The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-08-27
TAWNEY vs..
DELEGATION
WlNONA CONGRESSMAN'S FEl'
LOW MEMBERS RESENT
IMPLIED CHARGE.
THEY PROMISED TO Aid
No Double Dealing Was Practiced by
Them on Tariff Bill, They Say
First District Member Will Com
bat Attempt to Discredit Him.

st. Paul.-MinnesOtas insurgent
! congressmen deny with emphasis and
repel with more or less Indignation
| the insinuation by their brother con-
pressman. James A. Towney, OF the
| First district. Winona, that they vot-
| ed against the tariff bill, not that lik-
| ed the bill less, but that they liked
| their jobs more.
From his summer vacation residence
at Osakis, near Alexandria. Congress-
man Tawney has exploded bomb
shell in the camp of the insurgents
and the followers OF Senator Clapp
by gently insinuating in a telegram
to Eli Warner, president OF the st.
Paul Commercial club, that it would
be We'll to inquire just who, among
the congressman who voted against
the tariff bill, pledged themselves to
vote for the measure in case their
votes were needed to pass it.
The insinuation is broad as it long.
and is a clear intimatiOn on the part
Of James a. Tawney that he proposes
fighting and that he will fight hard.
BY long distance telephone from
Osakis Mr.. TaWney stated thSt he
thought he had made himself clear
in his telegram to President Eli War
ner of the St. Paul Commercial club.
Il merely wanted the matter looked
up in all fairness" said Mr TaWney.
The proposition is to dscredit me- by
honoring the insurgent congressman
think thu il would be only fair to
see how many OF the congressman
made such Ie, ges that's all.
Il must s,v that 7 am surprised
that Mr.. Tawney should make such an
intmation," said Congressman Frank
Nye regarding the telegram sent to
Mr. Warner. "Persoually. | had not
seen the president for two months.
made no promises and never thought
of making any. | voted against the
bill upon its merits and not for the
sake of politics. | did what | believ.
ed was right
IF any Of the members voted with
any thought Of changing their vote in
case of its being necessary, | didn't
know of it, and don't believe there
were any such members'
Congressman Halvor Steenerson Of
Crookston was especially emphatic in
his denunciation "Tel them It's all
false. Not word OF truth i'm it so
far as | am concerned That's all
want to say. can't imagine what
Tawney means"
NNlCtead Save 10 ,Io D1z.;
Congressman Andrew J. Volsttad OF
Granite Falls, also gave vent to a few
mild eypletives directed against his
Winona colleague Il have no knowl.
edge of anything OF the kind" hei said.
NO one but Congressman Stavens
saw President Taft before the yose
am not aware of any such PROMISES on
his part; in fact, am sure he made
none. The only man | talked TO Iyas
Serene Payne who attempted 10 so.
cure my cooperation told hinb
was sorry, but could do nothing Nor
him
Speaking for Senator Knute Nelsdn
OF Alexandria, who refused to come Ito
the telephone, Private Sccretalv
HICKS ventured the remark thar AZ
would be like pulling stumps to geHt
anything out of Senator Nelson "TbA
senator Is seldom quoted" was M
laconic finale.
congressman Clarence b. Miller ~
nuiu'n talked. Ridiculous" he said
can speak for the rest but as for Y
sell-why it's ridiculous, ,ou
you never had any such under
Standing In fact never talked with tho
president on the matter at all vot,
eu against the bin because I didn,t
'hihK II was yhat the people wantodn