St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-29

appointment of board to consist of the
postmaster general, secretary of the
INFERIOR and secretary of the treasury,
" 4 alsDurse $1,000, 600 to be appropriated.
lie said the responsibility
WOULD THEN BE DIVIDED.
The amendment was lost, Mr.. Can
non, OF Illinois, offered several amend
hentS, winch were voted down, and the
morning hour having expired the com
mittec arose. Bills were then passed
apprOpriatiE9g $4,000 for public build
ing at Watertown, Ny and ss5, 600 for
one at Charlotte, N. C. At 1855, on mo-
tlonOf MIR. BurneS and by Stete of s.
10 TO, the house went into committee &c
the whole, MIR. Springer in the chair on
tne general deficiency bill. Mr.. Burnes,
OF Missouri, who has charge of the
OIL, said that when the last section of
tne Dill relating to the
FRENCH sPOLIATION CLAIMS
was reached. it was understood that
Inere should be general debate upOn il.
MIR. Long, of Massachusetts. said. in
reply to question. that four and a half
hours would be sufficient time for de-
pate by the friends of the bill
Mr. townsend, of Illinois, objected to
four and half hours being assigned to
each side for debate on this clause.
and general debate on this began,
MIR. Voorhees,, of Washington ter.
ritory, pleaded for the admission of
Washington into the Union and urged
the political necessity of comforting a
settled government upon territory
which had 1854 miles of coast line. He
referred to the grandeur of
HER NATURAL ADVANTAGES
and the stability of her citizenship. 70
.1af,o
the unit of representation was only
15l 900. He mentioned the efforts that
had been made by her people to obtain
statehood. If the Democratic party
should be responsible for denying his
people the right of living under con-
stltutlonal form of government he
would take as much pleasure in de-
nouncing the Democratic yarty as he
would the Republican party. He adj
dressed himself to this question, not as
a Democrat, but
AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.
Mr; Symes heartily agreed with Mr.
N0orhees In urging the admission OF
Washington territory. If the gentle
man from Washington could influence
eight or ten Democrats, he could get the
bill through tomorrow. Not Republi.
can would do anything but urge the ad.
mission Of that great territory to the
Union. Mr.. Payson, of Illinois, said
that the Democratic party in its plat.
form had credited itself with having re.
versed the unwise policy of the Repub.
llcan party with reference to the grant.
ing of land to railroads. The charge
that the Republican party had
INITIATED THIS POLICY
was utterly deceptive. 1t was initiated
in 1850 by the passage of bill granting
nf 1on oi1 90
the Illinois Central railroad. II was
passed by a Democratic congress and
signed by Democratic president. In
June, 1852, a grant of nearly 100000
acres was made to Missouri in aid of the
Hannibal Il st. Joe railroad; in 1858 a
grant OF more than 100000 acres was
made to Arkansas. and thus the policy
was definitely settled by a Democratic
congress. Before the Republicans came
into power grants had been made to
states in aid of fOrty-seven railroads.
The charge that the Republican party
had changed the policy by granting
lands to railroads direct instead of to
the states,
WAS A MERE PRETENCE
and not correct. The only grants de
rectly made to corporations were made
to one of the tranScontinental roads,
which presented exceptional cases.
Congress had to create a corporation,
and give it without state or territorial
interference. Partisan politics had
never been regarded as factor in the
consideration of these measueS: men,
bers divided on economic, not on politi-
cal lines, Mr.. Payson read the roll call
on the Pacific railroad measures of 1862
to 1884, and declared that both parties
were actuated
BY PATRIOTIC IMPULSES.
He quoted other instances of mixed
votes, and said that on review of the
record no man could honestly say that
any party capital could be made out of
the question one way or the other. He
denied the right of the Democratic
party tOsarrogate to itself the credit of
having restored 50,000,000 acres of land
to the public domain. He gave state.
ment of measures passed in recent
years for the purpose of showing that
the Democrats and Republicans wera
side by side in advocating their passage.
He hoped that this would
SET THE MATTER AT REST.
Mr.. Stone, of Missouri, said at the
time of the Illinois Central grant, the
president was Whig and not a Demo-
crat, as stated by MIR. Payson. After
tie Republican party assumed control,
it granted 163, 100000 acres directly to
railroad corporations. He admitted
that the grants had been made without
reference to party; but the congresses
that made the grants were oyerwhelm-
ingly Republican, the president who
signed them was Republican, He in
sisted that when congress was over
whelmingly in control of one party, that
party was responsible for legislation.
Pending further debate the committee
arose, and at o'clock the house ad-
iOurned