Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-17

" PAID on them less 10 per cent. which
shall be retained by the collector.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
Senator Voorhees, speech which he de-
livered to-day was in his best style. He
made it as interesting as he could to the
Republicans. He doesn't propose to adyo-
cate the Pendleton civil service bill, how
ever, or any civil service bill that will keep
| the great army of Republicans in Office if
| Democratic president is elected It will
| be In the house, however, where the most
fun will be when the civil service debate
begins. A number of enterprising Dem
ocrats have secured a small volume of
facts about Senator Kellogg's 5 per cent.
assessment of the federal officials in Lou
isiana, and about the methods he en-
| ployed to secure his election with this
| money in the Third Louisiana congress
ional district. They have also got a great
deal of interesting data respecting
Senator Mahone's 2 per cent. assessment
of federal officials in Virginia, and of
Virginians in the departments here, to-
gether with statements of highly sensa-
| tional character of how men and women
were lured out of their positions who were
unable to comply with Mahone's demand
for campaign cash. Those who claim to
be familiar with the programme marked
out by the Democrats and with the mate
rial they have in their possession, say that
the discussion of civil service reform soon
to take place in the house will be about as
interesting as any that has taken place in
the halls of congress for years.
THE NEW MISSOURI MEMBER.
Mclean, the new Missouri member who
succeeds Allen, and whose seat Brod-
head &fused to contest, is a man of
middle age, portly form and somewhat re-
sembles Ben Butler in personal appear
| ance. He is the inventor Of several popu-
lar patent medicines much used in the
West. He is also the inventor Of a can
non which, it is claimed, possesses such
deadly qualities that an army using it
would inevitably annihilate the enemy.
Gen. Longstreet says that one day while
he was minister. at Constantinople he re-
ceived draft of dispatch from the sui
tan with a request that it be forwarded to
Mr.. Mclean, of st. Louis. It was an offer
to Mclean of a place as chief Of ordnance
at large salary. Longstreet, who is very
familiar with the majority of all officers
on both sides during the late
war, reviewed them all mentally and at
tempted to recall the name of Mclean,
| but was unable to do so. He forwarded
the dispatch, however, and shortly after
wards there came reply declining the
offer. He afterwards ascertained that the
| sultan had in some manner become ac-
quainted with the fact of DR.. McLean's
| terrible cannon, and concluded that he
would employ the inventor, hoping in that
way to be able to whip all his European
enemies and rivals and restore the glories
of the Ottoman empire.
SENATOR Browns L1BERALITY.
There is considerable gossip in the cloak
rooms of the senate about the refusal of
the Georgia legislature to accept the dona-
ton of Senate RI Joseph Brown, of that state.
to the Georgia state university at Athens
The senator himself does not seem to mind
the matter much, though no doubt he feels
keenly the fact that his political enemies
got the better of him for once.
The donation was $4,000, but
it was saddled with conditions
which the senator's political enemies seized
upon to base the charge that Browns pur-
pose was to establish an aristocracy of the
Brown family in Georgia. According
to the bill making the 90
nation, this money was to be
placed in the treasury of the state, and the
state was to pay per cent. for it. The in
terest, amounting to $500 per annum,
was to be devoted to the education of poor
and thrifty young men. Each young man,
however, was to give a note for 5000
year during the period he was receiving
his education, which notes were to be paid
as soon as he could after becoming estab-
lished in life. Senator Brown has four
sons who, by the provisions of the bill,
we're each allowed to name
every year one beneficiary of
the fund. If relative
were named, the 5000 yearly notes were
not to be paid. At the end of fifty years,
if the state did not obligate herself to con-
tinue the plan another period of fifty
years, the money was to be turned over to
the trustees of the university and by them
invested in United States bonds, the inter-
est to be used as it was used while the do
nation was under the control of tho state.
Senator Brown, in speaking OF the matter
to-day, said that he had been advised by
some of the leading men of Georgia to
make no other disposition of his proposed
donation until after the meeting of the legis-
lature in July. They thought that the legis-
lature would then be disposed to accept it.
Senator Brown says, ''however, that he is
satisfied with the experience he has had
with that legislature. The same men who
constitute the legislature now will
constitute it then, and he is confident if
the donation bill was brought forward
again it would meet the same fate that it
met last Tuesday. His political opponents
are determined that he shall not have
anything from this legislature that
will add to his reputation or tend
to establish him more firmly in the
affections of the people. Senator Brown