Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-21
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vor of allowing the contestants in TIT
! Cook-Cutts case $1,000 each for expenses
This sum will cover but small proportion
of the expenses in the case, it being very
expensive one to the contestants.
sPEoUuATIoNs.
A careful diagnosis of the prospects fol
| 1884, as made by a sagacious politician, is
summed up as follows: If the Republican
candidate should lose New York, New Jer
sey, Indiana and California, and carry al
the remaining Northern states, he would
have $50 electoral votes. To these may
safely be added the twenty three electoral
votes of Virginia and North Carolina
making 203. That would leave for the
opposition 100 Southern and sixty eight
Northern electoral votes, making total of
1913.
DRIED APPLES.
A very fair joke has been going the
rounds of the press of late to the effect
that American dried apples are being ex-
ported to China and Japan, and that Amer
ca is thus helping to swell the population
of the Orient. This is fun, but the facts
of which this is an index are even more
interesting than the joke itself. Dur
ing the past year about 3,500000 pounds
of dried apples have been sent abroad
from this county, some going to China,
India, Egypt, southern Africa, Australia,
and also to England and Scotland, where d
trade has been established for some years.
Four-ffths of those exported go from the
port of New York. The exporters gather
them UP from all parts of the coun-
try, the best coming from North
Carolina, where they seem to have
a superior flavor and to be better dried.
This may be treason to the Western Re-
serve, whose dried apples are famous, but
it is nevertheless the fact. Few apples are
now dried by the old process, the more re-
cent system of evaporation producing re-
suits much more satisfactory. A curious
fact is developed in this connection, that
the cores, parings and other refuse of the
evaporating establishments are purchased
in France, it is supposed for use in chang
ing the flavor of certain frauds of wines.
THE FLOODS.
Judge Holman thinks that the present
floods in the Ohio and Mississippi rivers
demonstrates the correctness of his views
with regard to outlets. What is wanted, he
says, is some system that will
drain the rivers IN time of floods of their
surplus water. With plenty of outlets he
thinks such damaging overfows as &C.
Cured last year and last week, would be
impossible. He says that the system of
mattress work and narrowing the channel
of the Mississippi, piling for and securing
out the bottom, adopted by the river COM
mission, is SO wholly experimental that the
government would not be justified in in
curing The expense of testing the system.
He has no doubt that if the flood in the
lower Mississippi is as great as expected
this spring, the works of the river COM
mission at Plumb Point and Lake Provi-
dence reach will be swept away,
and that the levees which have been
built the past fall and summer at
SO much expense will be completely de-
molished. He says that statistics show
that the greater part of the commerce of
the western rivers is of the Ohio, between
Cincinnati and Cairo, and that the COM
merce below Cairo is not so important
The pilots, he says, have asked for nothing
more than to have the snags of the lower
Mississippi removed and kept out of the
stream and to have proper lights estab-
lshed, so that they can find the channel
If that is all that those who navigate the
lower Mississippi want, he doesn't'see why
congress should waste millions of dollars
in making doubtful experiment. Judge
Holman will no doubt present these views
to congress when the river and harbor bill,
with the Mississippi clause in it, comes to
the house for consideration.
Western Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-Republican mem
bers of the senate took advantage of the
late hour at which that body decided to
convene to-day and had caucus lasting
from 1890 to to II o'clock. A pretty gen
eral discussion of the situation was had,
and an unusually frank expression of
OplnlOAo 1IouASS0 iA' oOIuO opOothOIo
vised the abandonment of the tariff bill
on the ground that it's further discussion
was utter folly and waste of time; that it
had been abundantly demonstrated that no
tariff measure can possibly be passed this
session, and each day seemed
to place the Republicans themselves farth-
er and farther from any possibility of
agreement upon the final terms and rates
of the bill. On the contrary it was urged
that the bill had now reached a point
whereby harmony of purpose and action
on the part of Republicans, and abstenance
from further speeches, a final vote could
soon be reached: that to abandon the bill
now would be a virtual concession by the
Republicans that they could not agree
among themselves, and that the logical re-
suit would be to place the onus of the re-
sponsibility for the failure of tariff revis-
ion upon the Republican party. A vote
was finally taken which resulted, by large
majority, in favor of going on for another
day with the tariff bill.
CONTESTED ELECTION EXPENSES.
A favorable report was submitted to the
house to-day from the committee on cleo
tions on the bill to pay the expenses in the
contested cases in the Forty seventh cong
ress, with $1,000 added to the bill as origi-
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