The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-19
BATTLE ROYAL ON TODAY
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into their hands. jacobson rubbed his
hands and demanded q call Of the house.
III aoout twenty minutes Sergeant-at
arms howard Tanning had rounded Up
all the members able. to be out OF bed
and the vote started with q merry rush.
me hrst dozen Yotesscast came with a
Wh1z for the friends, resolution. There
appeared to be several changes and the
smile Of the "friendsp broadened When
hfty votes We're polled and all on the
same side of ths tally sheet, the smile
pereeptlbly contracted, and before the
next twenty-five were registered it had
changed to a ruefuI grin. The opposition
had shown Its hand, but not as expected
1T had declined to go on record, and
when the poll was complete George NAL
Tory, of Duluth was the only member
out of Jos recorded onsthe negative side.
The first round had resulted in first
blood for the friends" but the other fell
lows looked to havesthe better of 1t on
points. In the preliminary skirmish
which followed, Jacobsen, with the assist
ance Of Roberts, retrieved some of, his
lost laurelS and scored the first victory
he has landed since he fell from the throne
at the last meeting of the regular session.
Mr.. Dowing came to JacoDSon'S rescue
early in the second round, but was quickly
rendered hors du combat in a skirmish
on the rules, with Mr.. Dunn. Dunn
moved to make the tax code a special or
der this morning and that the judiciary
committee be instructed to send on the
constitutional amendments to go on the
special order at the same time. Jacob
son emitted a vigorous shrek. He in
sisted that under the rules the tax, code
became a special order Immediately after
1t was returned to the house by the tax
committee Bowling broke in with a ruling
sustaining Mr.. jacobson Then Dunn got
his second count for time. He called the
attention of the speaker and Mr.. jacobson
TO an amendment offered by Mr.. Jacobsen
making the tax code a special order only
after the order is directed by ma
Jor1ty vote Of the house, The speaker
retired from the scene Of carnage and
jacobson demanded a division efvthe aues-
ton.
Amendments and substitutes began to
pile up at the clerks desk and then Sher-
man Smith broke into the muss with a
demand that the judiciary committee
also send in his bill for a constitutional
I convention. The friends had a half
dozen amendments for motions and SUBJ
shtute' motions in play, when the opposi-
ton again showed its hand for an in
slant With tile consent of all movers,
Mr.. Dunn would move that the tax code
be made a special order this morning. All
movers consented and the motion car
ton had evidently played into Jacobson
hand, but still had hope of winning out
with the constitutional amendment and
constitutional convention bills.
The hope was quickly blasted. Dunn
came back with the second half of his
original motion when Roberts exploded
the bomb which ended the fight fer the
day. Roberts moved to adjourn and be-
fore the motion, which was entirely in
order and taking precedence, was fairly
put, the members were piling out to the
cloak rooms. s
Immediately after adjournment Gov.
Van SAINT introduced quartette of special
commissioners for the st. Louis Louisiana
Purchase exposition The commissioners
were Former Lieut.. Gov E. O. Stanard,
Clinton Rowell, Rev. Cornelius Patton
and Richard H. Kern. Each of the COM
mission made a short, but effective pre-
sentation of the claims of ithe exposition
on the people OF Minnesota and urged a
liberal appropriation for a. Minnesota sex-
hibitiof.. They al claimed that the Lou
isiana Purchase exposition will be the
greatest Iof the great world S fairs. (which
will be incomplete without a splendid ex-
Shibit Of the resources of the Bread and
Butter State.