Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1884-01-31


charges of Irregularities in the Office of
Murray while United States marshal of
Kentucky, and said the government had
been wronged out of thousands of dollars,
the consequence of the expenses incurred
by fruitless and unnecessary prosecutions
against the citizens of the state by which
| they were harassed and embittered
against the government and its officers.
False and fictitious charges for guards
were made and numerous prosecutions had
been instituted for the most trivial viola
tions of the law, and the arrested parties
taken from remote parts of the state to
Louis ille, passing en- route commission
erss who could have heard their cases on
preliminary examinations. This was
done, he said, not in the interest of the
government, but apparently for no other
! reason than to make costs.
THE PORK INDUSTRY.
Secretary Frelinhuysen has addressed to
the president communication, which will
be transmitted to the house of representa-
| tiyss, in response to the resolutions asking
for papers relating to the exclusion of
American hog product from foreign coun-
tries. He submits to the president copies
of all pertinent matter found on record in
the department of state, and gives in de-
tail the history of the exclusion of Ameri-
can meats from France, Germany and
other European countries, In March,
1881, the secretary says, the department
of state prosecuted an examination into
the various phases of the pork industry in
the western states, which resulted in estab-
fishing the fact of the entire health
fulness of the pork product. The facts
thus ELECTED warranted the department in
representing to foreign governments that
the prejudicial Judgment against the
swine export from the country was ex-
psrte and unfounded. When it was ascer-
tanned that Germany was about to issue
an order for their total exclusion, the
PRECEDENT directed that the imperial gov
ernment be informed of his intention to
appoint commission to examine the
whole subject aud invited it to send ex.
perts here to act WI tn the commission, but
the invitation was declined.
THE PRESIDENT APPOINTS COMMISSION.
The president has since appointed the
commission contemplated. 1t is COM
posed of a representative of the New York
chamber of commerce; Prof. Charles F.
Chandler, representative of the Chicago
UO6EQ VI bEdQc, w DlhLCuIOEa TWO
members nominated by the commissioner
of agriculture, f. D. Curtis, New York, and
Prof. D. E. Salmon, the whole under the
craftsmanship of the commissioner of agri-
culture. In point OF scientific competence
and elevated impartiality, the formation
of the commission is peculiarly fit for the
execution of its responsible task. 70 it
should belong in great measure the shap-
ing of the policy of this government to-
wards the pork question in its domestic or
foreign aspects. In view of the promi
nent part which the results to be reached
by the pork commission must necessarily
play in further treatment of the question
by the executive or by congress, the secre
tary feels it incumbent upon him to ad-
wise that the president recommend that
col gress abstain from any Immediate leg
| islatiye action until the report of the COM
mission, soon TO be presented, is before it.
The secretary further says, the question to
be carefully, frankly and honestly met
is, whether The prepared meat
products exported from this country
are injurious to the public
health. We believe they are not, and
have so represented, and should it appear
that the meat products of this country are,
as we believs them to be, not deleterious,
but promoters of health, it is believed
these friendly nations, which have put
forth the DEGREES inhibiting the importa
tion of our meats, would annul these de-
crees. If, however, in the face of clear
proof, ehcited both at home and abroad,
that our products are free from disease or
communicable germs of disease, proof of
which might be established to demon
strstion by actual inspection, as we'll ss
supported by the knowledge of the pre-
cautions which surround the raising and
packing industries here, any nations
with which we are on terms of intimacy and
amity, should, by legislation, discriminate
against the trade of this country, rather
than protect the health of their people, it
| would then be the province of the execu-
| tive to call the attention of such nations
| to the provisions of the treaties, with the
confident expectation that those treaties
will be respected. It seems very plain
that our policy in any event should be to
prove our meat products wholesome,
| and the absence of trichinosis
| in this countrg, and particularly in
| our army and navy where our meats are
| constantly used goes, to demonstrate this.
| Measures, however, might be taken to
ascertain the absolute certainty by such
mems as o1mn ission of SO entists
would devise, that our meats are or can be
| rendered innoxious.
DISCHARGE OF EMPLOYEES.
Representative Dockery expects to in
troduce bill at an early day to prohibit
the discharge without cause,of employees of
the house during the vacation of congress-
Mr.. Dockery has been led to the prspara-
tion of this bill by the facts brought out
| by the committee on accounts in the inves-
tigation as to the removal of Tyson, the
stenogrepher of last congress, and the ap-
pointmeut in his stead of Gaines,a nephew
of exSpeaker Keifer.
| INDIAN DELEGATION.
Chief Carlos and his delegation of Flat
head Indians had a conference with the
secretary of the interior to-day, upon the
proposition to remove the Flatheads,now N
Bitter-root valley to Jocko reservation,
Montana. Senator Vest and Delegate
McGinnis at the conference. The secre-
tary to convince Carlos that the proposed
change was for the best interests OF The
Indians, as they were at present brought
into contact with the white settlers and