The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-13
USUAL GR|SI OF CRAFTS
LIBERAL GRATUITIES BESTOWE5i
UPON EMPLOYEES AND All
TACHES OF HOUSE
NEWSPAPER MEN SHUT OUT
Representative Dunn Protests
Against Violation of Tacit Agree
ment Made at beginning of
Session, but In Vain.
THESE GET GRATUITIEis.

George H. Spear, reporter Minneapolis
Journal and assistant clerk, $780,
Simon Michlet, clerk judiciary commit
tee $3.50.
Henry Arneson, second assistant clerk,
$3.50
]. T. Jones, reading clerk. s1Go.
w. w. Wall, engrossing clerk, $1O0.
Mrs. Caroline Hammond, telegraph OPP
orator, $3.50.
All committee room keepers, doorkeep-
ers, cloak room keepers, file clerks and
the 1janitor, $lO0 each.
Morgan Nelson, supreme court room
keeper, $25
Rose E. Chase. stenographer, $75
Miss Glen Wilkinson, telephone opera
tor $50.
Miss Anna Murray, telephone operator,
$150
All other female employees $25 each.
All pages were raised from the regular
salary of $3.50 to So day.
Jacob GrevstOck. flag raiser. $25.
The thirty-second legislature of Mime
sofa winked itself out of existence yes
terday, unless forsootn the extra session
partially arranged for next February is
held. 1t is pretty generally supposed
that Gov Van SAINT will be asked to call
such a session at that time for the pur-
pose of having the report of the tax com
mission acted upon. There Is a bare pos
sibility, however, that such departure
will not be made. The legislature COL
vened on Jan. 8, and since that time mas
consumed just Seventytwo days in actual
time The session was shortened at the
instance of the Republicans, who Great ed
the tax commission and who expect to
tack on the twelve remaining days with
probably eight or ten additional next year
to listen to the commissions report In
cidentally it was thought that such a
\
paign results.
The battle cry of the retiring lcgi3ia-
ture will be its unprecedented frugality
and economy" Despite the cold facts
disclosed by the record to the contrary,
the dear people will be asked to be-
lieve that never was there a law making
body which so carefully and heroICaQy
guarded the states funds as the Thirty
second Minnesota legislature. A hint
at the tremendous amount of eXertlOn
made at keeping down needless ex~
penses may be derived from the first
few lines above. They will furnish inter-
peruse year and half hence, but may
possibly fall short of substantiating tne
boasts made from the stump.
JOURNAL REPORTER LANDS.
AS will be seen from the names and
items above, the legislature die away
almost entirely with one old-time custom
which has prevailed throughout the HIT
DRY, practically, of the legislatures
That was the custom of granting graf
uities to the official representatives CT
the press. 1t mas heretofore been the
practice to allow each of these repre-
sentatives $3.50, but yesterday this rule
was laid in the shade with respect to all
the papers but one. That was the Mime
apolis Journal, whose regular reporter
in the house WAS rewarded with $lN0,
beside other emoluments. The house
saw fit to confer upon him a clerhship
which yielded the trifiing figure Of 81 d
day. No other Twin City newspaper was
allowed a clerkship nor was any other
representative let I'M on the graft.
In both house and senate the resolu
ton to treat all the newspaper men alike
in this matter was defeated and therefore
the Journals senate reporter was not
rewarded Tt press felicitated itself
upon the graciC sness of Representative
Roberts, of Minneapolis however, WHO
offered a resolution recognizing their
efficient, faithful and uniformly fair
work in reporting the proceedings of the
house.
IGNORED PREVIOUS AGREEMENT
In making the regular wholesale allow
ances the legislature absol utely ignored
a tacit agreement which was made at
the beginning of the session. 1T was de
termined then that these gratis should
cease and that no specials would be
recognized. On this theory the force of
employees was greatly increased. Some
of the members had the courage TO stand
by their word when the proposition TO
break the agreement came UP yesterday
in the form Of a resolution making the
several allowances, but they We're SO
hopelessly in the minority that the reso-
luton carried There were too many pc
litical debts to be paid and this was the
only way which some had of dis
charging these "obligations.' The legis-
latiVe committee in the house, by which
body all the gratuities, save one or two
We're granted, had conferred with the
senate committee to stand by the agree
ment and refuse to report in favor OF
any allowances. The senate committed
kept the faith, but three of the house
committeeman broke it. The house COM
mittee was composed VI James A Lar
son, of Walnut Grove chairman; William
3. Anderson, Winona; John F. Jacob
son, Lac qui Parle county; Sherman S.
Smith, Minneapolis, and E. A. Whitford
Hastings. The two members who stayed
by their word were Sherman S. Smith
and F.. A Whitford. The gratuIties were
granted by Messrs Anderson, Larson
and Jacobson
Mr. Dunn, of Ramsey, when his name
was called on the CRAFTS, gave a COM
plete exposure of the agreement into
which the legislature had entered at the
beginning Of the session regarding these
CRAFTS He said at that time the sal
aries of the employees were fixed and that
1t was definitely understood that there
were to be no gratuities allowed at the
close of the session. And in making the
report OF the committee On rules he 80
reported. In view of this solemn agree
ment Mr. Dunn said he was constrained
to vote against the crafts.
The house INDUCED a short time yestei.-
day morning in the usual bouquet throw
ing. julius Schmahl, the chief clerk,
came in for his share of compliments and
was presented by the house with a very
large framed collection of the various
members photographs. He acknowledged
the compliments becomingly Mr. Roberts
presented resolution in token OF the
high respect and esteem in which the
majority members held Speaker Downing
and for the minority faction Mr. Hickey,
of st. Paul, performed a similar Office
DORSEY THROWS BONE.
Everything was drifting along as
smoothly as could be expected when
Representative Dorsey, of Glencoe. FREQ
bomb into the camp and caused q ter
rible CONSERVATION. The house had got
ten within Just a few minutes Of time
to die and Messrs jacobson and WASH
burn were escaping unframed for their
charges of bribery. Then, like clap Of
thunder out Of clear sky, burst the no
ton of Mr. Dorsey thar tha Tox,l,o,,r,