The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-01
Providing for Spe-
cial Levy ofs1, 100000 Nee
essary to Complete New
State House Awaits Gov
ernors Sigma ture- -0pposi-
tion Tries to Kill Bill
With Trivial Amendments.

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Iof the completion of the new cap
itol awaits only the signature
or the governor to become law. The
Horton bill passed the house Yesterday
with only five votes recorded against il
The last fight for the passage of the
capitol bill was a fitting elimination
of the ugly battle which has been wag-
ed against the bill by filibustering for
nearly two months. The last stand was
managed by Representative James r.
Hickey In manner which only added
TO his prestige as a fair and deter
mined fighter. All the members OF the
Ramsey delegation are entitled to
credit for the manner In which they
assisted Mr.. Hickey, and Mr.. Tighe
rendered especially valuable service.
For nearly two months every effort
has been made to delay the bill and on
one pretext or another the opposition
has been successful until yesterday.
Yesterdays fight really started before
the noon recess was taken. The Buck
bill was a special order for 2:9O and
the opposition to the capitol bill tried
to make the recess until that hour
Mr.. Hickey, however, insisted that
there had been an agreement to con-
slider the capitol bill and by sticking to
his point carried motion for a recess
until o'clock
Stick to FIibusterinq.
At o'clock the filibustering tactics
or the opposition were promptly re-
commenced and the bill had received
only six minutes consideration when
the speaker declared the Buck bill
must be taken up. Mr.. Hickey en-
deavored to have consideration of the
Buck bill postponed until the capitol
Dill was out of the way, but the speak
er insisted that the subject matter of a
prior special order could not be con-
tinued without suspension of the
rules. He compelled Mr.. Hickey to
put his motion in the form of a mo-
ton for suspension, which was, of
course, lost under the two-thirds' rule.
Consideration and defeat of the Buck
bill did not consume a great deal of
time, and w. A Nolan returned TO the
attack on the capitol bin. He said the
capitol commission had deliberately de-
ceived the legislature by assuring It
that the capitol would be completed
with the last appropriation and In time
to receive the present Legislature. To
substantiate his charges of deception
he offered a long letter from ]. f. ia
cobson, former house leader and chair
man of the appropriations committee
He moved to amend the Horton bill
so that the capitol commission would
go out of existence Dec. 81, 1904, as a
means to the end that the commission
would be forced to complete It's work
and could not come back to the next
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Charged Rank Extravaganza.
Armstrong charged the commission
with rank extravaganza in its dealings
with the architect and in support of
the Nolan amendment said the COM
mission should receive notice that 1t
must finish its work In two years or
step down and hand It over to some
one who could and would finish. Burns
let the cat out Of the bag by warning
members against the danger of passing
the capitol bill before their own meas
ures were out of the way.
Messrs. Sheppard and Hickey warm
ly defended the commission and archi-
tect, and after an hours oratory the
Nolan amendment was lost by a vote Of
Il to 78. When he came back with q
proposition to wind up the commits
sion Feb. l, 1905. the house was evil
IDENTIFY satisfied that the desire to
amend was only to get the bill back
to the senate and lose It in conference
committee during the last days Of the
session.
His second amendment was voted
down, 70 to ", and thereafter every
attempt to amend the bill in any way
was summarily downed, after giving
the orators a chance to burn up time.
The oratory became so pronounced that
Mr.. Wells refused to withdraw a mo-
ton for the previous question until
Mr.. Armstrong, Hennepin, agreed not
to make another speech.
On the final vote the members re-
corded against the bill were Messrs.
Bouck, Lightly, Nelson, Nolan, w. A,
and Anderson. There were 103 affirma-
tive votes recorded