The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-25
MIL TON R. TYLER IS GIVEN POSITION
ON STATUTE REVISION COMMISSION
Supreme Court Judges Finally
Decide to Advance the Secre-
tary of the Organization to
the Position Made Vacant by
the Death of Hiram E. Ste
vens-Vote on TyIer's Selec.
ton Is Understood to Have
Been Three to Two.

Milton R. Tyler, since it's creation
secretary of the Minnesota statute re-
vision commission, was yesterday
elected by the supreme court bench to
succeed the late Hiram F. Stevens as
a member of the commission.
The selection of Mr.. Tyler was made
only after two or three days consid-
GRAFTON by members of the court of
men who were being urged for the
place. At two former sessions of the
full bench it had been impossible to
agree on a successor to Mr.. Stevens,
and yesterday the bench was not unan-
imous for Tyler. 1t is understood that
three members of the bench-Justices
Start, Lovely and Lewis-voted for
him, and that Justices Brown and Col
Inns voted for Oscar Hallam. The final
selection by the court had been de-
ferred in the hope that the full bench
would agree on some candidate.
Formerly Practiced Law.
The new member of the commission
is a lawyer who formerly practiced at
the st. Paul bar. Following an Illness
of nearly two years, he gave up his
practice and became secretary of the
statute revision commission upon it's
creation, nearly three years ago. The
judges who voted FOR him as Mr..
Stevens successor on the commission
say that politics was not considered
and that Mr.. Tyler's election was a
promotion for a man who had given
good service to the commission as its
secretary. He will serve on the com
mission for the five months left it to
complete it's work. The compensation
provided by the act creating the COM
mission is 5000 per month. Judge
Fish, who was selected from the MEM
bers Of the commission to be dts chair
man, is paid at the rate of 1853 per
month. -Ns.-
Mr.. Tyler is brother in law of
Chief Justice Start Lyman B. Ever
dell, a clerk Of the statute revision
commission, is candidate to succeed
Tyler as secretary of the commission. /
The Democratic state central COM
mittee for North Dakota has fixed the
delegate convention date for June 81
at Fargo, and the state nominating
convention for Sept. kat Grand Forks.
Conventions Of sos delegates. are pro-
vided for, the basis being one delegate
for each fifty votes cast for governor
of the state at the last general election.
The conventions will be the largest in
the history of the party in the Flicker
tail state. aaa 80
A. G. Weiss, publisher OF the Duluth
Herald, is credited with being a candi-
1o% 10 f,.i ALL - fI,.,
Eighth congressional district to the ST.
Louis national Democratic convention.
Assistant County Attorney Crosby, Of
Duluth, was in st. Paul yesterday and
said that SO far as he could learn there
would be no opposition to the selection
of Mr.. Weiss as one of the district del
egates. ttHe has always been fair in
his treatment of claimants to Demo
cratic recognition" said Mr.. Crosby,
''and I look to see him chosen as one
Of the delegates from the congressional
district. He will receive the solid sup.
port of the Democratic leaders at the
head of the lakes if he concludes to be-
come a candidate" Crosby is a Dem.
ocrat, who is holding an appointive po-
sition under the Republican county at
torney of st. Louis county. He said
he looked to see the Republicans
of his district supporting both Judge
c. L. Lewis and Railroad Commission
er J. G. Miller for denomination in the
state convention.
Democrats of the Third congressional
district are casting about for men to
represent them at the st. Louis ma
tional convention. T. j. Knox, Of Jack
son, has been approached, but he is a
member of the state statute revision
commission, and has told his friends
that he cannot find the time to CO.
Frank A. Day, the Fairmont editor, is
being considered for one Of the places
on the delegation.
The Seventh district Republican con-
greSSional convention, held Wednesday,
at Ortonville, was the first since the
district was formed on its present geo:
graphical lines, and afforded an eppor-
tunity for the delegates to get togeth-
er and form acquaintance. Less than
a half dozen Of the 1853 men entitled to
seats in the convention were absent.
Prominent among the men assembled
were Frank M. Eddy, who was on
hand to further his gubernatorial can
didacy; E. T. Young, who was busy
all day driving pegs on which to hang
trophies gathered in his race for the
attorney generalship; julius SchmaH.
of Redwood county, who wants to sue
coed himself as chief clerk of the
house; Frank Clague, of Redwood coun-
ty, who will probably be e-elected and
who has already SHE'D his castor into
the ring fer the spealzership of the
next house; and finally, mike" Dow
ling, who was listening intently with
an ear to the ground to learn whether
or not the Republicans of the Seventh
want him to make 4 fight for Con-
gresham Volstead's seat in congress.
Eddy, Young and Bowling all respond
ed to calls for speeches. Seward, of
Marshall after being selected as ads
trict delegate, was called out and
boosted Volstead, whose chairman he
Is. He was SO successful that there
and then died any attempt to fight
resolutions commendatory of Volstead
and his anti-reciprocity position Hen
ry FIeg, of the grain inspection bu-
reau, was a delegate from Kandiyphi
county and member Of the resoiu-
tons committee, and his speech just
before the close of the convention elfc-
tied considerable enthusiasm.
The Volstead men, of course, plume
themselves on having carried the con-
vention by storm for their man. But
one can read between the lines. and
the careful observer can discern a rift
in the lutte. Bowling and his friends
had hoped that this convention would
settle the question as to whether ne
will get into the game again this year.
On the surface it seems to settle it.
Yet there are those-euite a number
of them, and delegates, toe-who say
the Endorsement amounts to nothing
Yet to the appropriated observer it !.
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