The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-23
H]EATW0LE's MOTIVES

Organization.
NELSON AND HIS DEPT. BILL
Senator Conducting the Battle Skill
fully and His Measure
Will Pass.
Fron, Tho Journal Bureau, Room 10, Post
building, WaszSss0tOs
Washington, Jan. pa recent article
in he j ourna calling attention to
organized opposition to the denomination
of Governor Van SAINT has attracted a
great deal of attention in the Minnesota
colony. Congressman Heatwole's oppo-
sition to The governor is no new thing.
It began months before there was any
merger question, and has been carried on
Independently of merger influence. Mr..
Heatwole makes no secret Of his opposi-
ton, and it is evidently his intention to
secure Van SAINTS defeat in the conven-
ton, if such a thing is possible.
h e u IN a article comedies with
Washington opinion when it says that
there is no connection between the Heat
the northern part of the state, presum-
ably by Great Northern influence.
Whether in the end it will be necessary
for the two movements to unite nobody
can foresee at this end of the line. Mr..
HeatWole declines to discuss the article
! in question for publication. It is under
! stood that The is in close touch with a
large portion of the state. His state mail
| is very largo and he receives scores of
| state press clippings daily. So far as
known he is not contemplating making a
| trip to the state before the adjournment
| Of congress. which will probably. be in
| July; but If ne continues his work OF
| organizing against Van SAINT it is likely
| that he will feel the need for working at
closer range as the convention time ap-
proaches.
1t is said that considera BILE part of the
Heatwole opposition to Van SAINT has for
it's inspiration opposition to the present
republican state organization, which Mr..
| Heatwole is understood to maintain is not
worthy of the continued confidence and
| support Of the party. Should Van SAINT
| be renominated this organization will be
! perpetuatcd. The only way to get rid
| of it Is to nominate some new man who
| is not under obligations to it and will
agree to turn it down. I do mot quote
| Mr.. HeatWole in these statements, but re-
| fleet what is generally understood here tc
t.be his position. On top of the. rest, it is
! said that he does rot regard the governor
| as a strong man, and claims that he stun
! bled into the merger case largely by &C.
cident.
SKILL OF Senator Nelson is max.
ing an able and dignife(
! NELSON. fight for the passage of his
| bill creating a new cabi
net position-the secretary of commerce
His handling of the bill has been yer.
skilful and has brought him a number O.
compliments from the oldest and ables
men in the upper house. It is noteworth!
of the details of the bill, there is practi
cally none to the principle underlying it
Almost the entire senate thinks the TIM
has now come when a new cabinet posi-
ton such as Mr.. Nelson has in mind mus
be created. The ELECTION is only to Ger
tain details. The bill will pass and reacl
the house In ample time to be considered
there at length. The president is under
stood to want to have the new depart
ment go into operation with the opening
of the fiscal year, July 1.
| FOR Proceedings will soOl
be begun in this countr.
CAPTAIN to test the validity of tn
action OF the court-mar
| BARROWS tial which convicted Cap
tain Fred Barrows of
Minneapolis of fraud in the commissar.
department in Manila. Representative
Fletcher was at the war department to
day to find out the status of Barrows
case and was told that Captain Read, VIII
was convicted with the Minneapolis Off
cer had been ordered to Fort Leaven
worth prison, SO that he might be in touc]
with his counsel in proceedings which b
will institute in the United States court
Whatever decision is rendered in his cas-
will govern the Barrows case.
Read was sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment and Barrows to five. Barrow
will be kept at Manila until he is release
as a result of Reads suit or II the decl
sion is adverse, until he completes hi
sentence.
Congressman Babcock'
BABCOCK friends acquit him of an
improper motives in con
ACQUITTED nection with his tari1
bill, and assert that b
proposes to push it as rapidly as pos
sible They insist that he is not usin
his bill as club to secure a reduction
: of the war revenue TAX on peer, anu lHd
intimations of that sort do him ran
injustice. 1t is quite possible, they say
7 that certain members of the ways an
means committee have opened up the wa
, revenue reduction question in the hop
that Mr.. Babcock may regard it as a.
, olive branch and voluntarily refrain fror
causing trouble over the tariff. But wit
! them the wish is father to the thought
Mr. Babcock is not party to the ar
rangement nor will he be.
>, This statement is made in justice t
l Mr. Babcock, who has been criticized
good deal lately because of the seemingl
peculiar circumstances attending the ca
: of the ways and means republicans las
: Monday afternoon. 1t is claimed that MI
Babcock will proceed with his work G
securing signatures asking for caucu
of house republicans to consider the tart
BILL and that soon as a sufficient mum
Der has signed will bring the question a
once before Congressman Joe Cannon, tn
chairman Of the house caucus committee
Meanwhile, the west and the northwest
which are deeply interested in the Bah
= cock bill, will watch the situation closely
| 1t would hardly seem that Mr.. Babcocl
even were he SO inclined, could afford
make merchandise Of his bill His follow
ling is too large for any such program to b
carried out successfully