St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-20


liberty would be respondent in Germany as
it was here. He hoped the house would take
no step backward. For one, he would not
lower one stripe of the flag, or blot out one
star.
Mr.. Brumm said the house was trying to
carry water on both shoulders. Talk about
dignity. In his judgment to be honorable,
heroic and brave, and not play the part of a
coward, merely because the chancellor might
say the rules of etiquette were not strictly
followed
Mr. Deuster regretted the hasty action of
the German Chancellor. He new that to
place before the Reechstag the resolutions of
the American house of : representatives did
not in any wise imply his endorsement of
the sentiments therein. His assumption of
the role OF master was unfortunate only for
himself. The parliament and people of
Germany are in possession of the letter and
spirit of the resolution, in spite of the action
of the Chancellor. Deuster commenced the
action of the department of state He said
Lasker had expressed himself as holding the
highest regard for Bismarck, and differed
from him only on the tariff question.
Mr. Phelps took the floor to close the de-
bate. The two problems presented to this
committee had been how to bring about an
apology from the Chancellor, and how to es-
cape the necessity of receiving back the res
olutions. Both of these had been solved.
The Chancellor of the German
Empire had instructed his. min
lister to express cordial regard for
his people and his grateful willingness to
transmit the resolutions, so far as they re-
ferred to personal sympathy, if he had not
been prevented by the expression of political
opinion. This apology solved one of the
problems. The second was, how to escape
the necessity of receiving back the resolution
which had been sent. Here came TO the res
cue the skillful engine of the department of
state. The resolutions were as courteously re-
rejected as if they had been sent by secretary
of state. This let the committee out of the
dilemma, and its task became simple
Could anything be more honorable, satisfac-
tory and dignified than the resolutions re-
ported. While the formal authorities of the
two countries were building path by which
the house could walk out of the slough of
despond, the liberal members of
the German parliament expressed
their appreciation at the kindness
and their hearty good wishes for this country.
Pending the resolutions there were recipro-
cation of those good wishes. Thanks to Bis
marck, thanks to Frelinghuysen and his
skill, thanks to the committee on foreign af-
fairs, thc,dignity OF the house was saved. The
German chancellor, for the first time in
eighteen months, had entered the reihstag,
in order to play the new role of complais
ant, apologize gentleman. The gentleman
from Texas has seen the dimensions of his
fame grow from the confines of his state to
the circumference of the world. The Amer
lean minister has been invited to a state din
ner, possibly to eat American pork, and the
only thing that could give the house any mo-
ment of sorrow, was that the fury of the
knight from Colorado has been so shackled
that he could not tell the house that the
white doYe of peace which
it sent out had returned with
the olive-branch. Had not the members the
right, in mutual felcitation, TO ring down
the curtin in this international episode"
Applause. The resolutions were adopted
without division.
Mr.. Turner, chairman of the committee on
elections, reported a resolution in the con-
tested election case, Garrison VS.. Mayo, Vir-
ginia, declaring Garrison entitled to the seat.
The matter was postponed until tomorrow.
The following committee reports were sub
mitted:
By Mr.. Cox, N. c., from the committee on
militia, for a special and uniform instruction
of state militia. Referred to the committee
of the whole.
By Mr.. Bland, from the committee on coin
age, weights and measures, limiting the coin
age of the double eagle, and to discontinue
the coinage of certain United States coins.
Placed on the house calendar.
Mr.. Ellis, from the committee on ap-
reported the Indian appropria-
10, hi Of 10
whole.
Then the long expected struggle over the
whisky bill began, Mr.. Blackburn calling Mr.
Springer to the chair and moved to go into
committee of the whole on the revenue bill.
Mr.. Dowd raised the question of consider
alton, and Mr.. Randall demanded the yeas
and nays, and the motion was agreed to,
yeas 100, nays 121, and the house went into
committee of the whole, with Dorsheimer in
the chair. The first bill was the bonded ex-
tension bill.
Mr.. Hiscock objected to the consideration.
The objection was reported to the house,
which by vote of 1877 to 11S, decided to
consider the bill and committee resumed its
session, Mr.. Morrison taking the floor in sup
port of the bill Before he finished
sentence, however, Mr.. White,
of Kentucky, rose, saying he
had moved the committe to rise
for the purpose of bringing privileged matter
before the house. The chair stated he recog-
nized the gentleman from Illinois, Morrison,
and on White taking appeal refused to notice
it on the ground that an appeal was not in
order upon the question of a mere recog-
milton by the chair. Thereupon White rose
to point of order and said members of
the whisky ring was now on the floor, where
he had previously given his pledge that he
had no interest in any bill before the house.
Within few days from making that pledge,
he had appeared before the committee on
ways and means in support of the bill, and
was now on the floor as well as an editor of the
Courier Journal, from the town where more
whisky was in bond than in any other town
in the United States.
Mr.. Blackburn submitted that this was not
a point of order, and said his colleague
knew he had no right to be heard upon it.
The chair ruled it was not point of Or
der.
White-'I say am entitled to be heard on
the question of privilege. The gentleman
from New York Dorsheimer), has decided 1
am not in order, and he must take the re-
sponsibility. You may bulldoze this bill
through, but. The remainder of the
sen tence was drowned in cries of "orderp'
Mr.. Morrison then made short statement
as to the purpose and object of the bill. If
this business of converting grain into alco-
hol is here only to be taxed, then the benei-
Charles of this bill were entitled to no con-
sideration here. Regarding it as
legitimate branch of manufacturing indus
try, it was entitled to be placed on an
equal basis with all other industries. From
this industry the government derived more
than one-fifth of all its revenue. In the next
few months there would be forced out of the
warehouses twenty-five million gallons which
must pay a tax, and in the next few years
seventy million gallons, for much of which
there will be no market The commissioner
of internal revenue estima ted the s1rn1us