St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-13
Politicians Busy Fixing Up
Their Congressional Com
mitteeS.
Probability That the Famous
Ramsey County "KidS"
viii Have TO Go.
Capt. Snider May Be on Hand
and Ready to Take a
Hand.


this city on Saturday next promises to
be an exceedingly lively affair. There
will be full attendance of the mem
beers of the committee as well as of the
prominent Republican politicians of the
state. This much may be set down as
certain for the simple reason that at
this meeting the preliminary battles
will be fought for seats in the MinneaD-
oils convention next June. Indeed,
under the call issued by the Republi-
can national committee the results OF
this meeting are to be even more far-
reaching than this, and 1t Will nave an
influence upon the congressional noml-
nations of the party next year. No Ke-
publican leader or boss who desires to
be a delegate to the Minneapolis con-
VentiOn, OF a candidate for congress in
any one of the seven congressional dis
tricts, can afford to be absent or unrep-
resented at the meeting to be held next
Saturday. The basis for these state
ments is found in the following quota
ton from the call for the Minneapolis
convention issued by the Republican
national committee:
The congressional district delegates shall
be chosen at conventions called by the con-
gressional committee of each such district, IN
representative in congress is made in said
district; provided, that in any representative
district where there is no representative con-
gressionGl committee, owing to the reds
tricting of the state under The new congress
sional apportionmenL the Republican state
central committee shall appoint from the
residents of such district q committee for the
purpose of calling a district convention TO
elect district delegates.
The Republican state committee OF Mime
sofa was called to meet i'll this city about
week ago, the call having been issued before
the issuance of the call for the national con-
vention. As soon as the leaders noticed the
work that would he Entrusted to the commit
tee, they at once set about securing a change
OF date for the meeting. and il was finally de-
cided that the meeting should be put off until
the 18th of this month. The
Full Significance
of this move became apparent a day or two
ago, when leading Republican organ came
out in a lengthy article arguing that the
meaning of the call had been mistaken and
that new congressional committees would be
named in only two districts, the Fifth, Hen
nepin county, and the Sixth. the eastern part
OF the old Fifth district with small additions
from the old Fourth and Third districts.
This of course, is incorrect, as there is no
more reason for the old committees holding
over in the new First. Second, Third, Fourth
and Seventh districts Than there is for the
old bodies continuing i'll the Fifth anu Sixth
districts.
This is due to the fact that the Craig an
portionment bill changed the boundaries of
every one OF the old congressional districts.
The change was less in The First district than
in any other, one county. Waseca, being
taken from the Second district ana added to
the First. The Second district comes next in
order, and is changed considerably. In ad-
CiuOn to the loss of Waseca county to the
First district. lie Sueur and SiDley were
added to the Third, and Chippewa was taken
from the old Third and added the Second
The result of these changes is that the new
Second district contains but eighteen coun-
ties, whereas il formerly contained twenty.
The new Third district is very different
from the old, and portions of this famous
old shoe string district are now found i'll
no less than three different districts. Chip
peWa county goes to the Second district, and
KandiyOhi and Swift 10 the seventh. Smiley
and lie Sueur of the OLD Second, take the
places of these three in the new Third, and
it is now almost Minnesota valley district
1t is needless to remark that this is q Demo-
cratic district.
The old Fourth district. however, is the one
Most Disfigured
by the Craig apportionment bill. Its remains
are divided up among what are known now
as the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth districts.
The old district contained ten countess
Ramsey, Washington. Hennepin, Anoka,
Chisago. 1sant Kanabec Pine, Sherburne
and Wright. of these Hennepin is now the
Fifth district Ramsey, Washington. Anoka.
Fourth, and Wright, SherbuIne, Pine and
Isanti were added TO the Sixth district. The
old Fifth district was cut almost in two and
portions of 1t are found in the Sixth and
Seventh districts. The seventh receives &C
cessions from the old Third and the Sixth
from the old Fourth districts. Every dis
trict in the state, as may be seen from this
brief summary. has been remOdeled and out
of the whole come seven districts constituted
without regard to politics. These districts
are made up as follows:
First Distuct-Dodge, Fillmore. Freedom.
Houston. Mower. Olmsted, steele, Wabasha
WinOna. Waseca.
Second-Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa,
Cottonwood, Farlbault, jackson, Lac qui
Parle. Lincoln. Lyon. Martin. Murray. Mic
ollet Mobiles. PIpestone. Redwood, Rock,
Watonwan, Yellow Medicine.
Third-Caryer Dakota, GoOdhue, Mcleod,
Meeker Henville, Rice Scott LIE SueuT,
Siblev.
Fourth-Ramsey. Washington, Anoka, Chi
Eago and Kanabec.
Fifth-HenneDn.
Sixlh-Cook, Lake, ST. Louis, Itasca, Carl
ton, Aitkin Crow Wing. Pine, Mile Laos,
Jsant, Sherburne, Wright, Wadena, Hub
bard Beltrami StearnS. Benton, Morrison,
Todd and Cass
Seventh Kittson, Marshall, Polk, Norman,
Clay, Becker, Otter Tail, Pope, Swift, WiikIn,
Douglass, Traverse, Big Stone, Kandiyohi,
Stevens, Grant.
The manner of appointing congressional
committees has not been uniform in all dis
tricts by the Republican party, or by any
other party, for that matter. In the smaller
districts it has been. the rule TO give each
county a member of the congressional COM
mittee, while i'll the larger districts only q
few of the counties have been given mem
bers. The result is that there will be not
a Little Trouble
experienced by the state committee III filling
out the new committees.
In this district however. there will be fun,
and lots of 1t. 1t is a Well-known fact that
ex-CongreSsman Snider feels decidedly sore
towards the members OF his committee from
Ramsey county, and his FRIENDS will attempt
to have the old members supplanied by other
men. At the present time this is the only
part-of the Republican organization in this
county controlled by the celebrated kids -
a great deal of surprise was manifested when
Capt. Snider allowed them TO secure places
on his committee and it is said that ne now
cOnfesses that this action cost him many
votes and large amount Of cash. These
kids headed by George W. Lamb
are making deliberate fight 10 re-
tain their grip on the congressional
committee, and are really behind the claim
that the committees are only to be named by
the state committee in the Fifth and Sixth
districts. To show how absurd this is the
case of the Sixth and Seventh districts need
only be cited. Here, according TO Mr. Lamb
the old Fifth district committee will manip-
uiate the party machine in the new Seventh
district. The chairman of the old Fifth dis
trict committee is c. S. Benson. of ST. Cloud,
which is now in the Sixth district Is Mr.
Benson in possession of the power and
authority to call a convention in a district in
which he does not reside? Most assuredIy
not. And this is about the condition of
affairs in all the other districts.
1t is safe TO predict that there will be music,
and lois of il, at next Saturdays meeting of
the Republican state central committee.
A BRUTAL HUSBAND