St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-25
POLITICIANS EXCITED
The Democratic Congress
siOnal Tariff Cancus
the Sensation in
Washington.
Storrs to Plead for the Hog In
spection Bill and De-
nounce Treasury
Agents.
Brewster, the Dude Dodger of In
quiries About the Conduct of
His Department.
Why Pitt Kellogg Cannot Be Convicted The
Whisky Bill To-Day--Grant Won't
Vote for Arthur.
rspecialOTelegram to the Globe I

Vote for Arthur.
TSpecialnTelegram to the Globe
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 24.-J. De-
Laittre and Eastman with their wives and
children, all of Minneapolis, registered al
Willard's tonight, on their way home from
the south.
THE TARIFF CAUCUS.
The caucus of Democratic members to-
morrow night dwarfs all other subjects of dis
cussion, and speculation is rife as to the
probable results. A supporter of Mr.. Ran
dall's. views that tariff agitation at the pres
ent juncture is unnecessary and hurtful
| to Democratic interests in the ensuing
campaign stated tonight to GLOBE cores
pondent that unless one wing or the other
shall give way split would be unavoidable.
He asserted positively that Mr.. Randall and
his friends could not recede from their posi-
tion nor would they accept any modification
of the Morrison bill that might be offered.
One faction takes pronounced grounds that
the Democratic party must place
itself on record in favor of tariff
reduction and the other that it must not be
attempted. AS matters now stand it appears
| there is no middle ground of reconciliation.
THE WHISKY BILL.
The advocates of the whisky bill predict
successes tomorrow, but its opponents as
confidently declare that it will be beaten.
The measure has received several accessions
within the past two days-among them Mr..
Eaton of Connecticut, who says he will vote
for it upon the ground that as
importers have three years to bond
goods for payment of duties
our home producers of whisky should enjoy
equal rights.
GRANT AND ARTHUR.
A rumor is in circulation that Gen. Grant,
who is here, recently declared he would not
support President Arthur's denomination
nor vote for him if nominated.
HOGS AND RETALIATION.
At 10 O'Clock tomorrow Mr.. Emery Storrs
will appear before the house committee on
commerce, and address them on the sub
ject of the bill for the inspection of live stock
and the hog product, pending before that
committee. The bill was prepared some
weeks ago by Mr.. Storrs, at the suggestion o
Mr.. Regan, the chairman. The
main features of the bill have
already been printed in the GLOBE. The
prospects are that the bill as it now stands
VIII be substantially reported to the house,
with possible addition of clause anthor-
izing the president in his discretion to ex-
clude from our ports adulterated articles
from those countries which exclude
our products. Mr.. Storrs will
argue from the standpoint that
fair, intelligent inspection on this side Of
our products intended for expectation is alb
solutely indispensable to secure the removal
Of the prohibitory edicts in any or either Of
the countries which have excluded our pro-
ducts. He will show, or attempt to show
from the correspondence of Mr.. Morton with
the state department and from other
sources that one of the grounds
for excluding our products has been sensa
tional charges against the healthfulness Of
our meats-in most instances false-made
by government agents, and Immediately re-
puDllSliCu dUIOdO, W Jul SCllOuo udludSG Ilt
will show from the same correspondence,
that one of the great obstacles in the way of
removing the prohibitory edict in
France has been the republication in
that country of these semi-official and false
attacks upon our own products. He will
also undertake to show that it is the opinion
of Mr. Morton that the adoption of such q
system of inspection will enable him to Sc.
cure removal OF the French edict. Mr..
Storrs in this connection will produce letter
from Mr.. Morton to this effect. He will dis.
cuss the leading features of the biz, showing
first, that no inquisitoria detective
bureau is created by it; that the inspectors
have no authority to act except when called
upon to do so by the shippers; that the in
spection itself is not compulsory and thereby
all constitutional objections are obviated
that the inspectors are not salaried or paid by
the government but by the shippers; that the
certificate of their inspection ac.
companies each shipment; that the
plan is in no sense burdensome
| to the shippers; that pork is to be inspected
out at the point of shipment, out at the place
of packing and that the provision authorizing
the president to prohibit one is as far as we
can go in the way of retaliation and will
probably be going far enough to satisfy those
who have been vehemently insisting upon
retaliation.
AFTER SCALP.
Emery storrs is going for J. H.
Saunders scalp. He says he has
long contemplated this course, and now his
mind is fully made up. What decided him
in the matter was an Associated Press dis
patch from Chicago this morning wherein
Mr.. Sanders reflects upon Mr.. Storrs' motives
in opposing the bill for the creation of a
bureau of animal industry. Speaking to a
Globe representative to-day, Mr.. Storrs
said: 81 shall prepare at once a
review of Sanders course as treasury
agent showing his connection with the Breed
ers' Gazette. I propose to furnish as far as
possible the articles he has written and the
interviews he has had with newspaper men
| intended to carry the impression that ouI
cattle were diseased. I shall controvert his
statement as to opposition to the bill and
show it to be utterly false and at the same
time some measure of relief from
such agents shall be asked fol
at all events to the extent that they be com
pelled to communicate investigations and
discoveries to the department in which they
belong. The department of course can
make such use Of these views as they see fit
but shall insist that these agents be held tc
strict accountability for violation of that
rule which is one of common propriety.n
CONTUMELIUS BREWSTER.
Senator Vanwyck to-day offered his resolu-
ton mentioned in last nights dispatches
asking attorney general Brewster why he had
not replied to his, Senator Vanwyck's) reso-