The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1903-01-14
BABCOCK AND SCHMAHL.
Elected Speaker and Chief Clerk OF the
House of Representatives.

ing in the fact that one receives a
unanimous nomination at the hands
OF 104 of the Representative Repub-
llcans of Minnesota, particularly
when a single person who imagined
that he cut more ice at hone than
running opposition to refrigerattr
line, was leaning over the railing OF
gallery, with his hand pressed to
deaf ear in vain endeavOr to
force another name from the uproar
that arose about the time the nOmi-
nation was made.
That was what occurred at the
C 'ucus of the Republican MEM
bars of the lower house of the legis
lature at ST. Paul on Monday even
| ING of last week. julius A. Seminal
of Redwood county was unanimous
| lv elected chief clerk of the house,
despite one of the dirtiest attempts
to bring about opposition and defeat
that was ever Matched in Redwood
county. Mr. Schmahl was placed
in nomination by Representative
| Ciague. who stated that he had con-
ferred with both of the opposing
candidates for speaker, and both in
sisted that if they were chosen
speaker they wanted Mr.. Schmahl
for chief clerk something which he
regarded as an unusually high tes-
tinonial to Legislative official, and
be. on behalf of Redwood county
placed Mr.. Schmahl in nomination.
S. D. Peterson OF Brown county
was on his feet quickly to secord
the nomination. L. c. Stevenson of
Hennepin created d great deal of
merriment by stating that thel
was one candidate on which Henne-
pin was a unit and that was Mr..
Schmahl for chief clerk. Hon. w.
A. Nolan of Grand Meadow stated
that the First district was like
wise. all on account of Mr. Schmahl S
% ,eyious work. He moved that the
rules of the caucus be suspended
reclamation. and this was done
amid a great deal Of applause Ed
ward Tanning of Stewartville, "a
hour-a-day sergeant at arms, was
likewise nominated by reclamation.
The great struggle. and there
va only one. was that for speaker.
Both sides seemed confident WI en-
a GAZETTE representative arrived n
the ground Saturday evening. aud
both sides were enthusiastic, This
feeling continued throughout Sun
day and Sunday night. although
certain gains were reported for the
BdbcOck forces. most of them being
] confirmed. By i o'clock Monday
morning information leaked out that
when confirmed made it almost GER
t lin that Dr. Babcock would wit
out The Johnson followers re
I fused to cOncPde defeat, and 'dieC
game, contending that they woul5
still win out. When the caucus
convened at clock Monday nigh
the excitement was intense. There
4 was a rush for outsiders to gain ad
4 mission into the house of represen
y ta1ives, but an order had beer
Y issued excluding outsiders, ant
very few of them got in. The frs
test was on a motion OF Representa-
: tive w. A. Nolan of Grand Meadow
4 that proxies were admitted, DR.
l Jones of Battle Lake being absen
and having given his proxy to r
| J.. Wells. This was opposed by tn
| followers of Mr. Johnson and d ties
. vote resulted 10 there being abou
, 66 to 50 n favor OIL admitting tn
proxy Then came the flood of ora
tory DR.. Cole started it for h
Babcock forces, and was followe,
by the seconds half dozen in mum
ber Representative Shearer start
ed it for the Johnson forces, am
was followed by Judge Rosenwal'
aud others, the former being J. f
jacobson S successor. When b.
:. passed the time limit there wer
cries of ''louder' and sit down
is but the Judge wouldnt stand fo
"a it, and had his way. The roll cal
showed that the proxy test vote hal
o been confirmed there being &C 70