Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1884-01-02

ests. The present tariff system has de-
moralizing effec. upon public men, and
upon the consideration of public questions
too often men in congress were representa-
tives of private interests and therefore
incapable OF considering legislation
from any standpoint of mere
right and wrong. The fact that consider
alton of the tariff question could not be
made without raising the cry of injury to
to the American business interests showed
how artificial was our position. Mr.
Bayard advocates tariff reform in the In
terests of manufacturers themselves. The
business situation so far as
they were concerned could hard
~ ibe worse than it now Is.
1t was painful to read the Pennsylvania
papers and see the record of workingmen
thrown out of employment at the outset of
winter. What was true of Pennsylvania
was true of other manufacturing sections.
Men are out of work everywhere and re-
lief cannot come until the manufacturers
are enabled to sell their p-oiucts in for
eign markets. There must be recipro-
city in trade and then the American ship
ping interests destroyed By protection
will be restored. Ships cannot travel the sea
laden only one way. They must be able
to procure cargoes in foreign ports in ex-
change for American manufactures. Mr..
Bayard advocates such additions to the
free lists as will remove taxes from raw
,so1, Sc.
materials he believed ships could be built
in these waters as cheap rs
upon the Clyde. When he
witnessed the launching of the new ship
at Lieut.. Gorringe's yard, the latter told
him that the tax upon the materials enter
ing into the makeup of the ship amount
ed to $4,000. This was more than the
difference of cost of building similar ship
upon the Clyde. Protsction and pusaing of
private interests have become interviewer
in every warp and woof of legislation.
1t had been party of negation long
enough,. 1t was entering upon new phase
of existence, and if guided by honesty and
right should certainly, be successful. If
go called policy, regardless of principle.
Mr.. Bayard does not agree with Mr.. Hew-
lit, that the tariff Issue is the one absorb
ing issue of the future. He regards as
equally important the one of reforming
the civil service of the government by q
thorough and sweeping change of every
department of the government.
- Western Associated Press.l
sTRANGE EXPLOSION.
WILMINGTON, Del, Jan.1-Winield Hei-
ster, of Heistsr, Mcbride & Co., copper.
smiths, had his skull fractured to-day by
the explosion of copper kettle, formerly
used to hold nitro glycerine, some of which
remained in the hollow handle, and when
held over the FIRE it exploded.
PUBLIC LANDS REPORT.
The committee on public lands expect to
report number Of separate bills whom
congress re-convenes, declaring forfeited
the lands granted to certain railroad com-
panies. The companies most interested
are those in the northwest and south. The
amount of land involved is reported by
the chairman of the committee, Cobb, to
be between 100000 and 1O000O,o0O
acres. The Texas Pacific land grant is ex-
pectsd to be reported forfeited. This grant
alone involves
FOURTEEN MILLION OF ACRES.
In an interview tonight Mr.. Cobb said
that there ia No question of the right of
the government to declare forfeited 25,-
100000 acres of land on various roads.
The attorneys of the railroads. he contin-
ued. will be given an opportunity to be
heard, but will not be given much time.
The Northern Pacific has not complied
with the grant. It has forty eight mil
lions of acres which onght to be forfeited.
In the judiciary committee last congress
the vote for it's forfeiture was to g.
There are number OF railroad men here
now trying TO oppose any legislation Of
the character contemplated. They have
been trying to influence the members
of the present congress. Some
years ego they got the supreme court TO
declare the Judiciary did not have the pow
or to declare the land forfeited, and now
they say the legislative power ought not
to take any action Of that kind, because
the question is not thoroughly understood.
These same mel
CoNTR 3ILED THE COMMITTEE
from the close of the war up to the Forty
fourth congress-, and they controlled the
last congress. They had committees
packed in their favor. It is fact that
every Republican congress since 1865 IA
yored the railroads. No justice was done
the country and the government, and over
1O0,O0O,GO0 acres of land, should
be forfeited. The questions of private
claims, which will, of course, arise, will
have to be settled by future legislation.
The government will not oppose man,
who, in good faith have bought lands from
the railroads.
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