The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-04
HOUSE YIELDS The Ak
RUTHLESS sLAUGHTER OF Hills
AT THE CAPITOL LAST
WEEK
PROMINENTr ISSUES SETTLED
JacobsOn's Resolution for LegisIa-
tive Investigation of st. Paul and
Duluth Combination Killed by
His Party Colleagues.

The most noteworthy incident of the
mousse proceedings during last week was
the jacobson resolution providing for
legislative investigation on the recent
consolidation of1'the. ST. Paul & Duluth
and the Northern Pacific roads and the
subsequent debates.
The subject OF the resolution is in di-
rect line with accommodation made by
Gov. Lind in his message to the legis-
lature, but the object sought by Mr..
Jacobson, so Mr.. Laybourn and other
members of the Republican faction in
the house contend was to make cam
palgn material at the expense of the late
Democratic administration. The resolu-
tlon was, therefore denounced and It's
author severely arraigned by prominent
members Of his own party, who were OPP
posed to what they considered political
intrigue. The result was the defeat of
the resolution
The Democratic members refrained
from participation in the discussion fur
ther than Mr.. Pennington's assertion that
Gov. Lind and the Democrats were In
full sympathy with q movement to have
the legislature examine into this tran
saction
Aside from this sensational occurrence
the remainder Of the week was by no
means perfunctory in the house. Some
prominent issues were settled. Among
these was the Deming bill, the effect
OF which would have been to pardon the
Younger brothers at Saltwater. The bill
was defeated. Mr.. Kelly, of Rice coun-
ty, led in the onslaught against this
measure.
Another important proposition which
received it's deathbloW was the bill OF
Mr. Sweet which provided for a five
siXths jury verdict in civil cases.
Mr.. Hickey, of the minority side, sue
ceeded in passing his bill reducing the
rate of interest to be paid on the pur-
chase price of state school lands. the
principal of which cannot be paid until a
period of fifteen years has elapsed. The
house has not witnessed a more decisive
victory during the present session than
Mr. Hickey gained on this occasion.
The adoption Of the Daugherty plan for
reapportioning the state by the commit
tee on reapportfonpent on Wednesday
was one of the conspicuous features OF
the week, though it was not entirely a
Ecuse proceeding The senate and house
committees acted jointly in the matter.
which was settled outside of the regular
session.
S. D. Peterson, Of Brown county, placed
himself on record during the week as a
foe to some of the coadtions governing
telegraph company operations. His first
move was to introduce a bill imposing a
gross earnings tax of 10 per cent upon all
telegraph companies within the state.
Yesterday Mr. Peterson presented bill
which seeks to reduce the profits OF the
companies which he claims are unduly
large, by reducing the fees charged for
messages
In the. fore part of the week Gov. Van
SAINT transmitted to the house "A COM
munication which was accompanied py
the full report Of the commission APP
pointed by himself to investigate the
board of control systems. The governor
again recommended the system in this
state and in this concurred IN the re-
port of the commission.
Mr. Hickey introduced bill appro-
priating $4,000 to. the Northwestern
Manufacturers association for the pur-
pose of collecting data and exhibits for
display at the, next state fair. This is
an important measure In, the interest of
the industries of this state and the as
sociation in whose behalf it was pre-
scented.
The bill providing for an appropriation
for lobbyist to be sent to Washington
to prosecute war claims Of this state
against the United States government
excited unusual interest and emotion in
the house. The measure was condemned
as an effort to provide berths for sleek
politicians at the expense of the state. 1t
was held, that the seven congressman
were. elected for such purposes. and a
special representative was useless. The
bill, however, was passed