St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-11
THE OMNIBUS BILL.
The House Appropriates &c.
100000 for Public Build
ings at One
Sweep.
Holman Does Not Object to a
100000 Slice for His
Own Burg.
A House Dilemma Has No Record
Whatever of a Thursday
Session.
The Senate Adjourns Until Monday Many
Of its Members Go to New
York.
The Breadth of the Pennsylvania DEM
Ocratic Platform Said to be Its
Most Striking Feature.
The Senate Adjourns Until Monday--Many
Of its Members Go to New
York.
The Breadth of the Pennsylvania DEM
ocratic Platform Said to be Its
Most Striking Feature.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. |

'ASIA-NO1ONt Aplll PuD1iS DOlAN-
ing combinations had things their own way
to-day in the house, sweeping everything be-
fore them on the omnibus bill, which pro-
Vides for the erection of about forty public
buildings in all sections of the country at a
cost of over S6,000,000. The effort to draw
party lines ON the question failed, and when
the Democratic and Republican opponents of
a bill raised their voices against extravaganza
Democrats and Republicans nevertheless
united in sufficient number to pass the
bill. After the bill to erect a
public building at Greencastle,
South Carolina had passed the committee,
and the New Albany bill had been taken up,
considerable interest was manifested at the
probable action of Mr.. Holman, whose home
in that city. Holman, however, did not
raise his voice against the appropriation of
500, 900 for his town, although taunted to do
SO by the opponents of the bill. When tellers
were appointed to count the vote, Holman
without hesitation recorded himself in the
affirmative, and ate his leek like any COM
mon congressman, getting all he could
for his dish. The scene was very sug-
gestive, and freely commented
upon in the reporters gallery.
Pittsburg walked off with $780, 900, and
Chattanooga bagged a small building under
the shadow of Lookout mountain at 800, 900.
Maine scooped in $150,000 for the summer
home of Jim. Blaine at Augusta. but
Augusta, being a state capital, deserves a
public building under the rule. In reply to
an attack made by Congressman Warner of
Ohio upon the committee on public buildings
and grounds, Congressman Casey Young,
the chairman, defended the committees ac-
ton on the ground that the government was
now paying an annual rental of $1,000, 900
for public buildings, or per cent. on
S4S, 100000, and therefore an expenditure of
S6,OOO,O00 was strictly in the line of econ
omy. There was a large amount of rhetoric
wasted upon ancient Rome, the Appion way,
the Coliseum, Egyptian temples and pyra-
mids, Paris under Napolean III, Baron
Houssman and the like, but Mr.. Young,
being cut short, asked leave to print the re-
mainder of his remarks. Subsequently, in
discussing the Augusta bill, an angry scene
occurred between Milliken, of Maine, and
Storm, of Pennsylvania. Storm, who op-
posed the bill, arraigned Milliken severely,
when Milliken walked over and menacingly
shook his fist in Storms face
NICE QUESTION.
Although to-day was Thursday the house
days legislative session. When the house
adjourned it adjourned until Friday without
closing Wednesdays and entering upon
Thursdays session. Friday is private bill
day, and the question arises, what has be-
come of Thursday! The journal shows that
no Thursday session was held. and the house
will be in dilemma tomorrow difficult of
extrication. If tomorrow shall be declared
session, Friday is left out in the
cold and private bill day goes over to Satur-
day, which will in effect be Friday. What
will be done with Saturday is problem.
QUIET IN THE SENATE.
The senate was nearly empty all day, and
little progress was made on the naval ap-
bill Senator Beck and Nc
Pherson were severe in their denunciation of
extravaganza under Robeson's and Chan
dler's administrations. Having adjourned
over until Monday, quite number of sena
tors left tonight for New York to spend
Good Friday.
THE PENNSYLVANIA PLATFORM.
The New York Herald to-day, commenting
on the platform of the Pennsylvania Demo
cratic convention, favoring tariff for reve-
nue. limited to the necessities of the govern
ment, economically administrated and ad-
justed so as to prevent unequal burdens,
productive home inductries, afford
just compensation to labor without creating or
monopolies, to the end that inter.
nal taxes may be abolished and existing tariff
duties adjusted consistently with such prin-
ciples, says: GAS broad and liberal call
this quite surpasses any effort recently come
to our notice. The man who could not climb
into a car under at least one of these phrases
must be hard to suit. In fact this tariff
plank is almost exactly what we believe the
Republicans will frame. So far as we can
see, the Republicans of the country
can give support to Mr.. Randall without
doing violence to recognized principles of
The Democratic party has
an opportunity of winning splendid victory
on the tariff question, but if it accepts Ran
iall's position it must disgust its best friends
and become the laughing stock of its enc
mies.''
MCDONALD AND BAYARD.
Speaking of Senator McDonald's candidacy
for president the New York San says to-day
Nobody need give himself any concern on
hat score, but even if the free traders carry
he day in the Chicago convention, Thomas
3ayard is much more likely to be the nomi-
nee than Mcdonald. At present Mr.. Bay
lpholder of free trade as
question of principle before the public. AS
We understood his recent speech before the
Toung mems Democratic club in Brooklyn
le has defined protection as s'legalized COM
nunism.''
TILDEN's HEALTH GOOD.
The Evening Star publishes the following
interviews with Tilden: In a
private letter received from prominent
southern Democrat, who expects to be dele
rate to the National Democratic convention,
he writer says that the day he had an hours
confidential talk with Tilden he
,alled upon Tilden to urge him to
consent to his nomination for the presidency
md assured him of a cordial and
Utmost unanimous support from the south.
The writer gives it as conviction, based
lpon the conversation referred to, that Mr..
Tilden ''will not accept the nomination un-
any consideratlon.n a Democratic senator