St. Paul daily globe., 1891-04-18
The Majority Report, in Favor
OF Free Coinage, Is
Adopted.
st. Paul and Minneapolis Del
egates Get Mad and Quit
the Meeting.

free coinage and tariff for revenue only,
while the minority reports opposed free
coinage, and declared for protection.
The majority report favors the adoption
of tree coinage by the issuance of
sufficient amount of legal tender notes
to be redeemable in both gold and sill
yer, to restore the equilibrium be-
tween money and all other products;
delareS the congress to be unalterably
opposed to the protective tariff princi-
pies; favorS tariff for revenue only;
declares that the Interstate commerce
or the country should be con-
trolled by the general government
and that the interstate commerce COM
mission be strengthened by appropriate
legislation; favors liberal policy for
the Improvement of the waterways,
and especially the Mississippi
river and its affiuants; indorses
the action of congress in making an ap-
preparation for the construction of the
HennepIn canal, and recommends the
completion of this work; recommends
the proposed canal connecting the
Tennessee and Mississippi rivers;
lndorseS the appropriations for a deep
water harbOr at Galveston; favorS
the construction of ship canal
connecting the northern lakes with
the Atlantic; favOrS the establishment
OF navy yard at some point on the
Mississippi river near its mouth; de-
clares it to be the judgment of this con-
greSS that the Mississippi river can be
and should be made navigabIe for ocean
steamers for considerable distance
above New Orleans, and recommends
the construction Of leyeeS from
ST. Paul to the Gulf.
The resolutions provide for the ap-
pointnent of committee of three from
each state represented here. to Law
the resolutions before the next ma
tional congress and urge the adop-
ton of the policies herein recommended.
The majority report further recommends
a system of canals and a slack water
navigation to connect the waters of the
Tennessee with the Gulf of Mexico,
and also 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 construction of the Nicara-
qua canal as a distinctively American
work, under American control; favors
such reforms in methods of taxation
taxation. and as will place Just share
OF taxation upon the accumulated
wealth of the country; favors a national
bankrupt law: condemns trusts and
combinations; fayorS the amendment of
immigration laws So that the only i'm
migrants who both desire and are fit for
American citizenship should be per-
mitted to land upon our shores; and
the opening of the surplus lands to
settlement under the provisions of the
homestead law; tavors the prohibition
of nonresident alien ownership of
lands; recommends that all unearned
railway grants be restored to the public
domain for h0meSteads; that the
government should cede its arid
lands to the various states; endorses
the action of the department of agri-
culture; favors the enactment of laws
to prevent dealing in futures; recon-
mends the admission of the territory of
New Mexico and Arizona;
into the union. In conclusion the re-
port halls with delight the spirit of fra
ternity that is displayed by the dele
gates now in attendance upon the first
Western commercial congress; and
also the manifest determination that
Old animOSities too long engendered be-
tween the sections shall be forever dis
placed by the more important work OF
securing the complete establishment of
equal rights" to all and special priyi-
legeS to none.
The minority report opposes a tariff
for revenue only, and endorses protec-
ton; declares in favor of a fair trial of
the present law with reciprocity
and in favor of nonpartisan
tariff commission. The report favors
the permanent organization of the
Western commercial congress. Two
resolutions were reported without rec
ommeudation; one indorsed the Torrey
bankruptcy bill and the other favorS
the free and unlimited coinage of
American silver, but not until just "a
ito can be established between silver
and gold by an international monetary
convention.
The free coinage and tariff resolutions
of both the majority and minority re-
ports were received with applause.
was loudly applauded and the
resolution which hailed with delight
the burial Of all animosities between
the North and South was greeted with
great applause, and, upon motion of
Maj. Warner. of Missouri, was given
three hearty cheers. E. V. Smalley
spoke for the minority on the silver
resolution. He was replied to bv Gen.
Warner, of Ohio. A viva yoce vote was
then taken on the silver clause Of the
minority report, and was voted down.
The minority tariff resolutions were
then taken up, and Mr.. Smalley pre-
there had been
Too Much Politics
IN the discussion by the committee.
oil -,
adopted by strict party vote. The
delegates had come to the congress rep
resenting no party, and prepared
to act in an bipartisan man.
ner upon the important sub
ject proposed for discussion. When he
accepted the craftsmanship of the COM
mittee on resolutions he did not expect
that the Democrats would crowd
their party platforms down his
throat. He claimed by inference that
the convention had been packed in the
interest of the Democratic party, and
that the congress was really being held
for the purpose of welding together the
Democrats and the Farmers Alliance.
Speaker Niblock. of the Indiana house
of representatives, replied to Mr..
Smalley. he said there had been no
partisan discussion in the committee
and he denied Mr.. SmaIIey's charge
that there had been. and W. J. Bryan,
congressman-elect from Nebraska.
wanted the congress to have the cour-
age of its convictions, and did not want
it referred to hereafter as 1.-THE
congress-afraid-of-its orse." The de-
bate was further participated in
by Senator F. S. Kirkpatrick and g. G.
Campbell, of Kansas; D.-D. Taylor, of
Ohio. and Mr.. johnson. of Minnesota,
who spoke for the minority,
and Congressman-elect Perry, of
Arkansas; q. S. Hall, presi-
dent OF the Missouri State Farmers
Alliance; and Congressman Allen, of
Mississippi, who spoke for the majority.
The debate was very acrimonious
and heated. Finally Gen. Warner, of
Ohio, submitted the following as a
substitute for the .tariff resolutions Of
both reports: 1--WE favor neither free