The Saint Paul globe., 1903-03-17
CALLED ROSENWALD LIAR
KILL SUGAR BOUNTY BILL
Big Member From Lac Qui
Parle Is Also Invited to
Back Up mnuendoes With
His Fists-Delayed Capt.
tOl Investigation Report
Today.

After a delay which has involved
exchanges of the lie direct and threats
of personal satisfaction via the fistic
method, the public accounts and eX-
penditures committees report on the
capitol investigation will come to the
house this morning.
The delay in the transmission of the
report has been caused by Represen-
tatiVe Rosenwald, who by virtue Of his
strenouSity, has managed to have him
self cowed with a challenge to back
his assertions with his fists or swal-
low the lie direct, backed up with the
substantial anathemas an angry man
sometimes applies, forgetful of strict
legislative form.
At the Friday afternoon meeting
when the report of the subcommittee
was adopted, Mr.. Rosenwald objected
His objections seemed to be directed
at the contract for architects fees,
which the subcommittee pointed out
are lower than usual. Mr.. Rosenwald's
objections were not put IN sufficiently
intelligihle form to impress the COM
mittee and the report was adopted by
a vote of 10 to I.
Gets Lie Direct.
Saturday Rosenwald was reinforced
IN his objections by jacobson, of Lac
Qui Parle, who was extremely excited
because the report had been published
by h e G o e. To appease the
obstreperous Rosenwald, Chairman
Won Wald called another meeting of
the committee.
Rosenwald then started the row
which continued until II o'clock last
, night, by telling the subcommittee
that 1t had whitewashed the capitol
commission and architect. Represen-
tative Shepherd, Hennepin, member
of the subcommittee, has passed the
zenith Of life and is not half as large
as his courage indicates, but he walked
up to Rosenwald, who tips the beam at
S15 pounds, and called that gentleman:
a., liar"
Rosenwald took 1t without q blink,
and the meeting broke up with half
the members in a fighting mood. Yes
terday morning another meeting was
called. Messrs. Hickey, Shepherd and
Graham, the three members of the sub
committee, were present, but Shepherd
left in disgust, vowing he would never
attend another meeting at which Ros-
enWald was permitted to obtrude him
self. After the departure of Shepherd,
Rosenwald asked how much the sub
committee got for drafting its report,
and DR.. Graham circled round the big
man from Lac Qui Parle, offering to
punch him full of holes, before leav-
Ing, with promise never to come
back.
Last night the committee tried It
over again, and after three hours talk
decided that no matter what report it
might adopt, Rosenwald would object.
The committee as a whole is entirely
satisfied with the report of the sub
committee, as it is entirely borne out
by the exhaustive transcript of evi-
dence attached. The members of the
subcommittee positively assert they
will never subscribe to any other re-
port, while Mr.. Shepherd, who was the
original doubling Thomas and who
would not be satisfied until every scrap
of evidence was in, is the most en-
phatic of the three.
The report will probably come to
the house without any strings of any
kind, and the house can digest it and
the transcript Of testimony at it's leis-
ure before accepting or rejecting It.
Rosenwald's latest maneuver is to have
the recommendation for the additional
appropriation stricken from the report,
but the members generally feel that if
he is to stand alone in the matter the
quickest and simplest way for him to
get his position before the house is to
draft minority report.