St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-14
COMSTOCk IS WEARY.
The Duluth Land Office Prom
ises to Be a Nightmare
for Him.
Scores Of Applicants, Some Of
Them Supported by Veal
thy Corporations.
President Harrison and His
Subordinates Are All "To-
Morrow Men.
Procrastination the Chief
Feature Of the Policy OF
the Administration.

he obtained them is mystery, as thew
are from men who have been roasted by
him for years, many of them being
old-time enemies of the shell and dam
nation editor" as he is familiarIy
known. A curious phase of the situa.
ton IS the attitude of the Minnesota
Iron company, Ii has been supporting
Monroe Nichols right along, but has
switched its support to Isaac P.
Beck. Mr.. Beck was formerly
treasurer of the Duluth & Iron
Range railroad, which is corporation
Identical in interest, if not in fact, with
the Minnesota Iron company. Mr..
Beck'S resignation was asked for about
a year ago, and it was thought that he
and the great octopus corporation of st.
Louis county were son the outs" This
does not seem to be the case, as the
officers OF the company are trying to
have him installed in the position now
held by C. p. Maginnis. If they can
have tool of their own appointed to
this position it would be worth many
millions to them. Mr.. Maginnis has
consistently refused to be patry to any
OF their schemes, and has cbeckmated
them on more than one occasion by
simple adherence to his duty as gov
ernment officer. 1t is easy to seq why
they want a tool of their own in the Du-
luth land office, as they are engaged in
locating claims and buying up pre-.
emptionS on large scale. Their eyi.
dent aim is
TO OWN ALI THE IRON
on the Vermillion Range, land Mr. Beck,
i'll the position of receiver of the land
office, could be used to great advantage.
The candidacy of Sheldon r. Frazer is
nTnn1Inpnf NJ
Frazer evidently has friends pretty
close to the throne, though he is young
and without experience i'll land Office
business. Mr.. Comstock has not vet
been able to make up his mind upon the
matter. eff there is one thing above
all others that / should hate to be it is a
tomorrow man. said a prominent
Minnesotan the other day. "What do
you mean?" was asked. II just mean,"
was the reply, ''that ii were in public
life would never put man off till to-
morrow when | could do to-day what he
wants done and what | am going to do
anyway" The cause for this remark
was matter Of minor interest in one Of
the departments. The individual re.
ferred to had had the settlement of the
matter postponed from day to day by
the chief of the department in which
the business was being done. There
was nothing about it which could not
have been done at any time, but the
tendency of the department seemed
to be to postpone it as long as possible.
This is the sort of thing that is making
everyone disgusted with the admins
tration of affairs by the present regime.
Every department. is permeated with the
tomorrow" tendency. The president
is tomorrow" man. and might well
INn lCaHk : al,
name given by the Indians to the pres
ent premier of Canada. The cabinet
ministers have caught the infection,
and the chiefs of departments follow
the example of their leaders. The as.
Sistant chiefs and clerks all act upon
the same principle. Everything is ito
morrow" nothing s'to-day." AS an il
lustratiOn of this may may be cited the
celebrated Duluth land case in the in.
terror department. The commission an.
pointed to
INVESTIGATE THE ALLEGED FRAUDS
took a pile of evidence. They devoted
as long time as possible to considering
this evidence. While there was really
no objection to their devoting to it all
the time necessary to arriving at an
conclusion, the evidence was
so One-Sided that any lawyer of average
ability could have reported upon is
within twenty-four hours. Last Mon
day the report was handed in to Com.
missioner Croft. The contents have not
yet been made public and all parties
concerned were anxious to kno W the re-
suit until they saw the GLOBE of last
Tuesday containing the main and most
interesting feature of the report,
Damely, the complete exoneration of the
MInnesOtans against whom the charges
of fraud had been made. Commissioner
Croft has not yet intimated what the
report contains and is causing feeling
of disgust in the minds of all parties afs
fected. Both sides ar e kicking, and the
impression seems to prevail that the
only reason for the refusal of the com.
missioner to say whether the charges
are found TO be correct OF false is tim.
ldlty. A paper published in New York
and owned by the minister to France
has been roasting MeSsrs Hartmann &c
Mallet and A. M. Miller, of Duluth,
charging them with having corrupted
Col. C0lvilI and G. P. Maginnis, of the
Duluth land office. two hoId-over DEM
ocrats whose honesty
HAS NEVER BEFORE BEEN IMPE ACuFD,
1t has also been charged free lv thai
the whole affair was but fraud perpe.
trated by Democratic ring. and has
howled for the cOndign punishment of
the offenders. Commissioner Croft has
evidently been scared by these articles
III the paper referred to, and is post
poning the day when he will have to
make public the report. This is rather
rough on the parties against whom the
charges were made, for the report en-
tirely exonerates them, and vet. bv
this tomorrow inactiOn on the part
OF the commissioner, they are waiting
IN Supense, with the charges still hang
ing over their heads, probably to the
great detrlment of their business. JUS
tlce SHOULD be done as speedily as DOS.
sible, and while in tins particular in
stance the parties concerned may or
may not be Injured by the DELAY. the
has 10 right to withhold
from them the justice which is their
right, and thus place them in an embar.
RAISING position, for tits unquestionably
an embarrassing position for any man
to be placed in to nave charges of fraud
hanging over his head. The suspense
must be ratser trying, too. The com.
mlSSioner'S inaetion is simply another
Illustration of the tomorrow" princi.
pie upon which every department of the
administration is run. When a
mans name is presented to the presi-
lent for appointment to certain office.
t matters not how we'll Endorsed ne is.
the ''Old Tomorrow" of theWhite house
ievotes weeks-aye, months-to inves.
tigatlng the man. He ascertains
whether he is church member: if so.
Of what church; whether he teaches
Sunday school; whether he attends
prayer meeting regularly. and all the
other important facts which are thought
% bear upon his qualification for office,
" hen the president has ascertained all
about the man he gives the matter of
his appointment few more weeks care
ful consideration before acting upon il.
Yes, the Tomorrow" principle is the
active principle of the administration,
HydrophObia Kills Badger.
MILTON, Wis. Jan. 13.-Prof. Charles
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