St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-26

egraphs, mutual intercourse, inter marriage,
and commingling'of states are bringing uni
ty of sentiment in favor of reasonable pro
lection as national policy, and it is part
of craftsmanship to harden it by encouraging
Improvements, immigration, transportation
facilities, and cheap and indiscriminate in
terchange of our infinite variety of products"
Equitble protection, he said, would cheaper
all agricultural implements and preserve the
dignity of labor.
THE COMMITTEES.
The house committees on postoffces and
post roads, has directed a subcommittee,
consisting of Rogers, Ward, J. NJ. Taylor,
Bingham and Wakefield, to provide bill
providing for the contract system of postal
teegraphy. The subcommittee will meet
tomorrow.
John A. Walsh is subpenaed TO appear be-
fore the Springer committee on Wednesday.
He win not appear until he has given test-
mony in the court i'll the Kellogg case.
The house committee on military affairs
ask the appointment of q special committee
to investigate the management OF the SOL
diers' Home at Dayton. General Patrick,
governor of the home, has been charged with
being overbearing and inhuman in his
treatment of the inmates. One man, seven
ty-six years of age, writes General Rosecrans
that he was put in the guard house for nine
ty days for trivial otfense. He concludes
his letter: ''This is strictly confidential, or
Patrick viii hang me.n At the request of
the committee, Representative Rosecrans
wrote ". b Franklin, president OF the board
of managers of the National Homes for Dis
l. r. tltn
complaint President Franklin replied that
the charges have been investigated and
found groundless. He recommended con-
gressional committee be appointed
to make an investigation. Representative
Murray of Ohio referring to the charges be
fore the committee said, General Patrick one
dav passed blind inmate of the home
''Why don't you salute me!" Patrick is
reported as saying.
II am blind, general; can't see you"
replied the inmate. "rll make you see me, s"
the governor is reported as saying.
Representative Reagan of Texas, chair
man of the house committee on commerce,
is seriously i'll from bladder complaint. Two
operations have been performed. Appre-
tensions that he will not recover are enter
tanned by his friends.
The president OH the endorsement OF Rep
resentative Dockery, and the United States
district judge and attorney of the western
district of Missouri, has granted pardon to
George Ruff, convicted at Kansas City of
embezzling money from registered letter.
| Representative Stewart, of Texas,
was directed to-day by the house
committee on foreign affairs, to
prepare bill, providing for the appoint
ment of three commissioners to visit Mexico,
and Central and South America, to secure
information relative to increasing the COM
mercial interests between those countries and
the United States. The bill is to contain an
appropriation of $4,000.
Major Howard, Mississippi commissioner,
was before the house committee on levees
and improvement of the Mississippi, to-day.
He said the work would be carried on
expeditiously on the Providence
reaches at the same time, and that the
| Plumb Point and Providence reaches would
| be completed in a year. AS rough estimate
he said, S12, 900, 600 would construct com
plete line of levees two and one-half feet
| above high water from Cairo to New Orleans.
PROHIBITING LABOR IMPORTATION.
The bill to protect American laborers was
reported favorably by the senate committee
on education an labor by Senator George.
1t provides that importation or migration
from any foreign country in any place with
in the jurisdiction of the United States, OF
any alien, under any agreement expressed
or implied, that such alien shall work, labor
for, or in any wise serve in said jurisdiction,
and any person or corporation shall hereaf-
ter be prohibited: that every such agreemnt
I. 4 void Ipt
any advance of the cost of transportation OF
any part thereof, or an agreement
to pay or secure such transportation
the Jurisdiction of the United States made by
any person engaged in mining, manufacture
ing, building or transportation, or by any
corporation whatever, shall hereafter be pro
hibited 1t provides penalty of 5000 fol
each and every violation of these provisions,
and that it shall be a misdemeanor punish
able by a fine of 81, 900 and disqualification
from holding office under the United States
for any person, while in the official service
| of the United States, to violate any provisions
of the act or knowingly aid and encourage
such violation, 1t also provides that it shall
| be misdemeanOr for master or other Off
Ger of a vessel of American registery tC
knowingly bring from any foreign country
into the United States, any alien who is
under any agreement prohibited by
! this act and that such misdemeanor shall be
punishable by fine not more than 81, 900 fol
each and every alien so transported on his
vessel The act is not to be so construed as
to prevent any citizen of foreign country
coming into the United States from bring
ing with him servants for personal service
or the convenience of his family, nor from
preventing any such foreigner, while tempo
rarily residing i'll the | nited States, from
| Bringing such servants, and it shall not be
construed to apply to the employment o.
sailors or seamen on vessels in foreign com
merce. If any person or corporation shall
complain to the president of the United
States that he or it is engaged in, or is abou
to start business requiring skilled labor of {
particular kind, and sufficient quantity o
such skilled labor cannot be obtained BY
| the United States, the president may, on be
| ing notified of the truth thereof issue
license to such person or corporation to bring
unaffected by the act, such skilled labor, spec
! flying the kind of skilled labor, and the mum
Der of artisans permitted be brought into thu
the United States.
SCHOOL GRANT FOR DAKOTA INDIANS.
Senator Call reported favorably, from tn,
committee on education and labor, bill in
troduced by Senator Henderson to encourage
Indian education in Dakota, which provide
| $40 acres of land heretofore set apart TO
school purposes in that territory, shall be al
lotted for educational purposes among tn
Indians of the territory, and school erected
| thereon and carried on as an industrial farm
school for the exclusive education of Indial
children of Dakota.
MIoCELLANEOUS.
The supervising inspector of genera
steam vessels, recommended the dismissa
of the charges preferred against Charles c
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