The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-06-15
Copies Of Speech Never De-
livered Sent Broadcast.
TARIFF LEAGUE WAS CAUGHT.
Talk on His Pet Subject Never Was
Made BY the Second District
Representative.
ST PAUL DISPATCH SPECIAL ]

Washington, June S.-Has Congress
man James T. McCleary, the Minnesota
member of the ways and means commit
tee, slipped cog, overplayed his hands
or been the victim of misplaced conf
dence? These, with other questions, will
be propounded to the only 'standpat'
member of the North Star delegation in
congress and it will require more ex-
planning than Mr.. McCleary ever at
tempted in his efforts to clear the at
mosphere about his now famous one
minute speech of April "a, 1904, which
appeared in The Congressional Record
long after congress had adjourned, in
June of that year.
This time Mr.. McCleary did not even
confide the contents of his speech to his
colleagues of the ways and means com
mittee. For weeks it has been announced
that he was to speak upon the tariff
and, during consideration of the diplo
when the republicans and democrats put
forth their best men in an all-arounC
tariff wrestle, Mr.. McCleary was either
afraid to come to the front, or too diff
dent to assert his rights to take the floor
The latter proposition is hardly possible
for McCleary has been in congress fol
twelve years and certainly ought to be
able to receive as much recognition as
new men like lands, of Indiana.
But McCleary waited and waited anc
put off the ''day of his deliverance" un
til, alack and alas, the American Pro
tective Tariff league, of 339 Broadway
New York City, comes to the front with
a full synopsis of the tariff speech OF
Congressman J. 7. McCleary, of Mime
sofa, thus showing beyond peradventure
that the second district member sent
this organization copy of the speech he
has not yet delivered ON the floor of the
house.
In the advance copy" which the Pro
tective Tariff league issued yesterday
there is a short letter from S. ID. Henry
editor of paper printed in Iowa, IL
which he makes this request: 'Please
send me what arguments you have re-
futing the statements that prices oil
farm products are made in Liverpool
The answer is given by referring to the
speech of Representative McCleary, Of
Minnesota, which it is evident that the
publishers thought had already been de
livered in the house. 1t refers to Mr.
McCleary's recent speech, and points out
a comparison he makes of the prices OF
wheat in the towns of Pembina, Mimi.
and Anderson, on the Canadian side Of
the line, quoting quite copiously from
the speech which Mr.. McCleary has no,
yet delivered.
1t is understood that Congressman Nc
Cleary has telegraphed to New York tt
"kll" the synopsis of his Forthcoming
speech. But it is too late. The cat is
out of the bag. And the Protective Tariff
league ''scooped' that great nationa
family journal, The Congressional Rec
ord. Whether or not Mr.. McCleary will
change his speech when he makes it OF
not remains to be developed.
There is grim rumor going the
rounds among the Minnesota colony to
the effect that James A. Tawney, chair
man of the appropriations committee
the place claimed and coveted so conf
IDENTIFY by Nc Cleary, prior to the as
sembling of congress, has put up game
on his colleague. Tawney got through
a rule to commence the debate on the
sundrv civil bill, under the five-minute
rule. instead of having ten or twelve
DAYS of general discussion open for pol
itical speeches.
McCleary had counted on getting the
floor long before June Z, the date OF the
advance copy, which was sent out from
New York, copy of which is in the Dis
patch Washington Bureau, but Mr.. law
news flank movement in cutting out
political speeches, prevented Mr.. Me-
Cleary from getting in, although Taw-
ney yielded thirty minutes to Brundidge
of Arkansas, for TRADE against the
White House.
When it is remembered that for years
McCleary was a member of the appro-
priations committee, this lockout by his
old time colleague would appear to be
Ill.,, decentralization,