St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-06
OF which were regarded, by the majority, as
much more likely to affect the purpose sought to

of which were regarded, by the majority, as
much more likely to affect the purpose sought to
be accomplished" !"
That is to say, because the committee on CON-
merce refused to report back all the
railroad bills in its hands the major was opposed
to taking any one of them oat of its hands. A
boat load of passengers upsets near the shore:
one of the passengers struggles forward and
holds out his hand to the major on the bank, and
begs him to help him out. ''No,'' says the ma
jor, 'there are half-dozen Of you in the water;
can't get you all out, and therefore you Will
have to drown along with the rest.' Applause.
The newspapers supporting the major have
been claiming that he had secured the passage
of an act reducing the price of government lands
within the railroad limits from $3.50 to 81 .25
per acre. called attention to the fact that
there was no such law in ex-
istence; and now the major admits
that he only introduced such bill but he wants
to go back to congress, after being ten years
there, to secure its passage!
AS to the Morrison tariff bill Major Strait takes
issue with the newspaper reporters and claims
that he did vote for the bill in committee of the
whole. The reporters had no object last spring,
in misrepresenting the facts. Major Strait has
ve.y great interest now in misrepresenting them.
They told things just as they were. He is now
IN eGtremis He does not deny, however, that
when the yeas and nays were called, on the Nor
rison bill, he lid not vote until the absentees
were called, and the bill was already dead. He
can not deny this fact for 1t appears
Of record. But he claims he votedi in favor of
the reductions made by the bill
of the tariff commission. Every one knows that
that commission was high tariff trick, and the
reductions proposed were in the interest Of the
protectionists. The whole commission was q
fraud.
He claims that misrepresented him when
said he was an enemy to American ship build
| ing, because he voted against giving the Amer
N mn reh ual t0 ha dUti m
the materials used in constructing the ship. He
admits that he did so vote; but he claims that
he also voted to allow Americans to buy ships
built in foreign countries. Granted. But
how will it help ship building in America to pro-
vide an American market for ships built in Eng
land? 1t may help the English ship builders but
the major is obtuse not to see that it is the
destruction of the American ship builder. And
this is the majors whole reply to my indictment
of his congressional record. 1t disappears
through the fingers like sand. There is nothing
of it.
The major says I voted for the present high
| tariff law II is sufficient to say that that law
was enacted in 1861 and l did not take my seat
in congress until December 1868.
The major concludes: s'In the public press
and upon the street he is directly charged while
in congress with having received money in con-
sideration of his votes and efforts in favor
of these monopolies that he now so roundly de-
nounces."
Now is this fair? Why don't the major call
his witnesses and prove his facts His only
witness is man (Bill King) who
has been my lifelong enemy,
and who had to fly to Canada to
escape going to the penitentiary for perjury. A
pretty witnessl'
| shall not stoop so low as to respect the sto-
ries that float around the street corners to the
way in which the Major made his large fortune.
| 1t would dirty me more TO employ such testi-
mony than it would the major to have it applied
| to him.