St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-24
STATE PRESS NOTES.

Reports from Washington indicate
that the unconditional repeal of the
Sherman law silver purchasing clause
will pass both houses.-St. Cloud Times.
Loren Fletcher landed the most i'm
portant committee assignment given tc
Minnesota member, that of commerce.
Your Uncle Loren" seldom gets left. =
Duluth Herald.
Loren Fletcher, the Minneapolis con-
gresham. had his usual success in get
ting the committee he most desired.
Our Congressman Baldwin drew blank
In the committeeships.- Fails
Transcript.
Tie more Canada thinks of the ar
bitratOrs' decision in the Behring STA
case the less she likes it. But Canaua
should be glad that the pelagic sealing
Is TO be stopped. Duluth News ib-
une.
Some fault is still found with the
president for not proposing any spe-
citic plan for relief" But he did. He
advised congress to repeal the Sherman
law and go home-eXactly what the
country wants. Duluth Comniat-
wealth. =
The country is pulling itself out Gifts
hole without waiting for the heipEOf
congress. Action by congress is needed.
however, to close up the hole so that
there will be no falling into it agaiH.-
Duluth News-Tribune.
1t speaks well for Winona that the
business men of the city are cheerful
and confident. A stranger will hear
nothing but praise of the town from our
citizens. Their faith in the past has
been justified, as it will be in the future.
-Wlnona Herald.
81 PauI and MjunaapoIio ORC inctl,,
proud of their athletes who have re-
Gently won such brilliant victories and
gone to the front i'll rowing and bicycle
circles. The clear, bracing air of the
Northwest Is the place to grow Drawn,
and muscle.-Benson Times.
st. Paul GLOBE: II called together
congress not school of oratory.'' -
President Cleveland. 1t turns out to
be the latter, however, and good many
OF the members are dealing in chest
nuts OF pretty ancient order.-Man-
kato Free Press.
A mass meeting of the unemployed
workingmen was held in st. Paul Mon
day. and several speeches were made.
The sentiment that society owed them
chance to earn living was loudly
cheered. Each one of them was mem
Der OF society" and had ITO particular
cOndltiOns.-LittleF Falls Transcript.
Washington dispatches say that Min
lister Lewis Baker, stationed at Men
aqua, Nicaragua, desires a change of
post. This is denied. During the re-
cent troubles in that much disturbed
country Mr.. Baker, by his Intervention,
proved himself most capable diplomat.
His services to the government are said
to be appreciated, and if he really de-
sireS change to a better climate it Is
believed that it will be granted. He
certainly deserves it.-St. Cloud Times.
The official head of Eugene Hay, of
Minneapolis, United States district at
torney, appears to De liable to drop. We
don't see how Gene could very well eX-
pect to hold it up long under an admiu-
lStratl0n against which he took such
terrible strong grounds as to say in
speech at Delano few years ago that
There is enough in the political history
OF every Democrat to damn him for-
ever" Let 'er drop.-Buffaio Gazette
Congressman Bryan is very eloquent,
Dut he is not altogether logical anu COLI
vincing. He speaks of the humiliation
OF silver as money standard through
out the world as an impending calaln-
lty. The free silver men do not seem
to understand that silver is not nova
standard OF value, that there is only one
standard, even i'll the United States, and
that is gold, and all the talk ABOUT
changing the ratio of coinage goes to
show That even the silver men, tor the
most part, tacitly recognize the fact
Duluth News Tribune.