St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-26
WORKTNGMEN EXCITED
Minneapolis Laboring Men in Error Con-
cerning Material for Public
Building.
President Cleveland to be Asked to Grant
aPardon for the Younger
Brothers.
EX-Minister Kassonss Experience in
Germany--The Guard at Grants
Tomb to be Removed.
Mr.. Santos Wants Indemnity--Dr.
Hamilton May Yet Go--Proyis-
ions of Warmers Bill.


ions of Warmers Bill.
Architect He'll in His own Defense.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-Supervising
Architect Bell says the attack on him at
the Tuesday evening meeting of the work.
ingmen in Minneapolis was not at all war
ranted by the facts. The charge that he
is favoring prison laborer quarries run by
prison labor is, he says, entirely untrue.
The specifications for stone to be furnished
for the Minneapolis building. which are com
planned of, read as follows:
The steps, platforms, etc., of the first
stories, bafers, covers of coal shutes and
manholeS, pier caps and band stones and first
story door sills to be of granite. The steps
to the rear area facing the basement and on
walls, footings and interior piers of all other
stone not before mentioned to be equal to
Bedford, Ind, or Lamont, ILL.,, limestone.
Bids will also be received for the whole of
the exposed stonework Of granite and the re-
naming or uneXpoSed Stonework Of good
hard limestone
1.-THE feature to which objection seems to
be made" said Mr. Bell, lis the reference
to the Bedford and Lemont stone, which is
probably Quarried and perhaps dressed by
convict labor. But the specifications do not
call for this stone, but merely mention
those as a standard. I presume there is as
good stone in Minnesota as that mentioned,
and if there is, and it is offered as low as
any other, it will of course be accepted.
We only mentioned these because they are
good stone, able to stand the severe climate
of Minnesota, and they were therefore used
as a standard. We must have good stone
for this building, but are not asking for
iar,1n ind n,,Ixr hot ln II
must be as good as those mentioned. The
fact that we are willing to accept granite
for ali the work shows that we are not
working in the interest of the limestone
QuaTies referred to. The whole thing is
absurd and founded either On q miscon-
ception or a willful perversion of the facts" !"
a Pardon for the Younger Brothers.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-People COM
ing mere from the Northwest say there is a
decided movement on foot looking toward
the presentation to President Cleveland Of
a petition for the pardOn Of the Younger
brothers. The chances of success are some
what marred by the statement by Col. La
mont to-day that the president did not yet
know that there were any such people as
the Younger brothers in existence.
Mr. Kasson's Experience Abroad.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-An interesting
fact comes to the surface incidentally just
now through Hon. John A. Kasson, ex-
minister to Germany. Your correspondent
met him yesterday coming from the state
department., where he had been closing up
his business, and asked him in the course
of brief conversation if he found his eX
perience while abroad a pleasant one.
II found it a very valuable one," he an
swered, Though so full of hard work that it
could scarcely be called very pleasant one"
"Then the popular idea that diplomatic
positions are all fun and no work is not d cor
rect one?'
'1t certainly was not my experience. I find
myself wondering now, as go over the pc
perS connected with my work abroad, how J.
ever managed to get through with the amount
of labor performed. Ny work in connection
with the Congo matter was especially labor
ious, although very valuable to me. 1t gave
me great zeal of information which / did
not before possess. Indeed, my whole eX-
perience abroad this time was very valuable
to me. The insight which [ gained into dip
lomatic methods and matters abroad was not
only very interesting to me, but were more
valuable in this line than decade at home"
Coming from such man as Mr.. kasSOn.
this shows with great clearness the actual
value as instructors of these diplomatic
positions. He had been not only in the
diplomatic service in former years, but had
been for long time member of congress,
prominent on the committee of foreign
affairs, and was looked up to in the house
as one of it's abIest and best posted members
in regard to diplomatic matters, and to find
him coming home with so much added i'll
volumes for the real value of these positions
to men who accept them with an earnest
desire to learn as well as to make them
selves valuable to the government.