The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-11
BITTERNESS
OYER BABC0CK
Beer Schedule Used Against
Him as a Club.
HE'S HIS OWN MASTER
Resents the Charge That He Is
Brewers Representative.
ACCUSED OF ACT OF VENGEANCE
His Tariff Bill Drafted Because Steel
Men Would Not Help Him
With Campaign Funds.
Special to The Journal,

Special to The Journal
Chicago, Feb. ia special to the Rec
ord-Herald from Washington says: Call
him off! He is doing youmore harm than
good"
This is the tenor of messages which
have been sent to the Brewers associa
ton of the west by leading republican
sena tors. The man referred to is Repre-
sentative Babcock Of Wisconsin and the
senators who have sent the warning are
high prot ectionists, who do not like the
Wisconsin mans tariff revision perform
ancest in the house. It has been charged
here that Mr.. Babcock is the chief repre-
sentative Of the brewers, hence this noti
fication to them to "call him off,"
Nor is this all. No doubt the war tax
reduction bill, the cut on beer included,
will pass the house next week. Then it
will have to run the gauntlet OF the SEN
ate. Prominent senators have served
notice upon Mr.. Babcock that if he per-
sists in stirring up trouble with his steel
bill in the house the beer reduction may
not go through the senate intact. 1t is
a serious thing to offend the high protec-
! tion leaders, and Mr.. Babcock has Of
Tended them grievously. Therefore this
effort to hold the fate Of the beer reduc-
| ton clause over his head and force him
| to "be good.'
J Babcock His Own Master.
INIT. BabcOck denies That ne is controlled
| by the western brewers and declares that
| he is his own master and will do what he
! thinks best, despite all threats.
The ambitious statesman from Wiscon-
| sin is discovering how rough the road is
when republican legislator attempts to
revise the sacred tariff 1t is being
! whispered all through the capitol that
! Mr. Babcock's famous bill reducing the
| tariffs on steel and iron is a scheme of re-
venge. AS the story goes, in 1900 the re-
/! publican congressional campaign commit
| tee approached the large steel corpora
lions, such as Carnegie, the American
Steel Wire company, the Republic Steel
company and others, with demand for
contributions to the campaign fund.
Every one of these corporations had al
ready subscribed to the republican nation
| al committees fund and they declined to
| pay anything more to Mr.. Babcock's COM
| mittee.
| Was 1t Revenge?
Chairman Babcock was very wroth about
it and is said to have sworn that he
would have revenge. Last winter he in
troduced his bill revising the steel and
iron schedule and this winter reintroduced
it. Last week he gave the high protec-
tionists a scare by coming within one vote
of securing favorable report on his bin
to the house. The high protectionists dc
) not love him and they are saying all man
ner of ugly things about him, including
4 talk of Investigating the manner in which
the funds of the Republican congress
! sioIal campaign committee, of which
Mr.. Babcock was chairman, were spent il
1898 and 1900. Every one knows there
II will be no such investigation and Mr.
Rabcock need not be. afraid.