St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-10
KeOkuk and Waco Get Public
Buildings by the South and
West Uniting.
Interstate Commerce Gets Black
Eye, From Which it VIII Not
Recover This Session.
Senator'S Beck, Vest and Hale Discuss
Precious Pail, Messrs. Robson
and Chandler.
District of CoIumbia-Two De1egates-One
(White) For Arthur, One (CoIoreO
for Logan.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. ;

OF Texas, has labored so unsuccessfuNy Tor
the past four years, are not likely to receive
more attention at the present session than
heretofore. This was made evident in the
house proceedings to-day; when the special
order for the consideration of the interstate
commerce bill was set aside for the benefit
Of bills to erect public buildings and
matters of local interest only, but es-
pecially important to members seeking
to establish themselves on firm basis with
their constituents. The same fate is await
ing the shipping bill, against ~hich little if
any opposition is arrayed, and after long
wrangle the supporters of the public build
ings bills succeeded in obtaining favorable
action in the Keokuk, Iowa, and Waco,
Texas, bills. 1t appeared that treaty had
been effected, whereby these bills, appro-
priating $1,000 for Keokuk and 500, 900
for Waco public buildings should
stand together, and the combination
of west and south was too strong to be bro
for public buildings at various places have
been passed by the senate, and are now lying
on the speakers table. The house naturally
desires at this late stage of the session to pass
bills Of like character, so they may receive
the favorable action of the senate, and upon
the concurrence Of the senate largely depends
the concurrence Of the house in bills on the
speakers table. In this way legislation is
accomplished by forced compromises. The
best that can be hoped for interstate
commerce at this session is the creation of a
commission to examine and report at the
next session what legislation, if any,i is needed
to protect citizens against the eXaction of I'M
equal freight and passenger tolls by railroads
and other vehicles of transportation. An i'm
mense number of petitions has been received
from all sections, praying legislation in this
behalf but corporate influences, rein-
forced by strict constitutional con
structionists, are too patent
in the halls of congress to permit the passage
of any interstate commerce measure.
A PARTISAN QUARREL.
Consideration of the naval appropriation
bill in the senate has narrowed down to a
political discussion between the two parties.
Attacks on the administration Of the navy
department under Secretarys Robson and
Chandler, made by Vest and Beck to-day,
gave Hale much trouble in his effort to de-
fend them. Considering the difficulties I'M
der which he labored Hale did very well.
'ALF AND 'ALF.
The convention to choose two delegates
and alternates from the District of Columbia
to the Republican national convention after
a stormy time finally elected P. NJ. Conger
(white) and Perry Carson (colored), with
Gleason (white) and Smith (colored) for al
ternates. Col. Bob Ingersoll was badly
beaten. Of 10 delegates only twenty-five
were white. Conger naturally supports Ar
thur and the balance of the delegation, in
Guiding the alternates, are for Logan. The
Blaine men were routed, as the admintstra-
ton felt compelled to carry the seat of gov
eminent against him, if nobody else.
DIED OF PNEUMONIA.
A man named John Treadwen registered
at the National hotel last Saturday afternoon
He was not seen again, and this morning the
clerk was sent to ascertain what had become
of him. The servant brought word that the
man seemed dead. The clerk went to the
room and found the body lying across the
bed, unclothed excepting his shirt and vest.
On the table was and empty flask. Among
the effects of the deceased were papers indi-
eating his connection with the paymaster's
department of the army, S11 in money,
and life insurance policy for $4,000.
Deceased was recognized as an army pay
masters clerk, who stopped at the hotel last
fall, and registered from Tucson, Ariz. His
baggage checks indicate that he came last
from Boston. An autopsy revealed that his
death was the result of pneumonia.
PosToFFIcE MATTERS.
Postoffices at Vernon, Dodge county,
Mimi, and Vanderbilt, Campbell county,
Dakota, were re established to-day. The
railway postal service has been extended
from Minneapolis to Aberdeen, Oak. N. E.
Nelson has been commissioned postmaster
at Wild Rice, Norman county, MINI.
RIGHT OF WAY.
John w. Carey, of Milwaukee, attorney OF
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad,
is here looking after the bill granting that
road the right of way through the Sioux reser-
NdtlOI Ill OdhOIu, duu OluCl ICSlSldllOn d.
fecting the road.
THE HENNEPIN CANAL.
Secretary Wright, of the Mississippi river
convention, is good deal puzzled just now
to know what ought to be done in regard to
the Hennepin canal. He has been appealed
to by the friends of the canal,
especially the Iowa members, to go
before the river ahd harbor committe
and urge the insertion of clause in the river
and harbor bill appropriating 100000 for
the Hennepin canal bill, for the Hennepin
canal is so far down on the calendar that
there is no hope of reaching it this session,
and so the only hope the canal has is to get
it into the river and harbor bill. Members
of the committee insist that they have no
power to insert canal appro-
priations in the river and harbor
bill, and that if they open the doors to one
canal they must load down their bill with
every canal in the country. Mr.. Wright is
undecided whether it is his duty under the
resolutions of the convention to go before
the committee in behalf of the Hennepin
canal or not.
RAILROAD LAND GRANTS.
In all probability the house will this week
enter upon the consideration of one or two
bills looking to the forfeiture # land grants
covering great tracts now held by railroad
corporations. Thus far the committee
on public lands, or majority, have treated
all land grant roads as having no vested
rights, and have proceeded to forfeit the
same, so far as their vote is concerned,
with seeming view more to manu-
facture political capital for several
members who call themselves grangers
than upon fair judicial determination of
the equities involved. The committee
which recommended the forfeiture of a
large tract of railroad land yesterday, voted