St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-10
The President Attaches His
Signature to the Widows
Pension Bill.
1t Costs Something to Keep
Uncle Sans Legal Mills
Grinding.
Gen. Comstock Explains His
Method Of Improving the
Mississippi.
Special to the Globe.

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in the house to-day was the discussion
of the flax clause in the tariff bill. Bills
were passed for the erection of public
building at jackson, Mich, $50, ZOO, and
at Ottumwa, To-, $4,000. Mr.. Taulber
moved to discharge the postoffice COM
mittee from further consideration of
the resolution calling on the postmaster
| general for a statement of the disallowed
claims for readjustmet of salaries of
kentucky pOstmasters. Laid on the
table. Consideration of the tariff was
| then resumed, the flax schedule being
the pending subject. Mr.. Buchanan, of
New Jersey, said that the working peo-
pie OF the country would be heard from
in no uncertain tone if the bill became
law. Mr.. Mills deprecated the effort
made by the opponents of the bill to
distort attempts at revision into an
abuse of the poor.
Mr.. Lind, of Minnesota, Republican
supporter of the bill in general, made a
strong plea for the protection of the
linseed oil industry, claiming that an
| Injurious result would be the result of
removal of the existing duty On linseed.
| Mr.. b land, of Missouri, shouted that
he was in favor of a reduction on flax
and everything else. Mr.. Perkins, of
Kansas, accused the gentleman who had
fought and worked for silver
currency with championing the
man who had hardly been
inaugurated before he was trying to
destroy the national currency notes. Mr..
Mills said that the flax industry
or in I<a
other crops were more profitable. Wheat
would drive flax out of Indiana as it had
| In Kentucky. His earnest SympathieS
| were with dOWn-trOdden Ireland,
| Mr.. Funston, of Kansas-"Under
free-trade England"
Mr.. Mills replied that it was under
| the
MERCHESS CARPET-BAGGERs
OF England, of the great centralized
power of England. BE would be I'M
willing to help even Ireland at the eX-
pense of his countrymen, but in this
case he would help Ireland, and at the
same time help his own people. When
we took the product of Ireland's labor
we helped her juStas much as we helped
ourselves. Monopolies were the enc
mics of our people and not the Irishmen
here or in Ireland. Mr.. Russell, of
massachusetts,, said that every
dollars worth of raw material
used by the flax manufacturers of his
district was imported and every
penny of duty paid was tax upon pro-
ductiOn. A motion to strike out flax
straw from the free list was defeated by
vote of IA to 60.
General tariff discussion followed.
Messrs. Allen and Russell, of Massa-
chusetts, talked on the advantage and
disadvantage to their local industries of
protection and free trade. Mr.. Raynor,
of Maryland, charged the Republic
combinations and the capital. That
composed them. He defied the Repub-
lican party to put in its platform, as
the Democratic party had, a plank con-
demning combinations which were
drawing the life blood of the country.
Not man on the other side would have
the moral courage to oppose the trusts
which were sending Republicans to the
house in the interest of manufacturers
OF Maine. said it was not the
first time he had seen gentlemen on
the other side in
estate OF CORRUPTION"
He had heard gentlemen in a great
state of eXaltatiOn talk about national
banks and the great vampires of Wall
street, and he had lived to see Demo-
cratic administration put S60,00OOOO of
the peoples money into the Golfers of
from Maryland and his compeers
would tear everything to pieces be-
cause a dozen persons were going to
crush out the citizens of the
United States. These gentlemen
were like the tame bear, who,
seeing fly on his sleeping
masters face, determined to destroy it.
He took huge paving stone and de-
| stroyed his friend. The other side pro-
posed to destroy the trusts by destroy
| ing the industries. 1t was about time
congress talked sense; it was not worth
while everlaStingly to lie to the COM
| munity.
After further general debate by
Messrs. Hemphill, Hopkins and Kelly,
MIR. Wilson, of Minnesota, said that his
state produced One-quarter of all the
fax produced in the country. When
flaxseed or linseed was reached he
would move to strike the item from the
free list, and he believed he would have
the support of his side of the house.
Mr.. Cannon, of Illinois, declared that
every one of the existing trusts had
| grown up under the administration of
| Grover Cleveland. He had heard no
| proposition from the Democrats to re-
strict the cotton-seed oil trust. the
| whisky trust, the sugar trust, the an
thraclte trust, and greater than all the
transportation trust. Mr.. Scott, repre-
senting the administration, had hurried
to st. Louis to get in the platform
| A DECLARATION AGAINST TRUSTS.
His record showed that he was the
| greatest railroad king in the land.
While he Numbered against trusts, they
still lived. Mr.. Dockery, of Missouri,
quoted from Mr.. Butterworth's speech
to show that he varied from Reeds
position On trusts. He said that
Mr.. Bayne, of pennsylvania, had inter-
| preted the party's position when he said:
I'VE do not want any tariff revision
until after the election of 1882 Mr..
| Butterworth said that there was but
little difference between himself and
Reed upon the necessity of preventing
the unlawful exercise of syndicate
| power; but Reed believed that it could
not be done by loud scolding. After
| continued general discussion the COM
mittee rose, and the house at 4:45 p. m.
| adjourned.
Now Society Will Flutter.
WASHINGTON, June 9.-Prince Roland
Bonaparte. grandson of Lucien Bona