The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-22
MINNES0TANS
IN WASHINGTON
JOHN GOODNOW is ENTERTAINED
By CHINESE MINISTER.
The Consul at Shanlhai Well Thought
of at the White House-The As
sistant District Attorney at the
Capitol-A Successor for Castle,
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Washington, Dec. 22.-The dinner
which the Chinese minister gave Con-
sun General and Mrs. John GOOdnoW
Monday evening was on their personal
account. They were we'll acquainted
with him in China, before his appoint
ment, and he was a frequent caller at
the consul generals house, where he
was always a welcome guest. At the
dinner Mr.. and Mrs. Goodnew met a
number Of the members of the diplo-
matte corps.
Last Thursday Mr.. Goodnow met the
resident-fQr the first time. At the
time GoodnoW was appointed consul
general, Mckinley was president and
Hobart vice president. This was be-
fore the Spanish war. This is the sec
ond time Goodnow has been home in
the sex years of his service. When he
was here on the first visit, Roosevelt
was out west hunting bear.
Last Thursday morning Goodnow
and Tim Byrnes called on the presi-
dent to pay their respects and during
the visit the president asked GoodnoW
to come back in the afternoon to talk
over Chinese politics as it affects
American interests. This second visit
lasted for a couple of hours, during
which the entire oriental situation was
gone over.
Goodnow brought back with him to
the United States an Important Chi
nese trade treaty, which he succeeded
in negotiating after much hard work.
This is the second treaty that was ever
negotiated and signed by a citizen of
Minnesota. The first one was the
treaty of Paris, which closed the
Spanish war, and was signed by Sena-
tor. Davis as a member of the treaty
commission.
Al Smith There.
Al j. Smith, assistant district attor-
ney of Minnesota, spent several days
in Washington last week, on a brief
vacation, after a long siege of hard
work at home. He timed his trip 80
as to be here during the argument of
the merger case in the supreme court
last week. He heard all Of the
cpeeches and was introduced to all of
the attorneys, on both sides. While
torney General and Mrs. NJ. d. Purdy.
Smith and Purdy were closely asso-
ciated a few years ago in the office of
the county attorney of Hennepin
county.
Grimshaw Also.
United States Marshal w. H. Grim
shaw, accompanied by his wife, were
in Washington several days lastsweek,
and started for Minneapolis on Sat
urday night. 1t was Mr.. Grimshaw's
first. trip to the nations capital in
twenty two years, and he found the
Washington Of that day and Of now
two very different places. He was
struck with the changes for the bet
ter on all sides, and thinks that Wash
ington is now one of the most beauti-
full cities he has ever seen. Mrs.
Grimshaw spent a good deal of her
time here visiting relatives and
friends whom she had not seen for
a long time.
Mr.. GrinnShaW was very pleasantly
received by the president, who shook
him by the hand with much hearth
ness and displayed a good knowledge
Of general Minnesota political condi-
tons. He even recalled that Grim
Shaw was, perhaps, the original
Roosevelt man in Minnesota. At the
time. when an effort was being made
in the state to secure a delegation to
the national convention for Senator
Davis for the presidency, Grinshaw
protested, and that protest was $, partly
responsible for the failure of the Da-
Wis boom. At that time he was ia
voring the n nomination of Roosevelt
for the vice presidency, and he has
been a Roosevelt man ever since.
Wilson Heard Arguments.
General George p. Wilson, who
heard all OF the merger arguments
before the supreme court, was much
impr essed with the force and Selo-
quence OF Attorney General Knox. He
didn't, however, feel that Mr.. John
son. the Philadelphia trust attorney,
who made the leading argument foI
the merger people, came quite up ia