The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-30
MICHAEL SAYS ITS FALSE
SPEAKER BOWLING DENIES THAT
HE is FIXING A DISTRICT
FOR CONGRESS
OTHER MEN MAY HAVE BEES
But as for Him, He Has No Desire
to Get Any FnVors From the
Committee. on Reappor-
tiOnment.

Speaker Bowling resents the i1nputa ton
that he IS welding a quiet influence with
the reapportionment committee to have a
district set off with Renville as it's CEN
ter so that he may have the chance of
going to congress. Mr.. Bowling, speak
ing with emphasis upon the subject said
to a reporter for the GTob e yester-
day:
1t IS true that I am interested In the
workings of this committee, but not In
the sense in which 1 have been accused
by Minneapolis paper. 1 have no such
aspirations, and furthermore, if 1 had, I
am opposed to any mans carving out
district merely so that he may be
enabled to run for congress. It is this
very thing that / am anxious to prevent,
and if my influence will be felt at all In
! connection with this matter, 1t will be
in this direction.
Il told Senator Daugherty that the
| plan which he proposed for creating the
| new district in my end of the state.
would meet my approval"
While Mr.. Bowling may not have
aspirations to get to congress through
the creation Of a new district there are
number who are recognized to be work
ing with this end In view. 1t comes from
the best authority that Lieut. Gov Lyn-
| don A. Smith has such ambitions and Is
therefore exercising his influence for the
his home town, as the center. Senator
r. T. Young, of Appleton wants to go
TO congress from new district and Sena-
tor Somerville and J. F. jacobson are
counting the same distinction from the
southwest part Of the state, where the
| interest is the keenest. Senator H. J.
Miller has a nice little scheme of his
own to tear off slice of F:ddy's Seven h
district and a piece Of the Third In this
| he would not be meeting the rivalry of
any Of the other gentlemen referred to
except Senator Somervilie By this ope-
ration Eddy, it is said, would still have
chance for his life.
The paramount scheme which Is beirg g
attempted is to throw the Second and
Third districts together so that either
McCleary or Heatwole will have to re-
main IN Minnesota and let another man
take his place at Washington 1t is such
movement as this which Speaker BOWL
ing opposes. He urges that to tampar
with the position of any particular n
| gresham might involve the safety of the
party. While not specially guarding the
interests of any one representative, he
deprecates this idea. He wants to see
the state redistricted by preserving the
poHt1cal complexion of all the seven dis
trlcts now existing and he urges THAI
this can be done. His theory regarding
the district to be formed in his end of
IA'S HteltS, ID W ldHS Two OF the west
ern counties off the Third and add in
their place Nicollet which would not
change the political status nor violate
the law with regard to population; take
enough from the Second as would be
needed and still would leave that dis
tr1ct With enough population without the
addition of any other county and from
the First district, merely subtract Wa
SEGA to be added to the new district.
Ih1s. he maintains, would leave the three
cid Republican districts intact and make
Repuhllcan district Of the new one OF
course, Mr.. Downing, like all other Re-
pubHcans, figures on nothing but making
both the new districts Republican.
Net SO much interest has been awak-
ened over the other district which will
PROBABLY embrace Stearns county. It is
generally conceded that Senator Buck
man, who gets his mail at Little Falls.
would be the Republican nominee for
congress from that district