St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-09

Belgian ministers, Mrs. Nordhof and others.
This evening, after the theater, Mr.. Henry
Irving was entertained at the White house,
where President Arthur had invited num-
Der of friends to meet him at supper. The
company, invited verbally, numbered some
fifty in all and handsome collation. was
served in the state dining hall.
DECEASED coNsULs' SALARIES.
Jesse H. Moore, Of Illinois, was consul at
Callao from May, 1881, until his death last
July. A resolution was introduced in the
senate 70 pay his widow his salary for the rest
of his official year, s., 036. The senate COM
mittee on foreign relations has reported adj
versely because in its opinion the wisdom and
propriety of making precedent in the case
of a consul such as this joint resolution
would make is doubtful The committee
finds that 'there is no precedent for an al
| lowance of salary after the death OF consul
although SUCH allowances have been frequent
" made by congress to officers in the diplo-
matte corps. What this amounts to is that
it is proper to give the widow of highly
paid minister his salary for the remaining
part of the year, but it is improper
to do this for the widow of consul ON a
small salary. Mr.. Moore's salary was SO, 500
year. If Mrs. Hunt does not get the re-
mainder of her husbands ST, 800 talary as
minister to Russia, for the remainder of his
official year it will be very singular. The
committee call attention to the fact that I'M
der existing laws Mrs. Moore will get her
husbands salary for forty days after his
death, and the body will be brought home at
the governments expense.
PosToFFICE APPROPRIATIONS.
Representative Townshend brought the
postoftice appropriation bill to the attention
of the house to-day, and explained its pro-
visions. The committee have made large
reductions upon the official estimates which
are generally inflicted by the officers of the
departments, with the object of charging the
importance of their respective bureaus by in
creasing the number of employees, or
the amount of money to be expended
under their supervision and for the purpose
of leaving wide margin for the topping off
that is always expected at the hands of the
appropriation committee. Mr.. Townshend
thinks that in this bill all the needs for post
offices for the next fiscal year are amply pro-
vided for. Mr.. Horn spent an hour in dis
putting the wisdom of the reductions
and criticising the Democratic party.
His speech was entertaining and will serve
! pretty well for the use for which it was in
tended-as a Republican campaign docu-
ment. incidentally Mr. Horn gave vent to
his feeling about the land grant railroads,
and what he considered the unjust treatment
they had received from this congress.
The spur that made Mr.. Horn grow
red to the roots of his hair and
prance his corpulent form up and down the
aisle was the forfeiture of the land grants to
Michigan railroads, which the committee on
public lands have agreed to press in the
| house.
| POSTAL TELEGRAPHY.
new member from California, Mr.. Sum
mer launched into long speech in favor
of postal photography and in denunciation of the
Western Union Telegraph company His lurid
rhetoric and agile Imagination with quaint
expressions and many strong points in the
argument marked him as a wild frontier
orator of the Belford style.
Western Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, March S.-Yesterday Sen
ator Dolph called up, in order to make some
remarks upon it bill to provide for the i'm
provement of the Columbia river. In
speech at some length, he entered into par
ticulars, showing the great increase in the
commerce and population of Oregon, Wash
ington and Idaho, and thu Importance of
f,,4,, of
of country, by judicous appropriations for
the improvement of its navigable waters. 1t
was almost impossible, Dolph said, to fore
tell the results to the commerce of the United
States which would ultimately result from the
completion of the Northern Pacific railway.
China and all the countries of Asia
opened up an almost limit
less field for the commerce
of the United States, and would in time fur
nish a market for the wheat surplus of the
Pacific coast. The Northern Pacific road
would be compelled to put on steamship
line to China, Notwithstanding the 1sthmus
canal would reach the Pacific. Dolph main
tanned that the commerce was westward. He
combatted the view expressed by ingalls, on
recent occasion, to the effect that Alaska was
barren investment The purchase of
Alaska, he said, has not given rise to so much
criticism as has The purchase of Louisiana,
which had been called the NAL
arial and illimitable swamp. In conclusion
enator Dolph said the great Pacific north
west, the original Oregon, appeals to the ma
tional congress for that recognition which the
sacrifices and fidelity to this government of
the pioneers who Sc tiled, held and saved to
the United States that magnificent domain,
her prolonged isolation, the vast territory,
great resources, the necessities of her great
and already increasing commerce, and her
undoubted and immediate future develop
ments deserve, out of the flowing treasury.
She asked the aid necessary to prosecute the
improvements of her rivers and harbors now
in progress, and to commence the important
work of improving the mouth of the great
river which forms natural outlet to the sea
for her surplus productions.
WE'LL MANAGED FINANCIALLY.
The comptroller of currency has declared
final dividend of 26H per cent. in favor of
the creditors of the German National bank,
Chicago, making in all 100 per cent. princi-
pal and AZ per cent. accrued since the date
of the appointment of receiver.
Miss Susan B. Anthony, Phoebe Cousins,
Mrs. Haggert, and other members of the
Woman Suffrage association, made addresses
before the house judiciary committee advo-
eating the extension of the right of suffrage
to their sex.
DEAD LOCK.
The conferees on the resolution appropriate
ing $4,000 for the Danville and Copiah
county investigations held their first meet
ing to-day, and after discussion disagreed
The house conferees would not recede from
the clause restricting the use of the money
to investigations already ordered, and senate
conferees refused to agree to it, saying the
unanimous vote against it was equivalent to