Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-23
Especial Telegram to the Globel

Especial Telegram to the Globe
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-Assistant Secre-
tary New, of the treasury department, a
member of the national Republican com
mittee, said to-day that the question of
district representation had been finally
settled, as far as the convention of 1884
was concerned, yet the plan decided upon
was generally unsatisfactory. He said
that at the next meeting of the committee
in December, the subject would be again
brought up, and a plan for a more equita-
BILE representation in subsequent conven-
tions would be proposed. He
favors plan by which a
Republican convention shall represent Re
publicanism and not give as much power
to states overwhelmingly Democratic as
the present arrangement does. Wheh
asked what he thought of the proposition
to take theiRepublican vote in 1880 as
basis for determining the number of dele
gat5s each state shall have, Secretary New
said SIT would bring innumerable con-
tests in the convention, and do more harm
than good, especially where a district
would fall but few votes short of enough
for fractional delegate. Had such plan
been followed in choosing delegates
to the Chicago convention the result might
have been far different from what it was.
Blaine might have been nominated. 1
think it was fortunate thing that he was
not. There are some men in this country
would not vote for under any circum-
stances, and one of them is James G.
Blaine"
A CLOUD ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
The supreme court of the United States
rendered a decision this afternoon, declar-
ing unconstitutional section 5,519 of the
revised statues and to that extent casting
cloud upon the so-calIed
civil rights law. The opinion
which was prepared by Mr.. Justice Wood,
holds that the section is an infringement
of the reserved rights or the statutes.
The section provides that if two or more
persons in any state or territory conspire
for the purpose of depriving any person or
class of the equal protection of the lawson
for the purpose of preventing the consti-
tuted authorities from securing to all per-
sons the exual protection of the laws, each
of such persons so offending
shall be punished by fine or
Imprisonment, or both. This
section is by the supreme court declared to
be unconstitutional for the reason above
stated.
THE DUTY ON TOBACCO.
An enormous number of petitions from
workmen in tobacco factories, protesting
against any reduction of the import duty
on tobacco beyond that recommended by
the tariff commission are being received by
members of congress. Senator Cameron
to-day filed eighteen such petitions, signed
by thousands of workmen in Pennsyl-
vania. They fear a reduction of
the duties will operate to
throw great many laborers in American
tobacco factories out of employment. A
reduction of the import duty as well as a
reduction of the revenue tax is one of the
demands of the manufacturers, and the
tobacco lobby nowhere are fearful the op-
! position of the laboring classes will be-
come SO pronounced that congress will not
be as liberal toward the manufacturers as
| it otherwise would.
THE MEXICO RECIPROCITY TREATY.
The Republican will tomorrow contain
an interview with General Grant on the
subject of the reciprocity treaty between
the United States and Mexico and the po-
| litical and commercial relations of the two
countries. The treaty proposes the free
entry into Mexico of articles under seven
| ty-three different heads. He laid special
stress on articles of machinery, agricul-
tural implements, railroad materials and
vehicles, the manufacture of which in this
country for use in Mexico would give en-
| ployment to thousands of people and open
up to enterprising Americans these mines
of untold wealth and plantations of vast
extent
| THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
A decision was rendered by the supreme
court of the United States to-day in the
important constitutional case Of the
United States against R. G. Harris, ct al
brought here upon certificate of differ
ence of opinion among the judges of the
United States circuit court for the Western
district of Tennessee. The particular
question presented here is the constitu-
tionality of section 5,519, revised statutes.
The section is as follows ''If two or more
persons in any state or
territory conspire or go in disguise on the
highway or on the premises of another
for the purpose of depriying, either direct
ly or Indirectly, any person or class oi
persons of the equal protection of the
laws, or of equal privileges and immuni
ties under laws, or for the purpose
of prevailing or. hindering tht
constituted authorities of any
| ctata or tarritnrr frnrn cririncr or sa.