
larly and formally revoked. ras-u,-a
The Hastings people, on the other
hand, claim that they will see that no
appropriations are made for the hospi-
tai at Anoka, but will fight it, if the
Anokans attempt it. to the bitter end.
In the meantime. some of the less
warlike of the combatants, if the seem
ing paradox may be pardoned, are talk
ing of a compromise, somewhat on the
order of the county or district hospital
plan in vogue in Wisconsin. This
measure would contemplate the setting
aside of Ramsey, Dakota, and probably
Washington counties, as a hospital
district, with hospital at Hastings,
although one much smaller in site than
the one which the commission had in
mind when it originally located the in
stitutiOn there. Hennepin, AnOka, and
perhaps, Wright counties, could form a
separte district, with a similar hospital
at AnOka. -rF
The idea has friends. but even if the
two cities, and the Twin Cities should
combine, there is still9' the possibility
that the members from the rest of
the state would oppose the measure on
the ground that 1t was a grab, and
a robbery of the taxpayers of the state
If anything does act to; subdue the bel
Hgerent feeling now existing, it will
be the coercive force of this undeniable
sentiment on the parta of the rest of
the state. .a,-.-r
The senate has another special order
for this afternoon, the Foss and Sperry
inheritance tax bills, which are to be
considered together,