Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-25
A LITTLE BREEZE.
SENATORS MORGAN AND MILLER
AMUSE THEIR HEARERS.
They Discuss Wood Pulp and the Tariff
Passage Of the Life Saving Service BILL
Threat of mpsachment-Thlrty- Seven
Bills Passed In the House-Tho Rebel
Ram, ADMINISTRATION to Sscesh
The Senate.

patents for steam shovels also q resolutlo
of the Wisconsin legislature asking congre:
to take control of the Sturgeon Bay ship can,
Senator Morrill,, from the finance comm
| tee, reported adversely Senator Vests bill /
prohibit the issue of bank notes or currenc
by national banks which may be organized Q
reorganized after July LIST, 1889. Put on th
calendar.
The house bill authorizing the constructio
OF bridge across the Missouri river at
near Arrow Rock, Mo-, passed. p
The senate spent large portion OF tn
morning hour upon the life-savipg serylc
bill.
The proposition for fire stations upon th
Florida coast was agreed to.
Senator Pendleton moved to amend the sec
tion prohibiting the appointment of keeper
and crews for political reasons, So as to OK
tend 1t to the general superintendent, distric
superintendent and inspectors. 49,
Senator Conger criticised this ss an attemp
| to restrict the president appointing power.
Pendleton explained that his purpose was Il
| include only appointees of the secretary OF tn
treasury, and modified his ame ndmert accord
ingly, which was carried by party vote of q
to %. NJ
Conger's call for the yeas and nays was me-
| by cries from the Democratic side of ssto(
| late, " and the chair SO ruled.
Sewen moved an amendment authorizini
men employed at different stations in Q, opor
lion to the service rendered, provided the SAM
| shall not exceed $50 per month. Adopted
The bill then passed; yeas 46, nays S. }
Senator George was granted indefinite leav,
of absence.
Senetor Kellogg reported bill appropria
| ting So, 000,000 for the improvement of thu
| navigation OF the Mississippi and Missouri
rivers, $1,000, 900 to be expended on the Miss
issippi and 100000 on the Missouri, in DC
cordance with the plans recommended by thl
Mississippi river commission.
| The Joint resolution for printing Blaine's
Garfield memorial address passed.
The tariff commission discussion was re.
sumed aud Miller, IN. ", gave some reasons
for belief in protection, he said be feared un.
less some southern members amended their
views on this issue they would be left at home.
BIorgan-'Let me interrupt the gentlemen
to ask whether he expects any of the men,
bers who will be returned from the South will
be in favor of the tariff on wood pulps.''
Millcr-I had hoped that as new member,
and unaccustomed to public speaking,
would be permitted to make my argument
on this question without interruption, but as
the senator has seen fit to bring into this de-
bate personal question, and to fling at me a
fling which has been thrown at me by all
the newspapers OF the country, say to him
that am ready to meet it, and If he thinks to
cow me or drive me from my position by any
such accusation as that, he mistakes his man l..
have said nothing about wood pulp, but I
repeat to the gentleman that believe the
people of the south of Georgia and of Ala.
bama, who are deeply interested in the manu-.
facture of cotton and iron, will see to it that
they are represented here by men who believe
In the development of the great resources of
our beautiful south.
Morgsn-If the senator will indulge me-
Miller, declining, appealed to the chair for
The floor. The chair, overruled the attempted
interruption. and Miller resumed. He said
he would answer any questions in regard to
wood pulp or any other manufacturing in.
dustry OF which he had any knowledge, upon
the conclusion of his argument, aud finally
concluded by inviting Morgan to reiterate his
query about wood pulp.
Morgan replied he had now no query to
make When the senator intimated tina south
ern members did not represent their people.
and would be supplanted at the November
election by protection advocates IN authority.
and that the democratic party In the south
would be overthrow, he put to him ques-
ton, whether In that senator's opinion the
new members would come instructed to vote
on the question of wood pulp. Tariff on that
article was upon the statute book; but the
senator had construed the inquiry as a per-
sonal alluson. II the senator was so much
identified with the tariff on wood pulp that
no one could discuss it without making an
allusion personal to himself, then perhaps in
quiry ought not to be made.
Mr.. Miller said he confessed his inability to
understand the matter as part of any other
than personal nature, but took no Offense at
it. The business OF paper and wood pulp
manufacture in which he was engaged he be-
lieved to be quite as honorable as any which
engaged the attention of the gentlemen inter-
ested in breaking downour mannfacturers, and
thereby reducing American laborers' wages.
He added that by the operations of patents
and of tariff the business was apparently bur.
dened, and that he wanted to say through the
press of the country, which had denounced
him for being engaged in that business, that
the time would come when It would realize
that the efforts put forth by himself and his
associates had done more than all others to
solve the question of cheap paper and cheap
books.
Sherman spoke of the efforts made by the
treasury Departments to secure legislation at
different times within period of four years SO
as to enforce the revenue laws in regard to the
sugar duties and detailed-like efforts by the
department to counteract and prevent frauds
in artificial colors and of sugars so as to
change them from the higher to the lower
grades, in order to evade higher duties and al
though it had been shown that the failure
to pass the bill regulating the duties involved
a loss to the government of $3,000,000 year,
pending the general adjustment of the
tariff. He read recent decision of
the supreme court to show that under the
existing law the colering fn'process of manu-.
factnre was not fraud, but to become such
this must take place subsequent to the manu-
facture. These, and like tariff defects in re.
gard to hoop iron, steel blooms, and other ar
ticles in iron and steel manufacture had grown
out of the confusion from the advance OF time
and the specific duties caused by the revolu-
ton of manufacturing interests within the
last twenty years, since the law was passed.
In view of the press of business, he thought
a short bill, including these items, was all that
could be looked for at the present session, and
that general revision should be left to COM
mission of civilians on Senator Morrill's plan.
to report at the next session.
General debate on the bill closes Tuesday,
after which amendments may be offered under
the four minute rule:
Senator Williams introduced bill to incOr-
porate the Cherokee Central railroad and tele
graph company. The bill authorizes the con-
of the road and telegraph line from
Fort Smith, Ark, to Fort Gibson, Cherokee
Nation, and thence to point near where the
Verdigres river crosses the line between Kan
sas and the I0dian Territory. Referred.
A bill creaking division Of the land dis
tricts in Nebraka passed. After an executive
session the senate adjourned
House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON, March M.-Mr. Robinson,
New York, called attention to the fact that the