St. Paul daily globe., 1893-04-23
NONE WILL Be SPARED
Prominent Men Will Be I'M
plieated in the Red Lake
Scandal.
The Investigation About to
Be Started Will Be
Thorough.
Efforts Being Made by the
Ring to Hinder the In
quiry.
Gov. Nelson Stirred Up by
Commissioner Lamor-
eauX'S Course.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, April 22.-"The in
veStigation into the Red Lake scandal
will implicate men whose names have
never before been mentioned in this
connection said Judge LamoreauX,
the commissioner of The general land
office, today. The inquiry about to be
started will be thorough, and no one
will be spared who has been concerned
in the affair. The men who set out to
get that timber have not secured 1t yet,
and they will not, except by open pur-
chase on an honest appraisal"
Although the order removing
Staples and his assistants will
not be signed until Secretary HOke
Smith returns to the capital, everything
has been arranged for quick work as
soon as he gets back. Today Judge
LamoreauX was in conference with the
man whom he has selected to take the
place now filled by Staples. The name
of this man cannot be had for the reason
that he may decline. When asked re-
garding him, the commissioner said that
it was true that he had offered the posi-
ton to a good man and was waiting to
find out whether he would accept.
"You can say that he is a man who
has been tried in similar position and
remained honest and true under great
temptation" he said, land, if he under
takes this Red Lake appraisal, 1t will be
done well and hOleStly."
Worries the Ring.
That the ring is greatly worried o yer
the situation is shown by the efforts that
are being made to hinder an investiga-
ton. One of the appraisers who should
be at work on the reservation is in
Washington in consultation with
attorneys who are supposed to
represent certain big lumbermen. The
presence OF this man in Washington
was brought to Judge LamoreauX'S at
tentiOn, and he promptly announced
that MIR. Staples would be held respOn-
sible for the appraisers absence from
the reservation. The straightforward
course of Commissioner LamoreauX in
matters brought before him seems to
have stirred up Gov. Nelson to
some action in the matter of saving
to the state of Minnesota thousands of
acres OF VdIuaOIO SWAMI ID ldHuS. lOI uuIlLS
the past two days men representing the
governor have called at the interior de-
partment in this matter. These gentle
men were Judge Mills and Secretary
Teisberg, of the railway commission.
They were in Washington ostensibly to
attend the railroad commissioners con-
vention, but were really here to repre-
sent Gov. Nelson in tlrdy effort to
push a settlement of the swamp land
controversy. As was stated by the GLOBE
some time ago, Gov. Nelson
has been sitting idly by, push
ing bunco grain bills, while
the state is being robbed of thousands
of acres of her most valuable lands. The
commissioner of the general land office
is and has been ready to agree upon
some plan of settlement with Mime
sofa. and so informed tine Minnesotans.
The time to push this matter was when
the legislature was i'll session, and,
although the governor may make in
quirieS now. the whole matter will have
to await the meeting of the next legis-
lature.