Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-16
sCHURz ExCORIATED.

The Jftnnesota Game of 4rresting Poor
Me,. for C.tsi,.y Timber to Keep From.
Freezing Ventilated.
In the Senate debate on Wednesday Blaine
was particularly severe on Schurz for his
letter relative to timber depredations in Min
snesota, which has appeared in The GLOBE
The Chicago Times special says:
AS soon as Matthews finished Blaine arose.
He began by referring to his remarks in ref
erence to Mr.. Schurz of few days ago.
Then he went on in mild manner to pick
flaws in the secretary's letter. This would
have been easy for any one. Nothing strong
was said in that letter. It was made up of
extracts from special agents reports, and
broad assertion that it was the duty of gov.
eminent officers to look after its timber in
terest, holding that it was the right of the
government to seize timber wherever found
that had been cut upon its land without au-
thority. He referred for his authority to
section 2,461 of the revised statutes At this
point Blaine's worst attack began. He read
that section, and proved that under it the mat
ter was put under the jurisdiction of the secre
tary of the navy, and then by series of the
most sneering remarks he compared Secretary
Thompson with Schurz. He asked Stanley
Matthews as lawyer where did the author
ity of the secretary of the interior lie for
these seizures. Matthews referred to the
secretary's letter, but Blaine shrugged his
shoulders and said that would not do. He
said that he arraigned the secretary of the
interior for not being an intelligent man,
and for not knowing the practical effect Of
terror, he said, did not happen to be native
nf% ,frvv k1o 49,
dom of Prussia, which is many
miles smaller than Montana alone,
with a population of twenty-five
millions of people, while Montana had but
twenty-five thousand. His idea in making
this comparison was evidently to show that
while vigorous campaign like that at pres
ent in vogue might do in Prussia, it would
not do in Montana, where the country was
SO sparsely settled, and where the people had
to cut wood wherever they could find it to
keep from freezing to death. He said that
Schurz was executing the land laws of Prus-
STA, and not of this country. He quoted
from the secretary's letter about the wood
rings in the extreme West, and with sar-
castle aha, which rang long through the
chamber, he said that the reform secretary
was always laboring under the apprehen-
sion that there is ring somewhere.
He then read from a petition which had
been placed in his hands by Delegate Nc
Ginnis to show how great the terror of the
people of the territory was. This petition
was addressed to ssthe honorable secretary
of the interior and the Senate and House
of Representatives of tho United States
Blaine read this, stopped and looked around
him with twinkle in his eyes and added
that, like Dogberry, something had to be
put down first, and thus it was that Schurz
being the major premise, was put first
Then he perforated on
THE LOWLY SETTLER
of the west Who carried the banner of civil
ization midst the worst hardships of life
ETC., and said it was to these that the secret
detectives, spies, and pimps of the interior
! department went, examined their wood
piles, and left them to freeze. The use Of
the word "pimp' created no little commo
ton, as it wss the first time in the memory
of anybody about Congress that that ex
preston has been used in the Legislative
proceedings of either House.