The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-09
BAD OD0R IN
PART REMOVED
PART OF THE RECORDS OF THE
SENATE ON MOVES CASE
EXPUNGED
IRRIGATION CASE DOUBTFUL
Bits Passage by Senate May Prove
Ineffective and Simply
Compliment to Hans
brough
IRRIGATION CASE DOUBTFUL
HENDERSON FIGHTS THE PLAN
FROM THE GLOBE BUREAU,
Washington. ID. G.

/ FROM THE GLOBE BUREAU,
| Washington. ID. G.
| WASHINGTON, March Snow that
| the Noyes case has become a clos
| ed incident, Senator Stewart, of New
| ada, has taken steps to remove some
| of the dfspleasing testimony from The
| permanent RECORDS of congress. Last
| Tuesday he secured unanimous consent
| of the senate to have stricken from the
permanent records all the matter publish
| ed Feb. 5, from pages 1873 to 1885,
This consists of testimony filed with the
| attorney general in which various wit
neSses tell of the close connection exist
| ing between Senator Hansbrough, of
| North Lakota; ex-senator Carter, Of
Montana; the judge, and the receiver of
| the Nome mines. Jimmie Galen, brother
| in-laW of former Senator Carter, figures
! as an active participant in the doings at
| Nome, and the obvious inference sought
/ to be conveyed is that he was represent
| ing the Montana senator.
Senator Stewart observed, in asking his
| consent: ION looking it over, I observed
| that a portion of the report reflects on
| members of this body, and I do not thinA
| it proper for me to have it printed" He
| might have added-whaL expresses the
| sentiment of both sides of the house
''us senators must stand together"
There is a general understanding in
the senate that the shipping subsidy bill
| is to be passed. The senators are will
| ing to let Senator Frye have the credit
| of getting his pet measure through the
| upper branch of congress, and the house
| Of representatives can take the response
| bility of passing or killing it. Members
| of the house-particularIy those from
the Middle West-are preparing to Kill
| 1t.
BfIPs Path Is Deceptive.
To the casual observer it might appear
! that a smooth road lies before the irri-
| cation bill recently passed by the senate.
| 1t is now before the house of representa-
| tives, and all that Is necessary is
| rule to be made by the speaker and the
! committee on rules making the bill the
| immediate order of business.
But 1T is right here the bill will strike
snag. There is an opposition in the
house of so serious a character that the
senate felt quite easy in letting the bin
get by. The very absence of serious con-
troversy or criticism in the senate is
bad omen. The bill has had too easy q
time
There was remarkable unanimity in the
senate in favor of the so-called Hans
brough-Mitchell bill. In fact there was no
apparent opposition. The debate Jagged
because there was none to take up the
negative side. Republicans and Demo-
Gratis arose, one after another, and pro-
ceeded in a rambling fashion to tell why
they were going to vote for the bill.
Senator Hoar made a little address in
which he said the New England states
congratulated the West on the prospect
presented in this bill of opening up new
and fertile tracts of land for homeseek-
ers. Senator Cullom asked how many
acres Of arid lands there were in the
United States, and when this all-import-
ant point had been answered, he settled
down to vote for the bill.
Tlllman said he was in favor of the bill
because the scheme would not succeed;
he said there would not be enough money
realized from the sale of arid lands to
start the great dam works; and ten years
from now, he said the members from
the West would be back asking for
money to help them out. And, said Till
man, good-naturedly, IT shall be here
and shall be in favor of giving you all
the money Us fellows from the South
and West have not had our share Go
ahead and get what you can"
Senate Is Too Compliment.
And thus the debate went forward
until it was close to the dinner hour
| and there was the Formally of a viva
voce vote; and without an audible mo"
| the bill was declared passed.
The complacent manner in which the
senate permitted the passage of the cen
tering wedge" irrigation bill, is the
| with which the irrigation scheme has
| been fought in the senate of every con-
| greSs for twenty years. One of the regu,
| lar eXcitements in the closing hours has
| come to be the desperate efforts of some
| Western member to save an item for ir-
| rigation in one of the big supply bills
| There has always been an uncertainty
| whether one or more of these bills would
| not fail, and thus necessitate an extra
| session, on account of the stubbornness Of
some senator, determined to win or talk
| the bill to death. The mild attitude of
| the senate is to be accounted for by two
reasons. In the first place, the bill had
| not passed the house, and in the second
| place, it carries no distinct appropriation.
| 1t simply provides for segregating the re
ceipts from the sale of public lands in the
semi-arid states and devoting them to the
| work of reclamation. In all previous
efforts a direct appropriation has been
| sought
The fate of irrigation in the house of
| representatives depends on the speaker
| and the committee on rules. The COM
mittee on irrigation has instructed it's
| chairman Tongue, of Oregon, to make a
| favorable report of the Newlands BILL and
1t is now for the speaker and his ad-
| Visers to give the matter a place on the
calendar, where it will be considered be-
! fore adjournment. The Newlands bill
! Is 10 the f1a0SDfOuEn Dill, with
the exception that it carries an amend
ment requiring that a certain per cent
of the receipts from public lands sold
shall be expended within the limits of
| the state. This provision may or may
not be agreed to by the senate; but it will
not keep the house committee from re-
| commencing the Hansbrough bill, prac-
tically as it stands.
Speaker Opposed to Measure
But the greatest obstacle to irrigation
is the speaker. Gen. Henderson, is op-
posed to the Inauguration of any irri-
cation policy at this time-or, apparently,
at any other time. 1t is within the power
| of the speaker to fatally block the way
of the bill by refusing to make a rule
for its consideration; if left to its regu-
lar course on the calendar it would never
be reached, either in this or in the short
session of congress.
The question for the irrigation advo-
| Gates is whether Henderson can be moved
He resides in an agricultural district and
| his constituents are not directly. inter-
| tested. He can, and will, make the argu-
ment with them which is put forward by
Sibley and others, that irrigation will
omen up large and fertile tracts to agri-
| culture which will come in direct COM
| petition with the farmers of Iowa and
| other fertile but non-irrigation states, and
| chat the farmer viii see the prices of