St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-12
Congressman Discuss Politi-
Cal Chestnuts Instead Of
Public Business.
Judge Wright Resigns a Law
Clerkship to Go Up
Higher.
He Will Be Appointed a Mem
ber Of the Sioux Com
mission.
The Senate Insists Upon the
South American Mail
Subsidy.

WASHINGTON. D. c., July 1.-THE
feature of the house proceedings to-
day was an animated political debate
while in committee OF the whole on the
tariff bill, in which Mr.. Phelps inter-
view on the Chicago nomination and
Mr. Ingalls, letter were the chief topics
OF discussion. A conference was
ordered on the land forfeiture bill. Mr..
Hatch, of Missouri, submitted the re-
port of the conference committee on the
agricultural appropriation bill. The
conference disagreed on the senate
amendment appropriating 100000 to
continue the experiments in
Kansas, urged concurrence in the
amendment. and made motion to that
effect. After debate the amendment
was concurred in, which passed the
bill. The conference report on the Dis
trict of Columbia appropriation bill was
agreed to. The house then went into
committee of the whole on the tariff
bill. The pending amendment was
that of Mr.. Phelps fixing the rate of
duty on fax or linen thread and all
manufactures of hemp at 40 per cent
ad valoren. In discussing his PROPOSE
tion Mr.. Phelps charged the Democratic
members of the ways and means COM
mittee with
GOING INTO THE DARK
and framing bill; code of dicis-
ions, which like the law of the Medes
and Persians, 'altereth not" That was
the first step in the great drama, which
if successfully carried out, would de-
stroy the interests of American indus
try. There was one step left in their
desperation, and they had the nerve to
take it. Mr.. Phelps referred to the
caucus action and said that a resolution
was unanimously passed thatnO amend
ment offered in the house
should receive the support of
the Democrats unless the amend
ment was first passed upon and
approved by the Democratic caucus.
Mr.. Wilson, of Minnesota, denied the
statement. Mr.. Phelps said that the re-
country and went uncOntradIcted until
to-day, and however hard it might be,
he would accept the contradiction, al
though expressing surprise that reSo-
luton which existed only in the mind
of newspaper reporter had been
Obeyed implicitly by members who had
never heard of it. The chairman of the
ways and means committee might boast
that his house would pass the bill next
week; he (Phelps) was confident that
the people of the United States Il
WOULD NOT PASS THE MILLS BILL =
next November. In regard to the pend
ing paragraph of the bill, he could
prove that it would throw thousands of
skilled workmen out of employment,
and the machinery which gave them
employment would be reshipped to the
country from which it had come. The
American people said: ''For Gods
sake, let the Republican party, which
devised and which knows and loves
this engine, repair it. If repair is
necessary, and not leave it to the blum
dering of a half-hearted Democracy"
Mr.. Weaver, of Iowa, expressed sur
prise to find the gentleman advocating
an increase of duty ON thread, and ex-
claiming in the next breath that he was
the friend of the workingman. He then
sent to the clerks desk and had read
portions of the interview with Mr..
Phelps, published soon after the Chi
cago convention, in WHICH Mr. Phelps
granger candidate-alluding to Senator
Allison. Mr.. Weaver, commenting on
the interview, said that the farmers of
Iowa had been spurned in the conven-
ton, and they would not, next Novem-
Der,
RATIFY THEIR OWN HUMILIATION.
Continuing Mr.. Weaver said that SEN
ator Allison had been punished in Chi
cago because he lived in a granger state
which passed laws unfriendly to
railroads. He would like to hear
whether Mr.. Henderson indOrsed what
the gentleman from New Jersey had
given as the reason for the rejection of
the distinguished senator. MIR. Hender-
caiI hat 10 ri ho1i IN
him it was absolute knOwledge) that the
attitude of Iowa in respect to railroad
legislation had lost Senator Allison a
single vote in the convention. He
| Henderson, was with his colleague in
asserting the right of the people of his
state to control the corporations that
might be operated within it. His friend
and neighbor, Senator Allison, did not
abate his belief that the sovereignty of
the people should be recognized in the
control of corporations. Iowa, as in the
past, would this fall, in spite of rant
ings and Misrepresentation plant it
self in the front rank of the Republican
| states for Harrison and Morton. [Ap-
pIause.l Mr.. Weaver said the house
had the open confession of the
gentleman from New Jersey that
his interview was truthful and
had in this interview the gentleman's
idea of Western men. Now he wanted
| to show what Western man thought of
the EeaStern men. He sent to the clerks
! desk and had read amidst much laughter
| and applause on the Democratic side,
| the letter written by Senator ingalls, to
| member of the Kansas delegation.
| during the Chicago convention. Nh.
Henderson said that since the gen.
| tleman had pleased to give the house a
little literature land it was believed by
some that this literature had been
stolen he henderson, would also give
| the house little literature. He then
sent to the clerks desk and had read
numerous extracts from speeches de-
livered by Mr.. Weaver from 1866 to
1872. in which he bitterly
ASSAILED THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
as party full of stencil and poison,
! which should be blotted from the vo-
cabulary of a civilized land and handed
over to the barbariSm which it so fitly
represented. MIR. Weaver said that the
speeches which had been read had been
uttered by him in times past when the
situation was entirely different flom
what it was now. He went on to ex-
PLAIN why he had changed his political
faith. Mr.. Henderson implied that it
| vas because he (Weaver) had been de-
feated for the nomination to be gov
ernor. Mr.. Breckenridge, of Arl1an-
sas, opposed the Phelps amend
ment and it was rejected.
An amendment was adopted changing
the rate Of duty on bags and bagging
from Is per cent ad valorem to three
eighths of cent per pound. Other
| amendments were offered and rejected.
The wool sections of the bill were then
read as one paragraph. Mr.. Caswell. of
Wisconsin, offered an amendment to
the wool section, substituting the
| schedule Of 1867, and it was laid over
until tomorrow. The committee then
rose and the house took recess until 8
pm, the evening session, for consider