St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-12
A Long List Of Bills on Which
He Voted on the Wrong
Side.
In 1879 He Voted Against a
Bill for the Exclusion Of
the Chinese.
He Also Showed His Hostility
to Labor on the Eight
Hour Bill.

Logan pension bill and the direct tax
bill, he Joined with the ''rebel briga-
diers," and that in advocating a reduc-
ton of the tariff he is preaching free
trade. This is the sole capital on which
Dunnell is making his campaign. AS
to the exposure of his own public rec
ord, he is not making the slight
est explanation nor Offering any
defense. He appeals to the passion
and prejudices of men, and not to their
common sense. | cannot discover by
the process that he makes converts, nor
that he is conducting anything but a
losing fight. The "bloody shirt, has
become tiresOme, nauseating subject
to even the sensible old soldiers. The
war is ended, and the new issue is re-
duction of taxation. Mr.. Dunnell and
his followers have
FLOODED THE DISTRICT
with protection documents and rung
the changes on free trade' until every
uniformed voter sees in his minds
eye the English lion swallowing at
one gulp the helpless states and
territories. Especially is Mr.. Dunnell
hammering this silly fallacy into the
minds of the Norwegian voters, insult
ing their intelligence by a direct appeal
to prejudice. He does not attempt to
discuss the tariff question from an econ
omic point of view. The speech that he
delivers at every point lies before me,
and there is in it not the slightest effort
to approach tariff reform i'll any spirit
but that of the demagOgue. This is all
the more ridiculous from the fact that
only five or six years ago Mr.. Dunnell
issued an address to the voters OF his
district. in which he made the most
bind fNf ,,Iaa for tarjH rpHnn-
ton. He has Squarely reversed his po-
sition, and with Potter, O'Brien, Gray,
Brown, Anderson and the rest of them,
is engaged in mad race after the
MONEY KINGS
of the Republican party. In the mean
time, as | have noted, neither he nor his
followers offer the slightest explanation
of the following public record. which
he made as a congressman between 1870
and 1882:
His advocacy of the BONDED WHISKY
bill, and which Mr.. Window denounced
as the ''MOST UBIQUITOUS" measure that
had been introduced in congress for
twenty-five years
His vote, on Jan. IL, 1880,
AGAINST putting SALT for the West
ern farmers on the FREE LIST,
although Hamlin of Maine; Harlan of
Iowa: Logan and Turnbull, of Illinois,
and Window of Minnesota, in 1872 had
voted FOR it. This was bill designed
to directly BENEFIT the WESTERN
FARMERS, whom DUNNELL REPRE-
SCENTED. He voted AGAINST their in
tereStS.
At the present time he is stamping
the district, denouncing any attempt to
REDUCE the tariff, although in May,
1882, he voted to make duties so per
cent on existing rates, instead of 90 per
cent. That is, he DENIES to day, what
he voted for in 1882.
February Z, 1882, Holman of Indiana.
introduced the following resolution, re-
lating to
PUBLIC LANDS:
"Provided, however, that after the
passage of this act no PUBLIC LANDS of
the United States shall be sold except
mineral land and town sites, and ALL
the public lands of the United States
adapted to AGRICULTURE shall be RE-
SERVED for ACTUAL SETTLERS under
the provision of the homestead laws,
subject, however to land warrants and
college script issued by authority of
congress, and the grants which congress
shall hereafter make in the territories
and new states for the purposes or edu
cation"
MIR. Dunnell voted AGAINST THIS RES
oLUTION.
June 8, 1856, a grant of lands made to
the state of Wisconsin for the st. CroiX
Railroad company. contained this pro-
ViSO:
And if said roads are not completed
within ten years, no further sales
SHALL BE MADE, and the lands unsold
SHALL REVERT to the United States.
In 1864 the st. CroiX company OBJ
tanned all extension Of the time of the
grant of five years. In 1872 the COM
pany,
HAVING FAILED
to comply with the law, Congressman
Ketcham offered a resolution that these
lands granted to the state of Wisconsin
for the st. Croix Railroad company RE-
VERT to the United States, and be SUBJ
ject to HOMESTEAD ENTRY and SETTLE
MENT, and that the lands be EXPRESSLY
RESERVED for the BENEFIT of ACTUAL.
SETTLERS.
Mr.. Dunnell voted AGAINST THIS
RESOLUTION.
March 81, 1871, Congressman Parker
offered the following resolution:
Resolved that the tariff should be so
REFORMED as to be TAX FOR REV
ENUE ONLY and NOT FOR THE PRoTEC-
TON OF CLASS INTERESTS"
Dunnell KILLED THIS RESOLUTION by
having 1t REFERRED.
But on February 26, 1872, although he
is now ADVOCATING HIGH TARIFF,
Dunnell VOTED to REDUCE the TARIFF
on PIG IRON to five dollars per ton or
less.
On February z, 1876. Mr.. Dunnell
voted FOR the KaSSon resolution, which
FORBADE the GOVERNMENT ISSUING
GREENBACKS.
On June 10, 1878. Dunnell VOTED
AGAINST the SUBSTITUTION of GREEN
BACKS for NATIONAL BANK NOTES.
On May 10, 1882, DUNNELL VOTED
AGAINST THE REDEMPTION OF Ma
TIoNAL BANK NOTES WITH GREEN
BACKS. SO far, SO good. These were
all public questions touching closely
the vital interests of the COMMON
PEOPLE. The First district, composed
largely of farmers, would have been
benefited by the success of any one of
these bills which Dunnell VOTED
AGAINST.
Jan. %, 1878, the following resolution
was introduced in congress:
Resolved, That in the judgment of
the house, NO SUBSIDIES in MONEY
BONDS, PUBLIC LANDS INDORSI MENTS,
or by PLEDGE of the PUBLIC CREDIT,
should be GRANTED or RENEWED by
congress to associations or CORPORA
TIoNs engaged in or proposing to en-
gage in PUBLIC or PRIVATE enterprises.
But that all appropriations ought to be
LIMITED to such amounts and purposes
only as shall be imperatively demanded
by the public service of the govern
ment."
DunneH VOTED AGAINST THIS REso-
LUTON.
THE CHINESE.
American labor has never been con-
fr0nted with more grave problem than
when the importation of the Chinese
threatened to overwnelm industry with
''pauper'' labor. In congress Jan. IA,
1879, a bill was introduced EXCLUDING
the CHINESE FROM this COUNTRY. Dun
nell VOTED AGAINST THAT BILL.