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Daily globe., 1879-01-24
CUSTER'S CHAMPION.

Whitaker Dissatisfied With the Scope of
the Present Reno Inqutry-A Senate In
vestigatiOn Asked for-His Charges
Against Benteen Retracted.
Especial Telegram to the Globe1
CHICAGO, Jan. 23.-Frederick Whitaker. of
Mount Vernon, N. Y, who makes the charges of
cowardice against Reno, which are now being
investigated, arrived here last night to give in
his testimony. He says he has come to Chica-
go safely in the hope of securing justice for
the memory of Custer by bringing to light the
whole truth about the battle of the Little Big
Horn, and the campaign in which the>General
met with his death. Since have been here I
have became satisfied that the scope Of the
present inquiry. and the orders by
which the court is limited, are too
narrow to insure the revelation
of all the facts bearing on the question of who
is responsible for the Custer disaster. 1 have
therefore made application for a further anG
fuller investigation in the highest tribunal of
the country, the Senate of the United States.
and private letters from Washington assure me
that the application will in all probability be
granted
MIR. Whitaker has heretofore publicly
charged Mr.. Benteen with disobedience CT
orders on that day in that he did not ride more
quickly to Clusters support, as ordered. He
now says he is satisfied that Benteen is wholly
blameless for the disaster of the Little Big
Horn. He makes this correction in Justice to
the living and dead.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24

not pay for its maintenance, but they are
equally satisfied that it would be folly to at
tempt to maintain steamship lines for COM
mercial purposes at the public expense. Al
though America pays more freights than any
other nation in the world, we have practi-
cally no commerce. This is not due to an
lndlsposition to patronize home industry.
but rather to the fact that we have
had no American ships to patronize
for many years. If such ships
were built and equipped as other
ships are built and equipped, it would soon
be found that they would not lack patronage.
They would, in fact, be remunerative from
the day they were launched, for patriotism
would dictate their maintenance at the OK
pense of vessels of foreign construction. A
commercial marine owned in this country
would be profitable without question, and
the suggestion of substituting it is utterly
untenable. What ought to be done by Con-
gress is to remove the restrictions now i'm
posed upon the purchase and building of
vessels. By so doing the ship building in
dustry would soon revive, and in less than a
decade American commerce would be trans
ported across the ocean in American bot
toms.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24
SALTWATER NEWS.

Fourth anniversary of the Sons of Hermann
celebrated tc-night at their hall.
Preparations are being made for ball at
the Free Masons' hall Tuesday evening, Feb. 4.
The firm of Hersey, Bean & Brown, are TAX
ing an inventory of stock, and Eugene Smith
finds it almost impossible to emerge from tho
exhaustless number of figures representing
logs, lumber, horses, etc.
Sheriff Pratt Of Faribault county, arrived
yesterday with two candidates for the peni-
t~ntiary. Patrick Lyons, assault with dam
gerous weapon, three years and six months, and
Patrick Sullivan, larceny, one year and six
months.
The attendance at the literary entertainment
at the Universalist church Wednesday, was
very small. The entertainment, however, was
good in every respect. There will be no en-
tcrtainment next Wednesday on account of the
Naiad Queen,
Reports to the Committee Of Seventeen.
The committee of seventeen held a meeting
Wednesday evening, at which the committee
giving figures showing the steady increase
IN expenditures for these purposes,
criticising the loose extravagant
and inefficient manner in which
the public improvements have been made, and
suggesting how, in the opinion of the commit
tee, changes could be made to the benefit of the
city.
The committee on value of real estate and
personal property and The tax levy of 1878, re-
ported the total value of city property
$2, ,438, 989, Of which $667, ,22O is
personal property, and upon which the
tax levy for 1878 is $4,000, smaller amount
than for any Of the preceding five years. The
school district expenditures from January H.
1878, to January IL, 1879, were s12, ,654.6s. The
bonded indebtedness Of the district is 6,5OO
The total county expenses. January 1, 1873, to
January I, 1879, s35,036.7l; of which $s, ,s41.4s
was for support of poor, and 5000 for officers
salaries. The bonded indebtedness Of the
courts is $18,750, all falling due within three
years, while some are already over due.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24
THE ANNUAL FARCE.

The standing Legislative committees and
a goodly number of other members, will visit
the prison at Saltwater to-day. Their COM
ing has been heralded in advance and every
thing pnt in as good shape as possible to
receive the law makers and create the i'm
preston that all is we'll. OF course the
visitors to-day will not ascertain anything
which is not of rosy hue. There has been
an annual junketing party to the Saltwater
prison ever since the State has had an ex-
istence, and history makes no record of q
single adverse point which any of these
visitors has ever discovered.
So Ear as the business management of the
institution is concerned, the standing
committees have never attempted to
inform themselves. Even if they
desired hhis information they could
not obtain it in the single day devoted to the
trip. So far as the treatment of prisoners is
concerned, it is absolutely impossible to OBJ
tain anything tangible on this junketing
tour. Such information as is desirable
cannot be obtained within the prison
walls. No pledges of immunity or pro-
lection can make the men who are confined
in Saltwater speak. They know that they
are in the power of those placed over them,
and that no matter how strenuously mem
Der of the Legislature might wish to pro-
tect them, he cannot do so save during the
brief period Of the visit. The humbug and
farce of these visits lies in the uniform re-
ports that all is well, that everybody is hon
est and humane, and the interests of the
State are carefully guarded. The farce be-
comes so great as to be almost crime.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24
THE REPUBLICAN, ANIMALS IN MO-
TON

I1ON.
On the 9th of January the following edi-
torial appeared in the GLOBE:
':The GLOBE desires to go on record with the
statement that Gov. Pillsbury is candidate
or reelection. The GLOBE means an agrees
sive candidate, anxious for the place. Other
gentlemen of the Republican persuasion of
faith desirous of the honor and the ct cateras
connected with the Office of Governor of Mime
sofa will govern themselves accordingly"
After rejecting upon this announcement
for couple of weeks, the Republican organs
suddenly become aroused and announce with
much flourish of trumpets that Gov. Pills
bury is candidate. The small souled post
master at Winona makes the surprising dis
covery and Bill King and Dave Blakeley take
up the echo, while of course the Castle in the
air pipes in little squeak. They ere all so
happy to think that Pillsbury wishes to
browse about in pastures green for two
years longer.
While Pillsbury is slow and sluggish, those
who think he is unambitious are greatly
mistaken. He has fixed his eye on the U.
S. Senate and, strange as it may seem, be-
llcscS u6 Cdu W clSClSus VACA VdSAUul1
came upon the field it looked little dark
for the Governor, but the exposure of Wash
burns corruption will drive him in disgrace
to private life and Pillsbury has no longer a
local competitor. tt is quite likely this fact
which leads the Governor to boldly enter the
list for the third term. With Washburn per-
manently shelved and only Mcmillan to plot
against, he sees IN opportunity for reaching
the summit of his ambition.
There we're certainly implied, if not posi-
tive pledges, when the Governor was last
nominated, that he would not be in the field
again. Until the GLOBE announcement of
the 9th, it was generally thought that Lieut..
Gov. Wakefield would step up one notch in
the ladder of fame. He will still endeavor
to do 50, but he has the Governor and his
army Of appointees (notaries public)
to contend with. The GLOBE looks
on with great complacency. A row in the
happy family is always delightful, and some
times profitable to the opposition. We trust
it will rage with all the vigor which present
appearances indicate.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24

ScHURz thinks he has achieved victory
over the whole army in his recent contro-
versy with certain officers of it. In alluding
to the order of the war department. closing
the discussion he said to friend:
This is the only way to get out of it. The
circumstance that my letter appeared in the
papers cannot have disturbed the generals
much, considering the fact that I saw Gen.
Sheridans last two letters first in the papers
and that the last one was sent to me with a
printed synopsis intended for the newspapers
attached to it. But Gen. Sherman evidently
wants Gen. Sheridan not to write any more
letters.
The truth of the matter is that the public
would never have known that either Schurz
or Sheridan had written any letters or called
each other hard names had it not been for
the newspapers, and it is doubtful if either
of the parties in interest would have heard
of it either. It was more from desire to
see themselves in print that they. engaged in
the dispute at all.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24
WINNIPEG.
The Grand Lodge of Masons and the Ritu-
alistic Split-Political Notes.

The Grand Lodge of Masons and the Ritu-
alistic Split-POlitical Notes.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.1
WINNIPEG, Jan. 23.-The Masonic grand
lodge of Manitoba commenced it's fourth annu-
al communication yesterday. Grand Master
w. N. Kennedy's address referred to the ques-
ticn of ritual which had been the cause Of the
recent split among the Masons here, and said
this lodge had been recognized by almost ev-
cry grand lodge on the continent. Also ex-
pressed regret ut the action of those Masons
concerned in the establishment of a second
grand lodge here as being violation of the
constitution and contrary to the true spirit of
Masonry. Recommended the issuing of five
warrants for new lodges which had been aD
piled for.
Messrs Talifer, Grant Cline and Bedford,
were nominated at st. Agathe yesterday for the
local house.
The trial Of the protest against the election
OF Donald A. Smith, member of parliament
from Selkirk, was commenced to-day. It prom
ises to be very long
Daily globe., 1879-01-24

The Democrats of Now York have issued
an address complaining that the Republi-
cans, for the purpose of retaining control of
the government, have refused persistently to
reapportion the State, and consequently the
present legislature is unconstitutional. What
do the Democrats propose to do about it?
Protesting won't do any good. If they had
worked as they ought to have worked during
the last campaign they might now be in a
position to remedy the evil they complain of
instead of being in a hopeless, growing
minority. They deserve the treatment they
are receiving, and need expect nothing better
until they learn to work harmoniously and
effectively at the polls.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24
THE NAVY IND QUE COMMERCIAL
MARINE.

MARINE.
Senator Blaine must be credited with a
few sensible remarks relative to the naval
appropriation bill. He called attention to
the fact that there is in the navy one officer
for each three mon, and suggested that the
proper way to reduce the expenses OF the
department. would be to reduce the number
OF officers. A navy was only useful as an
aid to a commercial marine, and that is
something this country does not possess.
He suggested that three or four millions of
dollars might be saved on this appropriation
bill, and devoted to an effert to extend the
commerce of the nation with South America
or other foreign ports. The first part of his
suggestion is good one; the last part wholly
indefensible. We have NO doubt whatever
but large amount Of money can be
saved by cutting off useless officers in the
navy and stopping the construction of vessels
that are only destined to rot on the stocks
or to be beaten to pieces at wharves and
docks. The fact is that the United States
needs nothing moro than a nominal navy.
few vessels for duty in European and Asi-
attic waters may be necessary as a matter Of
forn-to inspire wholesome fear of our
prowess in the semi-barbarous nations south
of the Mediterranean and on the eastern
Asiatic coast. But for any other purpose a
navy is worse than useless-a heavy expense
to the nation, without any corresponding
benefits. We cannot impose upon any en-
lightened nation with the pretense that we
have a navy, for the pretense is altogether
too thin.
To save the present expense of the navy
would be good thing, but to fritter it away
in subsidizing steamship lines would be as
great mistake as to sink the money in rot
ten hulks, as has been done in the past
The public are satisfied that the navy does
Daily globe., 1879-01-24

EVERY member of the Ramsey county del
eeation voted for the bill to authorize Min
neapolis to load herself with debt in aid of a
railroad that exists only on paper and in the
imaginations Of few erazy-brained fanatics.
We don't want the Hennepin county dele
cation to return the favor, but rather to put
stop to any such scheme that may be pre-
posed ostensibly in the interest of St. Paul
Daily globe., 1879-01-24

GEN. BRAGG, Of Wisconsin, spoke few
wholesome truths in the House on Wednes-
day, and ought to be warning to the Demo
Gratis of the South who are SO anxious for
Northern aid in raid on the treasury. It is
very evident that Bragg's partisanship is not
superior to his honesty AID patriotism. We
could have more outspoken men like him.
a little more grape, Gen. Bragg.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24
Dominion Board of Trade.

OTTAWA, Jan. 23.-In the Dominion board of
trade a resolution was carried after long dis
cussion that this board favors the adoption of
such policy as will secure the development of
our COAL iron and economic ores, together with
other industries OF the country. A resolution
was also carried urging the government to nro-
ceed with building the Pacific railway and with
deepening and enlarsing the ST. Lawrence canal
as rapidly as the circumstances of the country
will permit. The government was also asked
to carry out policy which would direct irnni
grafton to the settlement Of the unoccup;ed
laad Of the Dominion.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24

SENATOR RICE offered bill, yesterday, up
roofing the Insane Asylum gang of rascals.
It reyolutionizes the Asylum management,
and names Burr Deuel., F. A. Donahower,
J. c. Pierce, G. A. Pillsbury, VIM. Dawson,
G. Amundson, D. w. Herbert, G. Bobenet
trustees.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24
AS was to be expected, Minneapolis refuses

AS Was to be expected Minneapolis refuses
to unite on White Bear. It is Minnetonka
Or nothing for the location of the Lake Park
association from q Minneapolis standpoint.
White Bear would accommodate both St.
Paul and Minneapolis. Minnetonka accom-
uodates Minneapolis only. Can COL Hewitt
tell us why Minneapolis adheres to Mime
tonka under such circumstances?
Daily globe., 1879-01-24
The Breafhitt Troubles.

CINCINNATI, Jan. 23.-Gov. McCreary has
ordered the return of the cavalry company sent
to Breathitt county, Ky, they having perform
ed the services that were needed. They accom-
plished the arrest Of VIM. Fletcher under in
dictn,ent for the murder Of Judge Burnett.
Judge Routledge refused o continuance in the
case Of jason Little,
Daily globe., 1879-01-24

of Moorhead port of entry was conourre
In under suspension of the rules.
Also several Senate bills of q local character.
memorial to Congress asking for an appro-
priation for the improvement of the st. Croix
river was concurred in under suspension of the
rules.
of Freeborn, as janitor of the committee
rooms.
The Speaker appointed as committee on
temperance Messrs. Abel, Hicks, Allen, Jones
and Riley. Adjourned.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24
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Daily globe., 1879-01-24

The State Senate yesterday concurred in
the House joint resolution providing for an
Investigation of the affairs of the State pris-
on at Saltwater with an amendment enlarg-
ing the scope Of the investigation consider
ably. The House will no doubt concur in
these amendments, and the excellent COM
mittee appointed will be able to proceed
with the investigation without unnecessary
delay.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24
.A,, Ignora,n,.s Corrected.
To the Editor of the Globe,

10 the Editor OF the Globe.
ST.. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. 23.-An editorial writ
er in Bill Kings paper must be wretchedly
misinformed when he states as he did recently
in the columns of that journal that DR.. John
Lord, the famous lecturer on history, was once
president of Dartmouth college. DR.. John
Lord was never president of Dartmouth college,
though DR.. Nathan Lord once adorned that
position for nearly thirty years.
DARTMOIrrH
Daily globe., 1879-01-24
THE LEGISLATURE.
THE FIRST BIG DAY OF THE
SESSION.

The Senate Proposes to Abolish the Rail-
road OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the In
sane Asylum Rascals Out of Ofce-Both
Houses Agree OH the Joint Investigation
Of the State Prison-The Committees APP
pointed-A Regular Avalanche of New
Bills
Daily globe., 1879-01-24

BAKER, the President Of the Red Wing
mills, comes up sailing in favor of the
swindling brass KETTLE 1t is no use, Mr..
Baker. The fraud must 60.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24
". ". armstrong for Governor,

milwaukee News.
W. ". Armstrong, of the Cleveland P7o;n
Dealer, has been mentioned as the next Demo-
catic candidate for Governor of Ohio, He "a
an excellent and able man and would make .
rst.clsas Governess >ssS $
Daily globe., 1879-01-24
MtG3aic;anl Court.
Before judge Flint.1

William Watke vs.. Elias Siebert and Francis
Belize. Action for services. Decision filed,
ordering judgment for plaintiff for S42.05 with
interest thereon since September "a, 1878, with
costs and disbursements.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24

II:o VV1,1ssLx GLOBE IL mammoth sheet, exactly
double the size Of the Daily. 1t is just the paper
5s the resiGe containing addition to all the current
uoTs, choice miscellany, agricultural matter market
gsporta, &C. It Is furnished to single subscribers ut
Sl.0O per year.
Postage prepsid by the publisher on all editions.
AL ua subscriptions paysl!e invariably In advance.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24

EVEN Sweden, hitherto noted for the con-
servatism of her business men, has begun to
feel the tightness of the times, and finan-
cial crash is apprehended. It is very evi-
dent that the causes that underlie these oc-
casional revulsions of trade are but imper-
fectiy understood, CT some means could be
devised to prevent them, especially as there
is always sufficient warning of their ap-
,,roacn
Daily globe., 1879-01-24

dropped in during the day, but soon wearied,
for the proceedings were decidedly dry and
undressing to all save the reporters, who
are supposed to be interested in every thing
that interests anybody else.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24
THE SENATE.

The first sensation of excitement yester-
day in the Senate was occasioned by the
introduction of a bill by Senator Rice, pro-
vlding for the entire reorganization of the
State hospitals for the insane, and Senators
who were not aware that such a bill was to
be introduced, looked at one another in
blank amazement, as section after section
was read, appointing new board of trus-
tees and making provisions for new deal
all around. The bill is necessarily crude,
and was referred to the committee on insane
asylum, and, after it has been passed upon
it will be turned over to tho Judiciary COM
mittee to be perfected.
Senator Thatcher sent up to the clerks
desk and had read long letter from the
president of the Red Wing mills relative to
the use of the 'swindling brass kettle,''
which was principally significant as being
the first recognition by the milling fraternity
of the fact that the crusade against that
swindling device was anything more than an
clectioneering dodge, and they have persist
emily ridiculed it as such until now. The
thing moves. The history of all reforms is
to be first ridiculed, then discussed with
fairness and candor, and finally adopted.
Let the good work go on.
Senator Powers introduced bill to reduce
the salaries of State officers, claiming that
their compensation was fixed at time when
the currency was inflated, and that the re-
duced salaries represent more value than
larger figures did some years ago. If his
bill should become law it will save many
thousands of dollars to the people of the
State. He proposes that their remuneration
shall be as follows:
Daily globe., 1879-01-24

The Senate having received formal notice
of the passage by the House of a Joint
resolution appointing special committee
to investigate the charges of misconduct and
cruelty By tho warden and deputy warden of
the State prison, and the general manage
rnent of that concern, spirited discussion
ensued, resulting in concurrence with the
resolution sitter amendments had been
adopted enlarging the scope of the investi-
cation so as to include all matters in any
way pertaining to that institution.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24

:3'r. PAUL FRIDAY, JANUARY "a, 1879.