The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-16
KEYS
HELD BY TAWNEY
Minnesota Man an Insurgent with
Many Votes Behind :
.,,,.. Him. 1870.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-Representa-
tive Tawney of Minnesota is maintain
ing in this congress his reputation &C.
uuired in former congresses OF being
thoroly independent and able, when the
necessity arises, to combat successfully
the house republican majority. When
he defeated the great house machine
on the Cuban reciprocity question ne
achieved triumph such as no other
member of congress in years had to
his credit, and he has begun to play
insurgent in the house this year by
standing out against joint statehood
for Arizona and New Mexico. He has
, declared his statehood position in the
house caucus, and proved that he had
enough votes to defeat any joint state
hood proposition, unless they can be
taken away from him by the, usual
methods of patronage and coercion.
His Victory in 1902.
Tawney's attitude on statehood this
year has started folks in congress to
against Speaker Henderson and the
house leadership in 1902, when Cuban
reciprocity was being considered. It
was a personal victory which he won.
Twenty hours before the vote the
tremendous powers of persuasion and
coercion at the command of the house
leaders had taken all his followers
away from him and the passage of the
bill unamended was assured. In those
twenty-four hours, without either pat
ronage or other means as weapon
TaWney brought them all back agar
and carried thru the amendment which
wrecked the bill.
He is even stronger now than he was
then, because he has back Of him the
! important prestige of the chairman
ship of the great committee on appro
priations.
, Not Bound by Caucus.
!, In the conference of house repub
cussion whether or not the action de
binding. Messrs. Jones and Cushma1
of Washington and Mondell Of Wyo
: ming promptly declared that it woul
II not be binding on them in any event
y 1t was agreed that the caucus shoul
> be called a conference, which destroy
Il it's binding quality; but this was no
done until it had been clearly demon
strated that Tawney had enough vote
to wreck the party policy if Their
S should be caucus bolt. o.
q The republican policy. as decide
d upon at the conference, is to ADM
=, two states, one made up of Oklahom
Il and the Indian Territory and the othe
- - consisting Of Arizona and New Mexico
u Tawney has no objection to the frs
Il proposition, tho he does care much
what form Oklahoma and the India
Il Territory are admitted; but he declare
3 in the conference that the forced COZ
:, solidation of Arizona and New Mexic
II would be an outrage.
o Tawney Applauded.
a The New York Times, in it's Was
&c ington dispatches descriptive of the r
u publican caucus, applauds Tawney an
T. refers to him as one of the most fore
le full men in the popular branch Of CO.
I gress for many years. The Times tel
ID Of Tawney's\ statehood speech to tt
caucus and gives him credit for CO.
trolling, on the statehood questio
sixty five votes, including the solid dc
egations from California, Washingto
ia Oregon and part of the votes fro
" Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin al
Id Iowa, or many more than enough
s. defeat the joint statehood propositit
10 for New Mexico and Arizona if Il
support stands pat. The democra
with them are many.
Speaker Cannon is said to be entire
an in favor of statehood legislation
o. this time, and so it may easily happ,
t. that the effect of Tawney's positi,
as will be to block all statehood legisl
IS IS ton at this session, excepting as
Oklahoma and Indian Territory.