Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-27
OUR LIE DUO.
The DANGER That He val be abolished H.
,~ together.
New York SUM-

Due, with W. K. Rogers-also man after
Hayes heart-were brilliant lights of an
Ohio debating club. When Hayes was
counted in as President, he found place
and salary for LIE Duo as for Rogers
agriculture. "
For some time past LIE Dues ambition,
not content with pushing his grand scheme
of making America grow her own tea at q
cost of $5 pound, has aimed at seat in
his friend Hayes cabinet, and, as prelimi-
nary, he has sought to magnify his existing
Office. In this purpose he has had Hayes
support, and Hayes, in fact, opened the win
ter's campaign by introducing long puff of
LIZ Dues bureau into his message to Con-
gress, as follows:
my recommendations in former messages
are renewed in favor of enlarging the facilities
of the department of agriculture. : < The
results already accomplished with the very
limited means heretofore placed at the COM
mand of the department of agriculture are an
earnest of what may be expected with increas-
ed appropriations for the several purposes in
Dictated in the report of the commissioner,
with view to placing the department upon a
footing which will enable it to prosecute more
effectively the objects for which it is establish.
3D." 49,
LIE Duo followed up this opening by pro-
curing the introduction of number of bills
into the House and the Senate. Among the
additions to his domain which he has asked
of Congress are the establishment of vete-
rinary division, the establishment of q
division of forestry, and the foundation of a
chemical laboratory; while an Iowa Con-
gresham, having the appropriate name of
Mr.. Sapp, introduced bill authorizing Le
Due to collect and publish all agricultural
facts which may be of value to emigrants,
it's title being Ito encourage inter State
migration and for other purposes" From
this bill some idea of the scope of LIE Dues
ambition can be gained: ..z. -.
'sThat the commissioner of agriculture be
and is hereby authorized and directed to cause
to be prepared and published, from time to
time, report containing all facts and infor-
seeking new home; and to embody therein all
reliable facts and information in regard to all
vacant and unsettled land belonging to the
United States government, railroads, or other
''Sec' 2. That he, if he finds it necessary,
shall cause said territory or land to be exam
ined in regard to soil, water, natural resources,
and its accessibility by water and railroad, and
also, if said land belongs to corporate compa-
MES, shall cause the validity of its title to be
ascertained, and the result to be embodied in
said report. -.-G ,'-
''Sec. 8. That such facts also be embodied
therein that will tend to encourage inter State
migration of citizens of the United States, and
that said report be accompanied with good
map or maps of the various States and terri
tories indicating the public and private land
situate therein open to purchase or settle
ment." o.. 49,.
Still another section extends LIE Dues
sway over trades: He shall cause to be
printed a monthly synopsis of wages paid
for manual labor, as we'll as skilled, of the
most prominent trades;" and yet another
section requires Gall pcstmasters, collect
ors, and other employees of the United
States government agencies to furnish him,
under oath, all the facts required by him.
Finally, LIE Duo had special bill introduced
to make him a cabinet officer. f.. r
Such was LIE Dues grandiose onslaught.
Its first response has come in unani-
mously adverse report of the House COM
mittee agriculture against the so-caIled
inter State migration bill. In satirical
strain, the, committee show not only that
LIE Duo proposes to carry the chief weight
of the Government on his shoulders, but to
be broker for the sale of the bulk of the
private and corporate property of the coun-
try, and, in fact, to do degree of work Gin
comprehensive to finite minds"
t'After careful and laborious calculation,
the committee are of the opinion that it would
require nearly thousand years for the present
commissioner, with his well-known energy, to
obtain and publish all the facts the cost of
| which would exceed thousand billions of
dollars, ard when obtained, though officially
reliable, they would be of little service to the
present generation, for at the date of compile
ton of the great work, at least one-half of the
people and one-third of the present Congress
would be dead, despite the attractive forces of
Official position" 49,: it,.
LIE Dues campaign in Congress begins
with heavy set down. Coupled with re-
buff, comes another from the recent meeting
of the National Agricultural association in
New York, where his department of agricul-
ture was ridiculed unsparingly, and was pro-
nounced by Prof G. v. Riley, of Washing
ton. to be ssthe laughing stock of the oeun-
try"
On the whole, LIE Dac's chance Of being q
cabinet officer is probably somewhat less
than that of his being abolished altogether