St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-11
DAVIS ELOQUENT EFFORT.
MiNNES0TA'S SENATOR SPEAKS ON
DEBS AND DESTRUCTION.
TIME TO PUT DOWN ANARCHY.

He Asks Kyle to Withdraw His
TreasOnabe Resolution From
the Senate-Farming Interests
Have Suffered Much From
Their Attack On Commerce
All Parties Should Unite For
Peace.
WASHINGTON, July 1O.-When the
senate met today. and after the trans
action of some routine business, the
resolution introduced by Senator PETER
yesterday was laid before the senate.
Mr.. PETER discussed his resolution.
which looks at the government control
of the railways and coal fields and the
adoption of doctrine of single tax.
He appealed to senators to listen, for
while he was not prophet, nor the son
OF prophet, nor an alarmist, yet he had
time and time again called the attention
OF the country to what seemed to him to
be within the range of an Orginary
mans horizon-the public danger. All
his propositions related to the funda-
mental error which the country had
fallen into-the danger of allowing
few men here and a few men there to
usurp government functions. All public
functions should be exercised by gov
eminent officers. He referred TO Debs
as man of whom the country had
heard great deal lately. but of whom
it was likely to hear very much more
before long. Mr.. PETER said that when
tho Pullman company established what
the people of the world believed to be
an ideal community in which all should
have equal rights and none special priv
ilegeS, every one condemned it for its
philanthropy.
But the charges for rent and for the
necessaries of life were deducted from
the mems monthly pay, aud when their
wages were reduced the men submitted.
but asked that their rents and taxes be
reduced, but found that they were in
the power of corporation without a
soul, until finally they came to the con-
cluSion that they might as we'll starve
in support of their rights as in filing
the
GOLFERS OF PULLMAN.
He referred TO the arrogant attitude
of Pullman and of the Pullman officials,
and read them from this mornings pa
pers and dispatches the interview of
the Chicago aldermen with Vice Presi :
dent Wickes, during which the latter
iterated and reiterated: 1.-The Pullman
company has nothing 70 arbitrate."
Whether it was right for the A. X. u.
to strike in sympathy and refuse to haul
Pullman cars 1t was not his purpose to
argue, but the Ominousi situation con-
tronted the country and it was our duty
to deal with it.
MIR. Hawley inquired whether Mr..
PETER did not know that the railroads
were under obligations to haul the cars.
Mr.. PETER replied that the railway
| companies were under no more obliga-
ton to Pullman than Pullman was to
the railways, but this was no time to
| talk Of contracts between Pull nan and
| the railway companies. and he was sur
| prised that senator who had so often
championed the cause OF the working
men should talk of such things.
son. such friends of labor" he eY-
| claimed. "the relations between Pull
man and his men have nothing IN Coos
world to do with the situation IN Chi
cago," asserted Mr.. Hawley.
MIR. PETER proceeded to arralgn con-
gress for its defense Of monopolies and
| Its stand against the people. He did
not wonder. sometimes, that there was
| a growing feeling against the congress
| at Washington, and that men wished to
abolish the senate.
| He would go step further, however,
| and besides SecOnding an effort to abol-
| iSh the senate he would also abolish the
house of representatives and have the
country governed by one man FROM each
| state.
| SENATOR DAVIS,
| speaking of the Kyle resolution, said il
was put in at time when the troubles
in the West were in progress for the
| purpose Of making the United States a
| partner in the lawleSsness. The strike
| grew from strike into boycott, boy
colt to a riot, and now to an insured
ton. He described the various acts OF
| laWleSsneSS. and said that Kyle'S resolu-
ton was to take away the power of the
| United States to punish such gross acts
of violence. If the acts OF violence had
been committed upon the Great Lakes
or the high seas it would have been
piracy and punishable by death. The
| authority or the United States could
not be denied. The duty of the
president is to see the laws
executed. The laws should be EN-
| forced before the interstate commerce
of the United States is stopped. He
! spoke of the great injustice which is
being done the farmers of the United
States, and how they were affected by
the strike in Chicago. They did not
want interstate commerce interrupted
until the question of wages was settled.
The constituents of PETER and Kyle
| could not market their products. No