The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1891-04-20
ENDED IN A Big ROW.
The Western States Congress at Kansas
City Divided Over Politics.

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Tho western States Congress at Kansss
City Divided Over Politics.
KANSAS CRY, April 20.-The first
Western states commercial congress has |
wound up, not in blaze Of glcry, but |
in decidedly boisterous manner. The
assertion that the congress was develop
ing into 4 political movement proves to
have been the truth.
Interest during the last day centered |
upon the reports from the committee on
resolutions. They were identical. ex-
cept that the majority declared in favor
of free coinage and tariff for revenue
only, while the minority report opposed
free coinage and declared in favor of
protection.
The Majority Report.
The majority report favors the adopt
ion, by the issuance of a sufficient
amount OF legal tender notes 10 be re-
deemabie in both gold and silver to re-
store the equilibrium between money
and all other products; declares the
congress to be unalterably opposed to
the protective tariff principles; favors o
tariff for revenue only; declares that
the Interstate commerce of the
country should be controlled by the
general government, and that the inter-
state commerce commission be strength
ened by appropriate legislation, favors
liberal policy for the Improvement of
the waterways, and especially the Mis-
sissippi river and It's affiuents; endorses
the action of congress in making an ap-
preparation for the construction of the
Hennepin canal, and recommends the
completion of this work; favors the con.
struction of ship canal connecting the
Northern lakes with the Atlantic; favors
the establishment of a navy yard at
some point ON the Mississippi river near
it's mouth; declares it to be the judg-
ment of this congress that the Missis-
sippi river can be and should be made
navigabIe for ocean steamers for con-
siderable distance above New Orleans,
and recommends the construction Of
levees from st. Paul to the gulf.
Ship Canals, Too.
The majority report further recon
mends u ship canal from the headwaters
of the Ohio to Lake Erie and ship
canal from the head of Lake Superior to
the Mississippi river; favors the con-
| struction of the Nicaragua canal as a
| distinctively American work, under
| American control; favors such reforms
| in methods of taxation as will remedy
| the injustice of unequal taxation and as
will place just share of taxation upon
| the accumulated wealth of the country:
| favors national bankrupt law: con-
| demns trusts and combinations; favors
| the amendment Of immigration laws 80
| that only Immigrants who both desire
| and are fik Tor American citizenship
should be lrmitted to land upon our
shores; ant he Qpening of surplus lande
to settlement. under the provisions OF
the homestead law; favors the prohibi-
| ton of nonresident alien ownership OF
lands; recommends that all unearned
| railway grants be restored to the public
domain for homesteads; that the gov
| ernment should cede it's arid lands to
the various states; favors the enactment
of laws to prevent dealing in futures;
| recommends the admission of the terri
tories of New Mexico and Arizona into
the Union.
| A hitter Argument.
The argument ON the adoption of the
| report of the committee on resolutions
| was very bitter. The convention ad.
| journed at $50 for twenty-five minutes
to reassemble in another hall on account
1 of theatrical troupe needing the thea
1 tire. At sos they met again and the
discussion was resumed, getting hotter
and hotter every minute, until $50,
when the majority report was adopted
| as a whole without amendment and the
announcement was received with vo-
| ciferous cheers from the majority. AS
/ soon as quiet was restored the Mime
sofa delegation rose to its feet as one
man and Mr.. E. v. Smalley, speaking
| for his brother members, said that Min
| nesota wished to emphasize the objec.
tion to making the so-called non parti-
san congress bitter partisan conven-
ton, and in order to do this, 80 that
| there would be no mistake as to their
| attitude the delegates fled out of the
1 hall amid the cheers, howls and calls of
those who remained.
| Free SILVER and Free Trade Did 1t.
| The free silver and free trade resolu-
| tions were the ones which were the
cause of the trouble, and while Mime
sofa made their protest emphatic, many
/ delegates from the Republican states
left the hall during the debate and re-
| fused to take part in the proceedings
when they saw how the matter would
/ end.
After the Minnesota delegation left
the hall there was regular stampede,
and in FIVE minutes there were hardly
enough delegates left to adjourn de-
| Gently. A cross-6re of talk was in.
dulged in until 9:15, when the congress
/ adjourned sine die.
i interchangeable Tickets Voted Down.