St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-08
1ne House of Representatires


WASHINGTON, April 7.-On motion of Mr.
Jordan, joint resolution was passed direct
ing the secretary of the interior to deliver to
the Cincinnati law library a complete set of
reports of the United States supreme court
and circuit and district courts, two complete
sets of the revised statutes, and sundry other
public documents.
The following bills were introduced and
referred:
By Mr.. Glasscock, a memorial from the
California legislature, asking a speedy pas
sage of the Chinese immigration act
By Mr.. Hill, authorizing the president to
nominate ommissioner to fill the existing
vacancy in the international prison commits
sion, and appoint delegate to attend the
meeting of the international prison congress
at Rome.
By Mr.. Wood, a resolution calling on the
secretary of state for information concerning
the threatened confiscation OF the American
college, Italy.
By Mr.. Wilson, Iowa, memorial from the
Iowa legislature asking for the forfeiture of
unearned land grants.
By Mr. Fidler, to enable the attorney gen.
eral to collect statistics in relation to criminal
and convict labor.
By Senator Keifer, to dispense with the use
Of models in the patent Office.
By Mr.. Hopkins, providing for an inden-
ture apprenticeship in the District of Colum-
ba and in the territories.
By Mr.. Young, to incorporate the Cherokee
& Arkansas River Railway company.
By Mr.. Lowering granting pension OF IS
month to all soldiers and sailors who served
SIXTY days in the late war, and were honora-
bly, discharged.
By Mr.. Maginnis creating the Montana 81
Idaho railroad company.
By Mr.. Springer a resolution calling on the
president for copies of all correspondence
in the state department, regarding the con-
fiscation or conversion by the Italian govern
ment of the property of the American college
in Italy, and requesting him, if in his opin-
ion the proper occasion has arisen, to inter
pose the good offices of the United States, to
protect the property of American citizens in
Italy from confiscation and conversion by
that government.
By Mr.. King to increase the efficiency Of
the river observations of the signal services.
Also, to aid support common schools.
By Mr. Randall, from the committee on
rules, reported resolution setting apart
April Sth and May 18th for Che consideration
of the bills reported by the committee on ter
ritores, and to include bills for the creation
of new territories or states. Adopted.
''Mr. Stocklager moved to suspend the
rules and adopt re solution making bills for
the erection of public buildings a continuing
special order for April 9th. Mr.. Stocklager
said, the committee on public buildings had
reported thirty bills, which where on the pub
lie calendar, and there were twenty-four SEN
ate bills on the speakers table. Unless this
resolution were adopted, it was extremely
doubtful whether any of them sould be pass
ed, and the house must now decide what its
policy will be on the question. The average
appropriation of the house bills was S112, 900.
Mr.. Holman opposed the resolution and de-
scribed the condition of the public business
of the house Only five of the thirteen ap-
preparation bills have been passed and there
were pending the tariff bill, and bills for the
forfeiture of land grants, and while such i'm
portant measures remained unacted upon, 1t
was now proposed to crowd them out for the
purpose of considering bills making appro-
priations of S7,000,000 not recommended
by the head of any department.
Mr.. Cox, of New York, said this was an
old game, which he has been once before
called to order for characterizing as log roll
ing.
Mr.. Mcmillan took the same view.
Mr.. Belford supported the resolution as
serting that the government should secure
for itself home in every city. Let dema-
'goguges 90 the devil, and let the members
stand up like men for judgment and discre-
tion.
The motion agreed to; ayes 1862; nays 72.
Mr.. Converse secured the floor, ,and moved
to suspend the rules aud press the bill re-
storing the duty of 1867 on wool. The sec
ond being considered as ordered, the thirty
minute debate allowed by the rules was be-
gun.
Mr.. Mckinney expressed his approval OF
the measure and the earnest desire it should
be enacted as the law of the last house, but
had no opportunity to vote on the wool meas
ure as an independent proportion. No
sooner had the act of last winter gone into
operation than Republicans everywhere, and
many Democrats in Ohio, came to recognize
the injustice of reducing the duty. He ap-
pealed to the gentlemen on the other side to
support this measure, and he did so more
boldly, because their brethren in Ohio, last
fall, had promised the people they would re-
store the wool duty at the beginning of the
present session. The Democrat orators on
every stump made this promise, and he
would print extracts from their speeches
with his remarks. Hehad pamphlet issued
by the authority of the Democratic state con-
vention which declared that if Hoadly were
elected governor, the Democrats in the first
days of the session, would wipe out this in
iquity which had been inflicted by the Re-
publican party. He asked the Democrats to
keep their pledge. They had gathered the
fruits of the peoples faith, and now he
thought they should keep their promises.
Mr.. Hinley supported the motion, and said
in the locality where he lived the restoration
of the duty of 1867 was regarded as matter
of simple, pure, unmitigated justice.
Mr.. Wilkins said it was not often the farm
ers came asking legislation, and when they
did, congress should give them a respectful
hearing. He therefore supported the BILL
Mr.. Morrison called attention to the fact
that when the tariff commission ended their
eight months exercise, it fixed the duty on
wool as it was in the law to-day. Its report
was approved by the gentlemen on the other
side, and their protective friends, few in
number, on his, by the senate and by the
conference. Professedly these gentlemen
wanted to undo their work, and
restore the duty to the rate at which it stood
before the passage of the tariff bill. What