Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-30

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| Laughter) This transaction didn't look
exactly like proper transaction. II
didn't smell like proper transaction
Naughter) The Republican side re-
minded him of the man who had caught
wolf and then had to call to q friend to
help him to let it go; or rather they re-
minded him of man who had won an
elephant at rattle and didn't know what
to do with him. The Republicans had
Won an elephant and were not in very
good condition to get rid of him. If they
didn't stand by his friends he might turn
and rend every chairman of theirs.
(Laughter.)
He also likened the Republicans to the
astronomer who fell into state of ex-
citement at discovering elephants in the
moon, only to find there was a mouse be-
tween the lenses of his instrument. Posi-
bly, his Republican friends had not caught
the elephant they thought they had, for
possibly it might turn out to be the
diminutive form of little mouse.
In conclusion he asserted 1t to be his
duty to stay here and prevent the con-
summation of what the public thought to
be bargain. Several dilatory motions
were then made and voted down.
Senator Beck called attention to the
fact that grave alarm existed everywhere
as to the spread of the repudiation doctrine
in the Republican party; he would there
fore move to refer the resolution to the
committee on epidemic diseases laugh
teri Ruled out of order.
Senator Beck continued to ridicule the
Representative for picking up Riddelbar.
ger, the Readjuster: The resolution also
proposed G man for chief clerk who he
couldn't support, Chas. Johnson of Min
nesota. That gentleman had, on the
18th of September, 1878, issued circu-
lar letter, asking for contributions to
the Republican campaign fund,
declaring if the Democrats
obtained control of the Senate
and House they would attempt to expel
the President and pay the rebel claims
Every charge made by that gentleman
had been proved false. He quoted from
the testimony taken by the Washburn-
Donnelly committee in the House to
show that johnson was a wire pulier, a
man, as he thought, not worthy to be
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gentleman was elected, and he didn't
think he would be before December, and
these charges against him were not true,
he, Beck, would support him in Perform
ing the duties of his office.
Senator Mcmillan defended Johnson,
asserting he was an honorable man, and
the charges again him had been pro we'd
false, and abandoned.
Senator Kellogg said his collea que,
Jones, had animadverted on the course
of Senator Hampton, in stating in Kel-
logs behalf at the last session of Con gress
he had refused to be comforted because
he had not been unable to unseat him.
He (Kellogg) had seen papers published in
Louisiana, and not Republican paper,
calling his colleagues attention 10 the
fact that he had done nothing for the
State of Louisiana, and that the Demo-
cratic party had really no representation
on the floor.
At the conclusion of Kellogg's speech,
Senator Dawes, trusting his Democratic
friends would dispose of the question to-
morrow, moved to adjourn. Agreed to,
and the Senate adjourned.
Nah Plaza for Stctndiing Vir0iaia's
Creditors.
WASHINGTON, March 29.-The differ
ence between the position of the Read
justers and their opponents in Virginia
on the debt question, which is made so
prominent now by the contest in the Sem
ate, is about as follows: Mccullough, or
the debt payers bill, fixed with consent
of the creditors, the debt at 10000, 900;
made the coupons receivable for taxes and
other dues to the State and the bonds non
taxable. 1t fixed the rate of interest at
an average of 4per cent. The Riddle
barger bill, which the Readjusters stand
by, fixed the debt at less than $40, ,OOO, 900;
made the coupons not receivable for taxes;
made the bonds taxable and the rate of
interest per cent. 1t was proposed to
make this bill a law without consent of the
States creditors on the ground that 1t was
just to both creditors and the State. The
Readjusters' bill excludes from the State
debt the interest accumulated during the
war and reconstruction period McCul-
lough's bill includes this.