St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-07
BOLD, BAD CANADA.
Congressman Discuss Retaliation
and Have an Interchange OF
Person a ifies

anu nave an LnbefChdhHO VI
Personalities.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.-Mr. Brumm,
of Pennsylvania. rising in the house of
representatives to a question OF priv
ilege, read letter which he had writ
( tell to Mr.. Scott, of Pennsylvania. in
which he called attention to the fact
that that gentleman had charged him
with making false statements on the
| floor, ana that he would rise in the
house in order to yindicate himself.
Mr.. Scott said the question of dispute
1 grew out of Mr.. Brumm's charge that
! he employed Pinkerton detectives and
7 coal and iron police. He had denied
the charge. That was the only dispute
| between them, and what the gentle
| man was injecting here was not rele-
want to the question. Mr.. Brumm pre-
dicted that before he concluded he
would show that it was relevant. He
| then read letter from William Weihe,
president of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Iron and Steel Workers, charg-
ing tyrannical treatment of wOrkmen at
Scott'S rolling mill in 1882. He also
read other documents in the same vein,
and said that his colleague had put
through the Chinese bill under gag rule,
in order to hoodwink the workmen into
the belief that he had a kind feeling for
them. 1t was adding insult to injury to
imagine that the workingmen were to
be gulled as easily as that MIR. BTumm
then produced ''store orders used in
the company stores in which Mr.. Scott
was interested, and, holding up l-eent
stub. he inquired whether that was i'll
tended TO buV peanuts with.
Mr.. Scott-lt is not as small as you
are.
Mr.. Brumm-Imagine this grave rep
reSentative of the president OF the
United States, the reputed owner of
S20.000,000. getting down to 1-cent deal
ings with w0rkingmen at a peanut
stand. Mr.. Scott said he had denied
his colleagues charge that he had ever
EMPLOYED PINKERTON DETECTIVES,
and had said that he would have his col
league brought to the bar of the house
to prove that charge. He would have
done so, but that he would rather stand
his colleagues accusation than take up
the time of the house that was valuable
to the country. Mr.. Scott read letters
and affidavits to show that he did not
employ detectives or coal and iron
police, and that so far from being guilty
OF evictiOnS he had allowed many
miners to live in his houses for eighteen
months without payment Of rent. Mr..
Brumm said that the affidavitS turned
on bubble as to the transfer of GER
tain companies, when the fact remained
that while they were employing coal
and iron police Mr.. Scott was Il stock
holder in them.
Mr.. Scott deny it.
The discussion then ended.
Mr.. McCreaTy, of Kentucky, gave. no
tice that he would call the previous
question Oh the retaliation bill tO-mor-
row at O'clock. Mr.. Scott, of Penn
Sylyania, then continued his speech in
support of the bill He estimated that
the Canadian railroads had by reason of
article % OF the treaty of 1871 received
SG,000.000 a year for the transportation
of American goods through Canada 10
other portions of the United States.
The Republican senate was response
bic for the present state of affairs.
There had been "a great deal of low
down cunning work." Mr.. Scott con-
tinued at length to make an exhaustive
review of the action of the senate in
order to show that the Republican sena-
tors, and especially Senator EdmundS,
had a steady and
DEADLY PURPOSE TO ACCOMPLISH
to prevent the aDro5atIon or the 29tn
article of the treaty of 1871. The re-
taliation bill of 1877 as reported to the
senate was drafted SO as to enab e the
Republican senators to denOunce the
president whether he carried out the
provisions or not. Had not the hand of
| Il political assassin drafted those pro-
visions? He sent to the clerks desk
| and had read the remarks made in the
senate recently by Senator Teller, criti-
Ching him for his action in bringing
forward the Chinese bill. The
senator from Colorado wanted TO
know what right he (Nlr. Scott
had to introduce the bill.
The answer could be found in yester-
days dispatches relative to the coming
of Chinese into the United States from
British Columbia. Mr.. Scot concluded
his speech and the house at 6:l0 ad-
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