Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-04-25

,camsust q soans Ion y = bill
effscting ths intsrsst W ~ In.
.bermsn. Il proposed . insrs ass
the tax they were paying. Altar
the bill HAD been safely lodged in
committee ! messenger from the
legislative combine 4 49, rent
post haste y Minneapolis with the
word that for ! paltry q. 600, the
matter would be dropped. a meet.
ing Of certain Of the leading INN.
bermen was called and the psopoGi ],
ton submitted. There 40 great
differences Of opinion some think
ing the should sum be paid with
out protest, others objected vigor-
ously to the proposed uphold.
Finallyone Of the veteran lumber.
men got up and said: q. $.:
III l were driving through a
forest in the winter, with : dead
carcass of beef on my sled, and
we're pursued by wolves, l am Ger.
tain that I should throw off one or
two. quarters, if by so doing I
could save the rest and myself j
favor paying the money"
This statement struck the Assem-
bly, in the end IS being about the
right view to tske, and 80 it was
arranged that the money should
be paid. g....* -
Then came the killing of the bill.
The work Of execution, of course,
could not be performed with undue
haste, for suspicion should be ex.
cited in the minds of members Of
the combine and so the bill was
amended in the committee, the
proposed tax decreased there, and
arrangements made for reporting
the bill out. Word was passed
around meanwhile that the bill
was found, after inv estigation. not
to possess a. much merit a. it's
author and friends had originally
supposed, and that perhaps the
best thing was TO put it on general
orders, where its weak points
might be brought out thoroughly.
This had the desired result.
The bill never saw the light Of day.
The foregoing is the story a. it
was told the Journal by Z member
whose standing before the public
is assured and who said he, was in
position to make good some of the
statements which he made. 9th.
ers of the statements he SAID he
secured from some Of the interest.
ed 'lumbermen. IL ii Il, ..s,53 ssss 1.
Naturally there was 1 good deal
Of talk about the use Of money in
connection with the defeat Of the
gross earning bill, and one man
tells Of . game Of poker played at
the Ryan Hotel one night not long
ago, between certain members of
one of the houses in which g, 900
was raked off in one jackpot, the
men sitting in the game being men
that never had % much as g. 900
before in all their lives, and never
could sit in so stiff q game with
money they had earned honestly.
Whether anv money was used to
defeat the gross earnings bill, how.
ever, nobody can say definitely.
Suspicion is not proof, nor is it
just to say that money was used
merely because it was clearly to
the interest of the railroads to de.
feat the bill. 2>. 49,. vi ~ .. ..
Another story of Doodle came
out in connection with the bill to
place the oil inspector on . salary.
The sum said to be used was$5, 900
which the inspector could we'll af-
ford to pay; but because he could
80 afford is no reason why the
charge should be made that this
sum or any other was used. ,.". T..
To enumerste all Of the bills
which were said Is have called for
the use Of money would be ! thank.
less task. This much has been
said in order that the general pub.
lie may know that the late session
has succeeded in getting reputa.
ton Of which nobody in the state
v,;1l ho ,,rnn1 That Tho ronntation