Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-01-30
ST. PAUL LETTER.
ST. PAIL. Jan

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Following the senatorial election,
the week at the capital has been a
quiet one. Social events, honoring
the new United States senator, were
plenty, and heart-aches over the re-
suit are few but poignant.
The talk OF today is all OF Ex-Sen-
ator Charles A. Towne and his great
est speech. No political opponent OF
his is so partisan as to withhold from
that meteoric effort the warmest
praise. In kindlier tones, perhaps,
than ever before, the name of Mime
sofas Daniel O'Connell is on the lips
of friends and foes.
Not to be put aside as young and
youthfully idealistic, q dreamer, an
artist, an orator, is Towne today, al
though all OF these he is, and more.
The speech with which he yesterday
electrified the nation is the speech of
great man, the result of grand
thought, comprehensive study and the
able and mastery handling of the
statesman.
The Legislature is not more than we'll
under way, although the voice of Jac-
OLSON is heard in the halls, and the
lobbyists are beginning to make their
| appearance. Bills affecting great
corporations are about to be intro
duced, and the corporations are about
to train their biggest guns for their
destruction. But 'we shall see what
we shall see''
Senator Miller is exercised over the
changing of bill passed in 1899, pro-
viding for II per cent gross earn
lngs tax upon express companies.
From the time when it left the desk OF
the lieutenant governor last year un-
til it reached Gov. Lind for signing,
"44' was deity changed to read 49,"
and the law, of course, will be of no
effect, since it is not the unchanged
law as passed. A resolution was in
troduced last week by Senator Miller,
providing for an investigation, and
Senators Miller and Roverud were
appointed to look into the matter.
Gossip has it that the recent turning
over of the committee Of taxes and tax
laws is direct result of the wander
ings OF that gross earnings bill. Sem
ator McGill is now chairman of the
| committee, and one or two of the 'e9
members have been dropped.
Another subject of much discussion
is the ''Pardon Scandal" in which
Gov. Van SAINT played the role OF
dupe, as reahstiesHy ss that role
could we'll be rendered.
The famous Or Infamous real chief
of the late republican campaign press
committee, J. S. Vandiver, cleverly
trapped Fred. c. schitman, D. F.
Reese, Albert Berg, E. S. Warner
and other intimate friends of the new
est governor into signing a petition
craving the pardon of the shop-lifter,
MOllie Morris, who was serving out q
work-house sentence. The petition
made it quite clear to the governor
and pardonlng board that the SEN
tence was unjust and the woman
wrongfully detained. Retiring Coun-
ty Attorney Zollman (rep, was one
of those who urged executive clemen-
cy. The woman was pardOned. It
transpires that every representation
made is false, and the talk is that
prominent Chicagoians employed Mr..
Vandiver to ''get results. =" He got
them. The ''prominent people took
the released criminal home, and Coun-
ty Attorney Kane dem. is preparing
a case against her for presentation to
the grand jury. There are requisi-
tions from Wisconsin and Illinois for
her here.
Readers of the TRIBUNE may re-
member that the senate created clerk
ship for Mr. Vandiver, and now some
over scrupulous members are saying
that perhaps his services better be
dispensed with. But they won't. In
all likelihood, no attempt will be made,
and if an attempt is made, there will
quite probably be some interesting
reading in the twin city dailies as a
direct result thereof.
And then, the new governor is hav-
AAS oeAAA AAOAS VI OA0NO "AoA oHHOAAG>
ments, The folks at Duluth continue
inconsolable, and democratic Ramsey
county has drawn more than it's share
of plums. II was bad enough, the
outsiders reason to appoint Fred
Schiffman oil inspector, but to turn
down Capt. Oscar Seebach of Red
Wing and appoint another St. Paul
man, Major E. D. Libbey, as adjutsnt
general is an idiotic proceeding from
spokesman 3 point of view.
Tams Bixby's little county, which
gave Mr.. Van SAINT all but nine of the
majority (?) by which he was declared
elected get assistant sdjutant-general-
ship, or clerkship, with q salary at
tachment OF 81, 200 per annum, which
Capt. Seebacb draws. Jens Z. Gron-
dahl, OF the Red Wing Republican,
was turned down fatty for man who
was not even an applicant for the po-
sition of state librarian, q Mr.. Nelson
of Hallock.
+ Sam Fullerton, whose record from
his last ineumbency is anything but
clear, was re-appointed the game and
fish commission, made it's executive
agent, and is charged to St, Louis
county, which vigorously disowns