Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-14

are also instructed that shellac varnish
manufactured in bonded warehouses in the
United States oEt of domestic alcohol, and
which may have been exported without
payment of tax, cannot be returned to the
United States upon payment of a duty less
than the internal revenue tax which was
remitted on the alcohol. The officers are
instructed to score the barrels before ex-
Isportation in such manner that they can be
identified upon reimportation.
ARMY PROMOTIONS.
By the death of Lieut.. Col. VIM. H.
Browne, of the First infantry, Major Chas.
G. Bartlett of the Eleventh infantry will
be- promoted to lieutenant COL
ohel of the First in
fantry. Capt. Jas. A. Snyder, of the Third
infantry to major of the Eleventh infan-
try; First Lieut.. Edmund Rice of the Fifth
infantry TO captain of the Fifth infantry
and Second Lieut.. Jno. G. F. Tillson of the
Fifth infantry to lieutenant of the Fifth
infantry.
GOING TO VISIT LEADING COLLEGES.
In directing Professors Geo. L. Andrews
and Samuel E. Tillman, of the United
States military academy, to visit Harvard
Yale and other American colleges, the sec,
retary of war desires a thorough inquiry
to be made into the course of study and
methods of instruction at the leading
American universities and colleges. In
speaking of the subject to-day General
Drum said,
''This may be considered a new depart
ure, but the world moves and we must keep
abreast with the spirit of the age. 1t is
desirable that West Point should avail it
self of every thing which is commended
and endorsed by ripe experience in our
leading institutions of learning
TRYING TO SAVE RAILROAD LAND GRANTS.
The Gulf & Ship Island railroad was in
cluded in the list of land grant railroads
which the judiciary committee in the house
during the Forty-seventh congress report
ed upon, recommending that their land
grants be declared forfeited for the reason
that the work of construction had not been
begun. No action, however, was taken by
congress and it is now reported that ex-
Representative Manning, of Mississippi,
and other gentlemen, who have obtained
control of the charter, have gone to New
York for the purpose of interesting capi-
talists there in forming a syndicate to sup
ply the funds necessary to complete the
road, or some portion of it, with the expec-
tation that the valuable land grant can be
secured, 1t is further reported that the
meeting will be held in Wall street some
day this week to discuss and mature a
plan of operation.
ITO YOUR TENTS, o ISRAELI
The board of directors appointed by the
central committee on labor legislation, Or
ganized by authority of the last congress,
demand that National Labor unions sub
nit to the organized trade unions and as
semblles of labor of the United States. A
manifesto is headed with the stirring call,
''To Your Tents, o Israel" The manifesto
denounces the majority of the senate as
lawyers retained by federal capitalists; de-
mands an extra session of congress as
remedy for impending strikes, and advises
all wage workmen to join their trade
unions or Knights of Labor and present
an unbroken front.
The manifesto denounces the abrupt
suspension of the senate investigation of
the relats rs between capital and labor
and says: ''This action, coupled with later
proceedings inimical to the interests of
wage works, convinces the board of di-
rectors u the iusincerity and hollow hypoc-
risy of the professions of the majority of
senators. The omplete subjection of our
legislators to moneyed power has never
been more clearly demonstrated than by
the recent tariff legislation of the Forty
seventh congress, which threatens to result
in immediate and distressing reduction
in wages in many great manufacturing
establishments I of the country.
The attempt will naturally lead
to strikes and consequent misery and want.
Possibly riot and disorder will ensue and
the blame will be sought, as usual, to be at
tached to the poor workmen instead of the
''gay and festive" liars, hypocrites, Jug
glers and public plunderers, who basely
abuse the powers reposed in them by a con
iding people.
The psalnist said "all men of high degree
are liars" and if he lived in Washington
to-day he would repeat the assertion with
our supplementary attachments. Human
agencies have undoubtedly devised schemes
by which the few have enslaved the many,
and human beings must rectify the wrong.
We should not continue to look into the
clouds of heaven, like ignorant ours, for
delverance from our oppressors, but to
one another. Federated drones must be
counteryailed by federated laborers, de-
mandIng as with one voice immediate re-
forms. Whatever we do, however, should
be done peacefully, if possible, and
in accordance with the law.
THE TREATY RATIFIED.
The Madagascar treaty was ratified at
the state department this afternoon.
DECISIONS CONCERNING PUBLIC LANDS.
In communication to the commissioner
of the general land Office respecting the
repayment of purchase money under the
act of June 16, 1880, for the relief of set
tiers on the public lands and to provide for
the repayment OF certain fees of purchase
money and commissions paid on void
entries of public lands, Secretary Teller
holds that whenever an entry of land is
made by specific location and wholly fails,
the scrip or warrant being within the con-
troll of the general land Office, and not in
fact satisfied, may be returned for
proper location on the cancellation of the
former invalid entry, but where the consid-
Grafton is carried into the treasury as cash,
and can only be withdrawn by application
under the repayment statutes, in the opin-
ion Of the secretary, it is clear that it
must be repaid in the manner provided by
those statutes, 'out Of any money in the