The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-01
is NEEDEDIDEMAND FOR Lind FROM mrs, DENIsON Ri
Womans
Peaden
DEMAND FOR Lind
Washington Filters Say He Must
Make the Run.
STATUS OF SUGAR CONTEST
No Interstate Commerce Legislation
at This Session-RailrOads
Arc Divided.

at This Observation-Disclosures
Are Divided.
From Tho journal Bmreau, Room 40. Post
Building. Washinoton.
Washington, May For several days
rumorss have been in circulation in this
city, cropping out in the newspapers, that
the beet sugar insurgents, in house and
senate, were getting ready to quit; that
they had made up their minds it would be
unwise, not to say out of the question, to
force the passage of the house bill
through the senate, and that the demands
OF Cuba We're such as TO compel some sort
Of reciprocity action before the adjourn
ment of the present session.
1t may be said that the rumors are
without foundation of any sort. The in
surgent leaders in both houses tell me
that there has beenYno change in the sit
uation, and that the insurgent forces will
not break. Said one of the house leaders:
These rumors have been started for
the purpose Of influencing the stock mar
ket. The senate will no doubt try TO
take the differential amendment off, but
the beet sugar senators will resist.
Should they fail to succeed, which is
hardly possible, for they are we'll organ
lied and in better form to make fight
than we were in the house, the bill will
come back to the house. We will be
/ strong enough to prevent a concurrence
in the senate amendments, and the bill
will die in conference, and there will be
no Cuban legislation. This, I believe, will
be the result. 1t is hardly possible that
anything can be done for Cuba, unless 1t
is along the line Of a rebate" - - E.
l asked Senator Nelson what in his
judgment, would be the fate of the Cuban
bill in the senate, and he replied that
everything would depend on how we'll
organized the democrats are. If they
stand together as we'll as the democrats
of the house did, Mr.. Nelson thinks there
will be no legislation at this session OF
congress. The democrats say that they
are better organized and better led in the
senate than in the house, and If this is
true, it ought not to be difficult, to see
that the situation is absolutely controlled
by the insurgent forces. si
A~Wild Heatwole Rumor.
A wild rumor went the rounds of the
Minnesota colony the other day to the eff
feet that Representative Heatwole was
getting ready to go home to take up act
lively the fight against Van SAINT, and that
in the end it was Mr. Heatwole's inten-
tion himself to be a candidate for the
gubernatorial nomination. 1t need hardly
be said that there is nothing in the ru-
NOR. He is busy with his anti-Van SAINT
crusade, just as he has been for number
of months, but is not thinking of getting
into the field as a candidate.
Lind VIII Make the Race.
Within the past ten days several
prominent twin city business men, re-
publicans, have been in Washington, and
1t is the unanimous judgment of all of
them, freely expressed to members of the
Minnesota colony, that John Lind will
make the race for governor against Van
SAINT. These geneltmen admit that Lind
does. not want to run, and is doing all
that he can to get out of the way, even
going so far as to state his opinion very
plainly to those who talk to him; but
they say that he cannot control the situa-
ton. Forces which he can neither direct
nor manage are moving toward him as the
logical nominee of. the democratic party,
and 1t, is said that he must yield in the
end. Certain influential democrats from
the state have also been in Washington
lately, and with one accord they say that
Lind will be their candidate. They pro-
pose to nominate him by acclaim in the
state convention, in a way that will make
refusal to accept out of the question.
The G. A. n. Encampment. =,
At the Grand Army encampment this
fall, it is thought that the Sherman
statue, which will stand on the tall
pedestal Immediately south Of the treasury
building, will be ready for unwilling.
Work of the statue has been delayed by
the death Of the sculptor. Arrangements
are also being made for short side trips
out Of Washington, to the battleields OF
Virginia and Maryland, which are near by.
The encampment,w will probably be the
most enjoyable, of recent years.
Judge Torrance's Trip.
Advice from the southern states, where
Judge Torrance now is, is to the effect
that his trip through that section amounts
almost to a triumphal tour. Everywhere
he Is greeted with enthusiasm, by vet
Grams Of both the blue and the gray and
no commander-in chief ever has made SO
bic that Judge Torrance will be remem-
bered as one Of the most popular COM
manders-in- chief of the Grand Army.
That is the belief of the veterans in
Washington.
A Cau for Bede.
Should j. Adam Bede come to congress,
he and Representative Cushman of Wash
ington state will make good team. They
will work we'll together, and the house
will always be certain. on a dull day, of
high class entertainment. The reputation
Of Mr. Bede for humorous oratory has
reached the capitol, and already good
whether he is likely to secure the nomina-
ton. He might, under favorable condi-
tions, fill the aching void caused by the
retirement from congress of "Private'
John Allen of Mississippi.
Interstate Commerce Legislation.
Judging from surface indications, it is
not the intention OF congress, at this ses-
sion to pass any of the several bills pro-
viding for increasing the powers of the
interstate commerce commission. The
whole question will be gone over carefully
in both houses, and the public hearing
will throw light on it which will enable
congress to act intelligently next winter,
or in the tifty-eighth congress-. The hear
ings before the house committee on inter
state and foreign commerce, which has
charge of the bills, have been under way
daily for more than month, and will
continue for several weeks longer. Wit
nesses are being heard who represent all
sides Of the controversy, and when con
gress gets ready to act it will have before
it a great deal of information. 1t would
| be easy to pass a bill at this session, were
the railroads united. Some of them want
a bill passed giving the commission more
power; others, represented by the j. j.
Hill interests, want no legislation of this
sort Congress- will therefore he com