Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 4, 1911, Page 11

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BORDON NEARLY SHORN OF POWER Coalition of Senators Against Lieutenant Governor. FAILS FOR LAGK OF TWO VOTES Scheme Was to Take From Presiding Officer the Authority to Name the Committees. St. Paul, Jan. 2.—Lieutenant Gow- ernor Gordon has not realized how near he came to having the appointive power taken from him by the senators, so far as the appointing of the stand- ing committees of that body are con- cerned. Now and then he heard rum- blings of wing-clipping, the rumbling similar to that preceding past sessions of the legislature. Alarmed at the Tumblings he would have one or two of his reportorial friends on the daily mewspapers give vent to his alarms, but even they were unable to ferret out the real truth—serious in the ex- treme—of the combination that was being perfected, and which went to Pieces about 1:30 o’clock of Wednes- day, Dec. 28, 1910. ++ + The lieutenant governor had been keeping mum regarding the announce ment of the makeup of the committee | list. This gave currency to the rumor that a cabinet, consisting of his secre- tary, J. S. Arneson; his close friend, L A. Caswell, clerk of the supreme | court, amd Senators Clague of Red- wood and Putnam of Faribault, and the official himself, would be the power of naming the machinery of the 1911 senate. It was even told by one of| the official’s newspaper friends that the old guard, consisting of Wilson, Sullivan, Dunn, Cook and others, were to be relegated to the rear, taken from ; the important committees over which! they presided in past years, and their places given to the alleged reform ele | ment of the senate. For instance, Put- Ram was to replace Wilson as head of | the judiciary, Clague was to go to taxes, and so on down the list, while the committee on elections was to be composed of men who, from the very outset, would be opposed to the seat- ing of A. D Stephens and Ray Farring-| ton in their contests for seats in the senate. Te Oe So serious became this report of the framing of a cabinet for the turning) down of what is known as the old guard senators that two or three of the lat- ter held a meeting two weeks before the date given above. One of them was finally delegated to see Senator Wilson of Hennepin county with the view of having the latter ascertain just what attitude the senators from |- that county would take in case a coali- tion was attempted. Another senator was designated to see Senator Works, the leader of the Democracy on the floor of the senate, as to what attitude the Democrats would assume. The senator designated to interview Sen ator Wilson received this reply: “Go ahead and frame up; we apparently can’t do any worse than what is being attempted; let the Democrats have all the chairmanships if they will play it out, and, above all, let Senator Schal-! ler. have my place as the head of the| judiciary.” The senator agreed fur- ther to interview the other senators from his county and ascertain whether all, or any part of them, would play the game out. ++ + In the meantime a report came in from Senator Works. Eighteen Dem- ocratic senators agreed to stand by the coalition, with the understanding that the chairmanships were to be equally divided, the Republicans mak- ing the first selection, the Democrats the second, and so on. One more Dem- ocratic vote was promised in case Sen- ator Farrington was seated. With eighteen Pemocratic senators hitched enly fourteen Republican senators werg necessary, but fifteen was de cided upon as a safer number. The) coalition leaders came to St. Paul| about the 27th, and commenced count- | ing Republican noses. It was found safe, providing Hennepin would add two Republican votes. On the after- noon of Dec. 27 the Hennepin group | was called together, and it was after | | that gathering that Senator Wilson | apprised his conferees that the group, | or no part of it, could lend its assist- | ance, for the reason that they repre | sented so many interests they could! ill afford to have the presiding officer | opposed to them in their attempted | protection of those interests. Further, | they knew nothing of what the Official | purposed doing, and that they would have to be content with any assign- ments he might give them. This little | information caused dismay among the | other attempted coalitionists, but the | next day they attempted to once more find terra firma and organize without the Hennepin assistance. There were still feurteen senators willing to play the coalitionists got “cold feet” at the meeting, declared the chances toc! great, and the whole attempt w: abandoned, leaving the lieutenant gov- ernor the supreme appointive power Ee ates Shortly after the Hennepin senators met the news was “tipped off” to the Heutenant governor—the pointer as to ‘ | ing heard. what, or what might be going om—and the next day—Wednesday—the official acquainted one or two newspaper re porters with the information he had received. At once Senator Sullivan of Stillwater, who happened in- town that day, was made “the goat” by the re porters, and the evening newspapers accused him of doing the framing. Nothing published was fur the truth. okt With iwo big election contests on, | that of Senator A.D. Stephens of Polk county and Senator Ray Farrington of Big Stone county. this session of the senate promises to be the most impor- tant in- that respect of any held in years and in some quarters the claim is made that this fact is responsible for the fight on Gordon as ‘presiding officer. The combine, they assert, is anxious to get contro) of the commit- tee on elections in the interest of the contestants named. Gordon, it seems, has frustrated any attempt in this con- nection and his scalp was demanded in consequence. Lai oe 8 John Lennon, the Minneapolis house member, is the latest to feel the dis- pleasure of the Minnesota Progressive leagué. At the instance of the ieague officers a card was sent to him for his signature. It pledged him to meas- ures considered by the league as a test of progressive Republicanism. He signed the card only to have it re turned to him later with a statement that he could not be considered for membership. Though pledging him- self the officers of the league say his past record is against him. The meas- ures he pledged himself to were the statewide primary, the initiative and referendum and the popular election of United States senators. te & Not a little interest is beimg mani- fested in the talk of an additional con- gressman for Minnesota, growing out of the increase in population as shown by the last census. Its one principal feature would be to complicate the | Proposition of reapportionment, as un- der the increase in population portions of Hennepin county’ wouldthave‘to-bé detached and added to adjoining ter- | ritery, which is not to the liking of Hennepin business men generally. St. Paul and its representation would also suffer. ne 8 The probabilities are that Governor Eberhart will not fill the two remain- ing offices in his gift, that of labor commissioner and librarian, for some days to come. In the case of W. E. McEwen, the present labor commis- sioner, effort is being made by friends to have him retained until after the adjournment of the legislature, while as to the state librarianship the con- test for the place is so keen that those in charge haye decided to hoid it up until some of the rivalry has cooled off. tee It looks pretty much at this writing as if John Jones of Minneapolis, who has long served the house in the ca- pacity of reading clerk, would be re- tired to private life. Opposition to his candidacy has developed in his home county and the opinion is genera) that it will stick. The pro- gressive members of the delegation excuse their opposition to Jones on, the ground that his liquor affiliations are too marked. They say some conces- sion must be made to the county op: tionists. Another to feel the dis- pleasure of the Hennepin delegation is Archie Vernon of Little Falls, who wants to be chief clerk. Efforts are being made to organize against him. +4) = The latest to be criticised by Pub- lic Examiner Anton Schaefer is the state fair board. The expenditure of money to aid the conservation con- gress and the maintenance of a dining room at the fair grounds for the free use of the officials and their families are two things he holds up as not war- ranted by law. In answer the board says the dining room was a necessity and the aid gi-en to the conservation congress was not without its return. The whole thing has brought out a hot discharge of hostilities, and the end fs not yet. rb > Another official to come back at the public examiner for what he calls un- warranted criticism is H. W. Goetz- singer of the state board of arbitra- tion. This official was charged with collecting per diem not authorized by the board records. Goetzsinger has served notice on the Twin City papers printing the report demanding a re- traction and is said to be contemplat- ing a suit for damages against the public examiner. ss a a 3 Senators elect are inclined to think that Frank Clague will be elected pres- ident pro tem. this time. There is never any scramble for this honor, which is usually an empty one, but if the lieutenant governor is unable to preside, or if he succeeds to the gov- ernorship, the president pro tem. takes the gavel and discharges all the func- tions of the lieutenant governor. Sen- ator Clague says he is not a candidate for the place. He is looked upon as a probable floor leader for the Gordon forces, though himself net a county option man. He had experience as speaker of the house in 1905 and has served two terms since then in the senate. + + & Talk of opposition to the re-election of Senator Moses E. Clapp is still be- Fred C. Stevens of St Paul and James A. Tawney of Wi- nona continue to be mentioned, and there is reason to believe opposition would crystallize around Mr. Stevens | as readily as around any one else were he to pass the willing word. JOHN LAWSON. House’ the '¢enter of ‘a: political organt- TAFT URGED TO BUILD MACHINE Republicans. Want. Him to Fut Politicians In Cabinet. HE LISTENS WITH A SMILE. Then, Says He Will Do the Best He Can Without Regard to 1912—Residents of Alaska Claim That Country Is Sadly Neglected—Senator Taliaferro Takes Defeat With Grace. By ARTHUR W. DUNN, Washington, Jan. 3.—[{Special].—Re- publican politicians want President Taft to perfect-an organization which will insure his own womination in 1912 | and also make it possible for the Re- | publicans to win the presidential elec- tion. They tell him that the party is in bad shape politically and that he ought to begin now to rehabilitate it. He has been warned that Roosevelt will carry off the nomination if he doesn’t look out or that Cummins, La Follette or some other progressive may take it. The president has been further warned that he ought to get a few politicians in his cabinet and go to work build’ng up a political machine. To all such suggestions the president listens, often with an amused smile, and then he wiil tell those who are so earnest in his behalf that he intends to go ahead and do the best he can as president, that he is no politician him- self and does not want to run a po- litical administration, If the people want him at the end of his term they ean have him; if not they can get an- other man. The president makes it plain that he does ‘not intend to make the White zation, having for its object his reten- tion in the presidential office. Neglect of Alaska. Like all new and distant regions, Alaska is suffering from neglect of the mother country. In the last two years, according to statements of Pacific coast men, seven steamships have been | wrecked because lights and other safe- guards of navigation have not been provided on the Alaskan coast. In many other ways have the needs of Alaska been ignored, although it | returns millions every year in gold and | commerce. Men from Alaske claim | that the United States is expending enormous sums at Panama, in the Philippines and other places, leaving | Alaska to get along as best it can. } An Art Critic. | Among the San Francisco boomers in Washington is M. F. Tarpey, a vet- eran Democrat, who goes to all na- | tional conventions.. who enthusias- tically supported Cleveland three times, Bryan three times and Parker | once and who will support the nom- inee in 1912, no matter whether he be conservative or radical. I found this veteran looking at the collection of curios in statuary hall the other day. He was very much | interested. After making a circuit of | the hall he paused before the statue of Francis Pierpont, the latest addition, presented by West Virginia, and said: | “Chat is the best of the lot. The pose | is most natural, and the face is better. It does not have that ‘strained’ ap- | pearance which is seen in the poses and faces of the others. Art is nature, | ‘The closer the artist gets to nature the better his picture or statue.” Takes 2 Philosophical View. Senator ‘Taliaferro. of Florida will | not’ attempt to’ carry the primary which ¢hooses his successor. He was a candidate last summer and was beat- en by Nupoleon Broward, who died before the legislature met. “I have decided that if I could not defeat the man I ran against last sum- mer I could not defeat another candi- | date,” said Taliaferro. “I have had twelve years in the senate, and no one | has attacked my record. But Florida | seems to want another man, and I shall | not try to be elected again. There is one thing in my record which few men | ean equal, No negro has been con- firmed to an office in Florida since | have been in the senate.” When Taft Reversed Himself. Congressman Bartlett of Georgia | told a story of how President Taft, when a circuit judge, reversed himself. In a Certain case Judge Taft granted an injunction, holding that 2 law of Ohio contravened thé constitution of that state. But the case was also tried by the Ohio supreme court, which held that the Jaw ‘did not contravene the constitution. Judge Taft then decided that it was the duty of a federal judge to follow the decisioi. of the highest court of a state in construing the law and con- stitution of that state and reversed his “And the judge who thus set an ex ample for the judiciary of the United States,” said Bartlett, “was a man | whom the people have since honored | and placed in the White House.” Two Battleships. The forthcoming naval appropriation bill will provide for two battleships. It will mean the same fight as of for- mer years, but in this congress the two | ships will be authorized. The friends of naval! increase are more concerned about what the next | congress will do than with this ses- | sion. Two battleships were recom- mended by the president, and for sev- eral years that has constituted the main naval increase program. | impossible | during that period. | one main scared. | WEST AND EAST SPLIT ON TARIFF Two Republicans See Change la Massachusetts View. DEMOCRATS’ WHITE ELEPHANT Champ Clark’s Willingness to Relin- quish Right to Appoint Committees Causes Difficulties—Re: waii Say Japanese War Scare Has No Foundation In Fact. By ARTHUR W. DUNN. Washington, Jan. 4.—[Special}].—T'wo Republicans, one in the senate and the other in the house, made politica) speeches during the short session be- fore the holidays, and both voiced the same general sentiment, Senator Young of Iowa told the story of the union of Massachusetts and lowa on tariff principles back in 1884, which continued so long. He asserted that Massachusetts had determined to break up that partnership and insist upon free raw materials with protec- tion on manufactured products. Congressman Mondell of Wyoming talked along the same lines. They both based their assertions upon the election of Governor Foss, who made his campaign on the tariff issue and has been urging reform since. Both of these western men asserted that the west will not accept that kind of tariff and that if their products are duty free then manufactured products of the east shall also be free. Although the Republicans will not have much to say about the making of a ‘iff bill in the next house, it is evident ahati they are going’to fight the ‘free raw material idea with a great deal of vigor. Bven if very little has been said about it there is an intima- tion that they will be aided by many southern Democrats, as the south pro- duces large quantities of so called raw materials. Against the Recess. And now comes 2 demand that cov gress should not take two weeks for a recess during the holidays, but should keep at work in order to do the busi- ness of the session. So thought Grover Cleveland once upon a time, and he gave notice to congress in a message that he did not think it wise for the two houses to take the usual holiday recess. The recess was not taken, but congress met twice a week and adjourned. Not | a thing was done. There never is #-«juorum in the city | during the holidays, and it would be to transact any business In fact, it is next to impossible to change the habits of | congress. May Be a White Elephant. Many Democrats begin to fear that ; they have acquired « white elephant by the action of Champ Clark in re linquishing 21! claim to the appoint- ment of committees when he becomes speaker. it is more apparent than | ever that the house of representatives is too unwieldly a body, with too many anxious aspirants and too few | Places, to insure anything like har- mony in the selection of committees | by any other means ae appointment by the speaker. There was a hope Sate many Democrats that Clark would not de- clare himself on this point and that before any action was taken the Dew- ocrats of the house’ would realize the difficulties of their new plan and aban- don it. But Clark was too shrewd to take any such course after the clamor there had been for curtailing the pow- er of the speaker. The experiment must now be tried in the Sixty-second congress, although a quiet but determined effort is being made to have the coming Democratic conference of the new congress return to Champ Clark the power he has of- fered to relinquish. Japan Not Dangerous. Residents of’ Hawaii recently in Washington have done much to dis- eredit the war scare by pointing out serious defect in the theory of those who believe with Congressman Hobson. They say that instead of Japan having an army of trained sol- diers in Hawaii, as claimed, in reality | the Jap laborers in Hawaii are not in the least inclined to war. but are very peaceful. On one plantation where 2,000 Japa- nese were employed only fifty respond- ed to the call to arms when Japan wanted men to fight Russia. One man estimates that about 3,000 Japanese leave Hawaii every year, glad to re- turn home after having saved a few dollars. -And so we may go to sleep o’ nights withou: fexring a Japanese invasion from Hawaii. This statement, how- ever. will not relieve the vesidents of the Pacific coast. They intend to re- Exporting Mules. A report from a consul! in South Af- Tica says there is a large demand for | mules in that country, the American mule being preferred. This justifies a recent tribute which Champ Clark de- livered in regard to the mule. Para- phrasing an oft quoted declaration, he said, “The sun never sets on the Mis- souri mule.” He also asserted that any country would as soon think of going to war without powder as without mules. — —}