St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-17
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senator's Morrill, and Beck Have q
WOrdy Contest, With the
YermOnter Angry.
The Debate ON the Morrison Bill Continued
in the House.
Bill for Distinguishing Indian Title to Part
of the Sioux Reservation Passed
by the Senate.
The Senate.

The chair laid before the senate the reso-
luton offered yesterday by Senator Morgan,
directing the Judiciary committee to inquire
whether Paul Strobach, whose nomination
for marshal of middle and southern Alabama
was rejected by the senate, and who is now
performing the duties of that Office and en-
titled to occupy that office. Agreed to.
Senator Conger, from the committee on
commerce, reported favorably the bill to de-
fine the collection districts of Miami and
Sandusky, o. Passed. 1t fixes the bound
aries of the districts as they heretofore ex-
listed.
Senator Dolph, from the committee on
public lands, reported favorably the bill to
authorize the states of Illinois, Arkansas
Louisiana and Tennessee to make such laws
as may secure from injury and waste the
lands granted those states for school purpos-
es. Dolph moved an immediate considera-
ton, which was rejected and placed on the
calendar.
Senator Garland called up, and the senate,
without debate, agreed to the resolution some
days since offered by him as follows:
Resolyed, That the committee on finance
be instructed to inquire whether the secre-
tary of The treasury should not be authorized
and directed to carry out the provisions of
the thirteenth and fourteenth sections of the
act of congress, approved June %. 1886,
edtitled San act to regulate deposits of public
money, by making deposit of fourth in
stallment, which was postponed by the act
of congress Of October 2, 1887, entitled, Gan
act to postpone the fourth installment de-
post with states, and with such of the states
as we're then entitled thereto, and which
have not received the same out of present
existing surplus revenue not otherwise APP
propriated in the manner provided by the
sold act of 1886, and report by bill or other
wise.''
The bill left undisposed of yesterday, to
divide portion of the great reservation of
the Sioux nation Indians, Dakota, into sepa-
rate reservations, and to secure the relin-
quishment of the Indian title to the remain
der, was passed.
Senator Morrill, asked, and obtained unan-
imOus consent, to reply to the criticisms
made on his course on the tariff by Senator
Beck in the course of his remarks on the
education bill. In view of the anticipated
defeat of the Morrison tariff bill, Morrill, said
the senator from Kentucky had interjected
his speech on the tariff into the debate on
the education bill, that the Senator had in
substance said, as Lady Macbeth had said to
her vacillating and fear stricken husband,
"but screw your courage to the sticking
place and you will not fail' He had turned
himself into an ostentatious ''whip,' at long
range, of the other house of congress, but
whether that house accept the discipline
meekly was another question. He had told
them that sneaks and towards never com
manded respect and that such need expect
no mercy in the Democratic camp, after the
Democratic convention meets. He, Morrill,
continued, meant business. When the sem
ator from Kentucky held a whip he always
meant business. Morrill, feared that in
few days somebody would be hurt, if indeed
they were not already hurt, but it may be
found that after the Democratic party had
with the senator from Kentucky those
who remained would find but little comfort.
Morrill, had not been inclined, he said, to
make party issue out of the tariff question.
That question was so interviewer with the
general welfare Of every part Of the country,
he had been reluctant to appropriate credit
for its advantages to any one party. But if
the Democratic party, departing from the
teachings of its earlier and most renowned
leaders, chose to thrust this new issue upon
the Republican party they may rest assured
the conflict will not be summed. reduc-
ton in the tariff had been made last year,
guided by the opinions and labors of q com
mission appointed by congress, but while
the results of that reduction were yet I'M
ascertained and unascertainable the
present tariff is passionately denounced,
and a sweeping reduction is now proposed
applicable, right or wrong, to the bulk Of
foreign imports. To justsfy change in the
tariff, the benefits should be substantial, and
should certainly not be partisan. Morrill, en-
tered on historical review of the action of
the Democratic party, to show its shifting
policy in regard to the tariff, and other meas
ures, and inquired how, after such record,
consistency could be expected from that
party The policy now recommended by
that party was the policy of the guillotine,
with nothing to recommends but its brew
ty No one but those who like DR.. Sangrado,
would practice blood letting for all
ailments alike could give it approval. The
''taritf for revenue only' would be found as
unsatisfactory as drink of horse medicine,
which Sanco Panza had mistaken for Jamai
ca rum. The course Of the Democrats on
this question was plain confession that the
epublican party deserved the good will Of
the country, and that, in other respects, that
party was invulnerable. Morrill, compared
the condition of Kentucky with that of Ohio
to show the advantages to manufacturers as
the result of protection, and alluded to the
former protectionist representatives of
Kentucky as having had a more
correct view of the needs Of their state, than
that entertainedby the present senators, Beck.
In referring to the Inconsistency of the
Democratic party, Morrill, remarked that Til
denis favorite candidate for the presidency
was well known to be Henry 3. Payne, an
Ohio protective tariff man.
Senator Beck replying to Senator Morrill,,
said that gentleman had made good many
stale references to Sancho Panza and similar
characters, but he, Beck, did not see what that
had to do with the argument. The senator
had not, Beck said, in any manner answered
the criticisms he had made on the public de-
clarations and conduct of the senator from
Vermont, in regard to the tariff, as a
member of both the senate and
tariff committee. This was not
to be answered, Beck insisted, by drawing
comparisons between his humble self and
some great leaders vino had represented Ken
lucky in congress. Following Morrill's ex-
ample, in comparing Ohio with Kentucky,
Beck made comparison of Kentucky with