Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-26
Especial Telegram to the Globe. |


WASHINGTON, Feb. 25--During the re-
msinder of the session, commencing on
Monday after the reading of the journal
it will be in order, under the rules of the
house, to move a suspension of the rules
and pass bills or joint resolutions, in order
that members may succeed in obtaining
the recognition of the speaker. There is
no room for doubt but that great many
jobs and other species of pernicious leg
islation will be rushed through during the
closing hours OF congress, and it will need
all the care and watchfulness of the faith
full and conscientious few to frustrate half
the efforts that will be made in that di-
rection. Unscrupulous members who re-
tire to private life after the 4th Of March,
will hesitate at no MEANS, however
crooked, to compass their designs, know
ing they have nothing to lose politically.
With congress that has been in session
thirteen months out of two years,
passing through many exciting
and wearying struggles, the
members are not now as careful and Cir
cumspect as they would otherwise be. The
next week in congress will be something
like ths seventh day in run of fever, and
after it is safely through with, the country
can feel that the crisis is passed and get
ready for another eruption in December
ERRORS IN THE TARIFF BILL.
Both the house and senate prints of the
senate-tarif bill contains several errors.
SO far as the bill has been examined, the
errors are Of punctuation only, except
in one case, and every one of the errors IN
punctuation would be likely to make
trouble. Fence wire was exempted from
the additional duty of one-fourth cent q
pound which the bill imposed on all arti-
cles of iron and steel when galvanized.
The omission of punctuation mark after
the work "were" makes the galvanizing
process apply to fence wire only,
and imposed an additional one-fourth cent
on all articles of iron and steel
except galvanized fence wire.
There is no such article known to com
merce, by the way, as fence wire, and there
is no way of distinguishing fence wire
from any other wire. The exception was
made to conciliate the farming interest
and senator's predict that, if the exception
becomes law, all galvanized wire would
be imported under the name OF fence wire
and the Western Union would be the chief
gamer. Card clothing was put in at %
cents a square foot. Tuesday evening, the
night the bill passed, Mr. AIdrich tried to
get in an amendment imposing duty of
IS cents a square foot on card clothing
when made of tampered steel. It was
lost by majority Of one, but forms
part of the bill. The error was in engros. :
ing. The bill passed at $50 in the even
ing. It was important to get the en-
crossed bill to the house next day. 1t
was impossible to engross the entire
bill after it's passage. To save time most
of the bill was engrossed before its pas
sage, and then, as changes were made,
folio would be taken out and a correct one
inserted. In this way some of the sched-
ules were engrossed four times. It was in
this effort to keep the bill engrossed to
date that the error as to card clothing was
made. The errors of punctuation were
oversights. Considering the vestness of
the bill and the hurry with which the work
had to be done, it is believed that the bill
went to the house in remarkably perfect
condition. The errors can be corrected
in the committee of conference or the sen
ate can have the bill returned Monday
for correction. It has been customary in
cases of this kind to allow the engrossing
clerk to correct any mistake he may have
made even after the bill has been delivered
to the other house, and Jefferson's manual
authorizes this, and gives precedents
for it. Mr. Simpson, engrossing
clerk OF the senate, went to Speaker
Keifer to get leave to correct the purely
clerical errors, but the speaker wouldn't
allow him to-.
DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE.
Secretary Frelinghuysen will abandon
the system of taking the public into his
confidence in state department matters,
which was adopted under the Garfield ad
ministration. The forthcoming volume of
the diplomatic CORES pondence will be
disappointment to persons who take in
terest in our foreign relation. The volume
will be radically different from any issued
from the state department in many years,
in that it will contain nothing but docu-
ments and correspondence of routine
character, and nothing bearing upon the
live questions arising between our govern
ment and other nations. Secretary Freling-
huysen has come to the conclusion thatfhe
interests of the government are not sub
verted by making public the views of
our foreign ministers in relation to public
affairs in those countries where the mem
bers are accredited, but on the
contrary much harm might ensue.
Experience has shown that the publication
of all the correspondence with the state
department has caused embarrassment at
times when it could not do otherwise than
be prejudicial 30 pending interests, and for
this reason Secretary FreIinghuysen has
decided to exclude from the foreign cor
respondence all matters of a confidential
character. The criticism of some of the