Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-22
ABOLISH LIE DUO.
Il Pub. Func. Who is Too Expensive a
Lucnry.
New York Sun.

New York Sum-
MIR. LIE Due has sent US copy of what he
calls his 'third annual preliminary report
of the agricultural condition of the coun
try" The experiments of this curious per-
son have cost the people nearly quarter of
million of dollars in twelve months. HIS
chief anxiety has been to discover whether
tea will grow in the United States. Under
his personal supervision sixty-niue thou
sand one hundred and fifty-four.tea plants
have been set out OF this number he re-
luctantIy admits that ''about one-half'
have persisted, sowing to carelessness and
failure to protect them from the hot sum
mer sum- No indication is given of the
fate of the other half.
From tea culture, LIE Duo is turning his
attention to an attempt to introduce Japan
persimmons and cinchona. To carry out
his ambitious schemes, he wants his commits
sionership raised to the dignity of cabinet
Office. He wants a salary of $4,000 year
for himself, Instead Of $4,000 which he
now receives for experimenting the waste
OF the public funds. He recommends that
tie swofking force of the department" be
doubled every year for the next five years.
We do not know exactly how many seed
bundlers and persimmon kidnappers Mr.. LIE
Due has under him at present, but their
pay roll now amounts to $4,000. If his
recommendation we're carried out, it would
amount at the end of five years to So, 144 600.
while corresponding increase in the gen.
eral expense of tue so called department
would make it cost the country almost as
much az the postC flee department does,
fraudulently managed as that branch of the
civil service is.
Congress can do much better than to make
Mr.. LIE Due a cabinet officer and to give
him the money he asks for. 1t can wipe
him, officially, and his ridiculous "depart-
ment'' absolutely out of existence. LIE Due
is very weak and very green frog trying
to puff himself up to the dimensions of an
OK; but because the present commissioner
happens to be fool, the department of
Agriculture itself is not the less a costly
excrescence which ought to gotten rid of
entirely.
LegnI Tenders---Status of Baynrds Reso-
luton.
Washington Special.
In conversation with Senatorial friends of
Mr.. Bayard to-day, some interesting facts III
regard to the real situation of the Bayard
resolution in the Senate finance committee
we're developed. Both sides are anxious to
delay discussion on the subject until they
have heard more generally from the country.
The class which supports the resolution Is
largely confined to the East, and has made
itself heard through numberless petitions
and letters, while the opposing element has
given little attention to making itself known
to the committee. The opponents of the
resolution are also quite at sea, and alto
gether willing to allow the subject to rest
for the present Another curious feature
has been developed, both in committee and
on the Democratic side OF the chamber,
which shows that quite number of Sena
tors, who are privately in favor of the Bayard
resolution, are opposing it, or attempting to
throw
OBSTACLES IN THE WAY
of its consideration, chiefly because they do
not desire that Mr.. Baysrd should gain any
strength for the Presidential nomination
through an able speech which he is ready to
make in favor of his resolution. Another
curious feature of the situation in the Senate
finance committee is that the very men who,
at the close of the extra session, were crying
loudly for the decapitation of Mr.. Bayard,
because of his opposition to reporting the
Warner silver bill, are now themselves in ia
vor of allowing the subject to rest. 1t ap-
pears that at the first meeting in December
Mr.. Ba5ard, in presenting the business which
was upon the docket of the committee, laid
the Warner bill before it, and asked the
members what their desire Ill regard to it
then was. At this Mr.. Voorhees,, who has
been from the beginning in favor of the re-
movsl of Mr.. Bayard, was first to respond
with the suggestion that the bill had better
be postponed for tho present.