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St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24
CAUSE AND EFFECT.

In March, 1895, steel billets, SIS per
long ton. The national association
of tin-plate makers serene. New fac
tories going up everywhere; tin plate
booming. In July, billets, $21 per ton.
Tin-plate manufacturers. begin to
think the tariff insufficient. Septem-
ber, billets $2S per ton. Certainty
now that the tariff is too low and
must be increased. October, steel bill
lets, $25 per ton. National assocla-
ton of tin-plate manufacturers meets
to consider how much increase of the
ing congress. General wall all along
the Republican line over the impend-
ing ruin of this young industry by the
Democratic tariff" December, bill
let's $3.50 per ton. National tin-plate
burg, Dec. IL. Tariff matter the main
topic of discussion. discussed all
liie dplelHooH anu te'i iii.o Sii0 oNSh
ing" Decision: "It was finally
concluded that the outlook was hard
ly favorable to warrant a move for
higher tariff at once" Conclusion
1t looks as if the tin-plate manufact-
urers needed protection from the man.
ufacturers of steel billets rather than
from foreign competitors.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24
AN OKLAHOMA RUSH.
Tract of $1,000 Acres to BE
Thrown Oman I'm Ynxyu FsJ.

Tract of $1,000 Acres to BE
Thrown Open in iowa Feb.-27.
MASON CITY, To-, Dec. 23.-Iowa has
q, 900 acres of it's domain which will
be thrown open to settlement Feb. 27.
United States Land Commissioner Ev-
ans has been in this locality for several
days, and has finally settled upon this
date. Judging from the talk the mat
ter has produced, a repetition of the
Oklahoma rush may be expected. The
land is all located in O'Brien county,
in the northwestern part of the state
and is as rich and fertile as can be
found anywhere. The way this valua-
BILE tract of land now comes to be
thrown open for settlement is that
years ago, when railroads were lux
ury, a liberal grant was made to the
4t. Dodge & Minneapolis railroad to as
sist them in the enterprise, with the
understanding that the road was to be
built from the Iowa and Minnesota
line through to Sioux City. Every odd
section of land within a, radius of ten
miles of the road was ceded by the gov
ernment to the Fort Dodge & Minneap-
oils. The company pushed through as
Iar as LIE MARS ana SOlQ o,UUO acres OIL
this ceded land to settlers, who went
to work, and from the raw prairies
have built them many beautiful homes.
The road was never able to complete
it's contract. Congress, in 1887, par
TALLY fixed the matter UP by passing
law giving the actual settler of the
land the first right to the ownership
under the laws governing. There are
now many squatters holding down val
liable pieces Of land who never made
purchase from the railroad, and of
course none of these will be given any
precedence. All the even sections of
land have been bought up long ago.
Between these squatters and the "old
settlers contentious will doubtless
arise, as nearly all the settlers have
families of boys and girls who are
anxious themselves to come into pos
session of some of this land Every
precaution, of course, will be taken to
prevent any serious trouble, but the
spirit of avarice is likely to assert it
self in not a few cases, and a warm
time at least is anticipated at the open
IN, os:
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24

icit was s25.675.O72, instead of that
stated.
In this connection, as bearing on
the attitude of this mixed house of
representatives at that time, as we'll
as illustrating the trend of Demo
cratic sentiment-shared by numbers
of Republicans-the resolutions le-
ported by the special committee Of
the house in 1853 are pertinent: RE-,
solved, That the highest development
of the industrial resources of the
country is to be attained by the great8
est freedom of exchange, which cam
only be thoroughly accomplished by.
the entire abolition of duties ON i'm
ports and resort exclusively to direct'
taxation. That the sytem of direct
taxation presenting the most advan-
tages is for each state to collect ands
pay over it's quota to be ascertained,
by the constitutional rule of appor-,
tionment, thus insuring perfect equal
ity and dispensing with multitudes'
of federal officers" ss '
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24
THE MONEY OF FRANCE.

The monetary system of France has
been so frequently referred to in
currency discussions, and so many
wild statements have been made
regarding it that we have gath
cred from several sources the
following information. The sources
are all official. The Bank Of France
is the only note-issuing bank in the
country. The government issues no
notes. The bank is the property of
it's shareholders, the government
having no proprietary interest, but
exercising supervision by appoint
ing the governor of the bank and
two sub-governors. It's capital is
1S2,50O,0 900 francs, and it's authorized
note issues may not exceed 1000, ,000,-
900 francs. The market value of it's
shares is nearly four times their
face value.
The notes of the bank are made
by law a legal tender at the public
treasures in payment of taxes and
also in the payment of private debts,
with the important proviso that they
are legal tender only while the bank
redeems them on demand. No pro-
vision is made by law as to a metallic
reserve for the notes; the amount Of
their issue, within the limits stated,
and the reserve for their redemption
being left to the discretion of the
governing powers of the bank. The
notes of the bank are redeemed in
gold, fact which disposes of the
statement that redemption is made
in gold and silver in equal proper
tions. In October the notes issued
by the bank amounted to, in our
money, 1888, 692 To meet these
it had in it's vaults $500, 405, 23O in gold
and S243, 154,673 in silver, a metallic
reserve only $45,O0O,O0O less than it's
issues of notes.
The estimated amount of money in
France is: Gold, SITS, 100000; silver
full legal tender five-franc pieces,
$435, 100000; limited legal tender sill
yer, $5S,OOO,OO0; paper in excess of
the metallic reserves, $45,OOO0O0. Sill
yer is coined only on government
account. The population of France
is 3S,3OO,O00, and the money per cap
ita is, of gold, S2f.54; of silver, $12.S5,
and of paper, not covered by the me-
tallic reserve, $1.18.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24

to st, Louis for 100000, the Repube
lican national committee is only ad-
vancing a step on the uniform prece-
dents of the party. For thirty years
it has sold to the manufacturing in
terests of the country The right to alb
payment of its campaign expenses. 1t
now sells the national convention to
a city in consideration of a sum nee
essary to liquidate the Indebtedness of
the committee. The next step in this
line will be to sell the presidency
itself ITO the man who will put up the
most money for it.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24
COLoNIzING ARKANSAS.

In what is called the process Of re-
generation of the South, the develop
ment of the new South, the state of
Arkansas seems to have no share. 1t
still fingers in the shadows cast by
slavery, whose gloomrepelled the emil
grant seeking a farm and home. No
state i'm the Union is so little known
as is this one. It is the sleepy mem
ber i'm the family of states. Save eX-
Attorney General Garland, who sat
in President Cleveland's first cabinet,
and Senator J. K. Jones, whose prom
inence is chiefly due to his identity
with the 16 to 1 craze, we do not re-
call single Arkansan of Public note.
The state cut some figure twenty odd
years ago in connection with the scam
dal growing out of the Little Rock &
Fort Smith railway, dts bonds and
land grants, and we believe it has
also established a certain claim to
acuteness by absorbing and holding
the fund devised by James Smithson
for the foundation of the Smithson-
ian institute.
For some time the state divided
public opinion as ito the pronuncia-
tom of its name, whether it should
be called Arkansas or Arkansaw, a
matter which Its legislature deemed
of sufficient Importance to warrant
an enactment adopting the latter pro-
nunciation. Then, too, there is that
noted musical genius, the Arkansas
Trayeler, who has contributed some
thing to the fame of the state. These
incidents, we believe, constitute the
chief claim Of the state to eminence.
But Mr.. Austin Corbin, whose name
is associated with loan companies.
steamships and railway enterprises,
became the fortunate or unfortunate,
owner OF large tracts of land in Ary
kansas through railway grants and
manipulations, and, failing in getting,
native Americans to settle ON his
property, turned his attention to.
Southern Italy, and engaged in col
onizing. He has already brought
over one shipload of emigrants, and
others are expected to follow this
first Importation. Z!
1t is said that the Italians whom
he has brought are selected carefully
from the small farmers, gardeners
and fruit growers, and are Of a class,
superior in morals and intelligence to
the Italian laborers, with whom we
are more or less familiar i'm the North
Their first act after their arrival in
Sunnyside, the name of Mr.. Corbin's
tract, was to conduct religious eXer.
cSeS in thankfulness for their safe
arrival. Heretofore italian emigrants
nave either gone to the cities, adding
to their already congested population,
or to the mining regions, where they
have been a useful, but turbulent.
element. The experiment of Mr.. Cor.
bin with his italian farmers will be
watched with interest. Possibly, away
in the dim and misty future, this dull
and sleepy state may become the
Italy of America.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24
Minnesota and Kansas,

New York Evening Post.
We find simultaneously in our Kan
sas exchanges the statement that a
new census just taken shows that
there Is probably not another state in
the Union whose population is so thor
oughly American as that of Kansas"
more than so per cent of the people
having been born In the United States,
and this profound criticism of the pres
ident's plan for retiring greenbacks by
Lucien Baker, a native American who
has just taken his seat to serve a six
years term in the United States SEN
ate:
1.-The truth of the matter is, Mr..
Cleveland probably doesn't like the
thought of greenbacks. They helped
to whip too many of his party during
the war"
The coincidence of the two announce
ments revives our curiosity as to how
it happens that SO Thoroughly Amer
lean" state as Kansas elects Lew
ellings as governors and Bakers and
PETERS for senators, while Wisconsin,
with a great foreign population, is rep
resented, both at the state and the
national capital, by sound money men,
whether the Republicans or the DEM
ocrats are in power; and Minnesota,
with the largest proportion of for
eign-born voters of all the states,
save it's neighbor North Dakota, never
allows Populism to get control, and
sends a native of Norway to combat
in the senate the financial vagaries of
the American senators from Kansas.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24

of using the greenbacks to pull it out
of the United States treasury. Do
the Republicans in congress propose
to sell $10,OOO,OOO worth of bonds and
upwards a week, and make that
steady increase to our interest-bear-
ing debt, for the pleasure of keeping
the legal tenders in circulation? That
is the policy which they have out
lined thus far. 1t shows not only a
disregard of the commercial and
financial interests of the nation, but
it exhibits a total incapacity for con-
Quoting the national affairs, which
ought to, and Will, discredit that par
ty in the eyes of business men and of
all thoughtful and patriotic citizens
of the republic.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24
A CONVENT PRISON.
Women in Austria Are Never
Trea+ed as Criminals

Women in Austria Are Never
Treated as Criminals
In Austria, a woman, no matter
what she may do, is never regarded
or treated as a criminal, says Corn
| hill Magazine. She may rob, burn,
! kill-set every law at defiance, in
| fact, and break all the Command
ments in turn-Without fear of ever
being called upon to face a gall
lows. She is not even sent to an
ordinary prison to do penance for her
! sins. The hardest fate that can be-
| fall her, indeed, is to be compelled
to take up her abode for a time in a
convent. There the treatment meted
out to her is not so much justice
seasoned with mercy, as mercy sea-
soned, and none too well. with just
ice. Even in official reports she is
an ''erring sister"-one who has, it
is true, strayed from the narrow
path, but quite involuntarily.
The convent to which Vienna sends
its erring sisters is at Neudorf, only
a few miles away from the city.
lICl dliS NOlllcill w liO IL COllN lClCu
of either crime or misdemeanor is at
once transported. The judge before
whom she is tried decides, of course,
how long she shall remain. He may,
too. if he deems it right, give orders
that while there she shall pass a.
day in solitary confinement from time
to time, and, on these occasions, be
10e- IL
than usual. In the great majority of
cases, however. no instructions of
this kind are given; the women are
simply handed over to the keeping
of the superior of the convent. to be
dealt with as she thinks best. She
houses them, clothes them, feeds
them and provides them with instruc-
tion and occupation, and the govern
ment gives her for what she does 80
kreutzerS day (about seven pence)
for each prisoner under her care.
So long as these women are in the
convent the full responsibility for
their safe keeping and general we'll
being rests on the superior; and in
return, she is allowed practically a
free hand in her management of
them. There are, it is true, certain
regulations in force with regard to
the amount of work they may be
required to do. and the punishments
that may be inflicted upon them: but
these are not of nature to interfere
seriously with her freedom of action.
She is. in fact. virtually an autOcrat
within her own domain. and there
are not half a dozen women in
Europe today who have so much
power for the veal or woe of their
fellows as she has
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24

services of employees whose work can
be done as well or better by others
already in the public employ OF the
SPAS, 300 which the committee makes
the sum total of recapitulated saw
ings, no doubt a very considerable
portion may be saved to the tax
payers Immediately, and much more
may be cut off after the next session
of the legislature if our people send
there men determined to pass such
laws as will effect it. A line of pro-
cedure has been mapped out which
the people will scrutiniZe closely, and
it is made evident that much can be
accomplished in the interest of the
taxpayer.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24
ST. pAUL'S HARB0R
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
MAY ASK FOR AN APPRO-
PRIATION
TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS,
PHILADELPHIA INVITES THE
PRESIDENT TO THE OPEN
ING OF THE BOURSE.
Other Matters Considered at the
Regular Meeting of the Cham
Der Yesterday.

The Mississippi river committee of
the st. Paul chamber of commerce
now has the question under advise
ment of asking for an appropriation
of $4,000 for the improvement of the
st. Paul harbor. The matter was re-
ferred to the COMMITTEES at yesterdays
session of the chamber 1t was brought
before the meeting by the reading of
a communication from George H. Haz-
Zard, member of the interstate park
commission. The letter was of consid-
cradle length, and first called attention
to the poor condition of the harbor at
present, and the urgency of dredging,
cleaning up and riprapping in PLACES.
The hosting of the reservoir gates
heretofore has proven unsatisfactory,
as it has always come in three or four
weeks too late. The steamboat men
have often asserted their dissatisfac-
ton of this system. By closing the
improved gates at midnight Saturday
nights previous to holidays has caused
fall of from eight to twelve inches
in the channel at st. Paul. 1t has also
caused such a lowering of water depths
along the sand bars between Hastings
and Prescott as to greatly injure nav
igation, and the st. Paul river busi-
ness is placed at a decided disadvan-
tage.
The communication then pointed to
the great advantage to st. Paul and
the Northwest of improved naviga.
ton, and thus the urgency of DOING
everything possible to encourage it,
1t stated that st. Paul was not doing
her duty in fostering this important
branch of her commerce
The communication also pointed ia
the fact that an improvement of the st.
Paul harbor would afford better ad.
vantages for local pleasure and ex.
cursion boating. The twenty miles OF
river within the city adds greatly tc
our park area, and if a good class OF
excursion boating were encouraged II
would be both pleasurable and profit,
able. Considering these facts, it was
urged that the chamber take steps to
have an appropriation of $40, 900.
An invitation to the president of the
chamber of commerce from the board
of directors of the Philadelphia bourse
to be present at the formal opening Of
the new Bourse building next Monday
evening was read.
The retrenchment committee was to
have submitted a report in executive
session. Their chairman stated, how
ever, that the report was not yet in
readiness, but that at the session next
Monday the committee would be ready
to submit a report.
Gen. Sanborn, who represented the
chamber in the Parker investigating
committee, was also expected to have
made a report at yesterdays session.
He was not prepared to make a report,
but expected to do so next Monday.
No other business was before the
chamber
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24
LLOYD Assets Mt Auction.

JAMESTOWN, N. D., Dec. 23.-The
last of the assets of Lloyd's defunct
bank have been sold. Some of these,
aggregating S1SO,0OO, and consisting of
notes, claims, debts and demands have
finally been put up at public auction.
Much of the paper was absolutely
worthless, the mention of which re-
wives tales of gold bricks, visionary
schemes of wealth to be amassed in
sheep and horse ranches, etc, etc. The
total amount realized from this worth
less paper, which for years was fig
ured in the assets of the bank, was
little more that IL per cent, S2,27O.
Enough was realized from the sale to
make the final dividend to creditors
almost IL per cent. This will be de-
clared in a few days and the receiver
ship closed. This makes SO per cent
received by creditors.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24
unnsedthe Cow Most,

A sensa ton was created at Carlisle.
Pa, the other night at the home of
Henry Dundorf, where a wedding was
to have taken place. The bride-to-be
was Mr.. Dundorf's daughter Rosa, and
Joseph Derr, a farmer residing at
Plainfield. was the recalc:trant bride
groom. The guests had arrived. and
the wedding dinner was in preparat ation
at the Dundorf home, but the groom did
not arrive, and the bride began she'd
ding tears. Then the groom appeared,
and in a businesslike way Informed
the girl and her father that the mar
riage would have to he postponed, as
the money he had saved toward de-
fraying wedding expenses he now in
tended to use in the purchase of COW.
Derr then left the house.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24

II, the Republican policy of hitch
ing together provision for protect
ing the gold reserve and an increase
of the tariff, putting tax on raw
wool as a part, is carried into effect,
1T win give the president a chance to
write another veto message, which he
should improve. If it Is thought to
, put the president in a hole" by this
sharp practice, MI. Reed will find that
the president is deliberative man, if
the, body over which the former pre-
sides is not.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24
FELL FROM AN IILH ROAD,
Cars Tumble in Chicago, Injur-
ing Three Persons.

CHICAGO, Dec. 23.-Three persons
were probably fatally injured in an ac-
cident ON the Metropolitan IL road
this morning at Forty-eighth street
and West Harrison. Those injured
are;r W. H. Brady, motorman; William
r. King, conductor; John Schiller, pas
senger. The motorman lost control of
his apparatus, and a combination mo-
tor and passenger crashed over the
bumpers and down to the street, twen-
ty feet below. Schiller was the only
passenger aboard.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24
GREENWAY APPEALS.
Asks Support of Manitobans at
the Polls.

WINNIPEG, Man, Dec. 23.-The
Manitoba legislature has been dissolved
and an appeal to the country will be
made at once by the Greenway govern
ment on the school issue. Polling will
take place Jan. Is, and the new house
meets on Jan. %. Premier Greenway,
in an address to the people on the
school issue says:
81 assert that our people are per-
fectly competent to deal with their
own educational concerns, and 1 re-
sent the imputation that they have
treated any portion of the community
with injustice or a spirit of intoler-
ance. I protest against the proposed
action of the common government in
inviting parliament to destroy our ma
tional school system without investiga-
ton and III ignorance of the circum-
stances" 20 j al 4
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24
Awkward Queries From Farmers.
Philadelphia Record.
{ rio 70 I,

PHlIdutIpHId IttCOFu.
The Pennsylvania state grange has
asked the Protective Tariff League of
New York and the Home Market Club
Of Boston whether a tariff on imports
dan protect the home market prices of
agricultural staples while the surplus
Of these is sold for export at the home
market prices; also, whether bounty
on agricultural exports would not be
just and equitable so long as "protec-
/! tion'a' by tariff on imports should be in
operation The guileless grangers have
given the tariffites two hard conun-
: drums. AS the venerable uncle who
was Caught in suspicious. proximity to
z when questioned as to the morality of
chicken lifting: zone more question
slike'that would upset the whole system
of theology"
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24

rate being $1,000 and all expenses. The
capacity of the reviewing stand was
5000, and 2,400 of these were occupied
by the committee and guests the other
1000 being sold at 81 each to defray
the expense of erecting it. The cost
of wiring with half-inch ribbon wire
twenty-six blocks along the line of
march was $400.
r. A. Becker did not represent any
committee in the delegation, but he
reported in a general way regarding
the great amount of valuable informa
ton gathered.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24
Indemnity Lands.

WASHINGTON, Dec 23.-Secretary
Smith, today approved Lists No. Is
and % of the indemnity selections by
the Northern Pacific Railroad company
of lands in the Fargo district. The
lists embrace 256, S75, 269 and 9S9 acres
respectively. They are the same lists
that were filed by the company as in
demnity for lands lost between Supe-
rior and Ashland, Wis, which the sec
retary decided the company had no
right tO select
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24
New and Old Style Statesmen

New York World.
The American statesman of the old
school had his faiEngs. But he was
a man. He did not sell himself to cor
porations. He was not moneysack or
the tool of money-sacks. He did not
go to Wall street to find his bosom
friends and advisers. He believed in
the people and held It to be the duty
Constable co ST. IiGe to- serve and ido represent th
not to attempt to rule them in de-
fiance of their will and against their
instructions. He was a man to love
and to trust, and the world loses
much in losing him. And it has GER
tainIy lost him. The Thurmans have
gone. The Brices, the Smiths, the
Quays and the Germans remain.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24
Royalties Rise Early.

Westminster Gazette
With the exception of Queen Victoria
and the Prince of Wales, it is said
that nearly all the royalties of Europe
are in the habit of rising early. The
Emperor William is generally about by
5 clock in the morning, and the queen
T. King Humbert's hour of rising is
g. as is that of King Oscar and King
Charles of Roumania, while the late
Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil, when
iii. Europe. was wont to get up at 8,
tances at the extraordinary hours of
4 4;and ) in the morning. Queen Victo-
ria it is said. never uses before 8,
while breakfast at Marlborough house
and Sandringham is rarely partaken
of before 10.