The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-04-19
RESOLUTION AIMED AT
BOARD OF CONTROL
Story of Republican Politics Be-
hind Representative Wares
Defeated Measure

Behind a resolution presented in the
house yesterday by A. K. Ware of
Mortified is said to be a story of Re-
publican politics. The Rice county
mans resolution called for the ap-
pointment of a committee of five rep
resentatives to investigate the board of
control Notice of debate was given
by a friend of the board of control, and
when this was overruled the resolu-
ton was laid on the table on the mo-
ton of James r. Hickey of Ramsey.
The presentation of the resolution
was surprise to nearly every member
OF the house. Friends of Speaker
Clague say that he had no intimate
that ii was coming, and inasmuch as
1t was presented on the last day of the
session and called for the appointment
or legislative investigating commit
tee to report to the governor, instead
of the house itself, the good faith of
the author has been questioned.
1t is declared by those conversant
with recent history in the legislature
that the Ware resolution was in the ma
ture of a reprisal on the board of con-
troll for its activity in opposition to the
Buck bill TO separate the Faribault
school for the blind and the Faribault
school for the deaf and dumb from the
jurisdiction of the board of control.
Members of the board of control are
said to have ihdustriously opposed the
passage of the Buck bill. 1t passed
the senate with only fifteen votes
against ii. Its fate in the house was
settled by the Morley closure rule that
forced any bill to which twenty MEM
bers objected to the foot of the calen-
dar. On a roll call for a suspension of
the rule, "A men-12 more than neces-
sary to pass the Buck bill-voted in the
affirmative. But as the motion to sus-
pend required eighty votes the bill was
deferred until late at night.
On a second attempt to call ii up for
final passage the opponents Of the bill
tried in vain to stave it off, and failing
in this started a rough house" that
ended in an adjournment without the
bill having been voted upon.
Rice County Men Indignant
The Rice county delegation was fu-
rious and charged the defeat of the bill
at this session to the successful lobby
ing OF the board of control members.
The Ware resolution was an abortive
attempt to even the score with the
board of control.
Leaders of the house and senate or
CARNATIONS were declaring yesterday
after the final adjournment of the leg
islature, that a day of reckoning was
coming to the board of control. The
activity of certain members of the
board in opposition to the omnibus ap-
preparation bill, it Is said, resulted in
S. w. Leavett of the board attending
caucus of Republicans opposed to the
university and some other items in the
big bill at st. Paul hotel Friday night.
The next day at the capitol Mr.. Leavett
and j. f. jacobson, who but recently re-
tired as chairman of the board, renewed
the fight against the bill as 1T was re-
ported by the committee. An analysis
of the vote showed plainly the effect of
this influence. Mr.. Jacobson's seventh
district members voted almost solidly
against the university's largest item in
the bill and in opposition to certain
other amounts which the board of con-
troll had not recommended in its re-
port.
On the final report of the conference
committee the same men, to large
extent, voted against the bill. That
thirty men should be found to vote in
the negative on a general appropria-
ton bill agreed to by a conference
committee representing the two houses
was something new in the annals of
the Minnesota legislature.
Why jacobson Opposed Bill
THE board of control took the posi-
ton that the appropriations committee
had disregarded the recommendation
of the board as to the state university
and the hospitals for the insane" said
one of the legislative leaders yester-
day, land its members went out of their
proper sphere to lobby against the bill.
But deeper than that was the opposi-.
ton of Mr.. jacobson. He is today an
active candidate for the Republican
nomination for governor. In the same
congressional district with him is
Frank Clague, speaker of the house.
By a good many people Mr.. Clague has
been considered a receptive candi-
date for the same nomination The
opposition of Mr.. jacobson to the ON
nibus bill put him on record as OPP
posed to appropriations which will
mean an increase in the tax levy.
The innocent looking Ware resolution
may mean good deal more than on