St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-05

tariff as the reason for this, the result being
that the demand for American wheat is
growing less daily. The price of wheat
in the home market is fixed by
the price in the Liverpool market.
| Diversification of industries will not
avail. If he were to advise the
farmers of Minnesota, he would advise
them to diversity their industries by rails
ing not only corn and wheat, but to raise
hell also. Applause.
Mr. Donnelly alluded to the good pros
pect for anarchy in this country, owing to
the growing discomfort of the working
classes. He attacked the railroads for
watering their stock, and insisted that they
had bought up the legislatures and the
newspapers, and sent their paid emissaries
to such conventions as this.
HE APPEALED TO THE CONVENTION,
even though it was composed of non-pro-
ducers. Let its voice go out, not beggarly
appeal for money, but let it go out as the
thunders Of an oppressed people, so that it
shall influence future legislature. He won
dered where was the boasted prosperity of
the West. He charged that Minnesota was
full of poverty and want. He wanted such
legislation enacted that merchant, farmer
and manufacturer should be under the same
laws and have the same rights as
the man that builds railroad He
hoped there would be no uncertain
sound from this convention here. If the
Hennepin canal was important, demand it,
Mr.. Donnelly quoted Bacon, and hoped that
the convention would not go to congress
crooking ''the pregnant hinges of the knee,
that thrift might follow fawning." He
closed amidst much applause.
SENATOR EUsTIs.
Hon. Gordon e. Cole called for a speech
from United States Senator Eustis of
Louisiana, who is member of the COM
mission for the permanent improvement of
the Mississippi. That gentlemen was con-
Quoted to the platform, and spoke at some
length. He said he had heard assurance by
some of the speakers that it is not the pur-
pose of the convention to antagonize any Of
the interests of the United States. This
had been unnecessary. Whatever interests
| in the Mississippi valley are to be benefited,
! to receive direct benefits from any conven-
! ton, the South feels in hearty sympathy
| with such a movement. The interests are
common and the fight is common. 1t is the
| first requirement that the two sections be
united. The Northerner and the Southerner
must stand together and have no suspicious
of each other.
The senator said this was his first visit to
| the Northwest. He had been amazed at
the startling results of the industries of this
section. 1t seemed almost strange that men
who represented so much of the intelligence
of the country were compelled to assemble
i'll convention in order to secure its wishes
among its representatives. 1t is an error
to suppose that the voice of this convention
will not be obeyed. The convention would
present to congress not only a request but a
demand.
| CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM II. HATCH
of Missouri was called on and made a
brief speech in which he stated him
self as an ardent and enthusiastic
friend of any movement looking to
the improvement of the waterways
and an implacable foe to the idea of tackng
on to the appropriations for this purpose
any barnacles known as dry land schemes.
Coming to the Hennepin canal, he said he
had no objection to its friends doing all in
their power to secure its construction, but
did object to its being paraded before the
convention, because it had no abiding
! place on river and harbor bill. 1t is well
| known that it destroyed the river and har-
Dor bill once, and there had been remarks
made in the convention that were tanta-
mount to threats that it would be done
again unless it will be recognized. The
reason that these recognitlons of this scheme
were tackled onto the action of these con-
ventions was because the warmest friends
of this scheme knew that it was the only
way on earth that it could be brought
| OF the congress of the United States,
1t came with bad grace from men from Illi-
nois to insist on the recognition of this ca
nal when in the constitution of the great
state of Illinois there was one clause that
would stand as an eternal reminder that no
canal through that state was recog-
nized as constitutional. Himself
had ever favored the improvement
of the entire Mississippi from the
northern end to the jetties, and he would
favor, il it were the only way to preserve
this great inland stream, bringing
the granite from the rocky hills of New
England and walling i'll the entire stream.
The great Missouri, the lake ports, the
inland seaboards were the proper objects for
the convention to consider. Cut loose from
all these schemes, let them come from where
they may.
THE IDEA OF QUOTING J. C. CALHOUN
as in favor of building canal, though Illi-
nois would be barred out by the statute of
limitation. He arraigned the friends OF
the canal for defeating the last river and
| harbor bill: He said: You have said on
this platform, In union there is strength.
Not much. When in the last expiring
hours of the last congress you might have
| secured the appropriation for the improve
ment of the great rivers and harbors, you
did not do it, and that bill was killed by
and himself lived on the banks of
the mighty Mississippi. When the
next congress meets, in December,
it will prolong its session from December to
December but the voice of this convention
will be recognized. I never have been, and
l never will be. party to any scheme that
tacks swapping clause onto bill for the
appropriation for the benefit of the rivers
| OF the country" The scheme was uncOn-
stitutional, and he would never be driven
to anything, and this gag method of pro-
ceeding would never go down. The speaker
then said he did not suppose there was any
| thing cut and dried in the movement of the
Illinois men, but he had wondered some
| what that the speeches of Gov. BrOss and
| Congressman Murphy had sandwiched in
so nicely-that Gov. Bross, as temporary
chairman, had hit so nearly the line of Mr..
Murphy and that the two were so unani-
| nous.
HE EXPLAINED 1T
on the ground that Mr.. Murphy was mind
reader. Mr. Hatch profeSSed himself a
farmer and devoted to the farmers interests.
No man had a warmer devotion to the ag-
ricultural interests. He came as citizen
Of the Mississippi valley, representing no
class or branch of industry.
''If you want to see the Improvements, -
said he, ''made until barges and steamboats,
can carry the products Of the Northwest on
this great inland river, stick to your own
text. We are not supplicants. Wecan de-
mand our rights. There is no reason why
! the same improvements that have been made