Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-20


4 Republican. What would be wisdom on
| the part of the Democrats would be to
elect a speaker outside of either Randall or
Carlisle, as both represent extreme views
on the tariff, and take one who occupies
the middle ground. The Democrats can
make national platform to carry the
country on commitment to a policy of
the abolition of internal taxes, retrench-
ment in public expenditures, and the com
pulsory performance of the contrasts
entered into by land grant railroads. A
plank in the Democratic platform of "a
tariff for revenue only" means the loss to
the Democracy of states it must necessari-
ly carry to elect president. Such plank
would make Ohio and Pennsylvania GER
tainly Republican, and possibly Indiana,
Connecticut and New jersey
TIE HILL INVESTIGATION.
The treaury department has been wise
in deciding to hold the investigation into
the charges preferred against Supervising
Arhitect Hill with open dors. The sessions
have already begun, and evidence will be
taken Monday. The difficulty is likely to
be that the prosecutors will not appear to
conduct the cases or to prove their charges.
Assistant Secretary New, who is chairman
of this investigating committee, to-day
sent letters to A. B. Mullett and ex-Con-
gresham Murch, informing them that the
committee had been appointed and was
ready to proceed, that the investigation
would be with open doors, and that those
who preferred the charges could be repre-
sented in person or by counsel, end
that all testimony would be
heard. Mullett has forestalled
this invitation by stating in the public
press that he should not appear, making
at the same time reflections upon the
committee. As for Mr.. Murch, he is a
man fertile in charges, but barren in
proofs. That has been the conspicuous
record which ne has made for himself in
connection with the Washington gas COM
pany. For two congresses he was noisy
IN his denunciat1on of that company, and
last winter, mainly at his instance, an in
vestigation was ordered, but he did not
furnish the proofs which ne claimed to
have, and when called upon by the COM
mittee as a witness, refused to aid them.
In fact he showed no disposition to make
good his charges. If Mr.. Murch fol-
lows the only precedent which he has es-
tablished as great public investigator, he
will content himself in this instance by
making accusations of the grossest frauds
against public officer without producing
any of the proof which he claims to have.
There is much interest to know what
course Mr. Muroh will pursue with regard
to the very serious charges which he has
filed in the department. Supervising Ar
chitect Hill meanwhile claims that the
charges are inspired by disappointed con-
tractors and by malice, and that there is
not single thing in his administration of
the public buildings that will not stand the
closest scrutiny.
THE ''PArENT PROCESS SUIT.
Mr.. George Harding, of Chicago, ap-
peared as counsel for Downton against
the Yesger Milling company in suit, the
decision of which will prove to be of great
interest to all flour milling in the North
west. The object of the suit is to enioin
the Yeager Milling company from manu-
featuring middling -four under process
for which Downton claims he has a patent.
The process is an intermediate process in
the old mode of manufacturing -four, that
manner being by passing the purified
middlings through or between rollers, and
subsequently rebolting and regrinding the
oorf ia MI aF
technical character, being confined to the
question of fact as to the giving of GER
tain notice, and as to the newness of the
alleged invention. The points
made by Mr.. Harding were these:
by the use of the rollers
on the coarse purified middlings for the
purpose of flattening out the germ or bran
and reducing the -four producing substance
of such middlings to get rid of the germ or
bran,thus fattened out, and to separate the
pure -four, then regrinding the middlings as
praeticed by Downton's process. A great
reduction of power is saved over the sys-
tenn of gradual reduction by regrinding
and boiling, etc., or by the repeated crush
ing on several series of rollers; also a
superior quality of high grade four, super
ior in vhiteness and strength is
made out of the 1iddlings, which, although
from the advanced state of the art of mill
ing by what is known as the new process
milling, had been previously utilized into
good -four as compared to the old system.
Yet the millers had good and many com
plants to make, that they could not make
as fine and white -four from these purified
mlddllngs as they desired, because with
these purified middlings in spite of the
improved new process system there still
remained more or less of the bran, which
would be very greatly pulverized in
the regrinding of the purified
nlddlIngs, and would be intermingled with
the flour, and would injure its purity and
Whlteness. Thus Downton discovered a