St. Paul daily globe., 1894-08-18
FREE BARbED WIRE.
How Northwestern Repre-
sentatives Voted on the
Measure Monday.
SOUTH DAKOTANS RIGHT,
But Tawney. MeCleary and
Kiefer Voted Against the
Farmers.
CONGRESSMAN BOEN HOT.
Doesn't Like the Way He
Was Turned Down on the
Court Bill.
CONGRESSMAN BOEN HOT.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.-Last Monday
evening. when the bill to place barbed
wire OIL the free list came before the
lower house of congress, the two repre-
sentatives of the agricultural state of
South Dakota, Congressman Picker
and Lucas. voted with the Democrats
to make the cost of fencing to the farm
ers of their state less by from 25 to so
per cent. On the same vote the three
Republicans from Minnesota who were
present and voting cast their votes with
the representatives of the manufactur-
ers and against the interests of the
farmers of Minnesota. These three
members are Congressman Tawney. of
the First district: McClearv. of the Sec
ond, and Kiefer. of the Fourth. Mr..
Fletcher. of the Fifth, was absent, but
paired against all of the bills providing
for free raw materials.
Messrs. Tawney, McCleary and Kiefer
also voted against free coal when it
came up as an independent proposition,
thus affording marked contrast to the
votes cast by the Minnesota Republican
delegation when it was made up of
Knute Nelson, Milo White. Gov. Wake
field and the late Maj. Strait. They
voted for a reduction all along the line
when the Morrison bill was up, and
were indorsed by their constituents.
And while these members who voted
against free iron and free coal and free
barbed wire on last Monday evening
might have urged the party platform as
an excuse against voting for the Wilson
bill. this fails them on the so-called
''pop-gun bills" Here each item was
presented alone. and neither Tawnsy,
McCleary nor Kiefer had any doubt hu t
that all the people of their districts
were in favor of placing at least two of
these articles on the free list-coal and
barbed wire.
The South Dakota delegation does not
stand very high as q delegation, but. on
one occasion at least, they were bold
enough to defy the mandates of the
manufacturers and vote for what they
knew to be the interests of the people
who sent them to Washington. With
few exceptions, the men sent to Wash
ington by the Republicans of Minnesota
have never done this. With them the
interests of the state and the West in
general have been secondary to the in.
terests OF their party. Unless the peo-
pie of the First and Second districts
have changed very greatly in the past
ten years, Messrs. Tawney and Nc
Cleary will hear from their people on
the votes they cast last Monday even
ing.
Congreysm IN Boon Is Hot
Congressman Boen was indignant
when he heard that a Judge of the
United States court had practically set
aside his act commanding that all crimi-
nal cases in the United States courts in
Minnesota shall be tried In the division
of the district in which the offenses
were committed. He claims that the
act is mandatory, and if not followed
all convictions i'll defiance of it will be
void.
eat my request" "he said, "Judge Pow
ers, of Vermont, drew that bill, and he
was surprised when told him that it
had been held to be directory, and not
mandatory. Judge Powers is one of the
ablest lawyers in the house, and sat on
the bench of the supreme court in his
state for sixteen years. This was also
the opinion of the Judiciary committee
Of the house, which l need not say is
one of the abless legal bodies in the
land. But l am not through with this
matter yet, and the people of Mime
sofa can rest assured that criminal
cases in the United States court in
Minnesota are going to be tried in the
divisions in which the people live. even
If the fees of the court officers and the
returns to the railroads are less. In my
humble OPT inien this ruling is the result
of dislike of the judges to visit Fer
gus Falls, Mankato and Duluth, as we'll
as desire on the part Of the court Off
GERS to make all the court expenses as
high as possible. To show the people
OF Minnesota how grossly the law has
been violated by this ruling, and to
give warning to those who have been
tried in defiance of the plain mandate
of the law, Ire quest the GLOBE to print
the law:
"Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States Amer
lea in congress assembled That all criminal
proceedings instituted for the trial of of.
fenses against the laws of the United States
arising in the district of Minnesota Shall be
brought. had and prosecuted in the division
of said district in which such offenses were
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