The Washington herald., 1913-09-14
Mr.. KINDEL WILL
KEEP ONFIGHTING
Says There VIII Be Merry
Time During the Next
Eighteen Months.
HAS STIRRED HIS PARTY
Representative Has Taken Issue with
Cabinet Officers and Objected to
Committee Appointments.
HAS STIRRED HIS PARTY

Colorado the Democrats of the House
have a one-man insurrection that threat
ems to become embarrassing.
Kindel has been member OF the
House since March last. In that time
he has told President Wilson that his
Postmaster General knows as much
about his job as the average girl does
about marbles. and that his Attorney
General has been made the plaything of
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific law
yers; he has told Secretary of State
| Bryan. who tried to arbitrate him into
a conciliatory mood, that he would
rather fight than be a Democrat, and he !
mas told the House leaders that II he |
cannot be on the Interstate and Foreign |
Commerce Committee. he won't serve on
any committee.
Kindel came to Congress from Denver |
because he could fight He has been |
fighting for twenty years for equitable |
freight rates. He has fought in the
courts and before the Interstate Com |
merce Commission. He has won some |
Of his fights; others he has lost.
Begins Fighting Career.
He started his fighting career as a |
politician before the election last sum
mer, when he told the county committee
that he would oversee his own campaign |
and assess himself accordingly. This
was after he had received the nomina-
tion. He was elected on his personal
following. Then, according to a story
that has never been verified. he came
here and demanded OF Oscar Underwood
and a few other leaders of the House
that he be placed on the Interstate and
Foreign Commerce Committee, where he
could continue his fight against dis
IL,
wood regretfully informed him that he
probably couldn't go on the Interstate
Commerce Committee right away, but
he could have the Accounts Committee,
a nice chair with nothing to do. There
upon. Kindel is said to have asked Mi
nority Leader James r. Mann to take
care Of him and put him in with the
Republican members of the committee,
which didn't increase his popularity with
the Democratic leaders TO a marked de-
gree. kindel resigned from the Accounts
Committee and waited
About the time that the mercury was
doing stunts that would make a steeple-
jack dizzy. Kindel again made a protest,
this time against his office quarters. He
had been assigned to a room on the first
floor OF the Maltby Building, used TO
house the overflow from the House Of
flee Building. Kindel was in the over
flow. Most Of the time his Office was
about the temperature OF the equator at
noon on a sunshiny day. Kindel dis
covered that his office was Immediately
over the boiler room. which kept the
floor and walls nicely heated, regardless
Of the temperature outside.
CrItIc;ses Hr. BurIeson.
Kindel declared he had been put there
to make his life so unpleasant that he
would resign. He didn't like the appear
~, % o. lie.
he told President Wilson when he went
to the White House to tell the President !
what a great mistake the latter had
made in selecting Mr.. Burleson as Post
master General. Mr. BurIeson didn't
know the difference between a parcels
post system and platter OF scrambled I
eggs according to Mr.. KindeL Mr.. ,
Burleson had insisted on. appointing a :
Democrat to be postmaster in KfndeTs |
district. while Kindel desired the Repub-
lican incumbent retained Also he be- '
Ieved the parcels post system to be bad :
ly askew. He didn't receive a great deal {
of satisfaction from his visit to the !
White House, but he voted for free sugar !
in the caucus and in the House. which I
Is more than several Colorado Democrats
did
Leaving the White House. Mr. Kin
del said he had no business in politics .
anyhow: he had half a mind to resign
and go back to business. where he
belonged. Then he decided to take
coast trip and cool on before taking I
any action. He returned full of fight, r
despite the heat and his office I
When the committees of the House I h
were made up. Kindel found himself S
on the District Committee, the last 7
man. He promptly sent in his resfg- a
nation as member of that committee a
Not long ago a settlement was about Z
to be reached between the United v
States and the Hartman lines on the
suit to dissolve the Union Pacific F
Southern Pacific merger. Some one ;
dropped little poison in Kinders ear. y.
The dissolution was not genuine. he ;
was told. So he looked into the mat .
ter. thought he saw that II bore a re- r
lationship to his beloved freight rates o
fight, and demanded that the Depart :
ment of Justice insist on the right of y
appeal at a later day IL the dissolu-
ton plan should turn out to be un-
This the Department of
Justice failed to do. n
Calls for investigation.
little while after Mr.. KindeI intro
1uced a resolution calling for an in n
by a committee of the n
House OF the merger. The resolution L
was referred to the Rules Committee,
where it has been since =,
The Kindel resolution was looked upon q
rs a direct slap at the already over =,
larassed Attorney General Kindel re- z,
,eived an invitation to call upon a certain
Cabinet officer. He called and was told
hat his antagonism to the dissolution
olan was threatening the Democratic
oarty's best interests. He replied that he b;
vas for the right first and for the party Sc
lfterward. pl
He was advised to call on the Presi- L,
lent He did, armed with maps and 10
,ther paraphernalia, to snow that Nc
Reynolds should not be in the Cabinet.
President Wilson told him he should have
:arried his complaint to the Attorney
General in the first place. So Mr. Kindel
orthwith interviewed the Attorney Gen
,raL His interview was unsatisfactory
o Kindel. He did not care for Mr.. Nc
reynolds explanation as to his reason for
the right OF appeal. Mr.. Kin
el then gave out the following inter-
Jew:
Following conferences with the Pres ,
dent and the Attorney General on the
ubject Of my resolution calling for an
Of the alleged dissolution of
he Union Pacific-Southern Pacific mer- J
Ter. I am convinced that one statement
n the resolution, wherein set forth that
he Attorney General acted In violation
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