St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-15
SOUTH DAKOTA ROW.
Why Gov. Mellette and Sena-
tor Pettigrew Don't Like
Each Other.
They Don't Agree as to Who
Should Have South State
PlumS.
A "Reminiscences OF the War
Brought Out in a House
Committee.
Interesting Story About the
Interesting Story About the
Representative Of the
Sixth Wisconsin.

h0RA Va tAAS
Sixth Wisconsin.
Special to the Globe
WASHINGTON, ID. c.. April l2--Stat-
uary hall at the capitol is TO receive an
other statue. Ii will be statue Of
rather Marquette, and on the pedestal
beneath it will be carved the name of
the state which gives it-W isconsin.
Wisconsin is the first one OF the North
western states 10 perpetuate in Statuary
hail the memory OF men who laid the
first foundations OF Northwestern great
ness, but it will doubtless not be long
till other states will follow her example
Truth to tell, the statues IN the capitol
are not entirely things of beauty. The
utter hideouSness OF modern masculine
dress is nowhere 50 apparent as IN the
white marble hkeneSSeS Of the few men or
recent times who are represented there.
The statue of Garfield looks like an alb
normally developed Rogers group.
Muhlenberg, over IN one corner. has the
attitude of SiX-day EO-aS-you-please
pedestrian. with clluched fists and one
foot nearly OF the pedestal III gigantic
stride. Alexander Hamilton is monu-
ment to disgracetully
Bad Tailoring.
The wrinkles in his hose might pass
unnotced. but the TIT OF his knlcker-
DockeTs why. the wrist OF Bernhardt
glove isn't circumstance. They must
nave been wOeIuily uncomfortable.
The plaster coat OF Washington is dis
gracefully dirty, and, in tact, the only
Statue in the hall that hasn't
Il dirty face is Winnie Ream
lIOXie's Lincoln. II - only few days
ago that the talented scuiptresS.
wrapped in the most immense OF ging-
ham aprons, with the assistance OF one
man, gave that statue what our grand
mothers would call a sentimental scour-
ing. 1t needed II, and ii looks beautl-
July white and clean
The whole capitol needs securing. IT
Freedom. whom hail the people in town
mistake for an Indian. would come
down of OF the dome and SET herself 10
the llercuiean task Of securing the halls
below clean OF lobbyists and oiiiceseek-
ers and hangers-On and general nut
sances of all kinds she would be con-
ferring a favor on the nation IN general
and Legislators in particular. There's
scarcely window one passes IN the
halls but has IN 1t
A Weary Congressman.
and a number OF the third house. of in
cXhaustibe wind. Sometimes the lob
byist Is a woman. and then-well. that
cOngressman'S constituents had better
begin praying for him al once, for
mariner in the spell of the Larelei of
old, was not more hopeless and help
less than Il modern legislator III the
wileS of female lobbyist. She IS in
and even the most chart
table of us must admit that she's just
little unScruDuOus as well.
But the lobbyists are not all. There
are "a dozen others with axes of every
Imaginable kind to grind, till a con
gresham must either harden his heart
to all appeals. or resign himself
TO be the tool of every one who
asks his aid. Ii is no unusual
thing for forty cards to be sent in To
committee member during the meeting
of his particular committee. just now
the Women's clubs and societies and or
with which Washington IS
done 10 death, are urging the passage Of
the bill by Mr. Curtis, OF New York,
providing for the establishment iii the
District OF Columbia of reformatorv
Tor women. Local offenders and United
States prisoners are To be kept III 1t.
Now. these club women are wOman's
rights women. They advocate woman's
rights because in some way they have
been deprived OF the only rights a
woman needs-thr right to a happy
and the
Love Ofa Honest Wan,
and feeling the lack in their lives, they
fancy they want things legislative
enactment can give them. OF course.
the measure they are advocating just
now is very laudable one. but if there
is a congressman in all the town who
hasn't been worried and talked at and
bothered about that bill. nobody knows
his name. The advanced" women
have made such a third house as was
never before seen.
The South Dakota delegation in
Washington has been rent and torn
mighty of late. The story is long
one, and has many sides, as there are
men concerned in it, but once upon q
time. how or when or where il matters
not, Gov. Mellette ana Senator Petit
grew fell ont; aud 10 tie present day
no love has been lost between them.
At last the president himself has been
drawn into the quarrel. aud Pettigrew
people accuse him of fayoritlsm. 1t
- ems that he has listened 10 recon-
mendatlouS for appointments made by
Mcleite, and has turned a deaf ear TO
the recommendations OF Senator Petit
grew. One appointment in particular
which Senator PettgTew was especially
anxious 10 have confirmed. was
Held Out for Months.
and when finally it did come be fore the
senate in executive session how do eX-
ecutiYe session secrets creep out?-Sen-
ator Kyle rose and objected to it. Those
who know say that there were remarks
between Mr.. Peltigrew and Mr.. Harri-
son, and that that part OF the matter is
settled. aud the president has
promised TO be good boy and play
fair, but there is still no brOtherly
between the men from South
Dakota. There is Il great deal of back
talk and tn quo que argument, aud un-
less the matter Is patched up soon there
are breakers ahead for the Republican
party in South Dakota.
There was strange incident in the
room OF the house committee ON military
affairs rhe other day, when General
" heeler. Of Alabama. brought out an
Did order book To show to Mr.. |
ljelknap, of Michigan, in which was the |
copy of the standing order that one.
Charles Belknap. OF the twenty first !
Michigan infantry, be shot if captured. |
Il was the sequel to wartime story. |
aIr. Belknap enlisted at sixteen. He |
doesn't look thirty ROW. with his |
straight figure. bright eyes and military |
brown mOuStache, bui ia war time he |
was as da5hine
A Daredevil
as ever lived. On night. just for the |
fan of ii. he mounted his horse and rode !
5Oidly through the Confederate lines 70 |
iie headquarters Of Gen. Wheeler. who |
was commander of the Western Con |
.ederate cavalry. The tent was empty. |
l Dung Belknap threw his lines to an |
orderly, strobe boldly in and deliber- |
,teiy pocketed all the dispatches and |
papers OH the table. His very audacity |
saved him, and not man in all the !
camp even thought 10 Ques- /
ion him. Back he rode with the dis
patches, TO unlimited applause and /
:lptau'S commission at seventeen. |
then it was that Gen Wheeler /