The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-25
IS
UNSCATHED.
Bigelow "Never Touched
Him, !" Says State Dept.
CHARGES PASSED BY
Taylor Not Likely to Be Brought
Low by the Present Fire.
PowDERLY DESIRES COMPANY
Opposition to Speaker Henderson In
His Home District Not at
All Surprising.

Suisding, Resti,sgtos- :, : =,
Washington, March 25.-John Goodnow
is in MO danger of investigation by the
made by Poultney Bigelow in his lecture
at the University of Minnesota in January
last. A high official of the department.
said to-day:
The department has no official knowledge
of charges made against General GoodnoW
to- take cognizance of charges made in the
way Bigelows were made, or in fact Of any
newspaper or general charges unless they are
preferred officially and supported by some
evidence and are very scandalous. In. this
case the department. did not feel justified in
noticing Mr., Bigelow's statements in view
of the fact that they were aimed at an Off
cial whose rec ord is uniformly good.
'HOD" IN Friends of Terrence "
Powderly, commissioner
LITTLE general eof immigration,
who is slated to leave the
DANGER government service, have
made an attack upon AS
son, apparently in the hope OF saving
Powderly. Senators Quay and Penrose
! and Representative Cornell of Pennsyl-
vana saw the president yesterd, and
charged that Mr.. Taylor was rea-zy the
person responsible for the abuses in the
immigration service at New York. and
| stated that his acts should be investi-
gated in connection with alleged irregu-
! larities in that service. Representative
! T ixyi,oc cfo of ruio ic Len tar 1Spy
! lors scalp because he would not consent
| to an increase of the salary of Chief CLERK
| Larned Of the immi grafton bureau. The
attack Is likely to be unsuccessful Mr.
| Taylor, in discussing the matter to-day
said: s5S, :*
| The attempt to drag me into this CON
J troversy is simply an effort on the part o.
Mr.. PoWderly's friends to pull me down will
I him. They know he has to go and want t
carry some one. else with him. It will no
succeed. That's all thera.is to It. l.Zs;sa
Senator Spooner saw the president be.
fore the cabinet meeting to-day, but he
said he did not talk about the charges
against Mr.. Taylor.
+ II do not think there is any danger o.
Taylor going out Of the department to.
morrow or very soon after that. He vii
hang on for a little while, at least, saie
the senator as he left the White House,.
| THORNY Washington is not sur
! i. prised that Speaker Hen
l. FOR THE derson is this year, for the
| first time in his congress
SPEAKER sional career, which began
in 1882, to have a contes
for denomination. The speakers attitude
| on tariff revision has run counter tt
widespread sentiment in his state and es
pecially in his district. His support O
the ways and means committee in tht
Cuban sugar controversy has tended tt
widen the breach. Before the holidays
petition reached Mr.. Henderson from
prominent business mer in his dlstrlc
asking that he favor revision OF the
tariff. In reply he took strong grount
against revision.
twas at this time that the movement tx
oppose him in convention was started. i
is hardly possible that he will fail to 81
| renominated, but the fact that uhere ]!
opposition shows how the Iowa republl
cans feel regarding the Babcock bill AM
1 Cuba.
THE RED Indian Inspector Nc
4 -. Laughlin has returned t
! LAKE Washington with tn
J treaty negotiated for tn
/ TREATY. cession OF part Of the Re
| Lake reservation in Min
nesota 1t will be sent to congress IN lei
Idays or two weeks with Secretary Hitch
cocks approval. The treaty provides TO
! the cession of 256. 1852 acres of agriculture
land for which the Indians are to feceiv