The Sauk Centre herald., 1906-09-06

l CITY VI ALEXANDRIA. Not Tor site,
but for building and site, and the
population of that city at the present
time is only $500.
He also claims credit for winning
his contention in the contest for the
location of the land Office between
Cass Lake and Bemidii. The true
facts OF the matter in this case is
this. The Marshall land Office was
transferred to St. Cloud and the St..
Cloud land Office transferred to Cass
Lake during the latter part OF April
or the first of May, 1903. With this
transfer MIR. Buckman, nor any other
member OF the Minnesota delegation
had nothing to do. 1t was brought
about wholly by the skillful work of
Captain Bernard of Cass Lake, and
F. "A. johnson, Correspondent of the
st. Paul Dispatch, located in Wash.
ington. After it was located and
after Mr.. Buckman was a member.
drawing a salary for himself and
secretary, the city Of Bemidji made a
protest against the location at Cass
Lake, Mr.. Steenerson representing
the 9th district, and Mr.. Bailey OF
Bemidji, and Tams Bixby OF Indian
Territory, had an interview with the
president who ordered the matter re-
opened to give both cities a chance to
present their case. The hearing was
held at Washington, August 10Th,
1903 before Land Commissioners
Richards, Mr.. Steenerson, and Mr..
Bailey appearing for Bemidji and
Mr.. Buchanan and Captain Bernard
for Cass Lake. The point we want to
bring out in regard to this matter is
this: That, although Mr.. Buckman
was the congressman from the 9Th
district, drawing salary as such for
himself and secretary, and it was his
duty to appear and guard the interests
OF every locality in his district, that
before going to Washington to make
this appearance he demanded and
received consideration from the
people OF Cass Lake for so doing.
Mr.. Burton of Kansas, Senator
Mitchell Of Oregon, and Congress-
man Herman of the same state can
furnish the citizens of the United
States with an example of how such
action is regarded.
Favorable action in 200 pension
claims entrusted to him. There are
tive things which congressman can
or cousd do in regard to pension
matters. When veteran applies for
a pension : and his application is
pending before the department it
must await its regular turn for action.
A congressman by making applica-
tion and showing that the claimant
is in dire need or has met with some
misfortune can have the claim taken
out Of its regular order and advanced.
This cuts no figure at the present
time, because the pension office is
we'll up with its work. The second
thing that a congressman can do is,
after the examination of a claim if
there is some piece of evidence lack
ing Congressman can write letter
OF instruction to the claimant telling
him how to furnish and prepare the
necessary evidence. Whether Mr..
Buckman has ever written any such
letters to any pension claimant whose
application he had in charge the old
soldiers of the district can them.
selves determine. We have neves
found one yet. Who has received
such a letter?
He also claims credit for the pass
ing of private pension bills. Mr..
Buckman, like all other members,
introduced a great many pension
bills. By consulting the record we
find that during four years Of service
he introduced something like 400
bills. Twelve of these passed and
those familiar with the proceedings
are aware that Mr.. Buckman made
the selection himself of the bills that
he desired enacted and why he
selected these twelve out of something
like four hundred that he introduced
and thus favored them is up to him
to explain.
He also claims that he stood up and
worked for every measure advocated
by President. We believe that this in
a general sense is true. All of the
Republican members of congress had
to stand by President Roosevelt or in
this election their constituents would
have fixed them so that they would
never have had an opportunity to
stand up for anybody, but there is
one noted exception. /, When it came
to the matter of purchasing supplies
for the Panama Canal it was found
that some of our home institutions
had entered into a deliberate con-
spiracy to hold up the government for
exhorbitant prices, and President
Roosevelt and Secretary Taft declared
that if American manufacturers asked
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