The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-16

Are Liable to Clash During This
Session of Congress.
Plutocrats After Sovereign-Canadian Work
ingmen Restless-Rockefeller Com
petitor of Carnegie-Another
Trust Formed.

Peoples Press Bureau, st. Louis, Mo-,
Dec. Is, 1867
A National Federation of Building
Trades is about to be formed, with head
quarters at st. Louis.
Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow, pastor of the
Vine Street Congregational church, has
invited President Gompers to speak in
his church during the meeting of the
Federation of Labor at Cincinnati, begin
ming Dec. IA. The chief effort of this
meeting will be to have the eight hour
law for the days labor 60 into effect.
Greater New York is considering own
ing it's own gas and electric plants, and
Ed. M. Grout has also advised municipal
ownership of street railways and tele-
phone lines and suggests that the matter
be submitted to popular vote.
The name of Hon. o. D. Jones, Popu-
list, is proposed for congress in the First
Missouri district, to succeed r. P. Giles,
Democrat, deceased.
The Kansas press dwell at length on
the need of the incoming administration
in that state being free from all weak
ness and mistakes. Much interest is felt
| in the approaching senatorial contest
which is understood to be between PETER
and Breidenthal. Only one delegate is
| instructed for PETER, and the many pa
| pers are calling for an expression from
| the people.
Gov.-elect Leedy, of Kansas, has de-
clared for the permanent union of the
fusionists in his state, and announces
| that loyalty to the silver cause will be
his test in exercising his appointive pow
er. He has appointed Silver Republi-
can as his private secretary.
| The Eastern newspapers are making
vicious attacks on Gov.-elect Rogers, of
Washington. He has given the rail-
| roads in his state to understand that the
| freight laws were made to be Obeyed,
hence the howl emitted by the organs Of
the owners of said roads. Rogers is a
| Populist and is all right.
A state convention of Social Reformers
is called for Dec. 81, to meet at Memorial
! Hall, in St. Louis. The first work of
this organization will be to secure legis-
lation establishing State Board of
| Charities and Corrections and lead up to
legislation that will put the unemployed
| at the work of improving the highways.
Some of the Plutocratic Press are after
the scalp of J. r. Sovereign because he
dared make few plain remarks at the
recent meeting of the Knights of Labor
In one breath they claim that he is liv-
! ing in luxury on the earnings of work.
ingmen and then state that the organiza-
| tion is in moribund condition.
President Cleveland has been sending
a mutual friend to Justice Field to see if
that old gentleman, who it is claimed has
been incompetent to fulfill any duty at
tached to his office for ten years or more.
would not resign; but the justice talked
back real mean" and said he would not
resign, that Cleveland should never ap-
point his successor, etc.-and now we
are wondering what the president will
do with Carlisle, for whom it is under
stood he must provide before retiring.
ambassador Bayard has been obliged
to decline a gift of money that the Daily
London Telegraph was raising, by pOpu-
lar subscription, to present him. In his
letter of declination he says: "The err
mine of the Judge should not be more
stainless than the robe of the law-giver,
nor that of the legislator than of the
executive officer" We can but hope that
copies of this sentiment will be sent to
Washington, D. c., to be pasted in the
hats of the parties referred to.
| It seems as if we were not only on a
One Metal basis, but that our govern
ment, for the next four years, is to be a
One Man affair. Hanna has announced
| to a chosen few in Washington City,
which point he is now making headQuar-
| ters, that an extra session of congress
will convene the 18th of March, 1897.
Claims are made that he has also given
assurance of the passage of the Hunting
ton Refunding bill during the next six
weeks. Time will show if this be true.
8. w. Woodward, Gold Democrat, has
been chosen chairman of the Mckinley
Inaugural Committee.
Thomas Reed, the one time "Czar,"
has begun to show signs of his old spirit
Hanna and his man Mckinley have an
nOunced adversely to the passage of the
Dingley bill, and in favor of an extra
session of congress. Now comes the man
from Maine, who is conceded to be the
next speaker, and declares himself in
favor Of the Dingley bill and opposed to
| an extra session.
| John D. Rockefeller, backed by the
| Standard Oil Company, is to erect NAM
mouth rolling mills to compete with
Carnegie. A plant costing $4,000, 900 is
to be located in South Chicago, on land
already purchased, having lake front
| of $4,000 feet. A fleet of vessels is in
course of construction. Carnegie.a at pres
ent controls the manufacture and salesof
steel rails, and this new concern claims
to be able to put them on the market
fifty per cent cheaper than they are fur
nished at present. Until we-can handle
them by law, we are glad to see the trusts
| fight one another.
| Another trust was born December 9Th,
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