St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-25
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Educational Bill Keeps Up An
Interesting Debate.
An Appropriation forothe Floods on the Mis-
sissippi Causes Wrangle.
The Senate.

uayT was PieSlueu over ny SeHalOr CHOAiuah
designated under rule by the vice president
for that purpose.
Senator Vance presented the views OF the
minority of the committee on foreign rela-
tons, relative to the action and report of the
committee on the subject of the exclusion OF
American meats from foreign countries.
Senator VanWyck offered resolution
directing the attorney general to furnish the
information called for concerning the COM
pensation of special attorneys in the stan
route cases, or give the reasons for his neg
lect to do so. Under objection of Senator
ingalls, the resolution went over.
Senator Harrison moved to make special
order, on Thursday, next week, of the bill
| authorizing the state and admitting the terri
tory of Dakota.
Senator Cockrell said the bill could not be
passed this session, and it was waste OF
time to make it special order. The vote on
Harrison's motion resulted in ayes 80, and
nays %; not the necessary two-thirds. Be
fore the announcement of the result, several
senators changed their votes, stating they I'M
derstood the question was regarded as a po-
litical one. The senate took up the bill to
increase the salaries of the United States dis
trict judges to $4,000.
Senator VanWyck's motion to make the
figure $4,000 was rejected
Senator Coke offered an amendment, max
ing it unlawful for any relative of the circuit
or district judges of the United States to hold
office in the courts with which such Judges
are connected, and making it misdemean-
or for a judge knowingly to appoint any rel
alive to Office in his court
Senator Vance, in the mi
nority report from the committee
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| es the opinion that Germany has the right to
exclude the American hog product, on
the ground that they are I'M
| wholesome, if she deems 1t
proper, and this government is not justified
in impeaching her motives. If it be true,
continues the report, that our pork is to any
extent unwholesome, we should endeavor by
| rigid system of inspection to remove the
cause of complaint. If it be that the fear of
| trichinoss is only pretext, and that the
| real reason for exc luding our hog products is
desire to protect their own producers then
| we are the last people on the earth who ought
to complain. After surrounding ourselves
for more than twenty years with protective
tariff wall, so high as to exclude virtually
all the products of Germany
which compete with ours, it is rather late for
us to advocate retaliation against govern
ment which merely follows our example. In
fact Germany's action is retaliation and the
cry ''stop thief,n cannot change the true
condition of things. We have more to learn.
We are not so great and independent as to
enable us to defy the laws of political econo-
my, and the amenities of international trade
with impunity. We have been told again
and again that our true policy was to shut up
our manufactures from the competition
of the world, and that all nations
thus excluded would be compelled
nevertheless to buy our breadstuffs and pro-
visions, that they could not do without them.
We are greatly surprised and indignant when
one important customer says, he can get
along without our hog products, and forbids
their coming in, and we propose to retaliate.
For what! For simply and frankly forbiding
them to be imported. Suppose, instead of
doing this, Germany had imposed duty of
100 per cent on them which as effectually
prohibits their importation. What then? Where
would be our so-called retaliation! The under
signed can see no difference whatever in the
two methods of prohibiting, as the results so
far as we are concerned only the one is main
ly aud direct, while the other is indirect
and based on false pretenses.
Our great meat industry must indeed be cared
LOT. IL, Will hluuTtu AGRICULTURAL luuuS-
tries, furnishes nearly all our foreign trade,
and they deserve all that congress can do for
them, but this bill does not propose the way
to do it. This way is, to remove: as far as
possible all restrictions upon trade and the
enlargement of the market for our farmers
products all over the world, by liberal treaties
and tariff laws.
Senator Coke spoke strongly in depreca-
ton of the abuses which grow up in federal
courts, by reason of the appointment by
judges of relatives of their own in the courts
over which they presided. When the clerk of
the court and his deputies and subordnates
were all relatives of the judge, it was difficult
if not impossible for litigants to avoid being
fieeced and bills of costs were made up to
outrageous sums. The evil he said, had
grown to fragrant proportions in two districts
of Texas, the northern district being the one
excepted.
Senator Maxey agreed with Coke.
Senator Hoar moved a substitute for Coke's
amendment, so as to exclude from appoint
ment all relatives within the degree of first
cousin.
Senator Morgan inquired if it was not true
that the relatives of one of the United States
district judges of Texas had
not made as much as 800, 900
by reason of their relationship with the
judge.
Senator Coke could not say they had made
so much, but they had made good deal.
Senator Morgan saidhe had been informed
judge in Texas was over seventy years of
age, and could, under the law, be retired on
full salary, but held on to the position in
order to keep his relatives in office
Senator Coke remarked that was not now a
fact. but such a statement had been made as
to Texas judge now dead.
The motion went over, and the chair laid
before the senate the education bill Senator
Garland said the people Of Arkansas had done
all in their power to educate the colored race,
but, from circumstances absolutely beyond
their control, they could not meet the great
evil of illiteracy.
Senator Frye inquired whether there was
on the part of the educators in Arkansas anv
prejudice against the education of the colored
people. In asking the question, Frye ex-
pressed his entire confidence in both their
Judgment and humanity.
Senator Garland replied, he knew there
was none. On the contrary, there was
feeling that it was absolutely necessary to
educate the colored race. When he was gov
ernor of Arkansas, he had appointed colored
men to principalship of schools. He thought
the bill before the senate should be passed. |
whether in the present precise form or not,
he would not say. He thought it the most
important one that had been before the SEN
ate since the war. Its passage, substantially
as at present drawn, would be the most
powerful evidence that could be adduced to
the whole country that we were one united
people.
Senator Coke made the constitutional ar
gument against the bill. 1t was Capitalization
he said, in its most concentrated form. If
congress could give money for education, it
could completely control the instruments by
which that money was d1sbursed. because the |