Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1884-01-04
Especial Telegram to the Globe

WASHINGTON. Jan. "A Democrat, who
is chairman of one of the important COM
mittees of the house of representatives,
informed the st. Paul GLOBE correspond
ent to-day, that he was now fnlIy con-
vinced that it would be impracticable for
the tariff reformers to pass any reform
bill unless it be simply providing for a
uniform reduction of duties. He believed
that if a bill, making general revision of
| the tariff, were to be reported by
the ways and mears committee it would
lead 10 weeks or may be months of
debate and would develop the differences
that exist among Democratic representa-
tives on the subject. It would not be long
before every one except the most sanguine
would be convinced that the bill could not
| get through the house, much less the
senate. After while members would get
tired of waiting for the bill to get out of
the way for matters in which their constit-
uents are especially interested, and it would
not be very difficult at that stage OF the
proceedings for the high tariff men to find
way to kill the bill. There are about
| LII OOLhOOL@bAS PEOSCCt1OAlSto WHO5O PO-
sition on the tariff destroy the effective
ness of the Democratic party majority in
the house and whose wishes must be re-
spected to some extent in laying down
legislative policy to be pursued by this
congress. The friends of tariff reforms
cannot risk failure to attain definite leg
islation for the reduction of taxation by
undertaking to DO too much. It seemed
to the representative whose opinions are
given above that the most practioible-in
fact the only-plan promising success was
to arrange with the Pennsylvanians and
Others of their way of thinking to abandon
al! efforts toward the general revision and
agree to report bill making horizontal
reduction of 20 per cent. on existing tariff
duties, with the understanding that the bill
should have the support of a majority OF
the protective Democrats. The latter
would thereby preserve the unity of
party action and could fully Justify them
selves before their constituents on the
ground that the tariff commission rec
ommended an average reduction of about
| rs per cent, while the act of 1883 made
an average reduction Of only about 5 per
cent.
sUB-ooMMITTEEs ON APPROPRIATIONS.
In making his assignments of bills to sub
committees, Mr.. Randall has followed
the precedent by putting two of the minor
appropriation bills in the
hands of committee Of
which Republican Is chairman.
This arrangement took the military
academy bill out of the hands of Mr.
Townshend, of Illinois, and gave it to Mr..
Keifer, of Ohio. Mr.. Towashend did not
care to take subordinate place on the
subcommittee after he had taken the
trouble to draft the bill at Mr.. Randalps
request. So Mr.. Forney and Mr.. Ellis were
named as Mr.. Keifer's associates. Mr..
Townshend takes charge of the postofice
| appropriation bill, and a place on this
| committee that will control the
army appropriation bill. The
fortifcation was taken from Holman and
given to Horr, of Michigan, but Mr.. Ran
dali gave him the bill that provides fer
the salaries and other needs of the Iegisla-
tive, executive and judicial departments
of the government. The sundry civil bill
gathers up the odds and ends that have
been Isft over from the other appropria-
tion bills, and into it jobs and schemes of
doubtful character are likely to seek
lodgment. This bill Mr.. Randall reserves
for himself. Mr.. Cannon's experience
as member of the committee
is made available by his assignment to a
place on the legislative, executive and ju-
dicial bill, the most difficult and import
ant of all of the series of appropriations
in its pre- reparation and management. As a
whole the assignments are judiciously
made so es to distribute the prudent and
careful men in manner that will tend to
facilitate the business and economic the
public moneys.
Western Associated Press.I
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-The house
committee on appropriations met
| to-day. Chairman Randall an
nounced the following committees would
be in charge of the preparation of the
bills named:
Legislative, Executive and Judicial Ap-
prOpr1atlOQ Blll-dOlInau, daQCOCK, Cdn-
non.
Sundry Civil-Randall, Forney, Ryan.
Army opriation-Forney, Towns
hend, Keifer.
Navy-Hutchins, Randall, Calkins.
Postofice-Townshend Holman, Kerr.
Indian--Ellis, Holman.
+ Consular and iplomatic-Burns, Town
shend, Washburn.
Pensions-Hancock,F Follett, Washburn.
Military Academy Forney,
Ellis.
Fortifcations-Horr, Ellis, Hancock.
| District of Coiumbia-Follst, Huichins,
| CRnnen.
Defciencies-Randsll, Burns, Calkins.
! Mr.. Randall says an effort will be made
to report all the appropriation bills to the
hnuss by Ap,il 18th or the 1st of May.
| Other members of the committee, how
ever, are of the opinion that she work can
not be completed within the period pro-
posed.
CHOLERA IN EGYPT.
| The national board of health has infor-
nation, communicated by the state de-
partment, of the continuance of cholera in
Alexandria. Judge Farnam, of the inter
national tribunal at Cairo, says there are
| from one to three cases daily, resulting in