The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-25
HOUSE is READY TO VOTE
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and because my constituents are opposed
to its enactment You are taking the
position Of Vanderbilt when he said,
The public be damned and you are
treading on dangerous ground when you
decide to defy the will of the people ard
cram down their throats law which you
know they do not want
Mr. Anderson scored the Wallace
amendments as blind drawn in the
interest of the ultimate safety of the bill
and under the lash of the party whip.
He said their sole object was to conciH-
ate the members representing the cities,
ana 10 allow the great property interests
to escape at the expense of the farmer
Speaker Bowling, James Larson and
Ing speeches for the bill, and each took
the opportunity to open Anderson, =
wounds by calling his attention to the
fact that he voted for the Wallace
introduce, in the event of the defeat of
the commissions code a tax bill which
he said would relieve the situation tenn
porarlly and satisfactorily pend ng the
adoption of the constitutional amend
mentS to be proposed by the Judiciary
committee. Burns subjected Anderson to
an uncomfortable five minutes by saTcas-
tlc references to the modeSty Of the Wi
mona statesman. He said Anderson's
faith in himself was at the worst refresh
ing. He offered to solve at one fell
mad
three OF the states most distinguished
lawyers for nine months. Bowling warm
ly advocated the passage of the bill on
the ground that crippled law would
be better than the present bad laws.
Laybourn caused CONSERVATION in his
own camp, as well as in the camp Cf the
friends" by moving the previous ques-
ton. Bowling parried the motion long
enough to give Jacobson the floor, and
put a very mild request that Laybourn
Withdraw his non-debatabe motion so
that debate on very important matter
might not be shut off, Laybourn was
not disposed to submit to the jacobson
Downing tactics and was preparing to in
SlSt on MS motion, which would have
shown up the Friends when Sherman
smith saved Jacobson by demanding a
call OF the house. That allowed the cues
ton of consideration to go to a vote an1
it was lost. Then the motion to adjourn
went through with a whoOp a fair per-
centage of the opposition ducking to es-
cape going on record.
The finishing touches put on the bill
in the way of amendments were compar-
atively harmless from either the stand
point of the friends or the opposition
Every proposition calculated to make anv
material change in the bill was promptly
voted down, with the single exception Of
a little amendment which Hurd manag-
ed to inject in the morning and had eX-
plunged in the afternoon. Hurd's amend
ment to the banking tax cause did not
look so harmful in the morning 1t pro
NlQeQ JnaC banks might invest surplus in
government securities and that such in
vestments should be deducted from the
assessment. In the afternoon Jacobson
called the attention of the house to the
alleged fact that the amendment would
enable every national bank to escape en-
tirely from taxation, and the amendment
was unanimously Lescinded. Deming had
city and village lots cut out of the pro
vision for a Typographical description Of
all real estate assessed by the assessor,
and Johnsrud took a shot at the surety
companies by providing that town assess
ors must secure freeholder bondsmen All
functory third reading of the bill was
taken at 2:17. Under the catch as-catch-
can system employed in the reading, the
bill and the amendments adopted were
read in ffty-three minutes and the fight
of oratory and parliamentary practice
was on.