The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-29

cheap economizers, who would have the
auditors do. the hardest share of the
county's work without giving them as
fair salary as it allowed other county
officers
The question Of reduction of exemp-
tions has created considerable discus
sion, and the reduction is being doomed
by merchants, loaners of money and
other classes that are interested in the
close collection of accounts. The hou=e
judiciary committeeais ssaid to favor the
reduction and there is a lobby work.
ing for the passageaofsthe bill.
So far the election,laws of the state
have come in for Attletattempted tinker
ing. 1t is said a biil will be introduced
for the use of votingl machines'in the
state, but as there are no large cities
whose ballots require long time for count
ing, and the majority of the precincts
are small ones. the idea is not likely to
prove contagious. There are two primary
cieeuon pllls In and II Is pretty safe bet
that neither one Of them will pass
Inc probable end of open gambling in
the Capital, City was marked when the
roulette wheel, seized at the time Mayor
PATTERSON was arrested, was burned bv
the snerln. There was an interesting legal
point in this case that might have been
raised had the action to stay the destruc-
ton of the wheel been brought by the
proper persons hen1Patterson was ar
rested and the wheel was seized IT was
alleged that the apparatus belonged to
him, as well as the building in which it
was operated. When the case came I'M
Tor trial, 1t was established by the de-
tense that the building belonged to one
w. H Sanderson, a gambler, who also
claimed ownership of the wheel. When
1t became apparent that Sanderson would
De arrested on a gambling charge, the
low. n4 h IL
in bill of sale to E. J. Berry, of Dickin-
son, although the transfer was purely
theoretical, as the sheriff retained actual
possession Of the wheel When the state
insisted on an order for the destruction
of the wheel, the attorney for Sanderson
and Patterson excepted to the order of
the court and carried up the case, with
Sanderson as petitioner. The state law
says that the gambling apparatus seized
In an action of this kind shall be destroy
ed upon the conviction of the defendant
in the action. But in this case there was
no conviction. The supreme court would
have had an interesting question to pass
upon had they not held that, as Sander
sons affidavit showed he had parted pos
session with the wheel he had no stand
ing in court as a party benef1cially in
terested
For sobriety and good personal morals,
the present legislative assembly will COM
pare favorably with any previous assem-
bly, in North Dakota, or with the assem-
bly, in any state. Previous legislative
sessions have seen much drink imhibed
at the capital, notwithstand the pro-
hibition proclivities of the state Up to
the present time, IN the present session,
there has been little public drinking Re-
sorts where liquor is sold are keeping
house sub rosa until it is seen whether
Attorney General Comstock Is out for the
blood of the "piggers.g If this proves to
be the case and those nearest to him say
ton law, then the day of licensing liquor
resorts on the Missouri slope is over, and
hereafter the sale of contraband wet
goods will be carried on after the blind
pig and bootleg fashion, as in the east
ern part of the state.
The Grand Forks Herald is doing it's
best to keep Cashiers primary election
bill before the people 1t published the
bill in full when 1t was introduced, and
has published 1t daily since then. The bill
is at present In the hands of the cleo
tons committee. J.
President Bartlett, of the senate, is
making little record for himself in the
matter of keeping down clerical expenses,
and on the last day before the recess a
motion was carried in the senate to ap-
point four additional engrossing clerks.
The applicants who were expecting ap-
pointment at once were chagrined when
the lieutenant governor remarked that
the appointments would be made after
the recess-and five days pay went glim-
mering.