The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-18

Got Just What They Wanted-A
Large Number of Bills Shot
Through During the Last Few
Hours That Were Devoted to Leg
islative Work.
The senate adjourned at o'clock this
morning, leaving sixty bills In the air.
Inc mouse adjourned an hour later Both
bodies will meet this morning at 10
o'clock for the final adjournment.
jacobson, who opened the legislature
made the motion to adjourn. Sixty
three bills were passed up. Two on
which there had been most lobbying were
those relating to the garnishment of city
and county officials salaries, and one
limiting the exemption by garnishment
Of only 50 week
The house devoted third of its entire
sessions yesterday to f1libustering. score
OF the members. headed by Mr.. Jacobson,
wanted or pretended they wanted the
Batz bill repeating the beet sugar bounty
law passed. The discussion and division
of opinion as to this question was re-
sponsible for the delay in the transaction
Of business. Members who had bills on
the calendar and general orders in which
they were interested fretted fumed and
some swore. but the Jacobson coterie
stood firm and would not agree to any,
thing
At the morning session Mr.. Laybourn
(Rep.), of ST. Louis, wanted the rules
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four bills on general orders to the calen-
dar. The house would not agree to this,
Mr.. Staples (Rep.), Of Dakota; Mr.. Yale
(Rep.). of Winona, and Mr.. jacobson
Rep). Of Lac Qui Parle, objecting on the
ground that it was better to have a num-
Der of good bills fail of passage rather
than let one or two bad bills slip through.
Although the house started out with a
calendar Of forty odd bills, and a like
| number of senate bills on general orders
the members did not appear to be the
least concerned as to the need of haste.
Promptly at noon a recess was taken to
2 p. m. On reassembling at O. clock the
| calendar was taken up. and. on account
OF the row over the Batz bill, when a
recess was taken at o'clock but fourteen
|, bills had been taken from the calendar
and passed.
+ VISITORS WE'RE FEW.
The evening session started al 7:3O with
very light attendance, and only six per-
sons in the gallery. The crowd of out
siders increased, and at 9 o'clock there
were 100 ladies on the floor of the house
watching the statesmen throw waste
baskets and wads of paper at each other.
An hour was put in on first reading
of senate bills, which were duly referred
to committees with as much deliberation
as though it was the first day instead Of
the last night of the session. The mono
tony of this routine business was broken
by the howls Of the members when some
member attempted to get a bill advanced
from general orders to the calendar, or
passed under suspension of the rules.
The house broke the rule and allowed the
bill Of Senator Smith, J. Fl. (Rep), Of
Becker, to go through under suspension.
1t provides for free tuition of students
at the university who left that institution
to enlist in the Spanish-American war.
At o'clock Mr.. Foss (Rep.), of Grant,
moved an adjournment which was voted
down on viva voce vote, and the author
showered with books and other articles
that came handy.
STOPPED THE CLOCK.
At 1880 the time-honored chestnut OF
| turning back the hands of the clock was
| performed. The back action sweep of
| the hands stopped the works and the
| balance of the night they announced
| that 1t was Z o'clock. At midnight the
| house took a recess for fifteen minutes
and at that time there were still thirteen
senate bills on the calendar and forty
general orders.
BATZ BILL CAUSES TROUBLE.
The Batz bill, S. F. 81, repeating the beet
laxU in, fI1
house all afternoon and delayed business
for over two hours.
There were motions to adjourn, roll
calls, calls of the house and all kinds of
obstru tactics brought to bear in
order to get the Batz bill from the com
nittee on general legislation and before
the house. The lobby which has been in
evidence during the entire session to pre-
vent any change in the unlimited bounty
to be paid the Minneapolis sugar factory,
however had things fixed.
This fact taken In connection with the
attitude of number of the. Republican
members as to the giving of bounties pre-
vented any action being taken.
When the Batz bill reached the house
some weeks ago it was referred to the
committee on general legislation, and
Mr.. Roberts Rep), of Hennepin, intro
duced and had passed a measure which
| limited the amount to be paid for sugar
not more than $4,000 to be paid to fac
| tories in any congressional district.
| Mr.. Roberts and those who favored the
! bounty system wanted to kill the Batz
| bill then and there, but the house OBJ
| jected, and put the senate bill gen
| eral orders, and recommitted it to the
| committee on general legislation. The
Roberts bill was defeated in the senate
| just before noon, and many of the mem
hers of the house favored the passage of
the Batz bill rather than have the sugar
| bounty continue at unlimited sum for
! two years more.
ROBERTS WAS ON.
AS soon as the house convened at
! o'clock Mr.. Staples (Rep), of Dakota,
| chairman of the committee on general
| legislation, arose and asked permission to
make a committee report
| Mr.. Roberts (Rep), of Hennepin, evil
| IDENTIFY had "hunch" as to what was
coming, for he objected to the report
| being received at the time, the house, he
contended, having passed the order of
| committee reports.
| Mr.. Staples said the bill he desired to
report out was the Batz bill, which re-
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