St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-20

4 Dty cOTIeclly, anu Tic Idll6T dIOSO duu
literally flaYed him alive. He produced
statement made by Morse regarding
the inmates of some Of the soldiers
homes. In this Mr.. Morse had declared
that rs per cent of the inmates were
the most british, degraded and besOt-
ted men lie had ever SEEM"
And then Congressman Tarsney de'
clared that the only people who de.
served such abuse were men who intent
tionally misQuoted and misrepresented
their fellow members.
Not Made for Work.
The long -drawn-out contest over the
bills that have been introduced to
bridge the st. Louis river or bay, and
thus connect the cities of Duluth and
| Superior, brings up case from MaSsa-
chusetts. Last evening at the Riggs
house | noticed a fine1ooking. elderly
gentleman from Boston. who seemed to
be quite at home. 1t developed that he
has bill in congress which has been
| pushed at every session for nearly
score of years, during nearly all OF
which time he has spent his winters at
Washington trying to get it through
congress. 1t is now in place. where
1t has been many times before, that it
could be taken up in the house and
passed were it not for the fact that there
are half-dozen members who are try
Ing 10 take up the role so successfully
pursued by Judge Holman, OF Indiana,
for abOut'a third of century.
And the Massachusetts case is only
| one of tn Ousands. Neither branch Of
| congress seems to be made for work. =
1t was quite a feat for Congressman
Hail to
Secure the Passage
of the bill allowing the construction Of
a bridge across the Mississippi at South
st. Paul, something absolutely needed
and which could harm no one. There
are any number of bills similar 10 this
which have failed to go through so often
that the people in the little towns inter-
ested have given up in despair.
Now, if Senator Eaton, of the upper
house of the Minnesota legislature
would just evolve some scheme by
which the building, or rather the queS-
ton OF authorizing the building, Of
bridges across navigable streams can
be covered by general law and passed
on by the war department, lie will
confer favor on congress and OH
people everywhere who have need to
build bridges across the streams under
control of the government and who are
now obliged to spend ten years lobbying
at Washington before the work can
commence. This sort of legislation
closely resembles the local legislation
which formerly so bothered the Mime
sofa lawmakers and which the Wright
county senator so neatly wiped out.
After Tom Garter.
Mentioning Tom Carter'S name TO n
loyal supporter of President Harrison
closely resembles the feat of shaking a
red rag in the face of a bull. This re-
markable change from last June, when
Carter was the cOmmander-in-chief of
the Harrison forces at Minneapolis.
But great many things have happened
since then. chief among which was the
overwhelming defeat of President
Harrison, the blame of which is at
tributed principally to two men, Thomas
Ii. Carter, of Montana, and James s.
Clarkson, of Iowa. OF course this is
not entirely correct, because the cleo
ton of Grover Cleveland could not have
been prevented had S1O,000,00O been
spent under the supervision of all the
Quays that have ever been found in
politics.
The cause for 1.-THE present revival of
the talk regarding the management of
the late campaign on the Republican
side is due to the appaaran ce of Carter
as candidate for senator in Montana,
and the savage attack made on the
ny bCu CIdl kSUll VII uCCOuHG
of the appointment of Judge Jackson to
succeed the late Justice Lamar. The
Clarkson attack gave Gen. Harrison'S
friends the
Opportunity They Desire,
and one of the leaders who knows a
great deal about the last national cam
paign in discussing this matter this
evening said: II have been doing
some careful figuring. aided by
several others who were on the
inside during the campaign, and
l caunot find where the national COM
mittee spent over S60O,000. 1t is agreed
OH all sides that something over 81 1000
600 was placed i'll their hands. | am
willing to allow S7OO,0G0 as the amount
disbursed, but it is too high. With
plenty of facts to back my state
ment, II assert that there was
There are two men who can tell where
this great sum went to, aud those two
are j. S. ClarksOn and L. ii. Carter. and
until they explain this matter both had
better keep we'll to the rear in politics."
That President Harrison is firmly con-
WINGED that he was betrayed by Carter
and Clarkson there is no doubt. Shortly
before the death of DR.. Scott he
commenced the preparation of
statement placing the blame upon
Chairman Carter, but before its
and it Will probably never APP
pear. There are other Republicans not
so considerable, however, and an investi-
CATION is bound to come in the future.
Should Carter be chosen to succeed
Senator Sanders, he might be able to
stave off the matter, but this is doubt
full.
THEY stole themselves rlch," was
the remark of another Republican
in discussing the same matter.
The dense silence which has en-
tana since the election has served to
still the opposition, but in case he at
tempts to break into Sanders seat
The Dogs of War
will be Embossed. Sanders is fairly pop
ular with the Republican leaders, and
Carter'S election will mean to them that
"Slippery Tom'has undermined the reg
ular caucus nominee. Another thing
that has served to bring up this ques-
ton again is the fact that MeSSrS. Clark
son and Carter, by their peculiar con-
duct, alienated many of the veteran
party workers. Every good man, ca
pable of accomplishing anything for the
party, was insulted by Carter" is the
way a friend of Harrison puts it.
If the investigation takes place. while
it will not restore the money said to
have been absorbed, it will call the at
tention of the people to the enormous
campaign fund raised from the manu-
facturerS, and thus serve to prevent
repetition of such an attempted Doodle
campaign iii the future. That such
scandal should at some time appear is
not to be wondered at when amounts
of this magnitude are entrusted to one
or two men to be expended in half
dozen close or doubtful states. Had the
result been different in 1888, the same
cry would have benn raised on Senator
Quay that is now made against Clark
son and Carter. LLEWON.