St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-19
WASHINGTON.
Watterson Stirs Up a Hornets
Nest by a Tariff Edito-
rial.
He Bullies the ProtectiOnists and EX.
cites Considerable Bitterness
Among Democrats.
Miller, of California, and the Vice Presiden-
cy---Licensing Alien Pilots and
Engineers
Congress Authorizes the Construction of
Another Railroad Through Yellow
stone Park.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. !

and Clarks Fork railroad company of Mon
tana is seeking authority from congress to
construct a railroad through the Yellowstone
National park. In recommending that au-
thority be given for building the road, the
house committee on Pacific railroads says il
would not be advisable to permit the con-
struction of railroads or the establishment of
private commercial enterprises of any
character not requisite to the comfort and
pleasure of the public in the portions of Yel-
lonstone park containing the objects of inter
est to visitors that would distract from their
natural beauty and quiet" But the commit
gon road between Clark's Forks mining dis
trict, in which there are three hundred min
ing claims, and Cinnabar, on the Northern
Pacific railraad, follows the Yellowstone
river 1.-THE east fork of that river and
the soda butte creek, and a
practicable route would necessarily follow
substantially the same course. The principal
objects of interest to tourists are in portions
of the park remote from this route, and the
operation of railroad would not therefore
''detract from their beauty or grandeur, nor
interfere with the game of the park to a
greater extent than the wagon teams by
which communication is now kept up. The
route passes through the northern portion of
tine park for distance of about forty miles.
| LICENSING ALIEN PILOTS.
| Under the alien law approved April II,
1874, any alien who has legally declared
his intention to become citizen of the
United States and shall have had perma-
nent residence in United States for six
months Immediately prior to application for
license, may be licensed as pilot or engineer
of any steam vessel the same as if already
naturalized. It is stated that on
the Canada border and Atlantic and
Pacific coasts large proportion
of aliens get their licenses as pilots and engi-
neers by declaring their intention, and never
become bona fde citizens; that their only
residence in this country is during naviga-
ton season, that they serve as captains,
engineers and pilots during the season, and
when that is over return to their Canadian
homes where they pay taxes to foreign
power. They get their licenses renewed
year after year by presenting their last years
license to the local inspector. An American
pilot or engineer cannot act in that capacity
on Canadian vessel without becoming a
subject of thatrcountry and the law is strictly
enforced against them. A strong petition
from American pilots and engineers
asks that the law be amend
ed so as to correct these abuses
bill between the Democratic party and Penn
sylvania. If Mr. Miller and his followers can
not support so conservative a mea-
sure, they can support nothing except a high
tariff bill proposed by the Republicans, and
in that event they had better pack their grip
sacks, and go over to the Republicans
where, on this question they properly
belong. 1t is full time that masquerading
should end. The Democratic masses
are sick of it, and it would
hBve been brought toa round turn two weeks
ago but for the determination of Mr.. Carlisle
and Mr.. Morrison to exhaust every means of
Cancellation before they opened the campaign
which the present organization of the house
made from the first foregone conclusion"
This kind of bullying has excited more than
ordinary bitterness among Democrats who
are opposed to attempting a revision of the
tariff. 1t was the subject of
general comment among Democrats
to-day, some of the cooler headed reformers
condemning the publication of such senti-
ments as earnestly as the protectionists
whom Mr.. Watterson assumes to read out of
the party as if by authority Of Mr.. Carlisle
and Mr.. Morrison. The little progress that
had been made toward the conciliation of
the factions has received check.
The E0sning Star publishes series of in
terviews with prominent Democratic mem
bers in which they Severely denounce Mr..
Watterson's IS ultimatum in demanding caucus
action on the Morrison tariff bill. They de-
clare their intention not to be forced into
this caucus and take issue with Watterson's
assertion that the sooner the break comes the
better.
MILLER FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
The resolution for an investigations of the
contract between the United States and the
Alaska Commercial company, which Mr..
Henley, of California, offered yesterday, and
committee, is understood to be intimately
connected with the fear the Democrats have
that Senator John F. Miller, of California,
will be the Republican candidate for vice
president. The senator is man of ability,
chairman of the foreign affairs committee
and man of weight in the senate. He is
extremely popular on the Pacific coast, on ac-
count of his success in getting the anti
Chinese bill enacted, an enterprise in which
he had very little assistance from his Demo-
cratic colleagues. His speech on that occa-
sion has been widely distributed by labor or
ganizations of the Pacific coast
1t is generally admitted he can
carry California, and there are doubts
whether any other Republican can. He
is president of the Alaska Commercial
company, which pays the government $780,
600 annually for monopoly of the seal
fisheries. The company and its contract
with the government has been investigated
more than once and there is nothing new to
be learned about it. But if Senator Miller
were the Republican candidate for vice presi-
dent some Democrats think it would be a
great scheme to have him subject of inves-
tigation during his campaign. Mr.. Henley's
resolution would confer on the special com
mittee that is to make the investigation the
power to sit during the recess following the
session of congress. Thus it would
not be necessary for the committee to do
anything until Senator Miller's nomination
and to protect them Mr. Maybury introduced
the bill providing that to entitle an alien to
obtain license he must have resided in the
United States six months and declared his
tie him to renewal he shall be required to
furnish the inspectors satisfactory evidence