The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24
CUTTING UP THE PIE,

tracing such favorable attention is less
absorbingly interesting in some ways
than the continued story of fact of
which the issue appearing in our news
columns will have additional chapters
from time to time. We published a
complete installment up to date on Sat-
urday morning of the method of dis
position Of that $4,000 fund secured
by a combination of the 500 railway,
the Twin City Rapid Transit company
and the political coterie which make
their headquarters in the st. Paul Dis
patch Office, with the alleged purpose
Of prosecuting a suit against the
Northern Securities company. The
money has been spent, the suit was
brought, and the result today is that
the state stands exactly where it did
at the beginning. 1t has served sum-
mons and a complaint and nothing
else. The Northern Securities company
is not in court, and under the stipu-
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state the testimony taken in the pro-
ceedings must all be taken over again
and every expense incurred must be
repeated If any further action by the
state along this line should ever be
contemplated. Thus the state of Min.
nesota has been most beautifully gold
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about the $4,000. That is gone, and
the curious will find matter for an
hours interesting employment in the
scrutiny Of the details Of it's distri-
button as published in Saturdays
G ODE.
The king bee of all the swarm that
fluttered around the states jam pot
was, of course, Mr.. M. D. Mum. With
little more industry he might have
collected half the total appropriation,
but we do not despair. We suspect
that he has some claims upon the state
still up his sleeve which we shall hear
from when the next legislature meets.
and which will bring him still farther
to the front. AS it is the books show
that he has received, on account Of this
wonderful legal proceeding that re-
sembles nothing so much as a dog
chasing it's own tail, the sum Of $14,-
423.01. Nothing could testify so highly
to Mr.. Munn's worth to the state as
this particular amount. Fancy a man
SO cognizant of his own ability that
in a total claim of $4,000 he gets 1t
down to an even one cent of actual
values. We could not spare that one
cent from Munn's account for any
thing. It throws upon the whole pro-
ceeding that air of veracity and scru-
pulousness which in all other particu-
lars it so conspicuously lacks.
Mr.. Wilson, the attorney who played
second fiddle and handled the legisla-
tive end Of the business and aided Mr..
Mum in the political end, gets little
short Of $4,000. That is not to be
sneezed at, although far behind the
receipts of the great representative Of
either ignorance or incapacity or both,
as shown by the outcome Of the states
suit. Mr.. IngersoII is a very modest
third, with only little over $4,000 to his
credit; while poor Mr.. Douglas, owing
to his connection with public Office,
received, il his legal partners have been
no more generous with him than the
account book shows, only $405.70.
There were others present at the cut
ting up of the pie. When the big
wedges are being handed out it always
follows that little slices must be passed
around to the little fellows to keep
them from making trouble by shrieking
for the police. So when the piebiters
gathered around this $4,000 appro-
priation, there were marks of big teeth
and little left upon it. The clerks and
stenographers had the best pull. Their
aggregate charges in this proceeding
are $2,S15.92. Would any private law
firm pay bill of nearly $4,000, ex-
elusive of all witness fees, which we
have not included, and OF printing
charges, for nothing else but clerk
hire and stenographers' charges? The
printing bill in addition to ali this
amounted to more than $1,000. We
hope THAT even the voters of the state
who may have thought at the outset
that the suit was justified will study
these items, and see what they think
of division of the spoils that gave