St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-25
Various Reports ON the Subject
from a Congressional
Committee.
The Favoring Reports Not Very Warm
and Hardly Earnest.
The Opposition Reports Polite but Vigorous
in Denunciation.
Other Work of the Committees and Clean
ings of Capital News.

committee on levees and improvement OF
the Mississippi river, and President Com
stock, of the commission, explained the plan
of improvement, adopted, and said it would
in commercial sense, pay the government
to expend $4,000, coo or 800, 900, 600 to get
depth of water of ten feet from St. Louis to
New Orleans
&. B. Perkin, of the United States secret
service, detective, formerly resident of
Pennsylvania, was examined before the
Springer committee, concerning the irregu
larities in the returns of United States Mar
shall Hall, Pittsburg. Perkins said he knew
nothing of the matter except what had been
told him by one of Halls deputies, named
Brown, who said Hall was not making prop
er returns in the torpid bankruptcy cases.
Witness said Brown was hard up at the
time, but since had bought farm and was
coming money. Witness referred to the
employment of David Cameron as assistant.
to assist the district attorney, and it was his
opinion that there was no necessity for the
employment of an assistant district attorney.
WOMEN SUFFRAGE.
The house committee ON judiciary to-day
submitted four reports relative to extending
the right of suffrage to women. The adverse
majority report was prepared by Mr.. May
bury, and says in part: ''To permit the en-
trance of political contention into a home
would be either useless, or pernicious; use
less, if the man and wife agree, and PERM
cious if they differ. In the former event, the
the volume of the ballots alone would be in
creased without changing the results. In
the latter the peace and contentment of the
home would be exchanged for the bedlam of
political debate, and become a scene of base
and demoralizing intrigues. In
answer to the question often suggested, as to
what portion and what class of women would
avail themselves of the privilege of the suf-
frage, if extended to women, your commit
tee is of opinion, while few intelligent wo-
men, such as appeared before the committee
in advocacy of the pending measure, would
defy all obstacles in the way of their casting
the ballot, yet the great mass of the intelli-
gent and refined and judcious, with the be-
coming modesty of their sex, would shrink
from the rude contact of the crowd, with the
exception mentioned, leaving to the igno-
rant and vilest the exclusive right to speak
for the gentler sex in public affairs"
Messrs. Reed, G. B. Taylor S. NJ. Brown
and McCord in their minority report say:
The association of the sexes in the family
circle, in society and in business, having
proved improving to both, there is neither
history, reason nor sense to justify the asser-
ton that an association in politics will lower
one or demoralize the other. No reason on
earth can be given by those who claim the
suffrage as the right of manhood which does
not make it the right of womanhood also. If
suffrage is to be given man to protect him in
his life, liberty and property, the same rea-
sons urge it be given to woman, for she has
the same life, liberty and property to protect.
Mr.. Dorsheimer while concurring with the
majority in recommending that the matter
be laid on the table, says: II think it prob
able the interests of society will soon require
that woman should have the right of suffrage
and am not willing to say more than that
at present. It is not an opportune time for
the submission to the states of the proposed
amendments
Mr.. Poland's report says: "The Office and
duty which nature devolved upon woman
during all the active and vigorous por
ton of her life, would often render it impos
sible, and still more indicate for her TO APP
pear and act in caucuses, conventions or
elections, or to act as member of the legis
lature, or as a juror or judge. 1 cannot
bring myself to believe that any large por-
ton of the intelligent women of this country
desire any such thing granted, or would per-
form any such duties if the chance be offered
them.'
BONDED GOODS.
The bill to amend the revised statutes, re-
lating to merchandise in the United States
public store or bonded warehouse, introduced
by Rosecrans, provides, ''all merchandise
which may be deposited in public store or
bonded warehouse may be withdrawn by the
owner for expectation to foreign countries or
may be transshipped to any port on the Pa
cifc or western coast of the United States at
any time before the expiration of three years
from the date of its original importation.
Such goods, on arrival at the Pacific or west
ern port, to be subject to the same rules and
regulations as if originally imported there.
Any goods on which duties have not been
fully paid remaining in the public store or
bonded warehouse beyond three years to be
regarded as abandonded to the government
SECRETARY CHANDELIERS STATEMENT.
In reply to the statement made by Repre-
sentative Hewitt in the house to-day, in re-
gard to the alleged failure of the secretary of
the navy to deposit in the treasury the pro-
ceeds of the sale of old vessels, Secretary
Chandler tonight says the amount realized
from the sale of old vessels as given in his
annual report, December, 1884, was in round
numbers 1884. 600. From this amount 500,
600, the sum bid for the Niagara, must be
deducted, the sale having been subsequently
Cancelled. The remainder, 1855, 900, the
secretary accounts for as follows: Deposited
with the United States treasurer 1915, 000
Deposited with the assistant treasurer of the
United States, San Francisco, SAG, 900. Paid
for breaking up the Canandaigua at Norfolk,
and the Connecticut at Boston, and for adj
yertising in accordance with the law, S37 900,
total $685., 1000. The excess of SO, 900 in the
treasury, over the amounts to be accounted
for is due to oVerpayments on deposits by
the bidders. All the deposits. Secretary
Chandler says, were made by. the navy de-
partment Immediately upon receipt of the
purchase money from the various bidders.
THE AMERICAN COLLEGE IN ROME.
The secretary of state sent to the house to-
day, in response to recent resolutions, all
correspondence on file in the department in
regard to the proposed sale of the American
college insRome. The principal features and
results of the negotiation upon this subject
are already known, and most of the letters
and reports have been published. The fol-
lowing is a copy of a letter from Archbishop
Corrigan to Secretary Freling huysen, written