The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-11
Ep,shes to St. Paul.

Thirty years ago yesterday, at o'clock.
there alighted from an Iowa & Minnesota
train on the West side flats young man.
1t was his first visit to St. Paul. He is
still here. He Is DR.. A J. Stone, the city
health commissioner. and the gossips do
say prospective surgeon general of the ma
tional guard
1--WE took a bus" the doctor said last
night, as he was congratulated on the
niversary, land came over to this side Of
the river. I had letters of introduction to
two men In the state, Isaac Staples, of Still
water and Justice 8. j. r. Mcmillan both
now dead. I went directly to the old Park
Place hotel. After supper I went to call
on Judge Mcmillan. who lived in little
story and a half house on the brow of st.
Anthony hill. That was the first private
residence I was In in this state. My own
house stands on that same site today al
though 1 did not buy the place until long
after the judge had gone
When l looked out of my window the
next morning." continued the doctor, 'the
white smoke was climbing straight up from
the chimneys. It was a crisp clear morn
ing. the thermometer being about Is below
and 1t was a pretty sight. You don't see
1t now. There is too much coal used here.
Then 1t was all wood.
st Paul was town Of $4,000 then. they
watched the count, either"
Sam Langum, the secretary Of the senate,
has way of reading a bill that is all his
own. He reads the first section with dis
tinct articulation and fidelity to even the
letters and figures that is all his own. Then
he heaves sigh. That sigh may represent
one or 1t may represent 20 sections. Then
Sam says:
Observation-Disclosures fromand
andafteritspassage
All in one breath.
Senator Benedict Of Blue Earth county,
introduced e. bill Monday night. It was his
first experience with Sam. and he did not
know the combination. He listened until
Sam got through. then compared 1t with a
manifold copy he had kept himself. puzzled
over 1t minute and as the secretary was
about to read another bill the senator rose
to question Of privilege. and suggested
that the bill had not been read
Langum smiled for he knew 1t, too.> The
senator from Blue Earth paused for an
answer. In the familiar language of the
Fourth Of July declaimer.
That's all right remarked Allen Greer,
OF WabaEha, who sits across the aisle. 1.-THE
record will show it was read in full"
There is bit Of scenic artifice in legisla-
tive halls sometimes even If they have no
gaudy curtains on the stage of legislation.
Senator Fitzpatrick introduced a resolution
the other day, calling on Auditor Dunn to
make report. He is a Democrat. Dunn is
Republican. Fierce was it's Tone and IT
looked as though hideous disclosures might
be anticipated, when the old-time crony of
the auditor and one of his Republican
friends, Senator Ryder, whipped a notice of
debate out Of his vocabulary.
Senator Fitzpatrick called his resolution UP
yesterday morning.
Ryder and Dunn had gotten their heads
together, and the resolution, with all its
"whereases" and I'VE demands" and that
sort of thing, was passed. Dunn. who had
been craning his neck around the main por-
tail of the senate chamber, then dashed In
with big budget Of typewritten material
that certainly took two days to prepare.
The Philistine,