The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-27

employ f. S. Allen, as clerk of his com
mittee. The resolution was sent to the
committee on legislative expense which
met after the house adjourned The
other members of the committee were
prepared to go either way on the ques-
ton, which was promptly squelched BY
Jacobson. He said Mr. Schwarg has not
shown us that he needs a clerk" and the
meeting adjourned. Mr. Schwarg will
not get the clerk
When Gov. Van SAINT has time to sit
ooWn and figure out the results incident
70 yesterdays action on the tax bill in
the house he may be able to arrive at the
conclusion that he is a bad guesser. A
majority of the Republicans of the Iegis-
lature and the state generally had ar
rived at that conclusion before the leg
1slature made it a matter beyond question
and the supreme court Of the United
States court set it's seal Of affirmation
on the verdict. When his excellency
needs consolation he may turn his energy
10 appolntees and get it-maybe.
The judiciary bill for constitutional
amendments, and the Smith bill for a
constitutional convention, both failed of
railroading attentions yesterday. The
judiciary committee called up the bin
reported in by it and attempted to secure
AOI IL d Sp6CId1 OEQ6Iy commencing To-
morrow morning. The effort was prompt
ly sat upon, and the bill will take the
regular course. Smith, who has his bill
at the head of general orders, moved for
a third reading and the final passage OF
the bill. and he was also told to find a
rear seat.
The result Of the introduction of the
Jacobson and Anderson bills yesterday
lU hn a -Iaxy II,
viii require another legislative expense
appropriation, in addition to the $40, ,00o
appropriated to see the tax bill through.
Jacobsons bill, which will have the right
of way under the special order, will hardly
get serious consideration before Monday,
and then it is sure to precipitate a drawn
out fight or a peremptory adjournment.
The bill has on its face all the marks
that have formerly made the corporations
come to the front and center and the
'old guard" already smells something
doing The Jacobson bill may also
prove a sop to the grief of the members
of the upper house who did not get a
chance at the commissions code
The house yesterday passed the senate
bill appropriating $25, 900 for the prosecu-
ton of the governors fight against the
alleged merger The state is now in a
position to pay the Soo's attorney for his
valuable services, in assisting in deter
mining that his excellency just made
another bad guess in his last play for po-
litical bolstering.
An occurrence at the office of the coun-
ty auditor yesterday afternoon is such
as to indicate that there is some doubt
among attorneys as to the legality of the
charter provision which divides the city
into certain districts for the election of
justices of the peace and constables. Pre-
vious to that time all candidates for the
offices named had designated that they
wished to run in either the district east
Of Wabasha street or that west of Wa
baSha street, or that on the West side.
Late yesterday afternoon, however,
Charles S. Hoff and Peter Quint, who had
already filed their afidavits as candidates
for the Offices of justice of the peace and
constables respectively, in the district
east of Wabasha street, called at the
auditors office, and paying an additional
fee of $40 each, declared that they wish
ed to be recorded as candidates at large
for nomination for the offices mentioned.
BY way Of explanation Messrs. FIoff
and Quint said that they had been advis-
ed by an attorney to take this step for
their own protection as there was no Ie-
gal authority for the division of the city
into districts for the election Of ustices
of the peace and constables