St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-14
Judge Jones of Rochester, Fresh From
Washington City, Talks on Matters
Political,
The West st. Paul Union Favors an Extra
Session and Wants the Palace
That Side.
Rails on the Level Torn Up Amid
Some Excitement fnnfpeggers
VIII Come.
Modjeska at the Grand-- Fancy Dress
Ball--Street Sayings--Local
Briefs.
JUDGE JONES, OPINIONS.
Fresh from Washington, He Talks
on Men and Things.

in ST. Paul Yesterday afternoon and is reg
istered at the Merchants hotel. He said to
GLOBE reporter that his visit had nothing
to do with anything political. but he was
here on business. ''But Pm glad to see
you." he continued, ''for l want to take
occasion to straighten out a yarn that
another paper published some days ago, to
the effect that l had been appointed judge
in Washington Territory. am not APP
pointed, for there's no vacancy there and
there wont be for fifteen or eighteen months,
though all the denials that | have made
don't seem to have any effect There has
been nothing to give any foundation to such
a story and the Lord only
knows how it started" The
ex-congressman has recently returned
from Washington city and though he said
he did not get very deeply into politics, he
was ready to tell what ne knew OF affairs
down in that city.
1T is dead sure that Mr.. Campbell of
Iitehfield has practically the appointment
of marshal" he said Though the sigma
ture to the necessary papers has not been
affixed. But it will be when the proper
time comes. do not believe there will be
any changes made in Minneapolis or st.
Paul postoffices Immediately and possibly,
unless something new turns up, Mr.. Lara
way and DR.. Day will be allowed to COM
plete their terms. There was some talk
about taking
GIL PIERCE's SCALP
in Dakota, but l do not think that it is at
all certain that Mr.. Ziebach will be the
lucky successor, as Mr.. Day seems to think
will be the case in that event. l should
not be surprised if the man were Benton of
Fargo"
Judge Jones said that it was the impress
sion at Washington, so far as he had
learned it. that there would be no legisla-
ton this winter that would admit Dakota
That. at any rate, was the prevailing talk
at the capital. The people of Dakota were
not sufficiently united. Some wanted di-
vision and admission, some wanted admis-
sion without division and some wanted
neither If this fact was allowed to circu-
late in Washington, it would be difficult to
secure any legislation on the matter. ''But
there's going to be regular bear dance in
Washington after Christmas-a regular
bear dance, as sure as fate"
"a bear dance?"
eyes, when congress meets. 1t will be
a new congress, you know. and they will
try to legislate on about everything-cvil
service, the tariff. the silver question, the
Indians and about everything on the list.
1t will be new business to good many of
them: the administration has changed and
they will make a lively time of it before
they get through
'.What will be done in the way of tariff
legslation?'
Nothing. believe, though it depends
on the Republican members. Congress will
have the question up; they will go over the
usual debates, and may possibly do some
7 Il ,O+h =
to anything. There are enough Democrats
that will favor about the present system to
offset any Republican free traders. So
congress will
TRY FOR A CHANGE;
it wont effect it. And in the silver question
it will be about the same. For some reason
1 don't know what-the Western con-
gresslnen seem to be all IN love with that
confounded buzZard dollar, and seem to
think the country will go to wreck if they
cart have 1t. | don't need to express my
self on that question. | don't want to give
or take or own anything that is marked
good for dollar that falls twenty cents
short of that. 1t never ought to have been
made that way, and now that they have it,
it ought not to be allowed to circulate
longer than can be helped. | do not want
to conine the coinage to gold alone,
but l do want something that our
bonds can be paid off in without
running the countrys credit. They say the
dollars only go in this country, and that may
be true. but our bonds are everywhere and
the moment we try to pay them in the eighty
cent dollars. then we are trying to repudiate
part of our just debt. But [ don't be-
lieve anything will be done about it this
winter"
'What will be done ON river improve
nent this winter?"
Il suppose that about the usual appro-
priations will be made
''Will the effects of the waterways con-
vention here be hoticed?"
II don't think they will directly The
action of such conventions is influential in
creating public sentiment more than any
thing else. They are beneficial chiefly
in that they bring together a
large number of representative men who
think alike, or perhaps not, on a given
question. Public sentiment grows from
discussion. and such conventions will in
time develop a sentiment that will natur-
ally bring the result desired. All the reso-
lutions that could be passed have compare
lively little effect.
THE EXTRA SESSION?
] do not favor one myself, but the opinion
is abroad that Gov Hubbard will call one
hope by all means that the grain and
warehouse laws will not be meddled
with. 1t is too early yet to say
whether or not they are what the state
wants. 1t is probably true that the
railroad law is not perfect, but nobody
knows yet just what its defects are, and If
the legislature tries to mend it so soon, the
chances are they will hurt it rather than
help it. A year from this winter will be
soon enough to make any changes in it,
In this connection Judge Jones expressed
himself somewhat at length on the matter
of making appropriations, saying he be-
lieyed it was better for any state, or in fact
for the Whole country, that the dominant
party should have small majority. He
had rather Cleveland should be elect
ed by majority of few thousand votes
than by a quarter of a million. With the
latter figure, there would have been no
fear of the other party and appropriations
would have been made more recklessly. he
said. In Minnesota it was a bad thing
that the Republican majority was so large.
Ii there were but 3. 900 or 5000 the MEM
bers of the legislature would be more eau
tieuS not to appropriate more money than
the state could pay without a heavy tax
But the judge said he knew nothing per-
sonally about the extra session or what in
fiuences were working in favor of one.
He protested that lie was out of politics.
and knew less NJ matters political than anv
other man in the state that got the credit
he did for being on the inside.
FAV0Ess An EXTRA SESSION,