St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-18
HE DIDN'T WANT TO BE INTER-
VIEWED BY A GLOBE COR =
RESPONDENT
THEN PROCEEDED TO TALK.
HE TELLS WHY HE GAVE UP
THE USE OF TOBACCO AND
LIQUORS.
AS TO SENATE ORGANIZATION.
Republicans and Democrats VIII
Ignore Pops and Divide the
Offices.
Special to the Globe.

SPONAcl " TIE NJlODe.
MILBANK, S. D., Nov. 17-Senator
Knute Nelson spent the day in this
city on probate business connected
with the death of a relative in this
county. The G l o e correspondent
spent about an hour chatting and
visiting with the distinguished rep
resentative from Minnesota, who
was quite agreeable and ready to
talk upon almost any subject aside
from politics. He politely declined to
join the G b e correspondent in a
smoke, saying that he had been an
inveterate smoker and chewer until
about ten years ago, when he realized
that he had become a great slave to
the weed, and that it made him
morose and ill-tempered, brought on
dyspepsia and other annoying physi-
cal ailments, and that as he could
not use tobacco in moderation he
simply resolved to quit altogether,
and that shortly after doing so he
rapidly gained in flesh and felt like
new man. He was brought up as
boy to drink whisky, but didn't like
it, don't care for it, and would never
indulge except, perhaps, upon some
special social occasion.
WILL IGNORE POPS.
In response to various attempts to
apply the reportorial pump upon cur
rent political topics, Senator Mel
son said that as he would be a new
man in the senate he preferred not to
express himself at present. As to
the question of organization of the
senate he hardly knew what the out
come would be, as neither the Re
publieans nor Democrats had a ma
jority, and the Populists- held the
balance of power. Asked as to what
he thought of Senator Sherman's
suggestion that the Republicans and
Democrats would ignore the Popu-
lists and organize by dividing the
offices and committees, he did not
think such a line of action probable.
In reply to a question as to what,
in his opinion, would be the probable
line of legislation taken UP, he re-
piled that the situation was consid-
erably complicated. The Republicans
will have a large majority in the
house, the Populists will hold the
balance of power in the senate, while
a Democrat occupies the White
house. He expressed the opinion that
in order to increase the national
revenues it would be quite neces-
sary to pass some additional tariff
legislation with that object in view,
but that whatever was done on this
line would necessarily be in the nat
ure of a compromise all around.
Asked as to whether he thought the
financial question would elicit any
decided discussion, he replied: Now,
see here, don't want to be quoted
as expressing any opinion for pub
licatien, but 1 would guess that, in
view of the approaching presidential
election, neither of the old parties
will want to take that question up
very actively The G o b e CORE
spondent realized that it was diff
cult matter to induce the senator
to get down to expressing any posi-
i've OpliiiOHS upOIl pOIlIANAi
topics, and the conversation drifted
off upon the status of the prohib-
itory law in Sonth Dakota, The
senator, upon being informed that
the prohibitory law would be SUBJ
mitted to a vote of the people a
year hence, and that the probable
tiles strongly pointed to the law be-
ing repealed, remarked that he
believed high license system would
give the best satisfaction, and that
it worked we'll in Minnesota. The
senator will start for Washington
next week.