Omaha daily bee., 1888-02-07
INGALLS, DENIES THE STORY.
His Statement Regarding the Pa
ciflc Railroad Committee.
THE WAY 1T ALL GAME ABOUT.
Statistician Dodge Believed TO he As
sured of Retention I'm Ofiice-The
Logan Memorial - Blaine
and Connecticut.
Correspopdeut's CanarSi.
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Herald that he refused to appoint on the
Pacific railroad committee the men nomi-
mated by the democratic caucus He says,
too, that the story in some paper that Sen
ator Stanford tried to influence the appoint
ments is also untrue Mr.. Stanford never
approached him on the subject nor communi-
Gated with him, and the fact is that all the
pressure brought to bear upon him came from
enemies of the railroads, from the men who
want the property confiscated, and it appears
that Senator Beck was one of these. There
was no caucus action by either party. Mr..
Beck, however, assumed the responsibility of
handing three names to Mr.. Ingalls,. They
were those of Senator Cockerill, Harris and
Gray. Mr. ingalls, asked if they came from the
democratic caucus. Mr.. Beck said no,
that they were his personal selections.
Although Mr.. Beck had no more right to
assume the prerogatives Of the president of
the senate than any other man, Mr.. ingalls,
thought well of his suggestions, and invited
both Senators Cockerill and Gray to accept
places on the committee, but both begged off
That is the history of what the Herald is
trying to initiate into a big scandal l asked
Mr.. Beck for his version of the matter to-
day, but he declined to say anything and
seemed to be pretty badly out of sorts. Mr.
ingalls, had great difficulty in making up the
committee. He wanted to appoint men who
would come to some sort of an agreement,
who would be fair TO both the railroads and
the government, and the majority of the
committee are such men. He thought the
Pacific coast should be represented, as it has
enormous interests involved, and Senator
Hearst was the only man he could name, for
peculiar reasons.
THE LOGAN MEMORIAL.
The following invitation, printed upon
large card, has been sent to the members of
both houses of congress and other distin-
guished citizens: You are cordially invited
to the dedication of the memorial tablet to
memory of the late Senator and Major Gen
eral Logan in the Metropolitan Memorial
Methodist church on Thursday, February 9,
1SSS, the sixty-second anniversary of the
birthday of our illustrious countryman.
There will be memorial addresses by Justice
Samuel j. Miller, of the supreme court, Sen
tors Ingalls, and Voorhees, and Representa-
tives j. ID. Long L. j. Henderson, William
M Springer and Thomas Is. Reed. Chaplain
Rev. j. p. Newman. Music by the church
choir. Services at p. IN. Leland Stanford,
H. H. Sawyer, Dwight M. Sabin, George
West and Joseph ID. Taylor, committee.
STATIsTICAN DODGE WILL NOT BE REMOVED.
asked MIR. Coleman, the commissioner of
agriculture, if he intended to remove Mr..
Dodge, the statistican Of the department, as
demanded by 100 members of congress, who
were aggrieved by the latter's report on the
tobacco crop last summer. He answered my
question by asking one:
"What would you do about it9'
told him it depend entirely upon circum-
stances. If Dodge had proven inefficient or
careless should remove him. but if he was
efficient and had faith in him l should not.
''That," replied the commissioner "is ex-
actly what think about it. l believe Mr..
Dodge is an able, accurate and conscientious
statistican. He has had the opportunity to
make lots OF money by manipulating his crop
sas during beep ae twenty or nsSe
he holds, but he would rather be right than
be rich. Such men are scarce, and think
had better hold on to him, although he may
make mistake once in WHILE am of the
opinion, too, that it was not so much his mis-
take as that of the men from whom the in
formation came. The matter has been thor
oughly investigated and am convinced that
Mr.. DOdge's reports, which are so much COM
planned of, were justified by the information
he received from the agent of the department
in the house. He cannot personally count the
number of tobacco fields in the United States
nor measure their dimensions He must rely
upon the information he receives from the
tobacco growers throughout the country and
the agents of the department from their
estimates. That is what he did and it was
accurate and conscientiously done"
From this it would seem that Mr.. Coleman
will not remove his statistician even at the
demand of one-third of congress.
CONNECTICUT WANTS SHERIDAN.
Ex-Speaker John A. Tibbetts of the Con-
necticut legislature, is at Wizards. To a
Critic reporter he talked freely about polti-
cal affairs in his state.
"HOw strong is Blaine in Connecticuth
asked the reporter.
"Blaine is perhaps as strong as he ever
was in Connecticut, but some of his friends
think it is question whether he should be
nominated unless he can be elected. One
thing, however, is certain-in the convention
this year Connecticut will not vote on air.
BY that mean that our delegates
Will not waste their votes in support
ing favOrite son by complimentary
vote when there is no chance of the favorite
son being nominated Heretofore COnnecti-
cut has done that and the consequence has
been that she has not had much national i'm
portance Now we will wait until some one
| else endorses our favorite son and then
| follow You see, being placed alphabetically
nearly at the head of the list, we have the
| chance to lead the break at the right mo-
ment and If we do are entitled to some
recognition for it. | don't want to be under
| stood as implying that Connecticut will not
support Senator Hawley as Loyalty as ever
| because she will, but there is no use of our
sticking to him when it is evident he cannot
be nominated"
"Who is the strongest man the republicans
| can nominated"
''There is one man who, if the republicans
nominate him., can be elected without a
| shadow of doubt. He would sweep the
country like a whirlwind. His name is Gem
could nominate would be able to touch him.
| Why, every Irishman and every old soldier
would vote for him, which would make a
powerful combination"
"What would be the platforms"
"Anything. That wouldn't make any diff
| ference Sheridan and Shenandoah would
| be all the platform we should want, and as
| for the tail of the ticket, why one man would
| do as well as another"
BARRED OUT BY REFORM.
The following members of the democratic
| national committee, being officehoders under
( the present administration, may be consd-
| cred as debarred from taking an active part
| in the forthcoming proceedings of the com
mittee at Washington that is if the letter
| and spirit OF the civil service rules are to be
| strictly adhered to: S. Corning Judd, of
| Illinois, postmaster of Chicago; Austin II.
| Brown, Indiana, chief of the horse claims
| division of the treasury department: NJ. M.
| Ham, Iowa postmaster Of Dubuque; B. A.
| Jones' Louisiana, collector of New Orleans ;
| Don NJ. Dickinson, Michigan, postmaster
| general; W. w. Armstrong, Ohio, postmaster
! of Cleveland; B. b. Smaley, Vermont, col
| lector Of Burlington; William +. Villas, Wis
! consin, secretary of the interior.
PERRY S. HEATH.
Nal Ia n