The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-08
Declines the Post of Assis-
tant Postmaster General.
RESPONSES AIRBANKS
Acceptance Would Split Indiana and
Kill Off New.
BEAuL1EU AND THE MORRIS BILL.
Chippewa Representative Submits
Five Changes That He Re
CARDS Necessary.

From, The journal Bureau. Room 10, Post
Building, Warrington.
Washington, March S.-Harry New, pub
Usher of the indianapolis Journal and re-
publican, national committeeman for In
diana, has decided to stand by his home
folks President Roosevelt offered him
a position as one Of the assistant post
masters general The temptation was
strong, but finally New declined By &C
cepting he would have opened the way for
a, mighty split of the Indiana republican
party in 1904 on the question of the presi-
dency.
New could not have come to Washington
without tacitly agreeing not to oppose
the effort which Roosevelt wants to make
to carry Indiana in the national conven-
ton. At the same time, Senator Fair
banks will be a candidate, and must have
his own state If he is to get other states.
1t was a shrewd move on Rooseyelts
part, and for time it seemed likely to
succeed. New, however, would have been
the permanent loser. BY coming to Wash
ington, he would have stirred up his state,
divided it's forces. and even il Fairbanks
in the end had carried it, New would have
lost caste and died politically.
BEAULIEU Gus H. Beaulieu, repre-
senting the Chippewa In
AMENDS dams at Washington, has
filed with the Indian affairs
committees a long statement containing
amendments to the Morris bill which he
thinks should be adopted. Beaulieu says
he Is In favor of the Morris bill, because
he thinks it embodies a better plan for
disposing of the Chippewa timber than the
old Nelson law, which has afforded oppor-
tunities for fraud.
The suggested amendments are embod-
led in five propositions. The first Is for
the Immediate allotting of lands as pro-
vided by the original act, with directions
to the secretary of the interior to cause
this to be done by the commission created
under that act. The second is provision
that none of the agricultural lands shall
be opened to settlement until all Of the
Indians have received their allOtments
and striking out the provision requiring
the opening of these lands within four
months of the passage of the act Third
it is suggested that there should be nc
sawmills located upon the reservations
The fourth amendment provides for strik-
ing out the paragraph relating to the ap-
pointment of superintendent of logging
and scaling. Beaulieu says the interests
Of the Indians, If they can be protected al
all, would be protected by the scalers who
should be placed under bond for the faith
full performance of their duties. The fifth
amendment suggeste4 is that the bill
should provide for compromising the In
dams for the 2,225. 900 acres of land which
it is proposed to set aside for forestr.
purposes, and for the timber which will
be left standing thereon. 1t is also sug
gested that the expenses of protectin,
the, reserved lands, or any other expens
connected with the rforestry proposition
should be paid by the United States, an,
not by the Indians, as provided in tn
bill.