The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-16

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Falls nurses dormitory, to cost s75. 600.
! was defeated, 43 to So Had it not
| been for strong representations by W.
+. Roberts and H. w. Putnam that the
board OF control advised the appro-
prlation, the result might have been
1 dinerent. Wells charged that the ap-
| preparation was in the bill because z.
h Adams of Fergus Falls is a member
/ OF the subcommittee that drew the bill,
1 and his charge drew applause from the
revoluuonists. Attempts to cut out
| appropriations for claimants against
the state in the bill, of which there
Were number, all failed. The Wells
4 amendment to strike out the Vicks-
burg monument appropriation was lost
! by vote of 40 to so. The vote by
which I. T. Ofsthun lost the Glenwood
bass pond appropriation of $4,000 was
90 TO 32. w. l. Nolan's motion to
strike out the live stock amphitheater
appropriation of $4,000 was lost, 46
/ to 49.
The final vote was taken on the
amended bill at $40, and was unani-
mously for the bill. The house then
stopped for lunch, having been in ses-
sion since 8 o'clock in the morning
repeated attempts to adjourn had
been voted down, and in one instance
| Speaker Clague had failed to put Ed
ward Fanning's motion to adjourn.
Bill Reaches Senate
While the house had taken over four
hours to dispose of the appropriation
bill to its liking, the senate occupied little
more than two hours and a half. Lead
| ers OF the senate locked horns over the
] general proposition that the bill was
! extraVagant in it's provisions and that
IT meant an inevitable increase, no one
knew how much, in the tax levy
George w. Somerville of Brown led
! the fight for the opponents of the bill
while Ripley b. Brewer. of St. Cloud.
/ chairman of the subcommittee of the
| joint appropriation committee, cham
! pioned to a successful issue the bill as
| IT originally came from the committee
/ Under Brower's leadership the senate
restored all the items taken from the
bill by the house and the two items
1 put in the bill by the senate were with
/ the consent of his committee.
The test of strength came early in
the consideration of the bill. Senator
| q. b. Ward of Douglas moved to re-
store the Glenwood fish hatchery ap
preparation of $4,000, killed by the
| house. Senator Somerville Immediate
! ly attacked the bill as being extrava-
/ CANT in its provisions and insisted that
! II would Increase the tax levy to n
point that would be a burden on the
people.
Senator Brewer spoke for twenty
$4,000 deficiency had been cared for
| by the bill and that if the railroad
companies paid gross earnings taxes
| on the per cent basis, coupled with a
| one mill tax, there would be no occa-
sion for any increase in the tax levy.
He said that Gov. Johnson had attend
! ed a meeting of the committee and
had heartily concurred in the policy of
paying the bills of the state on a fair
oasis. He called attention to the re-
peal OF special tax levies and said the
state would start with a clean slate.
SomerviIIe's Hot Shot
When the applause had died away
Senator Somerville responded that Sem
ator Brower's eloquence had been caus-
ed by the fact that St. Cloud had
shared IN the liberality of his bill. The
Brown county man called attention
to the fact that Wisconsin supports her
! state institutions without any tax levy.
He attacked the state university, de-
claring that the policy should be to
raise the standard Of scholarship in
stead of increasing the number of stu
dents.
[ Great appropriations are not needed
I to build up this school, he said. I'VE
are giving close to a million dollars a
year to this institution. Why not fol-
low the board of controls recommends
tions. But the committee has exceed
ed the boards estimate by S25O.OOO
why not stand for economy? Why not
go as far as the house does? 1 will
vote against any attempt to load this
bill down with more appropriations"
The vote to restore the Glenwood
hatchery item was 80 to &c, and when
Col Ward had won his point, the other
mousse amendments were overturn-
ed ny substantially the same vote.
Senator A. b. Cole lost out a mo-
ton to Increase the laboratory ap-
preparation for the state board
of health by $4,000. Senator A.
v. Rieke attempted to decrease the
Nlcksburg monument appropriation
from $4,000 to $500, but mustered
| only IL votes for his motion. SEN
ator A. o. Eberhart's motion to appro-
pirate $4,000 for the Shiloh monument
was carried practically unanimously.
and Senator Johnson's request to re-
store the tubercular hospital to St. Pc
ter was also acceded in. Senator Brow
er, against protest from Senator
thompson, succeeded in restoring his
ST. Cloud model school appropriation
of $4,000 to the bill. The vote was 80
10 10. Senator a. r. McGill had the
S5O,OOO for an auditorium at the state
farm school put back in the bill. Sen
! ator Thompson made spirited fight to
throw out the live stock amphitheater
appropriation of S50,000 but his mo-
ton was lost, 19 to 25 Senator Rieke
was allowed to put in the bill a $4,000
item for pensions for citizen soldiers
who fought in the Indian wars of 1862
in Minnesota.
AS in the house, the chief interest
| centered about the university appro-
prlation. Senator f. F. Comstock made
the motion to restore the lost 500 900
to the bill. There was no debate. The
vote by which the appropriation was
restored stood:
Yeas-Brower. Calhoun, Cole. Com
stock, Cowan, Dunn, Durant Eberhart
Fitzpatrick, Frater, Gjertsen. HARDY
Harrington, Hawkins, Horton, Jepson.
Johnson. Laybourn, Mausten, McGin
Naeseth, Pugh, Shell, Smith, E. E.
Smith. w. A, Stephens, Stone, Ward
| Wilson'S.
Nays-Barker, Campbell. Collester
| Cooke, Dale, Dart, Everett, Laugen Lord
| McNamee, Morgan. Nichols, Peachey
Putnam. Rieke. Shain. Schaller Schultz
Somerville. Sundberg. Swedback, Thomp-
son, Torson, Wood-25.
The senate at 6:15 o'clock passed the
amended bill without dissenting vote
The house leaders, who sat through the
senate proceedings, could not conceal
| their satisfaction at the senate action,
and left the chamber in high feather
! The men who had overturned the COM
mittee in the house declared that they
would be able to force at least a COM