The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-21
Politicians Have a Theory
About Mr.. Babcock.
REPEAL OF BEER lei TAX a.:
This Said to Be the Wisconsin Mans
Only Desire.
COMPELLED COMMITTEE TO ACT.
! Hearing Soon to He Given People
| Who Would Take the Taxes
or Tea and Beer.
From The .Jo,.rnat Bstrsau, Boom Co. Poet
BujEdim1. W0sIbiA0t0ss.

From The Jossrsn1t Bssrsotts Room %, Post
Washington, Jan. 21.--Has Mr.. Bah
cock been pushing his tariff bill in order
to force congress- to take the remainder
Of the war revenue tax off of beer?
His friends will undoubtedly answer
that question IN the negative, but a good
many members Of congress are inclined
to answer 1t in the affirmative. In these
dispatches the other day the story of Mr..
eBabcock's s. petition for q caucus OF repub-
lican members to consider his tariff bill
was referred to, and it was stated that
seventy signatures had been secured and
that hundred were in sight. Yesterday
afternoon a secret meeting of the repub-
lican members of the ways and means
committee was very unexpectedly held to
consider the propriety OF reporting a bill
to repeal the remaining war revenue tax.
Great pains were taken by Chairman
Payne to keep the notice of the meeting
from booming public It was decided by
the ways and means republicans at, that
secret meeting to begin next Monday the
public hearings in the interest Of Wiping
out the remaining war tax on tea and on
beer.
shrewd politicians figure that Chair
man Payne, hearing. of Babcock's move
for tariff bill caucus, decided to open up
in committee the question Of: taking the
war tax off beer; and that Mr.. Babcock
will now permit his tariff bill to die. This
is not a complimentaryEded deduction to Bah
cock and it may be wholly unjustifed by
the subsequent events. II state it for the
information Of a large number Of north
western people who. have been plnnlng
their faith to Mr.. Babcook's sincerity and
who heartily Endorsed his tariff bill. The
events Of the next little while ought to
determine whether to-day's guess or Is
not correct as lending seeming probable
1ty to the opinion that Babcock cares more
for taking the tax off, OF beer than off Of
:steel products. It may be said that ne has
Ebeen stoutly denying ever since YESTERDAY
THAT he is trying to get up caucus &c
consider the tariff bill.
CONDITION. Judge Noyes Is very
" sick man in San Fran
b. OF NOYES.& cisco. So serious is his
s,sstg., 81, cond iti0h Fat the physi.
clans have directed thaz nothing be sa1c
to him about the matters In which he is
Interested through the recent action O.
the California federal court OF appeals
He has been told that the court assessed
Olm 91,UUU NY way " q AAAO Iva aAAAS
nection with the contempt case which
dragged along before it for several month
and this information seemed to have
good effect upon him. Evidently ne nat
been looking for a jail sentence. Beyon'
| the mere mention of the finding OF tn
court he knows nothing, nor has anyon'
talked in his presence about the case. II
the opinion of the physicians he will re
cover SO far as to be up and about, bu
his health has probably been permanent:
shattered, and he will never again be Well
Nobody knows what he proposes dolnt
about the $1,000 fine. The officers OF tn
court, under the orders of the physicians
are not molesting him in any way, nor \
any guard being stationed near him. a
| soon as he is able to leave the hospital NJ
will probably make up his mind what n
| will do. He has no property, and his sal
ary. which OF course continues, has al
been used in defraying the cost OF tn
| long-drawn- out litigation in San Fran
cisco. He could set up that he has NJ
money or property, and this might resul
| in the fine being RENTED. But, as stated
! nobody knows what his plans are
Attorney Henry, counsel for Judg
| Moves in the contempt proceedings a
San Francisco, will file petition for Ger
| tiorari in the supreme court this week
There is grave doubt of the judges re
| covery.