The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-07
COTS IN PRINT SHOP
Bill Before Congress for Lodgings
for Old Soldiers.
ADJ. GEN. fowler IN WASH, D. C..
New. Government Printing Office Ma y
Be Turned Over to 6. A. r..
During Enca rnpment.

B~itai,,0, Washington. zig
Washington, May Us. H. fowler, ad-
jutant general on the staff of Judge Ell
Torrance, Communicated chief of the G..
A. r., was a busy man during the three
days he spent in Washington. His chief
purpose in visiting the city was to see
to preliminary arrangements for free
quarters for the old soldiers during en-
campment week. Under the terms of the
agreement made with the local committee
in charge of encanpment plans, no free
quarters are to be provided by that COM
mittee. The sum of SIS 900, however, is
to be turned over by the committee to the
general officers Of the G. A. R., who, with
it, are to secure these quarters and look
after the needs of poor comrades Now,
$4,000 will not go very far, as Mr.. Tow
Ter knows, and SO he came to Washington
to see if there was any way by which to
secure free quarters outside OF, the money
in hand. After consultation with the local
committee; a bill was introduced in the
house on Saturday by, Representative Jen-
kins of Wisconsin, a member of the fam
BUS Iron Brigade providing that the
new government printing Office, the lar
gest and most complete plant of it's kind
in the world, be turned over to the gen
eral officers Of the G. A. R. during en-
campment week fer lodging purposes for
the veterans. SHoulu tue Dill pdSS--dHu
| it probably will-the building will be
turned over to the G. A. R. officers, who
will fix it up with cots.
-. The Next Delegation.
= The Minnesota delegation in congress
at the beginning of the fifty-eighth ses-
sion, December, 1908, will consist of four
new members and five old ones. This will
I be the first break in the ranks of the dele
cation since the seven now serving were
first elected I say five old ones, for it is
| assumed down here that Representatives
Tawney, -McCleary, Heatwole, Stevens and
Fletcher will succeed themselves. Mr.
| Fletcher is the only one Of the five who
has on hand a fight for denomination, and
his friends in Washington do not regard
| the fight at this time as having assumed
any serious phase: The four new mem
| bers will come from the new sixth anc
ninth districts, set apart by the legisla-
! ture in it's redistricting of the state, anC
from the old sixth and seventh districts
now represented by Messrs. Morris ant
Eddy, both of whom will voluntarily re.
tire. 81.
Both Messrs.~ Morris and Eddy have
made enviable regulations in this city
and they will be missed, no matter who
succeeds them. In his particular lines
Mr.. Eddy is one of the best informed ant
| strongest men in the house. He has {
thorough and Intelligent grasp of public
land laws and the questions arising unde
them; and his mastery of the intricacie!
of the Indian question has left nothing fol
I the other members of the delegation to d,
when Indian legislation was pending. Oh
| the great committee on Indian affairs
which embraces the best experts in con
gress on this question, he has for year
been leading spirit, and no bill has beel
disposed of without his opinion first bein,
sought after. ~1-
! The coming to congress of four new
members will relatively give the five OIL
members a stronger position than the
now occupy. Their length of service will
! give them a claim to first choice in com
I mittee assignments, and for a long tim
practically Ill Of the business of the stat
in the house will be done by them; TO
the man who is serving his first or secon
term in the house isn't much of a fellow
when it comes to doing things himself, O
to getting them done by others.
IS 80 w. W. Jermane.