Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-31
AT THE NATIONS CAPITAL
THE KEIFER-BOYNTON CONTRO-
VERSY ALL THE TALK.

THE KEIFER-BOYNTON CONTRO-
VERSY ALL THE TALK.
sherman's Bloody Shirt Investigations
to be Inaugurated without Delay
Representative Mackey's Funeral Ser
vices Necessitate Short Sessions of
Both HOuses-COlumbus'P Petition Pre-
sented.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3C,-The Keifer-
BOynton business has been the principal
topic Of conversation among the members
of Congress to-day. Opinions differ very
widely as to who tells the truth. Mr..
Keifer said to the NEWS correspondent to-
day that he did not think that the matter
was one that should be investigated by
the House, but he was glad that an in
vestigation had been ordered. He said: 81
will prove to the committee every state
ment which 1 made on the floor of the
House yesterday, both by direct and cir
cumstantial evidence"
THE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PORK.
Secretary Frelinghuysen has addressed
to the President communication which
is to be transmitted to the House Of
Representatives, in response to the resO-
lutions asking for papers relating to the
exclusion of American hog products from
foreign countries. He submits to the
President copies OF all pertinent matter
found on record in the Department of
State, and gives IN detail the history of
the exclusion of American meats from
France, Germany. and other European
countries. In March, 1881, the Secretary
says, the Department of State prosecuted
an examination of the various phases of
which resulted in establishing the
fact of the entire healthtulness
of the pork product The facts thus
ELECTED warranted the department in rep
resenting to foreign governments that
prejudicial judgment against the swine
export of this country was eX parte and
unfOunded. When it was learned that
Germany was about to issue an order
for the total exclusion, the Presl-
dent directed that the Imperial Gov
ernment be informed of his intention
to appoint a commission to examine the
whole subject, and invited it to send eX-
perts hither to act with the commission.
The invitation was declined. The Presi-
dent has since appointed the commission
then contemplated. 1t is composed of
representative of the New York Chamber
of Commerce, Prof. Charles f. Chandler,
q representative of the Chicago Board
Of Trade, Z. W. BlatchtOrd. two members
nominated by the Commissioner of Agri-
culture, 4. d. Curtis, of Charlton, n. Y,
and Prof. ID. L. Salmon, the whole under
the Craftsmanship Of the Commissioner of
Agriculture. In point of scientific COM
petence and elevated impartiaitv the for
nation of the commission peculiarly fits
it for the execution Of its responsible task.
To it should belong, in great measure,
the shaping of the policy of this govern
ment towards the pork question in its do
nestle or foreign aspects. In view,
therefore, of the prominent part which the
results reached by the Pork Commission
must necessarily play in the further
treatment of the question by the EXecu-
tive or by Congress, the secretary of State
feels it incumbent upon him to
advise that the President rec
Ommend Congress to abstain from any
immediate legislative action until the re-
port of the commission, soon to be pre-
sented. shall be before it. The Secretary
surther says:
The question to be carefully, frankly and
honestly met is whether prepared meat pro.
ducts exported from this country are iniuri-
Gus to public health. We believe that they are
not, and have so represented. should it an
pear that the meat products of this country
are, as we believe them to be. not deleteuOus,
but a promoter of health, IL is believed that
those friendly nations which have put forth
DEGREES prohibiting the Importation of our
L
in the face of clear proof, evoked both at
home and abroad, that our products are free
from diseases or communicable germs of dis
ease-prOOf which might be established to a
demonstration by actual inspection as well
as supported by u knowledge of the precau-
tions which surround the raising and packing
industries here, any nation with which we
are ON terms of intimacy and amity should
by legislation discriminate against the
trade of this country rather than
protect the health of their people, it would
the attention of such nations to the provisions
of the treaties with the confident expectation
that those treaties would be respected. 1t
seems however. very plain that our policy in
any event should be To prove that our meat
products are wholesome. This the absence
of trichnOsis in this country, and particularly
IN our army and navy where our meats are
constantly used. goes lar to demonstrate.
Measures, however, might be taken to asccr-
tain TO an absolute certainty by suchmeans as
the commission of scientists would devise that
sHERMAN's FIRST LIEUTENANT.
Representative Miller of Pennsylvania,
is the most prominent bl0Ody-shirt men,
ber of the House. The Danville commit
tee of forty sent to each member Of Con-
gress a copy of its report upon the riot
which occurred in that city. Mr.. Miller
wrote a letter to the Chairman Of that
committee. He criticized their report
very severely, saying that it had not con-
sidered all the evidence, but only that Of
a certain Democratic Judge, who saw the
commencement of the row, aud who testi-
fed that it was unprecedented on the part
Of the Democrats. He also said that he
noticed that in political rows in the South
only Republicans were killed. He to-day
received an answer to his letter from
W. Sutherlin, Chairman Of the Dan
vile committee. The letter says that
the Danville riot was just such
an affair as is likely to occur anywhere
that political feeling runs high. The peo-
pie of Danville had for two years been
under negro rule, and had been frequently
insulted by negro officials. They We're
chated in feeling and both parties were
much excited. An unlocked for personal
encounter between a negro and a white
man thus became a riot. That was all
there was about it. Mr.. Sutherlin con-
cludes by inviting Mr.. Miller to come
down some Saturday and spend Sunday
with him. Mr.. Miller is pleased with the
letter. and says that he certainly will
accept the invitation. He will doubtless
return with different opinion of South
ern people generally.
THE KEIFER INVESTIGATION.
The subcommittee Of the House Com
mittee on Accounts, which has in charge
the investigation of the circumstances at
tending the removal of one of the official
stenOgraphers of the House by eX-Speaker
Keifer, met tonight, and, after reviewing
the testimony before them, unanimously
agreed upon the report to be submitted to
the full committee tomorrow. After the
meeting. however, the Chairman of the
subcommittee was informed that some
further testimony would be pre-
sented on behalf OF Mr.. Keifer
and will consequently withhold the
report for the present. The members of
the subcommittee decline to say what is
the character of the report agreed upon
by them in advance of the hearing of fur
tAer testimony that is to be offered. 1t is
understood, however, that the sub-cOm-
mittee finis that in the charres