St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-07
WASHINGTON.
A Bill to Guard the Rights of Ac-
cused Americans in For
eign Countries.
Keifer's Clearly Proved Iniquity Does
Not Seem to Shake the Faith
of His Constituents.
A Change of Tactics by the Republicans to
Protract the Session Until After the
Presidential Conventions.
rsnecial Telegram to the Globe /

have taken up the Mexican treaty to-day,
and word to that effect was passed around
among the senators yesterday but when the
senate went into executive session for that
purpose this afternoon the friends Of the
treaty found they were not ready to proceed
and the matter was postponed till Monday.
1t seems to be still uncertain what the result
will be, but the friends Of the treaty are
quite hopeful of getting the vote. One Of
the reasons why the treaty was not consider
ed to-day. was that Senator Bayard, one OF
the warmest advocates of the treaty, was in
his committee room giving lunch to Henry
Irving and Miss Ellen Terry. Senator Bay
and was assisted by Perry Belmont and some
other gentleman in entertaining the English
dramatic double stars.
NAVAL APPROPRIATION.
The house passed the naval appropriation
bill in very much the shape recommended by
the appropriation committee. The only i'm
portant amendments added at the suggestion
of outsiders, were one proposed by Bedford this
afternoon, allowing retired naval officers be-
low the relative ranks Of Major in the army,
navy or marine corps, to accept civil employ
ment from the government. The Rcpubli-
cans and few Democrats under the lead of
Dorsheimer of New York, tried to incorporate
as an amendment the appropriating of
3449. OOO for armament for the new cruisers,
but it was defeated by a majority under
Randall and Cox.
TRIED TO RE FUNNY.
Bedford made another exhibition of his
buffoonery in replying to some remarks of
Cox's. He said that he was surprised to hear
Cox. member from New York city, oppose
an amendment designed for the better pro-
lection Of that great sea port. Very irrele-
vanity he referred to Cox's trip to Egypt and
spoke of him as standing before the pyra-
mids from which forty centuries looked down
upon him, crying Langtry-Langtry-
where are you?-why don't you come here to
make the desert bloom like the rose or the
Hly"" Bedford wound up his speech with
this couplet: ''Oh; shame and hypocrisy
YOUR name is Democracy"
Cox in his reply said that there was
growing impression that Bedford and he were
in collision to advertise q certain dramatic
star. Then he spoke sensibly but soberly to
the amendment only taking occasion to say
that Bclford's wool speech of Tuesday was as
irrelevant as most of his speeches. The only
time that there had been any special connec-
ton between wool and the navy was when
Jason and the argonauts went to look for the
golden fleece.
KEIFER's INIQUITY.
1t is often remarked that Keifer's consti
tuents have the idea that he is the victim of
some rascally newspaper men, and that their
devotion to him is rapidly increasing. If
there be any truth in this the Ohio people
have peculiar ideas of morals. Keifer swore
that he was not in Boynton's Office on the
night of March 1st last, and six witnesses
have sworn that they saw him there. He
swore that he did not pay the board bill
of one of his witnesses, and it has been
shown that he furnished the money with
which that board account was settled. Of two
witnesses whom he has brought forward to
corroborate his original story about Boyn-
toms attempt to corrupt him it has been
shown that one has been indicted for bur-
glary and the other has been in prison for
false personating and IS or has recently been
the keeper of disreputable house. OF this
latter ELDER Keifer swore that he had only
a casual acquaintance with him and never
recommended him for Office and didn't
know he had a bad reputation. Brewster
Cameron has produced a note from Keifer
introducing elder as man he was well ac
quainted with and reliable in all respects,
and it would be personal favor to Keifer if
Cameron would attend to him, and Cameron
told Keifer afterwards what Elders reputa-
ton was. This is only partial list of the
instances in which Kcifer has betrayed his
constitutional repugnance to anything like
the truth.
The committee on accounts has been hold
ing back its report that it might not damage
Keifer in the present trial, for it has been
Keifer and not Boynton who was on trial
from the start. When that committee sub
mits its report of Keifer's gross and unblush-
ing nepotsm, complicated with lying when
questioned about it, and the Hopkins com
mittee submits its report of the
current investigation Keifer will have pub
lie record that will be simply unrivalled
among ex speakers of the house from the
foundation of the government, and if his
constituents return him to congress next
fall with an increased majority the mission
airy societies will have revealed the location
of the most benighted brethren in the world.
ABoLIsHING THE TOBACCO TAX.
Members of the ways and means commit
tee have given careful attention to the argu-
ments presented last week by southern con-
gressmen in favor of the present reduction
and the ultimate extinction of internal taxes.
Members of the committee state that
although no formal action has yet been had
they have every reason to believe that the
committee will recommend some time before
congress adjourns, the removal
of the entire tax on tobacco
and the removal of the tax on spirits pro-
duced from fruit. The former tax yielded
S25, 033, IA. 81 in 1888, and the latter yielded
81, 095, 1874. 60 in the same year. Probably
no action will be taken until the house has
indicated the fate of the tax bill. At the
present none but the Republican members
are known to favor the scheme.
CONSULAR JURISDICTION.
The principal business the senate did to-
day was to pass the bill regulating consular
Jurisdiction. At present much of the law
governing the trials of Americans in Asiatic
countries is made by the diplomatic repre-
sentatives of the United States, and there
is vast mass of discord-
ant customs and regulations governing
civil and criminals trials in consular courts.
The forms of trial are pretty much what the
consuls choose to make them, and even in
capital cases an appeal to the United States
is subject to the approval Of the minister
Seven capital convictions have occurred in