The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-15
WANT N CLEART BACK
As REVISION EXPERT
Northwest Congressman, Many Of
Them Revisionists, Urge Re-
election of standpatter.
BY w. w. Jermane.

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Washington, April 14.-Members Of
congress from the northwest states, the
most of them revisionists, are Begin
ming to express the hope that Represen-
tative McCleary Of Minnesota will be
returned for at least another congress
owing to the strategic position which
he occupies on the ways and means COM
mittee. 1t is the belief of these con-
gressmen that the tariff will have to be
revised by the next congress, and, they
want their section Of the country to
of the table in the ways and means com.
mittee room. .... ..
The new tariff bill will be written
by that committee. and as it is reported
to the house it will be passed without
amendment. 1t is therefore necessary
that if any particular section of the
country wants it's interests looked after,
it should be represented in the ways
and means committee room.
Mccleary Would Stand High,
With the end of the present congress,
Representative Grosvenor of Ohio will
retire to private life. He is just ahead
Of Mr.. McCleary on the committee. His
retirement will push the Minnesota
gentleman up to third place. Chair
man Payne, in the next congress, will
sit at the head of the table. Mr.. Dali
zell Of Pennsylvania will sit on his
right hand, and Mr.. McCleary, should
he succeed himself this year, on his
left. ,--..- 49,. -, .....
This position will mean that Mr.. Nc
Cleary will be member of the import
ant tariff conference committee. On
bill as important as the tariff bill, each
house will have five conferees. Those
for the house will be the three gentle
men Just named, and the two ranking
democrats of the ways and means com.
mittee.
mittee thus becomes a matter of the
highest importance to all sections of
the country tributary to the twin cities.
Of course, he is "stand:patter,'
and will do his best to prevent revision
| to the last. but after congress shall
have decided that revision must be
brought about and the ways and means
committee has begun the preparation
| of a bill, then Mr.. McCleary will no
longer be 'stand-patter, but the
personal representative on the ways and
means committee OF the great north n,
west and as that representative he Will
| do everything that he can do to see
that it's interests are protected, and It's
demands complied with.
No Politics in This.
| This is the situation as to McCleary
as it has been outlined to T he ] our r.
ma correspondent half dozen times
| this week by various prominent mem
bers of the house from the northwest,
all Of whom are interested in knowing
what the second Minnesota district pur-
poses doing at it's primaries next fall.
There is nc politics in this friendli-
ness for McCleary, for most of the gen.
tlemen with whom I have talked feypf
revision, and think that he makesa mis-.
take in taking the stand he does. But
if the tariff is to be revised in the next
congress, they want TO feel sure that
one Of the house conferees viii be a man
II who is Intelligent, patriotic and loyal to
the section which he represents.
Mr.. McCleary, it is believed, will be
one of the greatest tariff experts of
late years by the time revision comes
, on, reaching position of prominence
similar to that occupied for SO many
: years by Mckinley.
Glove rubbers-standard for so years
Foot Schulze on the soles. So