The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-10-21
New Chairman Of Agricul-
tural Committee Wanted
WORK ON HENDERSON
Speaker Probably Will Not Crafty
Friends of Grout Bill.
VACANT FEDERAL JUDGEsHIP
President Tired of Waiting for In
diana Politicians to Agree
Z Upon an AppOintee.


Rq Upon an ADD0in'es'
from The .Iournol Bursets. Room 49, P0n
BsIiLdissg, Washington
Washington, Oct 21.-The agricultural
interests Of the country are trying to per-
suade General Henderson, who will again
be speaker Of the house, to appoint new
man as chairman OF the committee on ag-
riculture in place Of ]. W. Wadsworth OF
New York. They claim he is not
friend of the Grout bill to tax oleomarga-
rim and to forbid the use Of colring mat
ter in its manufacture. The dairy inter-
ests feel that the defeat Of the Grout Dill
at the last session was largely due 70
Wadsworth. They are afraid that II ne
Is again chairman their bill Will get Dut
a poor show. The fight against Wads-
worth is being led BY agricultural papers
like the Rural New Yorker, one Of the
Oldest Of such publications, the Country
Gentleman, of Albany, and the Ohio
Farmer.
General Henderson is supposed to be
very friendly to the dairying interests
but 1t is doubtful If he will consider their
demand to displace Wadsworth. In be-
ing elected speaker he will be expected
to reappoint the committees as they stood
congress. Amy exception would open the
way to others, and to general over
turning and revolution. Moreover, to dis
place Wadsworth would show marked
preference in favor of the Grout bill as
against the oleo interests. which would
hardly become him in his Office Of speaker.
Ex-Representative William Lorimer Of
Chicago has for years been the champion
of the oleo interests, and led the fight for
them last session. He was chairman of
o subcommittee Of the agricultural COM
mittee which had charge OF the Grout
bill. Now that he has been defeated the
butterine makers will have to look around
for another man to handle their case.
President Roosevelt
CAN'T AGREE is getting tired of the
delay of the Indiana
UPON politicians in agree
ing on some person
JUDGE. to fill the eral
judgeship vacancy in
the seventh district, comprising Wiscon-
sin. Illinois and Indiana. The place be-
came vacant several months ago through
death, and there has been a struggle be-
tween hoosiers ever since as to who
should be called to fill it. President Nc
Kinley agreed that the new man should
come from Indiana and President RoOse-
Welt is entirely willing that this should
be the case but he wants the senators
to get together and name their man. 1t
is said by Colonel John O. New of Indian
apOlis, who was in Washington recently,
that every member of the Indiana dele
CATION, & late and house, has a candidate,
and that the list of those anxious to secure
the place numbers hundreds of names. On
Saturday OF last week President Roosevelt
did some pretty straight talking to a
prominent Indiana politician who had
called to see him regarding the appoint
ment
II am tired of the delay and of the
purposeless wrangle that has been going
on for several months" he said, "and
don't propose to let it go on much longer
If Indiana canot agree as to who shall
have the place, 1t is my plan to give it to
some good man from Illinois or Wiscon-
sin. There has already been too long a
delay in filling the vacancy"
The man to whom these words were
spoken left the White House in a hurry
and put himself in wire communication
with Senators Fairbanks and Beveridge
and with the house delegation. It is ex-
pected that there will be speedy agree
ment now that the PRESIDENT has put his
foot down.
PRESIDENT The Roosevelt Marching
club, of Minneapolis, paid
AND its respects to President
Roosevelt to-day in the
MINNEAPOL- person of Congressman
Fletcher's secretary who
ITANS. presented the clubs hand
somely engraved and en-
bossed letter to the president expressive
of its confidence in and affection for him.
The letter was signed George K Belden
president: Charles S. Gale, secretary, and
Sewell A. Andrews, Charles S. Pillsbury
and W. w. Heffelfnger. The president
expressed the liveliest kind of interest in
the letter and spoke enthusiastically of
the several occasions when the club had
come under his notice, notably at the in
auguration last March and at the state
fair last month. He remembers Heffel-
finger very we'll as a college athlete and
said to-day that 1t always did his heart
good when lie witnessed a game in which
"Pudge" was playing.
II was delighted when l saw him coming
I knew that something was going to hap
pen which would be of general interest"
1t may be stated on high authority that
the president has no plans for a trip to
the northwest next year. Congress will
not adjourn earlier than July and after
that the campaign will be under way, and
it is suggested that a trip made at that
time might be misinterpreted and given a
partizan tinge.
RUSHING treasury warrant for
some $4,000 was to-day
MONEY TO mailed to Captain Mercer
and the money will be
INDIANS paid the Indians at Red
Lake for logs cut on the
unceded portion of their reservation. This
money would have been sent in due
course of time, but it was hastened by a
telegram from Mercer stating that the In
dians were restless because the money was
not forthcoming at once. The Indian bu-
reau is surprised that the Indians should
be so insistent but says that the money
can be as well sent now as later.
W. w. Jermane.
STEAMER AGROUND
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