The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-21

AFTER filing an emphatic refusal to
accept the responsibility for the failure
10 ADOPT the bill calling for a revision
OIL the states tax policy, the senate ad-
Joufhed at 1880 o'clock this morning,
four times during the evening the
upper house checked it's work of push
ing through belated house bills to lis
Ten 10 managers appointed on the mart
VI the senate report that they could not
agree with the managers appointed nv
the mouse in an attempt to reach an
agreement relative to the amendments
10 the tax policy BILL and each time
new committee was named by the
senate
The fourth protest of failure came p
lew moments before IL o'clock. and for
time 1t looked as though the senate
would decline to accept the offer of an
other conference. Senator Horton and
several other senators objected to anv
Iurther argument, but the good 1udg-
ment of Senators Lord and Thomson
prevailed, and the senate again voted
to appoint a committee to discuss the
question.
with the committee appointed the
upper house voted n recess of fifteen
minutes, but five minutes later Presi-
dent Jones raped the senate to order
ana work was resumed Word had
reached the senate that the house had
adjourned, but this report was ig-
nored, as was the fact that the tax
policy bill was still being discussed and
the passage of bills was resumed.
A motion to adjourn until this morn
ing was made, and then the senate pro-
ceeded TO wash it's hands of the tax
policy measure. 1t was Senator Thomp-
sons turn to call forth a bill for pass
age, and the senator from Fillmore
moved that the rules be suspended and
the tax policy bill be passed with all
OF the amendments sidetracked.
This motion started trouble.
senator Morgan secured the floor and
nled an emphatic protest against anv
plan to throw the bill onto the senate.
lie declared that the upper house had
consented to every request for a con-
ference and that the senate committee
was supposed to be busy with the
house committee considering the dis
puted points
He called attention to the fact that
the house in adjourning had adjourned
for but one purpose, end that to throw
the responsibility for the failure to
adopt the bill onto the senate. He de-
clared the measure was in the hands
or the house, and until reported to the
senate by the proper officer of the
mouse, the senate had no right to act
upon it. The senator from Freeborn
closed by raising the point of order
that the senate had no right to con-
slider the bill.
Senator Wilson reported that the
bill had been handed to him by one of
the house members, but Senator Nor
gan maintained that Senator Wilson
could only hold the bill as private cit
izen. Senator Calhoun repeated the
point of order made by the senator
from Freeborn, and President Jones
held that the bill belonged in the house
and could not be considered by the
senate until reported to the upper house
by the proper CSFicer Of the lower
house.
The decision of the lieutenant gov
ernor ended the discussion, and as
the several senators still on the list
declined the privilege of calling forth
bills, the senate adjourned until IL
o'clock this morning.
Defeated Inheritance Tax,
While conhidering the bills called up
by the senators the senate remained
In serious mood and wasted but little
time In dispOsing Of the measures
The first fight came with the report
or the conference committee appointed
to consider with the house committee
the amendments to the Inheritance tax
bill.
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the amount of exemption from 10000
to $4,000. Senator Thompson explain
ed that this allowed an exemption Of
S5,0OO for each heir, and argued that
this was more than allowed by any
other state, but Senator SchaIIer re-
fused to accept these arguments.
The senator from Dakota declared
that it was too hard to compel a man
TO pay taxes on his earnings all his
life and have the state reach down
into the pockets of the widows and or
phans.
Senator Morgan declared that the
senate should not be bulldozed into
passing the bill by the argument that
1t was the best thing possible and
thought it bad form for the state to
appear ready to grab everything in
sight.
The motion to suspend the rules
and allow the bill to come up for pas
Sd!7e was lOSt, - 10 ZS.
University's Friends Lose.
The last chance of the state uni
Yersity to get out from under the
board of control went by the board.
when Senator Comstock used up his
privilege and called up the PerIey bill.
Senator Schultz. who led the fight
that ended the Comstock measure.
explained that the Perley bill was a
duplicate Of the killed bill and urged
the senate to waste no time on the
measure.
The senator from Lyon declared that
the Comstock bill had been killed by
thirty three votes and insisted that anv
change of votes would compel him to
believe that the persistent lobbying of
the state university and agricultural
school had accomplished something.
These double paid employees OF the
state, said Senator Schultz. have been
here for the past two weeks lobbying
for this bill. If there is not enough
work to hold them at their places of
they should be discharged.
They have no business here"
Senator Schaller, In a sarcastic
speech. called attention to the clever
Continued or Eourtb o.