The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-04
TWO MINES WAITING
GRAIN INSPECTION AND THYME
DEPARTMENTS TO BE INvESTI-
GATED BY LEGISLATORS.
JACOBSON STARTS EARLY

|
tive Throws a Bomb Into the
House Almost Before 1t Has Conn
pleted Its OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Bodies VIII Meet in Joint Session
| for the Inaugural Today.
The house was called to order
| promptly at noon by Assistant Secre-
tary of State Lomen. This duty, ac-
cording to law. devolves on the secre-
tary of state. but Mr.. Lomsn explained
that Secretary Berg had been ill with
the grip for ten days and in this event
the law provided that the senior
| member of the house should act in his
stead" He believed Representative
jacobson. of Lac qui Parle, was the
| senior member. and requested that
gentleman to officiate. Mr.. Jacobson
| on taking the chair said the first bust
| ness would be the selection of a secre-
| tary pro tenn. and he called upon c..
+. staples, of Dakota county to act
in this capacity. The clerk was di-
rected to call the roll by senatorial dis
I tr1cts. and the members were instruct
ed to hand in their certificates and be
duly sworn. Judge Collins, one Of the
| justices of the supreme court, took his
speakers desk and as the members
came to the desk they affixed their sig
| natures to the oath Of office. and were
duly sworn by Judge Collins.
The members We're sworn in blocks, of
three. five and seven, as the circum-
stances permitted.
Judge Collins, attired in a frock suit
of black. white satin tie and with
three-carat diamond blazing in his
oh rt f,.n, NO FOL Ia
the old members of the house he gave
a shake Of the hand and whispered
word of congratulation. and to the
new members he was courteous in the
extreme.
ONLY ONE ABSENTEE
The swearing in process occupied
| nearly an hour, and when this had
been completed roll call of the house
reported that all the members were
present except Andrew Miller, of st.
Louis county.
Mr.. Jacobson declared the body fe-
gally organized for the transaction of
| business, and James Larson. Of Red
wood county, moved that the house
proceed to the election of a speaker.
At this juncture Representative
| Miller, of st. Louis county, arrived on
H r. Mallette, of Mile Laos coun-
ty nominted A N. Dare Of Elk River,
and P. B. Winston, of Hennepin, and
John Pennington, of Dakota, both rose
to put in nomination H. G. Stivers, of
Crow Wing, the minority caucus nom
inee.
On the roll call Mr.. Dare did not
vote, and when Mr.. Stivers' name was
called he voted for Dare, which an
nouncement was greeted with consid-
cradle applause. P B. Winston I'M
consciously sang out Dare" when his
name was called, but rapidly changed
and voted for Stivers amid Laughter
The roll call gave Dare SO and Stivers.
25. Those voting for Stivers were:
hue. Feeney. Fosnes, Heimerdinger. Hennes-
sy, Hill, Jeub Lampe, Marn Moran Nell
son. N. o., O'Cornor, OLSON, P, O'Neill,
Peterson. Pennington, Plowman, UmIand,
Won der Weyer, Wethren Winston.
A committee of three. Messrs. Yale,
Guttersen and Winston. was appointed
to conduct the speaker to the chair AS
the speaker, on the arm Of Mr.. Yale,
was being escorted to the chair, the
procession was halted long enough to
allow Judge Collins to administer the
oath to the speaker, which ceremony
was performed just in front of the
desk.
SPEAKER DARE'S GREETING.
Speaker Dare thanked the members,
saying:
Gentlemen of the Minnesota house
Of representatives it is with deep emo
ton that I stand before you today
having been elected speaker of this
| house. TO say that this is a proud mo-
ment of my life may sound extrava-
giant. but the statement is made with
! sincerity. 1 shall endeavor to serve you
! to the best Of my ability and with i'm
| Partially. There are many members
| on the floor better equipped to fill the
| position, but I shall endeavor to do
| my best, not only to myself. but to you.
| Again 1 thank you for the honor con-
| ferred."
| The house then proceeded with the
organization. The caucus states were
| followed in each instance, and this
necessitated a roll call on each of the
nine Offices
For chief clerk Israel Bergstrom received
! 81 votes and c. B. Cutting %. Bergstrom
was declared elected and sworn.
o. K. Dahle, for first assistant clerk, re-
ceived SO votes to IS cast for T. B. McCullom,
! the fusion candidate.
! ]. A. Everett was elected second assistant
clerk. receiving SO votes, while the fusion
candidate was credited with %.
N H. Ingersoll was elected engrossing clerk
| by vote Of 81 to % for John Timpane.
b. F. Beck received 81 votes for enrolling
| clerk, and E. ]. Vinje 81
For postmaster and assistant enrolling
clerk L. NJ. Barrie secured 80 votes, and O..
x. Bergen o.
| For sergeant-at-arms the vote was Ed
| ward Tanning 90, John Tilman g.
| For assistant sergeant at arms E. A. Nell
| son had 81 votes and Michael Whalen 25
| o. n. Lindh for chaplain secured IS votes
| and George Paul %.
| A resolution by Representative Gut
! tersen, declaring the house organized
with the list Of officers elected, was
| passed.
A message was received from the
senate announcing the organization of
that body and the list of officers.
The rules of the last house were
| adopted to govern, on motion Of Mr..
| Yale
Representative Foss offered a resolu-
ton that the seats be allotted to the
! members by lot. and the same was
adopted.
Representative Ferris secured the
abortion Of g resolution for the ap-
pointment of a committee on rules and
joint rules.
The speaker was authorized by a
resolution offered by Mr.. Staples to APP
point committee Of three to act with
! a like committee from the senate to
notify the governor that the house was
organized and ready to receive any
| communication he might wish to make.
Messrs. Staples, Ferris and Allen were
appointed as the committee
Mr. Jacobson offered the following