The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-10-30

question whether the country as a whole
will demand 1t. The reforms which be-
yond any question are needed, will be
made to best advantage if made without
too much publicity.
TILLMAN, With President Roose-
velt and the republican
McLAURIN. majority in the senate in
dorsing Senator Nc
Laurin of South Carolina, it is believed
that the path of Senator Tillman, when he
goes after McLaurins scalp this winter on
southern appointments, will be rough and
rugged. McLaurin has a backing which
Tillman will do we'll to examine carefully
beforehand. Within the past month Nc
Laurin has been a caller at the White
House at least two dozen times. His
visits are long and he comes and goes at
all hours of the day. The president is
evidently consulting him literally regard
ing southern matters. and MeIAurin may
be expected to take position in the SEN
ate this winter which will compel the
support of the republican majority.
SEN Both senators from Ne
vada are now in the repub-
ATORIAL lican party again. Sena-
tor Stewart announced his
HOME intentions a year ago, and
now Senator Jones follows
COMING. him, both holding that
free silver is no longer an
ISSUE" and saying that they left the re-
publican party on account of silver. Mr..
Jones is not entirely correct in saying
that he has acted with the republicans on
all questions save that of finance, for In
the last congress he frequently voted with
the democrats on other questions, and
finally nobody was able to tell how he
stood with regard to pending measures.
This "home- coming is the more crafty
ing since it is the general opinion that
Delaware is to be represented in the SEN
ate by two democrats, owing to the bitter
ness of the Addicks feud. The Addicks
republicans have threatened to turn the
state over to the democrats unless Ad-
dicks is made a senator, and in this city
it is believed that the threat will be
made good.
PAY FOR Indian Commissioner
Jones has received a par
TIMBER. tial report from Captain
Mercer relative to the de-
mand that was recently made upon dead
and-dOWn timber contractors on the White
Earth reservation for payment for green
timber cut last winter. The commissioner
refuses to divulge the particulars of the
report, but it is understood that some Of
the contractors have resisted the govern
ment's demand and that it will require
considerable pressure to induce them to
comply with it. Commissioner Jones has
directed Captain Mercer to insist upon
the original claim and to make no COM
promises.
SEELYE'S Indian Commissioner
Jones to-day heard argu-
CLAIM. ments in the case of Chas.
E. Seelye, claimant for
about $11, 900 which is now in the hands of
the Indian Office Seelye contracted to
cut a certain amount of timber on the
Chippewa reservation, in 1899 and sold
that timber to lumberman named Por-
ter, of Minneapolis. Porter furnished part
of the logging outfit and supplies to In
dian lumbermen and filed a claim for
portion Of the money due Seelye for tim
ber. This claim was resisted by Seelye
and the Indian office. not being able to
arrive at an understanding, determined to
withhold payment of the entire amount
Recently efforts were made to reach an
agreement as to the amount due each
claimant and the hearing to-day was to
have Commissioner Jones determine that
question. Judge George d. Emery, of
Minneapolis, represented Seelye and Muir
Gibson of New York, represented Porter
Il6 commissioner luQlcdI6Q Willingness
to order payment If an agreement could
be reached as to the proportion due each
claimant and a conference will be held
between representatives Of both parties
and law officer of the bureau with the
view to closing the incident. Seeleye is
now serving an eight-mOnth sentence in
Hennepin county jail on the charge of set !
ting fire to forest in northern Minnesota.
The application for his pardon, which was
recently rejected by President Roosevelt, |
it is believed under misapprehension of
the true facts, was cordially indorsed by
Judge Lochren who tried the case, Dis |
trict Attorney Evans and Mr.. Purdy his |
assistant, who prosecuted it, and by Sena
tors Nelson and Clapp. Congressman
Morris and Fletcher are deeply interested
in Seeleye and the former is coming o
Washington to make a new application
for pardon. The fact that Seeleye was
convicted as the result of a conspiracy Is
now admitted by every one who has fol- |
lowed the case.
Commissioner Jones has been fully ad- !
vised of the situation, but says that his i
department can properly consider only |
that part of the case that relates to the |
S11 900 claim. The conspiracy matter. |
he says, must be investigated by the de- |
department Of justice, and to this depart |
ment Seelyes friends purpose to take it |
at once. 1t does not appear, in view of |
to-days developments, that the conspir- |
acy against Seelye embraced George F. |