St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-22
EDDY WOULD Open.
New Seventh District MEM
Der Follows in BaldWln's
Footsteps.
THE RED LAKE ESTIMATES
Will Pe Worthless When
Made More Than TWO
Years Back.
fOWNE CLINGs TO MICHIGAN
Minnesota Members Don't
Like the Talk 1.-TWO Terms
and Out"
Snncinl To the Globe.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-ln case
Coneressman-ele Eddy attempts
TO carry out the pledges he has mace
TO the people of a part OF his GlS-
trict regarding the opening Oh INC
Red Lake Indian reservation, there
will be trouble in the Minnesota
DELEGATION and lots Of it at the next
session. However widely apart sen
ators Davis and Nelson may be on
some questions, they Will be unlteu
in their opposition to the opening oil
any part of the big Chippewa resef-
walton until the big lumbermen are
ready for it. The wishes of the small
lurnbermen and the men who want
to make homes for themselves on
the rich lands Of the reservation 40
not count with Senator Davis, and
will not. of course, with the man
who drew the bill providing for the
treaty and the work now beng
done
But Mr.. Eddy is right in insisting
upon the early commencement OF the
opening of the reservation. AS all
who are at all acquainted with tim
Der estimates well know, an estimate
more than two years old Of standing
timber is worthless, and no lumber
man will buy on any such estimate.
Unless some measures like the one
PUSHED THROUGH
the lower house of congress nearly
two years ago by Congressman Bald
win and now held up in the senate
by Senator Davis can be passed,
some of the estimates will be more
than five years old when the final
estimates are made. Maj. Baldwin's
bill, Endorsed by the secretary of the
interior, the Indians and all except
the pine syndicates, provides tor
the opening Of 100000 acres at time
that is, whenever the estimates are
completed on 00,000 acres, notice
shall be given and the timber sold, as
provided in the original Nelson bill.
Perhaps Mr.. Eddy can persuade
Senator Davis to change his tactics
and withdraw his opposition, and
then again, it may be that the new
man from the Seventh district will
not be able to get his bill as far as
the senate. Maj Baldwin pushed
his measure just as far as any mem
Der could. He not only had it
passed by the house, but he had the
whole influence of the interior de-
partment eXerted in it's behalf in
the senate. Mr.. Eddy may insist in
fulfilling his pledges with the senat-
ors on the other side, but the chances
are that he will not.
REPUBLICANS ALARMED.
There isn't very much talk about
an extra session of congress at the
present time, but there is enough to
give the Republicans in the Eastern
states a good cold chill. They are,
in fact, almost sorry that they won
the elections last fall. In opposi-
ton the Republicans have been
strong in the past two years, but
their showings lately have all been
made by the Eastern Republicans
voting with the silverites. Tho
leaders know that the next con-
gress will be at the mercy of tho
silver Republicans in the senate,
men who care a great deal more for
silver than they do for the Repub-
lican party; hence their fears. An
extra session would give the next
congress time enough to hang the
Republicans in New York and sew
eral other states next fall.
But even though no extra session
is called, the Republicans are going
to be in bad way in less than twelve
months. When congress meets neXt
December in regular session tho
country's business will be thrust
aside for the presidential sparring
match. The anti-Reed element will
be more interested in killing the
Maine man off in the interests of
Mckinley, Allison and other candi-
dates than they will in passing meas
ures of relief demanded by the coun
try. This was the case with the
Democratic congress elected in the