Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-06

1u0 LneInOrldl rcCltcS tildt tHc I5OISdA-
lied church has its missionaries in various
parts of Europe, Australia and in the So
ciety islands in the Pacific, and that
justice demands it should be relieved from
the odium of shame of classii-
cation with body practicing crime
against the laws of the country in which a
great body of the communicates live, and
from the disability under which its mis-
sionaries labor in spreading their faith.
The committee were introduced to the
secretary by Senators Allison ard Hon. W.
P. Hepburn, of Iowa. Secretary Freling
huysen took the memorial and promised
the appeal should be considered.
REPEAL OF TAX ON BANK CAPITAL AND DE-
PosITs.
The act to reduce internal revenue taxa
ton which has just become law, provides
for repeal tax on the capital and depos-
its of all banks and bankers, except such
as are now due and payable. The tax on,
capital and deposits therefore ceased on
March 3. Comptroller Knox says the
passage of this act relieved tie national
and state banks and private bankers, from
a tax, on an average of about one million
of dollars month.
The law imposing tax on bank capital
and deposits required all the state banks
and private bankers in the country to
make semi-annual returns to the commits
sioner of internal reysnue. From these
returns the comptroller has for a series of
years compiled the only complete state
ments ever given in reference to the capi-
tai and deposits and amount of United
States bonds held by all classes of banks
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this law will, after this date, prevent a
compilation of these tables, and the only
source from which these returns can here
after be obtained will be from the reports
of the banks as compiled by The officers Of
the different states. As many states, par
ticularly in the South and West, do not re-
quire such returns to be made, the aggre-
gate will of necessity be much less COM
plete than before.
THE NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS KICK.
meeting of newspaper correspond
ents was held yesterday afternoon to ex-
press their Indignation over treatment re-
eeived by them from Speaker Keifer on
| Saturday night, in regard to the admission
/ of the members families and friends to
the journalists gallery of the house, to the
/ great Inconvenience, and in many instances
| entire exclusion of correspondents. The
conduct censured consisted in the refusal
/ of the speaker to afford the
journalists the right secured to
them by the standing rule of the house,
and the alleged insulting manner in which
the refusal was expressed. The language
of refusal was characterized as not only
grossly impolite, but blasphemous in char
acter, concerning the press. 1t was also
said the speaker refused to recognize Mr..
Burrows, for the purpose of moving to
clear the gallery, and allow the correspond
ents to proceed with their usual work. In
reply to these resolutions, Speaker Keifer
/ furnishes the following for publication:
! SPEAKER REFERS REPLY.
! To those newspaper correspondents who
assumed to pass resolutions in condemna-
tiOn of the house, the speaker, and the dis
| tinguished member from Kentucky, Mr.
Mckenzie, for allowing some members
wives and their lady friends to have seats
| for few hours in the reporters gallery of
/ the house, desire simply to say that the
/ grievance chiefly complained of is that
these members of the press feel that they
had rights superior to those of the
| ladies, who were by an unanimous
vote of the house granted the privileges OF
seats, where they could witness its pro-
ceedings for very short time. All that
part of the preamble and resolutions
which were reported to have been adopted
by the meeting of the press, which relates
to the refusal of the speaker to grant the
request of j. G. Burrows, of Michigan, tc
be recognized for the purpose of making
a motion to turn out of the reporters
seats these wives of members and other la.
dies, is absolutely false. If Mr.
Burrows had sought to make such {
motion, in the face of the unanimous vote
of the house, it would have been a great
farce. To have succeeded in getting al
order to direct the sergeant-at-arms tt
forcibly or otherwise take these ladies
from the reporters gallery, after they hai
been admitted by the order of the house
would have been more than a farce. Mr.
Burrows was never foolish enough to seek
to obtain the unanimous consent
of the house TO cause these ladies
to be turned out after being
admitted, and never, so far as I know
sought the floor for that purpose. Tn,
coarse, vulgar and profane Language
which is attributed to me has of course NJ
foundation in truth. No such language
was ever used by me, and during the tim,
the gallery was occupied by the ladies. NJ
members of the press saw me on tn,
subject. never thought O.
using such language and never die
use it towards the press. About
o'clock on Sunday morning, while hastil,
passing from the chair to the speaker
room, met a representative of the press
who seemed to be in high state of ex
citement. He requested to see the orde
rescinded and was told at once that th
order had been executed and that the gal
lery had been practically cleared of ladies
the fact being at that time that nsithe
the press nor ladies occupied seat
in the reporters gallery. This same cor
respondent was also told, at that time, tha
the order of the house would not extend
the meeting of the house during the re
mainder of the session. It was only for
few hours, and did not extend further, ant
the gallery was never again occupied b
ladies. These worse than foolish resolu
tions, false in their basis, were adopte
without giving me a chance to make
statement at all, but must have grown on
, of high state of excitement, originatin
, in fact, that these distinguished correspor
/ dents regarded themselves so much superi
, | or to the wives of the members of cor