The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-24
MILITARY MEN OBJECT
AGAINST BILL REPEATING SALARY
OF ADJUTANT GENERAL OF
STATE GUARD
LOOKS BAD FOR PRIMARY LAW
Prohibition Question Comes Up
Again - Drug Stores Are Ac-
cuSed of Being Mere
Blind Pigs.

BISMARCK, N. ID, Feb 23-(SpeciaL)
Some feeling has been stirred up among
legislators and others by the bill re-
pealing the salary Of the adjutant gen
eral Of the state guard and there was
lively passage at arms in the senate
when the bill came up for passage. The
bill repeating the appropriation for sal
ary was reported by the senate smell
ing'' committee ON the ground of econo-
my. The Office is held at present by
E. S. Miller, an old soldier, and a mem
Der of the state guard for many years.
1t is stated there may be kick on the
part of the house committee on military
affairs on thus legislattng out of office
an old soldier who has done his duty.
Senator Hale was a vigorous defender
cf the repeal bill in the senate and ne
alluded to the office ais graft. He
said any member Of the guard would
take it and do the work without sal
airy.
The house smelling committee, fol-
lowing in the steps Of the senate COM
mittee, filed report setting forth means
by which the expenditures Of the state
might be reduced and the several
departments be as well conducted. AS
a sensation maker, the report was not as
successful as the senate report, and that
was tame, although it is said that some
matters were omitted that might have
made interesting reading had the MEM
berS of the committee considered 1t wise
to report on all the things that had been
discovered. Enough was presented, how
ever, to serve as warming that loose
business methods will not be tolerated
in the future.
There is none. of the old excitement
over the presentation of the measures to
repeal the penalty clause OF the prohibl-
ton law. The Republican leaders are
against it. and even those who do not
favor prohibition as a constitutional en-
actment, admit that the repeal bill VIII
never see daylight. 1t is agreed that SO
long as the Republican state platform
pledges the party to prohibition, any re-
peal of the penalty clause by the Repub-
lican legislature is utterly OUT OF the
question.
The fate of the primary election bill
was also pretty well Settled when the
senate deferred constipation OF the com
mittees report until after the recess. The
friends of the bill were anxious to get 1t
reported and on THE calendar before the
two houses adjourned, having some hope
it might get through the senate ind into
the house. As 1t isaneWg the pill VIII nave
to take its chanceszin the rush at the end
of the session, and that 1t viii get
through is extremely doubtful
&n% 741n
some interesting sNe1att Will IeloLcho0
to the status of many OF the drug stores
in the state was had when the temper
ance committee rep0rteb faverably on the
bill designed to make it easier for a
druggist to secure a i4Gor permit Little
and La Moure, the senate leaders, aex-
pressed surprise that the temperance
committee should favoSably report a bib
with this object. IsofF5s. of Walsh, the
author of the bill. SAID, it was designed
to cover cases where the store of the ap-
I3licant was in Gloss business ward.
and if he were confined to the wara to
get signatures of men and women nee
essary for the granting OF a permit, it
would defeat his efforts and shut him out
of business Little responded to this by
stating that he WAS glad to learn from
a valley member that Il drug store mad to
have a liaaer permit TO exist in The east
ern part of the STATEN other words,