The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-07
STEWART And MOVES
Tale of an Incident of the Congress.
siona1 Record.
FIGURES IN IT, TOO
Nevada Senator Got ssLeave to Print
and Was Led to Re-
consider.

From The Journal B.oreau. Room, 60. Pess
Building, Warrington.
Washington, March Ton the 9Th of
February Senator Stewart, by unanimous
consent, when the senate chamber was al
most empty, had inserted in the Con-
gresslona1 Record a lot of the evidence
taken before the court commissioner in
San Francisco regarding the Noyes con-
tempt case. A day or two ago the sena-
tor got UP and asked to have the matter
expunged from the Record. On these two
appearances of the Nevada gentleman
hangs a tale.
During the proceedings against Noyes
Two men, named Chips and Walters tes-
tiled, among other things, that they had
had repeated interviews with Senator
Hansbrough of North Dakota, then In New
York, regarding the need for legislation
for Alaska. Senator Stewart culled out
these several references to Senator Hans
brough evidently with a view to affect
ing the approaching senatorial campaign
in North Dakota, and these were the ex-
tracts inserted in the Record ON the 9Th
of February. There was nothing incrim-
| mating in the testimony, but evidently
the intention was to show by indirection
some connection between Noyes and
Hansbrough.
Senator Hansbrough only recently found
out about the unanimous consent request
of Senator Stewart. At once he made ar
rangements to rise to a question OF per-
sonal privilege, learning Of which Sena-
| tor Stewart asked him not to do it, prom
| Using himself to request that the Record
! be cleared Of the offensive matter To
| this Senator Hansbrough consented, al
though he felt that he should himself
make some remarks. He refrained because
| of the urgent request Of the member
! from Nevada.
| Senator Hansbrough has afidavits, made
! by the witness Walters, at Seattle, some
! little time after the hearing, in which
Walters says he was paid $500, and prom
| ised $1,000 more, if he would go to San
Francisco and testify against Noyes and
Alex Mckenzie. Senator Hansbrough
says he never has met either of these men,
and did not see them in New York or
elsewhere.
cause OF his action, and it is pretty GER
tain that he was used for this purpose
by certain Influences anxious to make
thirgs unpleasant for Hansbrough In
North Dakota this year.
PeriIs for the Irrigation Cause.
The friends of irrigation believe that
their bill, having got through the SEN
ate, will pass the house. The senate
passed the Hansbrough bill and sent it
to the house; the house, meanwhile, has
favorably reported the Newlands bill with
| Oh e%uACAuu4CAI, " OF1ulA6 kAdt q CS4taAu
| proportion Of the money collected in each
| Of the irrigation states from the sale Of
! public lands shall be expended for irri-
! cation purposes within that state. 1t is
| said in answer to that amendment that
such an arrangement would result In
crediting to several of the states much
! larger sums each year than they posi-
| bly, could spend for irrigation. In several
of the important public land states there
is not great deal Of irrigation to be
| done, yet the land sales are very large.
| To set aside say % per cent of these
| sales for irrigation purposes within the
| lines of each state would be to hamper
seriously the work Of developing the irri-
| cation PROJECT. Should the house pass
the Hansbrough bill with this amendment
! it is certain that the senate would throw
| it out in conference.
What IL Merriam's Fate.
| 1t ought not to be assumed in the north
| west that if Governor Merriam fails tC
get into the cabinet as secretary of the
| new department of commerce and labor
it will mean that there is no possibility
| of his ever securing a cabinet position
or that his reappointment as director o,
the census, has shut him off from the
cabinet Neither of these assumptions is
correct. To begin with, Governor Mer.
RAM has always had a preference for the
| interior portfolio, and it has for NOR.
than year been understood that in tn,
event of a vacancy there, he will b.
favorably considered. He will be reap
pointed as director of the census, becaus,
he is the best man who ever has he'll,
that office. Obviously, if it were tn
intention Of the president to make Mer
RAM secretary of the interior within tn
next year. that intention would not inter
fere now with his reappointment as di
rector of the census, to finish his work
Must Have Some Patronage.
Congress will not consent to placing tn
rural free delivery service under the con
; tract system. Recently the new postmas
ter general announced that the propose
to take the fourth class postmasterg GU
of the spoils system, and now it the rura
carriers are to be taken out, too, Their
will not be much left in the way Of pat
. ronage that the average congressman vii
care for. There will not be enough lei
in majority Of the rural district
around which to make an organization 70
campaign purposes.