St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-15
BILLS IN CONGRESS.
Col. kiefer Talks at Length Upon
Them

Col. kiefer, who arrived. home from
Washington recently, was seen yester-
day. He talked entertainingly from his
Republican view, of the various matters
in congress.
THE national banking bill which
passed." said he, Il consider all excel
lent one., IL forbids the officers Of ma
tional banks to borrow the moneys of
depositors. When any one of the di-
rectors desires to borrow the bank
money he must make application to a
full board of directors. and the full
board must decide upon the ACCESSIBILITY
Of making the loan. This cuts off tie
practice of directors taking the money
with the mere permission of the presl-
dent or cashier.
Il doubt il the repeal of the federal
election law will pass the senate.
''There is a general bankruptcy bill
before the house which has been argued
many days and Is Of great interest TO
the public. IL was offered by Judge
Oates, of Alabama. to take the place of
the so-called Tory bill of the last ses-
sion. Judge Oates is a very able man,
but he has incorporated one or two feat
ures which fail to meet the approval of
either side of the house. One of these is
the involuntary assignment provision
By this. one may be driven into bank.
ruptcy by mere inability to pay an
account on certain date, when, in fact,
he is solvent. With this feature out
the bill is 70 my mind a good one. An
excellent feature of the bill is the pro-
vision for pro rate division of assets
among creditors, without preferences.
Such division must clear the clouds
over the bankrupt, and give him
chance to rise again.
My private opinion is that the 10 per
cent tax on state bank note issues will
be repealed. The Southern members
are almost unanimous for it. and they
will be very sure to whip the unwilling
Northern Democratic members into line
by referring to the Chicago platform
shall certainly, like all other Repub-
lican members, vote against the repeal.
In reference to the tariff, have my
doubts as to whether the Mckinley bill
Will be materially changed. \ commit
tee from the West Virginia iron and
coal mines, as l am credibly Informed,
appeared before the house committee
on ways and means and begged that the
tariff on their products be not re-
pealed. A delegation from Alabama
in the interests of coal aud
iron mines ana tue cutlery manuIac
ures Of Sheffield, in that state. appear ed
before the committee, and urged in the
strongest terms that the tariff be main
tanned on the products. Northern man.
ufaetures of the Democratic per-
suasion have done likewise. l am
told that Mr.. Wilson, the chairman
of the ways and means committee, is
opposed to making any radical changes
i'll the tariff bill. If the Democratic
party would only announce that no
changes would be made, say for year
Or SO, think it would help national at
fairs immensely.
"JudgeOates has introduced a bill pro
viding that before an alien can be
naturaliZed he must be able to read the
constitution IN the English language. l
have offered au amendment requiring
that a natlve-born citizen, as we'll as an
alien, must be able to read the cOnstitu-
tian before he can vote. Another pro-
vision of my amendment is that when
an alien has homesteaded 100 acres Of
government land, if he can read the
constitution. he is entitled to his nat
uraliZatIOn paUers''