The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-02


personal encounter between I.avbo,,r,
ana ROBERTS, Friday night, was only ny
vented by Roberts absentfne- birosl1s
from the scene of gathering storm. I.av-
oourh Is sore because Roberts said q
LOUIS county as rotten and that it and
us ofhcers are owned by the steel trust
At the. first opportunity Iavborrn toIJ
ROBERTS that the gentleman from Hon
hepln was not gentleman and that his
IlterdhceS were cOWardly. Roberts tried
10 square himself. Laybourn brushed
MN on with a motion threatening a blow
ana ROBERTS, who is game but couserva-
tive, said rather contemptuousIv ..Iu
take that from you, George; but from ro
one else? and walked away
me trouble between Berg and Sweet
came nearer the exchange of blows .,,.
PROBABLY more properly the delivery of a
| pIoW, as Berg tips the beam at 2O1
pounds and Sweet is as much a light
weight in the fighting class as he IL ora
torlcally. Sweets curves have not ar
ueared himself to very large portion of
the house membership and Berg is ona
OF the particularly hostile after the
passage OF the Jacobson bill Berg was
not in a pretty temper and Sweet carn.
along just at the wrong time. Only nra-
clpitate flight saved him from personal
violence Berg, in the rear aisle of tha
nail OF the house, was discussina, tra
rate OF the Jacobson bill with some ar
his cronies. Sweet came along and bro..
IN with a remark which Berg construed
to be personal. He brushed his friends
aside and glazing down at Sweet. grovyraJ
IN his tremendous bass: You sneak and
If you ever speak to me again ~. smash
your jaw, see?" Sweet did not wait t1
argue the question, but did as directed
The low etY.11oIy L., J,.,.,-.-
the falling fortunes of the adminlstva-
ton and head Dunn off Van SAINTS gubar-
Material nomination trail may n0t land
with the telling effect expected bv Van
SAINT, JamisOu, jacobson ct al The hiu
looks TO be up against a hard row OF
SIunpS III the senate, where Dunn. views
as to the cOnstItutionality of the tonnage
TAX may pc sustained. If the tOnnaga tlS
clause is knocked out by the senate. then
Van SAINT and his candidate for auditor
jacobson, are just where they started
when the tax commissions cod. MS
| beaten in the house The remainder OF
| the DilI IS an exact copy of the CORE
spending sections in the commissions
| code, and 1t cannot be acted upon by the
| house which has once repudiated ID.
1t is notorious among the Republicans
| OF the house that the Jacobson bin WAS
| introduced in response to the governor
plea, For Gods sake pass sometime"
ana rushed through on the same plea.
JanlSOn, Who engineered the play Tor -Ee
! governor, saw in Jacobson q fine stone
| with which to kill two blrds-eet some
| kind of tax bill through and mt ON.
| same time put a peg m the suspected
Dunn campaign against Van SAINT lur
in their haste it would seem THAT tne
astute trio overlooked a very sub-tInt.u
bet. jacobson was to have the uDuDr Dt
saving the party, and especially the gov
ernor from the Odium ofahe extra s.s-
sion, and for his reward he was t3 ha
the administration candidate for state
auditor. The auditor bee has long buzz.i
in JacObsOns bonnet, and revenge BIS
sweet even 10 jacobson. There was .i
OF great haste in the preparation OFF "a DILL
and it was just as essential that part Of
the commissions cade be saved. Some
thing new must be added to get It again
before the house The tonnage tax on
ore furnished jacobson q good club To
swing on his friend LaybOuTu and tine
stenographers We're put to work. At II
p. m. the patch work was complete.
Friday morning the whole admintstra-
ton force. with the exception uf Dunn,
! who, from Van SAINTS viewpoint, is no
longer part of his administration was
on the floor to help the bill through.
Jamison. Martin, Block Johnson and
their henchmen We're there carly and
hard at work. The Republican members
We're stood up and pleaded with for the
snake of the party for Gods sake pass
something. We must get through sDne
kind Of q tax bill or the party I5 ruin
ed was the burden Of the arguments
which were dinned into the ear6 of Che
members until the bill came to a vote.
Dome OF Jne ItepuDIlCdn lawyers IN inc
house admit that they voted for Che bill
fully believing it to be unconstitutional
in the tonnage tax clause because the
governor laid down on them. They were
afraid to attempt 10 change the tonnage
tax fearing that it would be eliminated
entirely, and the bill thrown out I'm the
ground that the remaining clauses had
once been rejected by the house.
Some Of those same lawyers and many
of the laymen who have since tumbled
to the game that was played upon them
in fixing up the bill are hopping mad.
They are afraid that if the tonnage lax
is knocked out, the whole thing viii bo
killed, and the state Will not only lose
the mine tax but the street car and pub
lie service corporation taxes. which an
unQuestiOned majority Of the house has
always favored. Some of the opposition
admit that they voted against the bill
because it stands to allow the street car
companies to get out of paying their
taxes on the tail Of an unconstitutional
tax on another interest. and they further
admit they made no attempt To li& th-
bill because it came from the gOVcrnJr y
office, and was generally understood NJ
lie a play to shunt Jacobson into the
nomination for auditor and at the same
time put Dunn out Of Van SAINTS way for
keeps.