St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-01
CLEVELAND TO BE SUED
Ben Butler, Attorney For the Cattle Bar
ons. Will Sue the President for
Damages.
Growers Party Has Broken Camp and He
Will Soon Return to the White
House.
Manning's Circular and oppose
Tariff Legislation.
Gen. Villas VIII Remain in the Cab
met - Dakota and Iowa Post
masters Appointed.
Cattle Kimgs Aroused.

New YORK, Aug. 31.-A Long Branch
special to the Herald says: The Herald
published recently telegram announcing
that Gen. Benjamin +. Butler had paid q
visit to Block island, about which there was
more or less mystery. Among the guests
in Heldreths West End hotel this evening
IS Col George B. COrkhill, formerly district
attorney of the District of Columbia. Col
CorkhilI Is Son-in.law of Judge Miller
probably the highest authority on constitl-
tional law now on the bench of the United
States supreme court, and as Gen. Buffers
call was on Judge Miller, who passed the
summer at Block island, and as Col. Cork
hill was present at the Block island inter
view, your correspondent asked him to eX-
plain the object of Buffers call on Justice
Miller. Col. CorlihiIl said: ''There was
no political significance in his coming, but
a great deal Of business, which will, i'll the
not remote future, make matters lively in
the White house and elsewhere. L don't
think there is any secrecy concerning it,
nor any attempt to conceal the real object
The real cause of the visit was the order of
President Cleveland directing the owners
of cattle i'll the Indian lands i'll the West to
vacate their
GRAZING GROUNDS.
Gen. Butler is himself one of the propri-
etOrS Of large rancho and his clients and
personal friends represent many million
dollars of capital thus invested. The order
is, therefore, Of very great consequence and
Importance to them, and he was preparing
TO sue the president of the United States,
and the object of his visit was to ask pre-
liminary order restraining the execution OF
the proclamation of the president until the
questions involved could be determined by
la obi II,
present the matter to Judge Miller Judge
Blatchford being absent from his circuit
and not easy of access. Gen. Butter, as |
have said, represents many millions of dol
lars invested by his clients, and presented
very cOgent reasons for some order that
would protect them. The desired order was
moi issued and ] did not hear any of the
conversation with Justice Miller about it
and / do not know what his views upon the
question are" Col. Corllhill said that
"there had undoubtedly been
GREAT FRAUDS
committed, yet many honest men had in
vested money in the business, SuppoSing
everything to be right honest and legal.
Now the order of President Cleveland is
peremptOry, summary and dictatorial He
says they must 60, and go at once. About
this order there will surely be fight. The
cattle will not be moved. You couldn't
move cOlored picnic, let alone 500, 600
head of cattle, by any proclamation, let it
be issued from the president or any one
else. les, the fight will be made. 1t in
wolves important questions, the rights of
property, the power of the Indian to make
contracts and the power and authority of
the government to interfere. OF one thing
rest assured, the cattle will stay, the fight
will go on. We have no autocrat in this
country. If a landlord wants TO put you
out OF his house he goes to the courts, not
to the president. If a contract has been
violated, we go to the courts, not to the
executive. AS to what Justice Miller de-
cided, L do not know. He didn't grant the
injunction. No overt act has been commit
ted. The president had simply issued an
order; if nobody obeyed that was the end
of it, unless he attempted to enforce it, and
then another question would arise"
l. SOME MISTAKE ABOUT THE SUIT.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 31.-Cattlemen here,
referring to the alleged application by Gen.
Butler to Judge Miller Of the United States
supreme court for an order restraining the
execution of the presidents proclamation
clearing the ranches in the Cheyenne and
ArapahOe reservation of cattle, say they
think mistake has been made, and that if
Gen. Butler has applied for an injunction
at all it refers to the order of the president
for the removal of fences from the public
domain. Mr. Frank B. York, president
and manager of the Wichita Cattle com
pany, who returned from the reservation a
few days ago, says he has heard of no such
action having been taken by cattlemen. On
the contrary, he says cattle are moving
in every direction; that the cattlemen
are using every means to comply with the
presidents order, that fully one-half of the
cattle are already off the reservation and
that the remainder will be out of it within
thirty days. Mr.. Allen of the firm of Hun
ter ~ Evans states that their latest advices
are that there is great activity among cattle
men on the reservation and that every exer-
tion is being made to get their herds off the
land as speedily as possible. He is satisfied
that the reservation will be cleared very
soon after the time allowed by the presi-
dents order expires. Mr.. Pollard, of the
law firm of Taylor q Pollard, who repre-
SentS legally large number of cattlemen.
says he has no knowledge of such action
and thinks the injunction mentioned refers
to the fence-removing order.