Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-12

the $4,000 back pay bugbear, has passed
the senate, and Hoar, Cameron and Sewell
are recorded in its favor. It is liable to
meet insurmountable opposition in the
house, though such true patriots and ar
dent Republicans as Longstreet and Mos
favor it why should the Logan follow
ing dissent?
THE TARIFF BILL
contains a section providing that no
goods shall be imported into the United
States except III vessels of the United
States, or in vessels belonging truly and
wholly to citizens of the countries where
the goods imported are grown or manufac-
tured OF produced, or from which such
goods can only be, or are most usually
shipped. The penalty is confscation of
the vessel and cargo. But the next
section provides that this section shall not
apply to vessels, or to goods imported in
vessels Of nations that do not maintain
similar regulations against vessels of the
United States. In other words, the pro-
vision is one of retaliation, for which there
is no present use, but which is put into the
bill so that it can be readily found if an
emergency calling for it should arise. If
the treasury of any nation, Great Britain
for instance, were drawn upon without
stint to enable its vessels to underbid the
vessels of the United States for the carry
ing trade of the world, there is virtual
violation of our treaty rights, and the oc-
casion for employing this retaliatory
section has arrived. When any nation is
trying by the imitless use of money to
drive the American flag from the seas, we
must defend ourselves. We would have to
reply with like subsidies. We might find
it necessary to resort to just such discrimin-
atious as that contemplate in this section.
Senatorial talk about British subsidies
is almost as imaginative as the belief of
every protectionist that all free traders
are employed by British gold to u1der-
mine the industries of their own country.
English vessels engaged only in the
freighting business, whether they are pro-
PEELED by steam or sails, get no subsidies
at all. The only line of British mail
steamers that is heavily subsidized is the
Peninsular and Oriental line, and this line
is favored more for political and military
than for commercial reasons. 1t is the
great line connecting Great Britain with
her Indian empire and her Australian col
onies. None of the transatlantic steamers
get any subsidies. Three lines are liber-
ally paid for carrying the mails, and
one or two other lines carry all mails
and are paid proportionately. The rest, and
among them are some of the most sue
cessful steamers-get nothing from the
government.
Mr.. Cox's recent reference to the jeal-
| ousies between the two committees recalls
an odd story that is floating about here.
The house ways and means committee,
some time since, called upon the chief of
the bureau of statistics to make up, for its
use in framing the tariff bill, compare
tive table, showing the present tariff and
the rates proposed by the tariff commits
sioner in parallel tables, reducing the
compound duties to single standard, so
that the comparison could be made &C
curate, and giving also, in each case, the
question. The work had taken a great
deal of time and labor, and when com
pleted few days ago was found to be ex-
tremely valuable. The ways and means
committee, delighted with the stroke of
genius which had given them this excellent
aid in their work, were bowling along with
their bill. hoping to get.i out ahead of the
senate committee, when the clerk of the
house committee was nonplussed one day
by the appearance of the messenger
of the senate committee with a polite note,
asking him to furnish the senate commit
tee with copy of the comparative report
from Mr.. Nimmo, the chief of the bureau
of statistics. This was a sumner, so to
speak, and the clerk aforesaid pondered
for some time, debating what to do, but
finally sent polite note, saying that he
could not furnish the coveted document.
This aroused the ire of the senate committee
and the result was, to make long story
short, that a resolution went whirling
through the senate next day ordering the
public printer to furnish to-the senate
committee forthwith 100 copies of the said
document, which had been committed to
him with great exclusiveness by the house
committees representatives. He furnished
them, too, and the result was that the SEN
ate committees bill was reported week
or more ahead of the house committees
bill, and when it was printed there was at
tached, for the benefit of all concerned,
full copy of the coveted comparative table
aforesaid.
A DIRTY TRICK.
A portion of the house election commit
tee took mean advantage of the absence
of three or four members of both parties,
and voted to unseat Mr.. Manning, of Mis-
sissippi, by declaring his seat vacant. For
this motion the votes cast were FIVE Re-
publicans, John Paul, Readjuster, and
Jones of Texas. This was nothing but |
dirty trick intended to bolster up Chal- |
mers in his contest. The members of the |
committee who sustain Manning's title to |
his seat are Messrs. Atherton MouIton. |
Davis and Biltzhoover, Democrats, and |
Messrs. Calkins, Miller, Hazleton and |
Waite, Republicans. This makes eight,
and majority of the committee. 1t is
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