St. Paul daily globe., 1893-05-18
WILL INSPECT PINE.
Fourteen of the Red Lake
Reservation Timber In
speetors Appointed.
Six Are Minnesota Men and
Four More Will Be
Chosen.
Five North Star Inspectors
Recommended by Con-
gressman Baldwin.
Conduct Of the Late Commits
Sioner Of Patents to Be
Investigated.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, May II. - Fourteen
timber inspectors for the Red Lake
reservation were commissioned by Sec
retary Hoke Smith today, and six of
them are Minnesota men. Four more
from the North Star state are yet to be
appointed. The work of estimating the
timber is now to be pushed forward
under rules that will insure an honest
appraisal. In the list appointed today
the names of five of the men on the
original list are found wanting. This
is victory for Maj. Baldwin, because
five of the men he recommended to
Judge LamOreauX are among those
commissioned. These five are all
Northern Minnesota men, who know
pine tree when they see one. But in
securing the appointment of these five
men Maj. Baldwin has done more than
overthrOWn the LamOreauX list. He has
carried out one of the pledges made by
the venerable ex-senator, II. NJ. Rice, to
the Chippewas in the appointment of
Theodore II. Beaulieu, of White Earth,
as one of the examiners. By the terms
of the treaty ceding Red Lake reserva-
ton the Indians were to be represented
on the board of appraisers. The late ad-
miniStration ignored this, and Judge
LamoreauX tried to, but Maj. Baldwin
said no, and Secretary Smith indorsed
his position.
In the appointments Of five out of four
teen examiners today Maj. Bald win has
scored great triumph. and the commits
Sioner or the land office has received a
rebuff that he will remember. Whether
through ignorance or design. Judge
LamoreauX was helping to bring to
naught the work of Maj. Baldwin aud
others who have for years
Fought Pine Land Rings,
and Secretary Smiths pro mpt action
when he learned the actual condition of
affairs shows that he proposes to run
the interior department honestly. In
addition to these five Maj. Baldwin has
recommended four other men, and has
been assured of their appointment in a
day or two. OF the Minnesota men on
the LamOreauX list only Day f. Stacey,
of Albert Lea, received a commission
today. The others follow: John Nor
gan, Aitkin; George r. Stratton,
Brainerd; Thomas S. Finney, Park
Rapids; Theodore II. Beaulieu. White
Earth; h. Louden, Duluth; Andrew
Douglas, AlderlY, Wis. chief, vice Otis
Wis; Robert NJ. Hall. Griffith, Ga; }.
c. Harmon, Chippewa Falls. Wis; II.
h. Long, Gainesville, Ala; Peter Vel
ing, Beaver Dam, Wis; Ed f. Lowell,
Boone, n. c.; K. f. Looney. Memphis.
Tenn. When the fact is taken into con-
Sideration that the four SOuthrons on
this list were originally selected because
they were known to Secretary Smith as
honest and reliable, the full extent of
the victory of Maj. Baldwin eau be real
ICED. Secretary Smith, in speaking of
these changes today, said
Il propose that that timber shall be
estimated honestly. if have to send
fresh force of detectives there every
week and go there myself"
In justice to Commissioner LamOreaux
1t is proper 10 state that he claims that
in the original list he included all the
candidates who had filed applications,
and that he did not reccOmend all of
the men on the list. In this connection
it is also proper to state that he has
given no statement of the reasons that
led him to pigeOnhole the names rec
ommended by Mai. Baldwin. BY this
turn in the matter the whole appraisal
will now be made under the direction
oil Secretary Smith himself. This Is an
unusual course to pursue, but it has
been brought about by number of
strange happenings that excited the
suspicious Of Secretary Smith and IN aY
hereafter make interesting reading.
The plans of the ring were laid to win,
but the cards were played in a bung-
ling manner when the end was aim ost
in sight.
Commissioner Lamoreaux, when
asked his opinion regarding the action
of Secretary Smith in turning down his
recommendations, said: Il am done.
| shall make no more recommendation
for timber inspectors in Minnesota