The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-19
HULL NOT WORRIED.
! He Does Not Think That His Scalp
Is in Danger Of Being
Lifted.
He Says That Cumnins and His
Friends Cannot Beat Him
at the Primaries.
From The Journal Bureau Room IS, Post Build


ses ing, Washington. " Ettsasss ~. td$S
= Washington, March 19.-Representatiye
Z Hull of Des Moines$ evidently does. not
& take much stock insthe stories which have
1 been sent out from Iowa. regarding the
politics of the Des MONIES district. These
stories, all of which have been anti-Hull.
ARE written, according to Mr.. FHulls opin-
4 ion. by the private secretary to- Governor
Cummins wllptloes5 good deal Of news
paper work q the side: and has organized
quite a press bureau. Hull refuses to be-
lieve that his 41litical scalp is In danger
of being lifted. Here IS the wayne talks
about the Des Moines situation: p s.~ II
II am still tarrying in Washington, not
withstanding the reports telegraphed from
I Iowa about my impending downfall. / am
the summer and to attend to some private
business. and to give a little attention to
politics. ~->*1E2 ' 3:
For several years have hardly had
any time T could call my own. Now I
want to devote the summer months to my
private business. 1 have been In Des
Moines so little that there are 10000 or
$4,000 people out there who do not know
me- I have been so busy elsewhere. I
want chance to meet them.
s. Governor Cummins and 7 do not get
s. along very tremendously, but of course,
such things happen among men who get
y Into politics. They have been proclaim
ing my defeat because of an election the
other day for the district congressional
committee. I don't care whether the
other fellows have the district committee
itor not. All that committee has to do is
to call the primaries for the nomination
Z of a republican candidate for congress.
ii didn't spend penny on that. - ~
For several years the committee has
been with me. and have been accused of
doing all sorts of things. Now I am per-
fectly willing to let the other side have the
committee.
8 "Cummins and live in the same pre-
cinct. and I easily beat him out there in
1.-The last fight. He and his friends say
they can defeat me at the primaries for
nomination next year. In my Judgment
they can't do it,
Valuable Bird Legislation.
William butcher of New York city
passed through Washington on his way
to Richmond, Va, where he goes to urge
the passage of the bird protection bill
now pending in the Virginia legislature.
The "A. o. L. model bill" which is
being urged upon the legislatures of all
the states which have not already adopted
it or its main features, provides for the
protection Of all birds except game birds
throughout the year, and thus seeks to
prevent the shooting Of birds for the sake
of the feathers commonly used in the mil
linery business. The bill has passed the
legislature Of North Carolina, Tennessee
{ and Oregon at the sessions of this year.
"a The bill is strongly recommended by
the secretary Of agriculture, and in Ten
nessee its passage was urged also by Pres
ident Dabney of the University of Ten
nessee, who was formerly assistant secre,
tary of agriculture. The bill, in it's es-
sential provisions at least. has now beer
adopted by the legislatures of nearly hal
the states in the union.
This result represents about sixteen Of
seventeen hard years of work on tn,
arb 0fM Mr. D11tnf nd n iS ofotn
The model bill was adopted by the Or
nithoogists' union in 1886, and since tina,
date has been passed, on an average, BY
one state or more. each year. 1t is als'
in force in several of the Canadian prov
inces A statute based on the same gen
eral principles has been adopted in Soutl
Australia.
Committee Places
When congress reassembles next winter
there will be a good many vacancies il
senate committees to be f1lled-some for
ty-nine. to be exact--created by the mem
bers who went out Of office on the At
Fl of the present month. In the shakeul
ii Senator McCumber Of North Dakota wi
become the chairman of the committee o.
pensions, a post held for a number of year
IS by Senator Gallinger Of New Hampshire
Fl who now becomes chairman of the com
an,ittee on the District of Columbia. TIL
pension committee Is one of the most i'm
:iportant. Mr.. McCumber will find his wor
& hard, but the post is one of great dig
unity and influence. 1t is possible tina
Senator Hansbrough of North Dakota wi
Erelinquish his place on the library com
Rnittee, which he has held for a numbe
of years, and try to secure place O.
the committee on irrigation and arid lands
$Already he is the chairman of the com
p smittee on public lands, and if he ca
add q place on the irrigation and ari
lands committee to it, he will be able It
accomplish a great deal for his state
while not officially connected with tn
I'D irrigation committee. Senator Hans
: brough drafted the new irrigation law an
did more to get 1T through congress tina
any other member of either house. ( s's
-. ..r.-H. w. w. Jermarle.