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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06
IN 1sDEFENsrBEE PROCEEDING

IN INDISPENSABLE PROCEEDING.
The public will look in vain through
Gov. Van SAINTS message, read yesterday
| before the joint legislative session, for
any intelligent explanation of the calling
of the legislature together at this time.
| Unless the need of providing fat fees
| for, the special counsel engaged to prose-
| cute the case brought by the state
offers such an explanation, it is quite
doubtful whether there is any to offer,
aside from the need which the governor
had evidently realized of fixing up his
political fences a sufficient interval ahead
of the next state election.
The attorney general has thought prop
er to associate with him in the con-
duct of the Northern Securities company
suit the general counsel for the railroad
corporation which is most interested in
maintaining a state of warfare between
the two great ST. Paul transcontinental
systems. Mr.. Mum is clearly engaged
in the discharge of his duties as counsel
| for the $500 road when he seeks to
prevent any movement which will in
| crease the effectiveness of the competi-
ton which that road now experiences
from the Great Northern and Northern
Pacific companies. If the $500 railroad
does not think proper to pay Mr. Mum
IUI1 ha hoc ~, hot
| case, it is not very easy to see why the
state of Minnesota should assume any
| responsibility in the matter. The other
| counsel engaged has evidently only
nominal connection with the case. He
appears to have been entirely lost to
view behind the broad form of his asso-
| ciate of the 800 road who has been
| successful in holding the center of the
stage throughout the proceedings.
| There evidently was not much, if any
! thing, to be said by the state exec
utive in support of the report of the tax
| commission. If there was he certainly
1 has failed to say it. The most careful
examination of his message does not
reveal a single particular in which he
may be said to be positively in favor
Of the work done. In every instance in
| which he makes reference to a specific
provision of the report the tone of his
message is either deprecatory or defen-
sive. If the governor knows single
affirmative reason why the report should
be enacted into law he fails to state it.
Certainly the unadvisability of letting the
work go Enacted on does not represent
such a reason.
There is no argument to be made for
the measure. 1t is a compilation en-
bodyfng many of the worst and most
burdensome features of the tax codes in
operation in other states; and it does not
emoody an original suggestion through
out save alone that which the governor
directs shall be disregarded-th estab-
ishment of s25 as the minimum Of tax
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

CONGRESS- SHOULD ACT IDYISEDLy.
The measure introduced by Senator
Elkins, chairman of the senate interstate
commerce committee, to amend the inter
state commerce law, is at least a partial
recognition of the need of amendment of
that enactment along the lines indicated
as desirable by the interstate commerce
commission.
The most important feature Of that
measure, so far as can be judged from
the synopsis of its provisions published
an the press dispatches, is that any rate
regulation or practice declared by the
commission in a definite order and after
full hearing, to be just and reasonable.
shall become operative after thirty days.
1t is not quite apparent whether Senator
Elkns' bill provides that the burden of
appeal shall be on the commission or
on the carrier affected. Nor does it seem
plain whether it is designed that all
definite orders made by the commission
shall ipso facto go into operation or only
those which declare an existing rate that
may be in dispute to be reasonable.
The point at which railway authority
and the commission must Inevitably clash
Is where the commission asks that it be
allowed the power to put any and every
rate that it declares to be reasona HE in
operation, placing the obligation on the
roads to obey it until the court sets #
aside. The complaint of the commission
now is that the railroad attorneys are
able, by comprising delays before the
courts, to fight off indefinitely the en-
forcement of a given rate or regulation
decided on by the commission after hear
ing. That body believes that its orders
Should be at once enforceable unless the
courts set them aside. The railroads or
some of their officials insist that the
present plan shall remain in operation
whereby the court must ratify the action
of the commission before anv of its
orders need to be observed.
In its public arguments and Statements
the commission has failed to establish r.
the satisfaction Of any fairly intelligent
mind that the breakdown which if saws
exists in the enforcement of the law is
due to the law. On the contending state
ment Of Mr.. Bacon for the commission
and Mr.. Hines, of the Louisville &. Nash
vile road. the trouble seems to be with
Inc commission rather than with ...e law.
me commission has the resources of the
federal government at its disposal to
bring the roads to time. On it's own
admission 1t has practically given up all
seri'uS attempt to enforce the law. IN
l"e iactS and circumstances as presented
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

from Europe to maintain the standard of
American herds, and he gave it as his
belief that the sentiment had no other
foundation than tradition and personal
interest.
Foreign Cattle Not Superior.
The idea," he continued, ''that foreign
cattle as class are better in the show
ring, or have greater potency than our
cattle, is fallacy that the American
breeder should set about dispelling now
and for all time"
lie told Of the surprising increase in
the number of cattle in the United States
and stated that the statistics indicated
that 1t is -eminently the development
OF the home market that has benefited
the cattle industry. He explained at some
length how American cattle are now
being excluded from Argentina because
English cattle have foot and mouth dis
ease, and yet the United States permits
the Importation of British cattle. We
are large buyers Of Argentina, and he
thought we ought to insist upon our cat
tie being admitted there
MIR. Wilson was unable to be present
and his paper was read by George M.
Remfnel an expert from the department
of agriculture.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06
WEATHER FOR TODAY.

Minnesota-Snow Thursday: colder in
west and north portions; Friday clearing
with colder in south portion; southerly
winds, becoming northerly.
WlscOnsin-Cloudy, probably snow
Thursday; Friday clear and colder;
fresh southerly winds, becoming north
erly.
Iowa-SnOw Thursday and Probably
Friday; colder Friday; variable winds,
becoming northerly
North Dakota and South Dakota-Snow
and colder Thursday; Friday probably
snow; northeasterly winds.
St. Paul - Yesterdays observations
taken by the United States weather bu-
reau, st. Paul, P. F. Lyons, observer, for
the twenty-four hours ended at Z O'Clock
last Embellishments corrected for tenn
perature and elevation: Highest temper
Rture. 8; lowest temperature. IA; aver
age temperature, 2; daily range, D.
barometer 29.9S; humidity, 81; precipita-
ZION; 0; p. m, temperature. 5; p. m,
wind, southwest; weather, partly cloudy
Yesterdays Tempera lures
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

ny remarks and then tried bright .e-
marks, but she appeared to be living
about seven blocks farther up the
street and at times He really believed
that she didn't even hear him.
He was desperate but He was a hard
loser and He planned one last desperate
play. He had saved the best story for
the last and now He started on the best
story Using all the little details He
worked up to the point OF this great joke
and then with a wild laugh He sprung
the climax. 1t was good story, but the
wild laugh stopped, for look of real
pain fitted across her face.
MY heavens" He gasped, swallowing
the laugh, what, oh, what is the mat
ter?"
"Oh, nothing" she replied, with q
smile, ''only you know 1 have been vac
, cinated."
He looked at her bare arms, but they
looked to him just as beautiful as ever
why, where were you vaccinated?" he
asked.
Over at the health Office" she an
sWered, and then the butler walked out
on the front porch and watched a dark
figure hurry down the avenue.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06
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11HPTRIcALo

1.-THE Chaperons' played to two big
audiences at the Metropolitan yesterday,
closing the first half week of an engage
ment satisfactory from every point of
view, the advance sale for the latter
half of the week indicates that the bust
ness of the company will continue big
throughout the engagement.
Charles B. Hanford in a splendid pro-
duction of Shakespeare Tanning of the
Shrew,'' will appear at the Metropolitan
for four nights and Wednesday matinee
beginning Sunday evening. Mr.. Han
ford is supported by a strong company
headed by Miss Helen GRAVITY.
Probably no more lasting impression
has been made upon the patrons of the
drama than that when has resulted
from the performances at the Grand
opera house this week Of David Belasco' s
most effective story, 1.-THE Heart of
Maryland" The final matinee per-
Torrance Of the engagement occurs
Saturday at 2:30.
''Yon Yonson" will inaugurate a week
engagement at the Grand with per-
Torrance Sunday evening
Audiences that test the capacity of
the theater are the rule at both the
matinee and evening performances given
by the Dewey Extravaganza company at
the Star this week. For Friday after
noon Manager Singer announces an in
novation in the shape of a ladies' matt
nee, at which especial features will be
provided.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

He completely overlooked the fact that
her father owned large brewery. He
loved her for herself alone. Father, &C
cord1ng to popular report, utilized num-
per OF beer kegs in concealing the stuff
where thieves could mot break in. but
He always told himself that He would
love her just the same if father oily
worked around the beer watts.
1t was night time, and the home built
by the lovers Of the fluid that helped
make Milwaukee, st. Louis, ST. Paul and
several other burgs famous, was brilliant
ly lighted. She was entertaining and
He had been asked to look in on the
excitement
There were many others and she was
compelled to distribute the airy persi-
mage without a break for two hours,
but at last the party divided up into
little mutual knocking societies and He
had chance to reach her side.
He felt that he should be happy but
the happy feeling refused to work right
He played for her approval all through
the conversation, but the encore con
tinued missing. He repeated all the fun
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06
PURE BRED FRAUDS
THUS CHARACTERIZES I'M
PORTED CATTLE

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. SIN pa
per read before the Central Shorthorn
Breeders association at its annual meet
ing here today, Hon. James Wilson, sec
rotary of agriculture. states that it has
been found that tuberculosis is being
spread by pure bred imported animals
purchased TO improve the common cattle
of this country, and suggests the pro-
priety of shutting down on the importa-
ton of cattle and sheep, following the
example of Great Britain. Chambers. too.
he said, was an imported disease, and
he suggested that 1t might also be well
to exclude foreign horses from the
American markets.
Secretary Wilson spoke against the
sentiment that we must have fresh blood
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06


the early adjournment, which again was
earlier suggested in his message to the
joint convention at the opening Of, the
regular session.
A prominent Republican member of the
lower house yesterday tersely summed
up a growing sentiment in both branches.
He said: Lets shoot the tax bill back
to the commission and then shoot the
commission"
Representative Sherman S. Smith, Of
Minneapolis, has a bill to protect the
Ice dealers Of Minneapolis, who have
been hampered in harvesting the Lake
Harriet crop by liberal sprinklines OF
coal oil on top of the crop. The bill pro-
poses to make the oil sprinkling a mis-
demeanor, which shuts it out of the
classes acceptable under the new rules
of the house, namely taxation, cura-
tive, appropriation, and local measures.
Mr.. Smith will attempt to get his bill
In today, under suspension of the rules,
but yesterday rather frankly admitted
tnat 1t might not cut any ice''
The tax bill will be introduced in the
house this morning by Chairman Wal
lace, for the committee on taxes and
tax laws. 1T will at once be referred
to the same committee, and it is safe to
predict that the gentlemen who have
little bills in their pockets will have ten
days for their introduction, before their
game is spoiled by the temperance of
the tax code.
The joint rules covering the reception
of bills is confronted by a fight in the
senate this morning which threatens to
beat them. A strong opposition was or
ganized yesterday, and a squall is immi-
nent. The opposition objects to the COM
mittee on reception of bills on the ground
that the five members of the proposed
committee will be enabled to force any
old legislation, by threatening members
with the indefinite postponement Of their
own pet measures, if they do not vote
right.
Representative w. B. Anderson. of Wi
mona, one of the former colleagues of
Jacobson, is 'forninst'' the tax bill
and his old friend. The parting of the
two yesterday was as pathetic as it was
surprising to Jacobson. Anderson don't
like the bill, and his constituents don't
like it, and the "goodbyes'' were ex-
changed yesterday with evident regret
on both sides. Anderson favors retain
ing the tax commission and recomrnit-
ting the bill to it, after providing for
the submission Of the proposed consti-
tutional amendments at the next gen
eral election. He says Winona is up
IN arms against the enactment of the
code proposed by the commission The
building and loan associations claim its
workings would drive them out of the
business, and last night he received
petition signed by about 80 per cent Of
the business men Of the Gate City in
structing him to work against the meas
ure.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06
TRUST men SENT TO JAIL
ALABAMA JUDGE Furnishes FOR
CONTEMPT.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb. Sc. T.
Schuler and G. H. Schiller, president and
secretary-treasureS of the Alabama Steel
ana Wire compaC y, were ordered to
serve five days imprisonment and to pay
a fine of $50 each by Judge w. WiIker-
son, of the city court today.
Contempt proceedings were instituted
by Mr. Robinson, a resident Of Joliet.
ILL.,, a minority stakeholder In the Ala
bama Steel and Wire company. Robin
son alleged burning Of books to prevent
him from obtaining information as a.
stakeholder. after he had an order OF
the court allowing him to inspect the
books.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06
THURSDAY. FEB. 6, 1902.

The anti-ritualists of the Church of
England may be much better people than
the ritualists; but the one of them who
declared house of divine worship to be
a Joss-house cannot be regarded as hay
lng high respect for any division Of the
Christian religion, high or low
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06


able property valuation. The complaints
Of the grain dealers of the state Gov.
Van SAINT could not afford to ignore. In
his effort to overcome them he simply
reveals another of the proofs that the tax
commission did its work in such man
ner as to create the possibility, if not
the probability, that a severe handicap
Will be placed on the energies of the
commercial men in this state in their
competition with their brethren in other
and adjacent states, if its work is rati-
fed.
The one fact which appears to admit
of no dispute in connection with the en-
tire disreputable proceeding is that Gov
Van SAINT has quite plainly succeeded
in putting his political fences in a much
needed condition of repair.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

st. PauPs response to appeals for aid for
the wife of brave Patrolman Mayer was
prompt and liberal. However, it is not
too late for any one wishing to add to
the fund to do so. The fund cannot be
made too large.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

Ihat Minneapolis man who tried to
rush the tax code through, whip and
spur, did not evidently understand the
value of the mileage and per diem idea
properly developed. No wonder he was
sat down on.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

Why does not the bill Of Senator Nell
son to punish the making of rebates from
published tariff rates not settle the fate
of that practice? The Alexandria states
man has a clever way of getting things
down fine in the simplest way.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06
Not the True chicago Life.

THAT play isn't true to nfe.',
''Why not?''
1.-THE heroine is a Chicago woman. and.
although three months are supposed to
elapse between the first and second acts,
she has the same husband in both acts. ?
Judge.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

Carnegie has given away 80, 900 the
last three years-and he isn't poor as a
consequence. He still has money enough
left to repeat the performance more than
once
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

Colorado's new senator, the Hon.
Thomas M. Patterson, should feel at
ease in the senate. He began life as a
circus manager.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

Minnesotas legislature will make an en-
viable record if it evolves a just, simple
and satisfactory tax law out of the report
and bill presented by the code commits
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

Retribution will have been accomplished
when the reservation barber puts the
horse-clippers to the locks of the red men
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

Chicago has taken the limit off and
once more the skyscraper may rise to any
height desired.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

1t would be we'll if Democratic mem
bers of the council would recognize that
there is public sentiment against the
continued existence of the so-called wine
rooms, which are not wine rooms at all
but something vastly worse, and that the
Democratic people Of this town go largely
to the creation of that sentiment.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

Chicago has planned entertainment for
Prince Henry, emitting a visit to the
stockyards. He is the first illustrious for
eigner to escape being stuck.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

So the gag-rule is now found necessary
by the protectionists to choke off opposi-
ton to their plans. 1t isn't congress the
protected infants will be trying to gag
after a while, but the people who elsct
the congressman.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

What university or college will be the
first to bestow a IL ID. degree upon
Prince Henry?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

Trolley cars are to be run in Shanghai
in a short time. The residents will also
become familiar with the ''move up for
ward incarnation of the conductor try
ing to put 1870 passengers in car de-
signed to accommodate Is, a la st. Paul.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

The English seem to have done every
thing to pewet but capture him. With
his last gun in the hands of the enemy
the next thing we hear will probably be
that Dewet, deprived as he has been of
everything, will make some British COM
mander look like 80 cents.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

Mr.. Schwab and Lord Roslyn served
brief, meteoric career as advertising
agents for Monte Carlo.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

When corporation, foreign or domes-
tic, gives it out that it will under no cir
cumstances enter into a given syndicate
it is fair to assume that the terms Of
fered are not satisfactory. The rule evil
IDENTIFY applies to those foreign steamship
corporations
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

Reports from all over the country indi.
cate that the grounding went way back
and laid down.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

The action of one branch of the Ken
lucky legislature in requiring that the
state school books shall give the credit
to Schley for the Santiago victory is
about as silly as a whole lot of things
which SIMPSONS friends have done Or
tried to do at different times
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06
THE FILIPINO WOMAN
GOV. TAFT SAYS SHE HOLDS A SU-
PERIOR POSITION ON
HER MERITS
IS ALWAYS ACTIVE MANAGER
Natives Have Good and Bad Quali-
ties, Are Courteous, but some
times Treacherous, CIev-
er, but Lazy.

WASHINGTON, Feb 5.-Before the
! Philippine committee today, GOV. Taft,
| in answer to a question, said it was not
| true that a majority of the PEG. .ia can
| read and write. AS to the posit IN of
women in the island he said that the
| women of the Philippines hold a superior
| position. They are the active manages
| in general affairs and the Spanish arch
| bishop had said to him that if it was
| intended to confer any political authority
upon the Filipinos, it should be conferred
upon the female sex.
rs it not true" interrupted Senator
Dietrich, who has visited the Philippines,
while the women are engaged in con-
Quoting the affairs of the family the
| men are generally engaged in attending
cockfights or going about the country
with ROSTERS under their arms?''
Mr.. Patterson, in answer, read from
| the war department report to the effect
that the Tagalogs are Industrious,
courteous, artistic, quiet and orderly.
Gov. Taft said he had never met a
Filipino who was not musician, and
he said:
Fi1ipinos Clever, but Lazy.
"An Filipino crowds are well behaved
and polite, and the people are courteous
The Filipino also shows capacity for
| skilled labor. but he is negligent of ma
Chlnery. / wish 1t We're true that the
Filipino was as Industrious as is claimed.
but he is not. Indeed, there are many of
them who might secure work who do
not seek it. This condition leads to a
demand for the bringing in of Chinese. -
This statement led Mr. Hale to make
inquiry concerning the presence of Chi
| nese. The witness replied that the con-
tractors and business men generally con.
tend for the necessity of bringing in Chi
nese labor This importation was. how
ever, generally resented by the nativese
not so much because of the competition
Of the Chinese as 1aborers as because Of
their competition as merchants He
said further that under the present ree1l-
lations no Chinese are admitted
Friars Have Best Land.
Replying to other questions, Gov. Taft
stated that in the islands there are
about 100000 acres OF land held by
private persons, and that of this 400. 600
acres are owned by the Catholic friars.
Of these 400, 600 acres, 100000 are the best
lands in the islands.
AS to the honesty Of the native FIJI.
pino, Gov. Taft said that many exaE-
gerated and extreme pictures had been
drawn. They were neither so bad or SO
good as they had been represented.
Many were arrested for theft and there
also were charges of treachery and
duplicity. That some are dishonest and
others double=faced was true, but that
all present these characteristics was not
true. Hence no general characterized ton
was possible
The committee adjourned to meet to-
morrow, when Gov. Taft, at the reu5ast
of Senator Lodge. will discuss the tariff
question as applied to the Philippines.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-06

1t is the harmless requirement Of in
vestigation which Congressman Crum-
packer seeks, not Acknowledgement or the
limitation Of Southern representation.
The only matter in which Mr. Crum-
packer seems interested about this time
that will not stand investigation is his
own bill