The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-06-02
R0SING IN A RAGE
Thinks Former Chief Has Been In
tentionally Sighted.
BY = STATE PRINTER WHITNEY
Governor Limbs Biennial Message
Omitted From Bound Vol H.
f. umes of Reports. '9F- 2;-

L. A. Rosing is going after State Printer
Whitney for what he says is an inten-
tional omission from the bound volumes
of; executive documents for the years 1899
and 1900. These years cover the admins.
tration of John Lind governor, but do
not include his inaugural address or his
biennial message to the legislature. Mr..
Rosing, who was Governor Limbs private
secretary and is now chairman of the
democratic state committee, brands this
omission as an outrage, and threatens
to denounce it from the newspapers and
the stump. He was informed of it Sat
urday and called at the capitol this morn
ing to get copy Of the documents.
When he had verified the report, he was
in boiling temper and demanded the rea-
son of Captain Whitney. g. aa.7,..:.# -.
- Mr.. Rosing Wakes Hot. .
eve didn't have money enough to in
olude everything replied the state
printer. 1--WE left out several important
reports, as we'll as the messages. I can
give you a list of them ri.
''No, do not want a list Mr.. Rosing
answered hotly. II only wanted to know
to print John Lind's messages. I'll bet
you would have found money enough If
it had been a republican governor" ~. +
Mr.. Rosing left the capitol in rage, de-
claring the omission deliberate insult
and slight to his former chief. 1T does
not make so much difference now" he
said, when there are plenty of PAM
phlet copies of the messages in circula-
tioi, but these bound volumes are the
ones that supply the libraries, and twenty
years from now they will be the only ones
available. The student of history will
have no means of finding out what John
Lind said on any public question: 49,
VIM SAINTS Inaugural Omitted.
An inspection of the records shows that
Governor Lind's inaugural address is
printed in the documents for 1897 and
1898. In this issue Governor Clough' s
biennial message is also printed. The
last issue omits Governor Van SAINTS in :
augural address, so that each governor
has complaint coming, and the charge
of partially falls to the ground.
Captain Whitney's Explanation.
Captain Whitney explains:
The executive documents OF the state com
prise all the annual and biennial reports Of
departments, consecutively bound in large
volumes When these reports are printed fo1
departments, the law requires that GOO extra
copies shall be printed and laid aside unit
all reports have been printed, and then they
are bound together.
Governor Lind did not allow the state print
ing commission to print his biennial message
but had it printed by Geeseman & Murphy a,
Minneapolis. Hence the printing commission
had nothing to do with it. and could not
have had it bound with the executive docu.
ments and as it was impossible to include II
the documents Governor Lind's biennial mes
sage, the state printer also omitted the in
augural message Of Governor Van SAINT ant
owing to insufficient funds III the appropria
ton, omn1itted five of the department reports
that had previously received extensive dis,
tribution. ~