St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-11
The Returned Lasker Resolutions
To Remain in the Pocket
OfThe German Min
ister.'
Further Consideration of The Mexican
Treaty by the Senate With
Doubts as to it's Pas
sage.
A Belief That it Will Work Grave Injury to
Manufacturers and Laborers.
How Mr.. Bliss Worked For and Against
The Government at the Same
Time.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. !

| SpeCIdl 1citSrdiu W Tie OIOUt
WASHINGTON, March 1O.--The New York
| Tribune this morning has the following
Washington dispatch about Chicago gentle
man: rs. J. Tilden is not corpse yet; not
at least in the opinion of his admirers, one
of whom arrived here the other day from a
visit he had paid to the Sage of Gramercy
Park He doesn't talk above whisper"
this verdant Democrat said, "but then the
| spirit that is in the old man, the wit and
ability to enjoy life, why, its amazing. When
called, several young ladies who had been
paving him a visit, came down from the
observatory in raptures about what they had
seen. Mr. TildeH asked them how they
liked the view up there! 'Ohl its just toolovely
for anything replied remarkably beautiful
Young girl. Its prettier than anything 1
ever saw. Tut, tut, my DEAR instantly re-
Piled Mr. Tilden, patting the young lady on
the back in a fatherly way, did you never
take look in the looking glass?' tell you,
said this enthusiastic admirer of the sage,
as he concluded his story, "a man that can
say such things at his time of life is not too
feeble to run for the presidency. Pm for
Tilden every time" The speaker was
Erskine Phelps, of Chicago, president of the
| Iroquois club.
| THE MEXICAN TREATY.
The senate spent most OF the day in ex-
ecutive session discussing the Mexican
treaty 1t is believed that in another ses-
| sion the senators will have had their say and
will be ready to vote. In fact, there was
1 b 20 .s..l& I,t
would have disappointed few senators who
wanted to talk some more. The
debate was almost entirely against
the bill. Senator Miller, of California,
chairman Of the foreign relations committee,
urged the ratification of the treaty, and SEN
ator Morrill,, of Vermont, read long speech
against it. He was followed on the same
side of the question by Senators Sherman
and Jones, and just before the session
closed Senator Gibson got the floor for o
speech which he will deliver the next time the
treaty is considered. This will probably be
| tomorrow. There Is special
order on the calendar for 2
O'Clock tomorrow, but a majority can
set it aside. Senator Dawes got in an
amendment of very novel character, which
was supported by Senator Sherman and
adopted with little opposition, providing that
the treaty should not go into operation till
the house had approved its revenue features.
This is concession by the senate Of the
right of the house to be consulted in regard
| to all commercial treaties. It is certainly
striking absurdity for the senate to
insist on discussing the treaty with closed
| doors, if the discussion is to be renewed in
| the house in open session Senator Vanwyck
| stirred up the conservatives little by renew
ing his proposition that the senate discuss
| the treaty in open session and though
it was voted down, as he expected
it would be, the minority was OF very
respectable size andincluded Senator Morrill,.
The vote on the treaty will be so close that
no reliable prediction as to the result can be
made, but one of the opponents of the treaty
| tonight expressed the opinion that the treaty
would be ratified. The proposition to con-
| suit the house about the matter removes one
of the objections that has been pressed
against ratification.
WOULD BITTERLY REGRET 1T.
Ex-Gov. McCook, of Colorado, formerly of
Minnesota, in an interview with GLOBE cor
respondent respecting the Mexican treaty,
said that while it was likely to be ratified he
thought the country would bitterly regret it.
If coal, coke and American ores are
admitted into Mexico free of duty
and then products returned free into the
United States, the result would be that
cheap Mexican labor would close every
smelling works in Colorado, New Mexico and
Arizona, and our laborers would be dis
charged. The same is true of sugar, cotton
| and tobacco, the capacity to raise these sta
pies being almost limitless in Mexico. 1t
would also give stimulus to smuggling on
| the part of other sugar and
tobacco raising countries. The peonage of
Mexico which must follow was worse than
African slavery and cheap Chinese labor.
Already American cotton is transported 700
miles into Mexico, duty paid and manufac-
| tured cheaper than it can be manufactured
in New England, and therefore the interests
| of white and colored American labor were
| jeopardized.
TO SUCCEED M'CRARY.
Kansas politicians predict the appointment
of Judge Brewer, of that state, to succeed
Circuit Judge McCrary.
THE LAsKER AFFAIR.
The objection of Mr.. Springer to the read
ing of the communication of the secretary of
state touching the Lasker affair in the house
to-day disappointed those who anticipated an
interesting debate. The papers were sent to
the house by the president without comment
c;r 10 fla ffaa
on foreign affairs. The affair
might end here so far as con-
gress is concerned if representative
Hiscock had not at the same time offered a
resolution re-affirming the Lasker resolution
of coincidence. Congressmen will have an
opportunity to relieve their pent up resent
ment against Bismarck when the committee
makes it report upon the Hiscock resolution.
A Republican here and there has been heard
to sigh for s'an hour of Blaine in the state
department to deal with the
German chancellor in this matter"
But it seems that secretary
Frelinghuysen met the proposed return of the
Lasker resolution with dignity and spirit
When the German minister informed Mr.
Frelnghuysen that he would return the res
olutions whenever it would suit the secreta-
ry's convenience to receive them the secre-
tary replied in effect that he need not trouble
himself further about it; that the president
was Indifferent about the action of the chan
cellor in dishonoring the res
olutions, but regretted that Bismarck
had not appreciated the courtesy intended
~
eisendecker understood the intimation that
the resolutions would not be received by the
secretary and expressed his qualification that
the secretary had relieved him of the un-
pleasant duty. 1t appears therefore that Mr..