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WASHINGTON.
Mr. Reagan Addresses the Sen
ate Relating to Postoffices.
THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS-
Washington, Eubnmry IX—[Special.]—
President Cleveland has practically decided to
spend a few days in Florida during the present
month, and unless unforscen ci rcunr lances
should arise, ho will probably leave here next
Monday and be .absent about a week. Repre
sentative I havidaon called on him Saturday,
and assured him if be and Mrs. Cleveland
would consent to make the trip, a committee
would come here to make all arrangements.
While be has not said definitely what he would
do, he led Mr. Davidson to believe that he
would accept his invitation. Ho will probably
bjm nd a few hours in Savannah.
Mr. Clements introduced tho following bills
today:
Mr. Gaines, of Virginia, today introduced a
biil in the house to refund to all who had mail
contracts with the United Htabs government
in the years of 1859, LSGO and 1861, the. amount
duo them, making in all a total of .$375,(MM). It
the bill is passed the money will goto Goor-ht.
Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, North ami
South Carolina, and other southern states.
MR. Itii.UiAN ON i’OSTOITI( I S.
Mr. Reagan addn <•■! senate in defence
of the administration of Gm postofllce depart
ment and argued that tie senators who had
arraigned that adinini I ration had been mis
led by false claims, or that in consequence of
the economical and conspicuously good man
agement of tho depai Lne nt, it had been
thought m < ■ 'sary for polith al purposes, to off
set its effect by getting up charges of ineffi
ciency. In the court'* <-f hi argument he.
undertook to repel the us.* rtion that very nu
inerouH removals from <».n< t in thvdcpa<tm« nt
had been imide for political motives, and ho
gave the numh<T of j o musters who bad left
oilice by “resignation.”
Mr. Hoar asked Mr. Reagan whether ho
really claimed or b'diovod that those resigna
tions were voluntary, ami were not commanded
by the president.
Mr. Reagan replied that his only source of in
formation on the subjee t was the report of the
postmaster p< ncr.il, in which he spoke of there
ns “voluntary resignations.*' There had been
very few reinova h for political rea oils, and
these few were for active offensive partisan
bit ip,
Mr. Hoar remarked that the statement
Showed a very extraordinary instance of volun
tary resignations of office.
Mr. Reagan No doubt th'* post master-gen
eral has done a great many things which seem
very extraordinary to the senator from Massa
ebust tis.
Mr. Hoar—A great many.
Senators Chase and Aldrich endeavored,
without success, to get Mr. Reagan to state
why the postmaster of Provident c, It. J., had
Isen removed from in tho face of the.
fact that the management of that post office
hud been highly approved by the jpostmastcr
gcneral. The resolution went over.
Thosenate adjourned.
LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.
Washington, February 13. In the house
Mr. Brower, of North < arolina, Introduced a
resolution instructing the committee on ways
and means to report what progress it has made
fn tho consld< ration of hills repealing the in
ternal revenue taxes, ami to state nt what
time sue h bills are likely to bo reported to the
bouse.
In case the committee is unable to agree upon
these hills, it is instructed to report that fact
to tho house, and bills shall bo placed on the
calendar.
The first bill called up was one punishing
the advertising of lottery tickets in tho Dis
trict of Columbia. It was opposed by Mr.
Rogers, of Arkansas, upon constitutional
grounds. “The bill would,” ho said, “prevent
any paper.no matter where published, from
coming into tho district, and would infringe
upon th<<! liberty of the press.”
Air. Compton declared that ho was not an
advocate of lotteries, but ho did not believe
that souls could bo sent to heaven by compul
sory legislation. Society could only bo regen
erated by principled inculcated by Christian
mothers.
Mr. Crain, of Texas, took issue with tho
argument that every scheme of chance was
necessarily crime, Ho did not believe that a
lottery which was authorized by tho organic
law of a state of tho union belonged to the cat
egory of crime.
Mr. Cummings, of New York, looking at tho
bill not as a lawyer, but ns a man who pro
tended to have a modicum of common sense,
thou, hl that there was too much law in it.
In trying to correct an admitted evil, tho
Lou was opening the doors to a greater evil.
The bill appeared to contain some of the ashes
of the old alien and sedition laws. These laws
Hot only interfered with tho liberty of the
press, but also interfered as tho pending bill
di»l with the liberty of the person. Nor was
this the til t time that th'so ashes had been
stirred up b\ rongrens. They had been stirred
under the admim tration of Grant, when the
United States acuate had passed a bill to
abridge the freedom of the pre s. I nder tin
provisions ol that bill the editor of the most
obscure newspaper in tho most obscure corner
of the most obscure state could be dragged to
the District of < olumbia and subjected to tine
nnd imprisonment by petty loud tribunals.
There was tho same seed in this bill. It not
only trampled on the fr< cdom of the pre s and
of person, but it trampled on the rights of
st .tvs.
Mr. Dougherty, of Florida, opposed the
measure for a ■ milar reason. 11 co n >
could establish a eeiiM»rshipof die pre*s, \i h : eh
would pre\ent reporter - iioin lying uh. ut pub
lic men ami private indix idm> is, he. h r one,
would certainly \ etc to <’.» u. U c.mche had
Mover ‘oct: a:.\ thin sh if.n ive to the s n <• «-f
public morality in any I* I ly adx ertisement
ns lie bad seen in the c\pte> cd opinion of
newspaper icpoihm published as tacts. If
Congtc s could pa s a bill which would lequho
editors t * ci nfhm themselye . to a statement of
f acts in* n ad of pm I. mg their individual opin
ions as fm is, it would redound to the good ami
Wv date of all pt le.
1111 I Util I ON M UtHI i:
w • February 14
Mr. Candler appeared In fare tho way ..ml
invans committee today and ;*.* gued th. t the
iH'esent laiiii on rough marble be n« t inter
fered with. While t’ . . ommii;<*< gave lorn no
definite answer ho w a b*d to believe that bis
wishc' would be ■*.«;.: lie.l. Tin* eommitt.v
are in hope of r« porii? g tho long looked 1< r
tarill bill on \\ cdm sdr.x of next week, but are
unable to say what day they will positively
lias eit nnpletcd.
The direct tax bill, v l.i h was today report
ed saw ’ab'x to il.o house by the jmlida.x
committee, ami will undoubtedly i»n» u, wifi
refund to the people of (Jeof al 1117.98’2.5P of
taxes colb < ted on lands dat ng the war; Ala
bama gels '• I'V '•■. Merida. < l.7<k). Mississippi,
f-lll.os. North C rcdhja. 15*2. Jjottii
Carolina, - 22,376; i\ unc s» e, "'PV,tw»l. I'l e
entire am ut to be refunded is • 17, o'.i nI. of
which the * >uth gets §3,610.370, wbdo the
toot th gets the ba'anee.
The Blair educat.onnl bill we. then taken
up ns un nished busin. •- and Mr. I law b . ad
dn s'od th senate m oppestt . n to it. Di -
cu: sing tb.c details of t> bill, and Comment
ing upon its requirement tore; - rt to the sec.
retnn of the interior on the school system of
tach state, he said that the onlv icspen i
Which the goto:nor of < unectnut could gixe
to such demand was, “I have the honor :<« ic
ier you to the history of this t’omumnwealth
far the last Rd years’to s ; b yo U t! at n nex< i
htw Inxm in tho habit of reporting to anyone
how \y et. at the people of tliis stum.’*
In summing up hu> argument. Mr. Hawley
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the Blair educational Lili, and v. as mldrew»cd
by Mr. Hale in opp« sition. The history of the
bill, he Eaid. and its discussions in the senate
w < ia* most interesting, unlike some measures
w hich, by their inherent strength gained suj>-
port fr<-m time to time until at last all opposi
tion disappeared. This bill had developed
new antagonism at every stage of its consid
eration. In tho forty-eighth congress, when
the bill first passed the senate, objections to it
had been mainly from senators whose strict
construction of the constitution led them
jto believe that the provis:i( ns of the
Lili violated the fuiidamcntal proposi
tions of that great instrument. In the forty
ninth congress the method of distribution
of the great fund covered by the bill had be?n
assailed, and discus-ions at the present scssii n
had showed the practical objections to the. bill
wider and deeper and going to its entire prin
ciples. It was the haul fate of the. Lili that as
tim<* went on less and less necessity was seen
for its enactment ami more and more objec
tions were raised to its provisions. He was
bound to say that aroused the expression ot
public sentiment north and south <<n the bill,
and renewed evidences of arrxjrd with his col
league's. 'The vote against the bill in the last
I congress had not been unwelcome. In thii
connection he referred to an editorial article
in the Portland Press and to statements of
several di>tinguish* d prolcsMors of colleges and
school teachers in various parts of the country
adverse to the bill, noticing particularly
the dictum of Gem ial Armstrong,
of Portsmouth, Va., that the bill
would <!• tioy, in the southern states, that ed
ucation which < om< s from self help. If it
were determined after full consideration with
a ph thora <»f revenue and an accumulation in
the trea ury, that the government should em
bark in lh'* task of distributing a portion of it
Io the dlficn nt states, then the state of Maine,
insti ad of being tax' d to help oth<*r Mutes,
ought to receive ft portion of the fund, ami he,
thcrel'ore, fa\ ored the amendment offend by
Mr. Plumb, which covcn-d that provision. A
paper contributed by a constitutional lawyer
on n. titutional objeu-tions Io the bill, was
read by Mr. Morgan, nnd after a brief speech
by Mr. Sanlslniry against the bill, the debate
v. as Hom d i.y Mr. P-lair in a final argument in
advocacy of the bill. Much of what had been
said in di a' lesion had br'*n, he claimed, entirely
outside of the real qu< lion at issue. As to tho
idea that the passage of tho bill would destroy
tho principle of self help, it was tho utmost
j absurdity. What generation, he asked, ever
educat'd itself'? '1 he bill had been charac
terized by college profe->ors and collcgo presi
dents as a bill to promote mendicancy. Thcso
colb vc professors and presidents were them
selves the most consummate Loggers on the
face of the earth and G* neral Armstrong was
the greatest beggar of tho whoic. It was be
cause college pre.idcnts were such accom
pli* hod and successful beggars that there was
such superior education in this country, and
it was because G< neraljArmstrong was a great
and sm' •i: ltd beggar that ho had established
an institution at Hampton, which was the
glory of the state and of tho Country. He
closed with a <•onleinptuons allusion to tho
‘*< du ah d, cold-blooded college
professors of the north.”
He poke of the opposition made to tho bill
by the New York Evening Post, the Washing
ton Post and other organs of the “Jesuitry.”
Opposition to tho bill was a fight against tho
common schools of the country. Soon after
the hill passed tho last congress, and while it
was still struggling in the handsof a packed
committee in the house, where, it was finally
strangl'd, a senator had shown him, and ho
had read, the original lett< r of a Jesuit priest
bogging a member of congress to oppose the
bill and k.ll it. He said tliere was an organi
zation ail ov( r tho country lor the destruc
tion of the bill, and that they would
destroy M inevitably and also that if
they had known ol it in season they could
have prevented its pa . age through tho senate.
r I hey had begun in season this time, but they
would no, destroy it. Twelve years ago, when
he was a member ol the house, and while there
w as a proposition pending to aim nd the consti
tution su as to prevent an appropriation of tho
public money to tho support of sectarian
schools in the country, a fr’u nd of his pointed
out to him nine Jesuits on the floor log-rolling
against that proposition nine at uno time.
These was not (ho thanked God)|of tho Cath
olic church. Within tho sound of his voice
were sleeping the remains of .John Carroll and
Chari' s (’arioll, of Garrullto’-, men who bad
been devoted in civil rights and to true relig
lon; ami against the memory
of these men, or against t lie
great Catholic organi/ntion of the country, he
wonld say nothing, for he venerated their
memory, and h * venerated that great
organization which, in his belief,
was the true exemplar of Cbri. tianity. lie
cared nut how far it extended or how
widely its power wasDpread. But within that
organization was a .h suit organization, which
bad set out to control this country ; w hich had
been repudiated by every Country In tho old
world, ( atholie or Protestant ; but w hich had
come to America, and was now trying to se
cure control of this continent by destroyin g the
public school system. 'The Jesuits bad been
expelled from tho countries of the o’.d world,
nnd the time would eomo when they would be
looked upon as the enemies of tin* country,
and w hen the question of I heir expulsion would
Imx eto bi* considered. AII through the north,
God only knew, under w l.at influences tho
newspapers had opposed the bill, and had
argued that su< h aid to common schools was
no loug< r needed; but bo had, for three or four
day* , read of demonstrations from evt ry state
in the south, show ing that it was still a neces
sity, and as much so as ever.
lie spoke e| the Chit/.go'Tribune ns OHO of
the papers which had forbears advocated even
the extraordinary appropriation of SSO,lkX\doo
a xear, proposed b\* (L neral Logan tor the
.‘•cho. l sw-tern of the country, but w hich now
oppo ted this bill ami done meed it ns a bill tor
the promotion of mendicancy. Wlmt.ho asked,
| bad | reduced the change? The Boston ller
! aid had tor years boon an advocate of tho bill,
I bat Lad abandoned it at tho la<t congress,
j standing conveniently fur a short time, escil
, latiug 'i tone way nnd tin n the other, ami
I finally concluding that tl.e bill ‘■honld not
j pass, and it had ex er since then be n its per
| sistent opponent. He mentioned also in (ho
same eoniu Uion the Poston Advertiser and
I New York Sun ami Tim< •. The 1 fun s. ho
I said, had been for years its advo
; rate, ami was now charging that
| there was no pretense for it
i that the necessity had pas cd away. Why, he
• a ked. was thi>? Il wa be. ause the wns op
: the stall ol (wry great newspaper inthecoun
' try today a Jesuit, whose bauimss it was totee
| that a blow was struck, w hurever there was an
i <q»portunUy to strike, at the comnu-n school
system of Aim ran, and the tanker investiga-
■ ta n was carried in that direction the more
: patent would the fact appear. There was an
other power, ho * .:id, arrayed against the bill
tho power of the liquor interest a- n presented
by its Washington orgau, tho Sentinel. As to
the Exening Post pamphlet. he de
. dared that all tho principal state-
•Hunts made in It wore falsehoods. The time
( was not far distant when tho people of the
north mild understand all the jugglei v. The
Aimrieun p« u; le wuuld have the truth from
that ga ’. ry tp.'inting i » the rei ortur's gallery)
or, said be, they will char that gallery uil
; which I now aa . The bill might bo defeated
by d .oa tion or by indirection, but its principles
i would pros ail.
’The bill was then passed—yeas, 39: nays, 29,
' as follow .
~ M •*• * ' *oi Brrrv, Bhdr.llowcn.Brown.
Cd* < a .. . u, ( a'l tk*r. < *h,UUt. t’nUoin, I'nnl 1,
1 awes. idph. luMb, loans. George, liumpi. n.
He I f Arkansas Ma <
M v-dl, M.'ril, Tu’mwr. Pasco, JYan.*, t in*.!.
' • . R» >••!'), I; ‘. r r ■
!. . .eu.ot, >t.. sb.,o . iClai. \ance.’Walthall.
W b < t lowa.
N \ ik ers. AMr.ch, Bate. Leek. Blackburn
; U’.--’. V.l. Butler, (oke. I* n s Tarua 11, V. alk’a. r’
Ene. Gmy. llnle. Hui *. H-.wle>. H.m uk, m .alls’
J ,*• -s Ot \e Ida Ke ! XL I I..**. . K .**. il.
s <’>*.! SMU.’ -C.'y >) 1 er. turtle VcM. Voothta.'.
V» Leu ot Ma yln >d 2V.
'The bill appropriates annuallv fur eight
yearn tho fellow mg-urns, to be ”vxpei.<led to
s c r the benefit of a common school edinii-
• tien to all children of the school age, lix : ..g in
tho t inted Stat* * " Fir t yuor. );
• udy*n v , H'M'uO.tW; thiixl w.r,
’ I* urth yeard IJ. xVJMM; tifla year, §H,-
t* » .'‘xe sixth vear. ; seventh war,
>•' 11 eighth war. M*.uoi».(<c. ‘ The
t x is to l-e divided tuiiung thcsex'ial
>tat -an I tviriu ru s . 3 tno District ot Co
’• ■ ■ iin prop 't liun I »illiteracy, thecompu
tat nto b< made aeuo>ditig to the census of
i ' and (afterwards) gxO. There :uu to be
separ ate s 'lhhJs for white and eoluwd children.
N state or h rritury in to receive money undur
the act until its governor shall haw tiled
x'ith tho wretary us the into
i riur a btatenicnt showing the common
•clicnM system in Curve in the state, tho tiuo
j amount of mumy expended during the pre
| veduig »-aauvl >c'At fur the s ipimtvf cutuiuou
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA„ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1888.
schools: the number of white and colored chil
dren between the ugCB of 10 and 21; tho
number of si liools in operation; average at
tendance of scholar;, etc. No amount is to lx>
paid to any state or territory in any year
great; r than the amount expended out of its
own rev; nucs in the preceding year for the
maintenance of common schools. No part of
the funds is to Ito used for the erection or rent
of school buildings, but an additional fund of
two millions is to be allotted in the year for
school houses, either for construction or rent
ing. in sparsely populated districts.
Mr. Berry, byway of personal explanation,
said that while lie was a candidate for the sen
ate, ho had promised, if clectr d, to vote for tho
bill, the legislature of bis state having pro
nounced in favor of it. ’f here never had been
a time, however, when he was not opposed to
it, and but for the instructions of the legisla
ture for his own plighted word, he would have
voted today against the hili.
Mr. from the committee on appro
priations, reported a resolution for the ap
pointment of a special committee of five mem
bers to investigate and report to the house
what contracts have been made for the con
struction of the. new library building and tho
amount expended thereunder, the cause of
delay in the progress of the woift and what
j.crsons have been employed mid paid from
appropririti ms for tho purchase of tho
site and construction of tho building.
Items for various expenses connected with
the departments camo in for a good deal of
criticism, in tho course of which Mr. Randall
said the purpose of tho committee on appro
priations in calling attention to this matter
was to bring the people in control of the ad
ministration of justice to the duo realization
of what was nec; s-ary in this connection. The
committee on judiciary should frame some
sort of amendment to tho statute law which
would prevent gross injustice whiph was done
to inm nt and inoffonding citizens by trivial
prosecutions. Many of these prosecutions, as
said by tie; gentleman from Missouri, (Burnes)
came under the internal revenue laws. By all
means they should be abolished. [Applause.]
The time had come when these wrongs should
be duly conaiilered, and he hoped the judiciary
committee and the gentleman from Arkansas
(Rogers) as a memberof that committee would
lake a hand in the work. A wink was some
times as good as a nod to a blind horse.
(Laughter.]
Mr. Rogers—l sometimes take a wink, but
when I wink I wink at the tariff. [Laughter.]
Mr. Randall—All right. Wo will wink to
gether, maybe. [Laughter and applause.]
Mr. Rogers- If that suggestion means any
thing it gives me profound gratification, for
heretofore we have not been winking together
on that subject.
Mr. Burnes said that lie would never csase
denouncing the horrors and evils perpetrated
in the name, of law byofficcrsof tho law under
the internal revenue law. At the same time
he wished to say to the gentleman from Penn
sylvania (Randall) and tho country that ho
would remove tho burdens of tariff taxation
nnd reduce taxes on some of the necessaries of
life before he would undertake to lessen inter
nal revenue taxation. [Applause.]
Mr. Richardson, of North Carolina, from tho
committee oil printing, reported the senate
concurrent resolution for the printing of 7,000
additional copies of executive document 51, on
tho subject of cattle and dairy products. On
this resolution, Mr. Martin, of Texas, delivered
Lis maiden speech, .and though he made it re
gardless of the fact he had not received recog
nition from tho chair, his earnest declara
tion that every farmer in the land should have
a copy of this valuable book was received with
applause.
THE PRESIDENT AND HIS WIFE.
NV ashington, February 11.—President and
Mrs. Cleveland, this evening, gave their last
public reception for tho season. Mrs. Cleve
land was assisted by the ladies of the cabinet,
M: s Bayard, Mrs. Fairchild, Mrs. Whitney
and Mrs. Dickinson. The executive mansion,
as is usual on such occasions, was beautifully
and elaborately decorated with foliage, plants
and a profusion of rare and fragrant flowers.
'The music whs furnished by th Marino band.
Tho attendance was one of tho largest of the
season.
The president expects to leave next Tues
day for a short visit to Florida. Ho will bo
accompanied by Mrs. Cleveland, and secretary
of the navy and Mrs. Whitney, and Colonel
and Mrs< 1 .amont. The party will go by spe
cial train and no stops will bo made, unless it
ho an hour at Savannah for a drive through
the c ity. Ono day will bo spent at Jackson
ville and one day at St. Augustine. The party
will get back to Washington Saturday.
THE I’ARTY”S IT.UIGF.S.
Washington, February ll». [Special.]—
Tlu ro has been < < nsiderablo excitement
among tho democrats here today,on account of
the rumor which the l ost puLHshcd thismorn
ing to the effect that if tho democratic party
in congress failed to redeem the pledges
which the party ha*l made to tho country, or
hesitated to follow tho path which tho presi
dent had so plainly marked out, Mr. Cleve
land would w rite a Lttcr similar to that just
given out by Mr. Blaine, and decline to allow
his name to go before tho democratic conven
tion.
Il h:'. r ’ been argued by believers in the rumor
tint Mr. Ch.'xeland is already on record as
being opv-osed to a second term, and that ho
has in no w :>.y given evidence that he desires a
renominiUion, and if tho party should fail to
see tho wisdom of his action in bringing the
tarifl forxFard as an issue of tho campaign, ho
would decline to remain at the head of a party,
which only nominally acknowledcd his leader
ship.
Mr. Mills, chairman of the wa -s i.nd means
committee, in discussing Mr. Cleveland's pos
sible declination, said he did not believe any
thing would swerve him from the position he
h... taken. “11 is mesi*age will be his platform,
and he will be nominated upon it.”
He says lie 1 ; no idea his tariff bill will bo
defeated. As mon ns tho bill is ready ho will
submit it L> a democratic caucus. Hubelievcs
s >n»e democrats will oppose it. but there will
he enough republicans with it to counteract
this democratic defection, lie is afraid the
(L'inocratie partv might lose Luui iana on tho
s igiir questi< ii. but it Louisiana c an’t accept
d< nun latic principles, then it ought not to be
a domocra: .e state. Ho Lulicvc:. the demo-
< r;ii> v. .11 ain in Vunnsyh ania, Now Jersey
and the n ithwest.
“ But,” says h<*, “if lam mistaken, I can
only say that the failure of a tariif bill topass
this house this si sion, through a combination
of demo< rc.ts and republicans, would arouse
such n storm of indignation among the demo
crats that the party would be s didillcd and
rally around Mr. Cleveland all the more en
thusiastic. We aie going before tho country
with an i."Uu, and 1 do nut be’.iexe Mr. Cleve
land is .jMDg to de.’ert the ship.”
t l.e way s and means bill, if reported as it
has but n reprereiitct!. cannot possibly pass the
h« ; e, lat the democrats are almost solid in
taxor of Mr. Cleveland as their candidate, and
the Letter i oslvd ones do not bcliovo ho w ill
decline the ' nomination. However, this re
mains to bo seen.
STRINGING THE i»I FSI’ION.
Mr Kerr, of lowa, cast the consideration of
tho bill into the politic il current, when, in
speaking to uno of the doth ieney items for the
d< paitme’.t < f justice, lie referred to tho in
ternal n s untie laws, ami dechiivd that at one
of its state conventions be did not precisely
remember the data of the con
vent on tho democratic party of Missouri
Lad pc ci! a r • asking for tho repeal
of the i'ate* n il revenue sxMem.
M« *-*>r Ihirm - -.uid Hatch said Mr. Kerr was
mi-taken. Mr. Hatch said that every demo
ciaii cenvcntii n .n Missouri for the past ten
yc.us Lad ad. t Ld a resolution demanding that
congi' 'S should x\ ipv off the statute bot'ks the
proxi.'iuii of the re line law which prevented
a farmer from selling his to ar.v but
licensed u< alms. That pi-avi ion had been
passel bx a repul Fean cony t* s and signed by
a rep.-, lican presidtut, ami it fastened tho
hL.u. kies upon the tobacco growers.
Mr. Hunders. n, us lowa. ineu ic<l why tho
demex ratio c< vgross did no. repeal it.
Mr I latch replied that 1.0 had every session
introduced a bill to that effect, but that while
it could pa>« a 'lcmoeratic bouse, it could nut
pass a rc| a' . .un senate.
Mi . IN wilt, e( inquired when R had
.Mr H.ucii nq lu «i t! ;.i it lia.l passed the
1 in tl.e 1 nty-»iMh . enuressC It li.ul
been nicer e.l in the s.n.i'.o t*> that a lanuel
evutil -eii in the extent i>( ? R* 1 .
Mr H< udermni -W hy »a.< tho tax put upon
t idm .*<’<>
Mr Hatch—For the Vest reason. The gov*
< riunenl needed nn nee.
Mr Hetidei-iti- How did tl.c govertnnent
happen to uced money?
.Mr. Millikru ot Maine—Didn't tho gentle
uian Ir<*tu Mixsouri help tnake the necesMty ?
Mr. Haleb—Aud the gentleman from Mis
sour: has never shirked his share of that re
sponsibility. [Applause.]
.Mr. Henderson—The gentleman does not
criticize the republican congress which put the
tax on tobacco, nor the republican president
who signed the law.
?.fr. Hateh—l do not. I only criticize the
power which put that law on the statute
books which I regard as[one of the most infa
. n.ous upon it, which prevents a grower of that
great product from selling it to anybody but a
licensed dealer.
Mr. Randall thought that it matters not what
had been done in the past; let all join hands
and strike from tho statute books the iniqui
j tous sections. [Applause.]
* Mr. Hatch said that he would join tho gcntle
j man in that. When the bonds and debts of the
government, to meet which internal taxes had
i been levied were paid ; and when the tax upon
; the clothing and fuel of poor people had been
i reduced. [Applause.]
! Mr. Randall suggested that the indebtedness
of the United .States was in no danger of not
I being paid.
Mr. Hatch replied that war taxes had bor n
I levied to pay war debts, and as long as a dollar
of that indebtedness remained unpaid tobacco
and whisky were fair subjects of taxation.
Mr. Reed, of Maine, inquired whether the
‘ gentleman was opposed to tho repeal of the in
ternal revenue taxes.
I Mr. Hatch replied that he was opposed to
their repeal until tho taxes on necessaries of
j life are first reduced. (Applause.]
Several republicans—“ Now, let us hear from
I Virginia.’’
Mr. Burnes remarked upon the manner in
' which the house bubbled over when tobacco
I was mentioned, and expressed the fear that
: win n the other element, which was covered
i by the. internal revenue law was mentioned, a
regular Pandora’s box would bo opened. Ho
then brought back tho discussion to the sub
ject matter of the bill.
MR. BLOUNT'S BILL.
Washington, February 17.—The commit
tee on agriculture agreed to report favorably
Mr. Blount’s hill authorizing the governors of
states to accept the appropriations made by tho
general goverment to establish agricultural
experimental stations in the states. This bill
was introduced because tho Georgia legislature
had neglected to accept the fifteen thousand
dollars which was to go to her and in order
that she may get tho payments due before the
next session of the legislature. Mr. Hatch,
the chairman of the committee, informed Mr.
Blount today that ho understood about twenty
states were in tho same predicament as
Georgia, and before reporting he desires to
confer with Comptroller Durham and get up a
bill which will meet tho requirements of all
the states. In other words, he desires to ar
range it in order that all the states will get the ,
amount duo them and lose nothing by the neg
lect of their respective legislatures.
Mr. Grimes introduced a bill in the house
today to create a federal court in Columbus.
Mr. Grimes, although a new member, has
been remarkably successful in his work for
Columbus, and 1 have no doubt but that he
will succeed in getting both his public build
ing bill and the above mentioned one through
tho house. His work is appreciated by his
constituents, and ho should bo re-elected
without opposition. The fourth district could
certainly not be better represented in con
gress.
CLEvyr.ANr and the nomination.
I talked with some of the members of the
ways and means committee this morning in
regard to the rumored possibility of President
Cleveland declining a renomination if tho
democratic house failed to sustain him in
passing a bill in accordance with his message.
They have announced that their bill will be
ready to report the latter part of next week,
and seem to think tliere will not bo enough
opposition to call forth a letter declining the
renomination from President Cleveland. They
expect opposition to some portion of tho bill,
especially the wool and internal revenue
features, but are inclined to the opinion that
Mr. Randall and his followers will appreciate
the necessity of unity in tho party on the eve
of the presidential election and will accept the
bill with probably some modifications. They
say this is not the time to repeal the whisky
tax, and seem to think the Randall wing will
appreciate this and with other modifications
of the internal revenue system will accept the
However, they will most probably bo 'Sadly
mistaken, for Mr. Randall has already an
nounced his position in favor of repealing tlio
internal revenue laws, in toto. AI-
it has been stated otherwise, it is said
by’Xfr. Cdhdlor there will probably bo two
other members of the Georgia delegation who,
when the time comes, will vote for the repeal
of the internal revenue laws. North
Carolina ..nd Virgingia will vote
solidly for this, ar.i South Carolina .rill bo
divided, Tennessee and Alabama will also
chip in a few votes, and I have no doubt but
that when the time comes the ways and means
committee will bo considerably surprised to find
how many democrats there are who favor the
entire repeal of the internal revenue laws.
Mr. Joseph J. O’Donohue, tho Tammany
, hall leader of New York and now in Washing
ton, today, in speaking of a democratic victory
in the next presidential election, spid:
“It all depends upon the action of dcmce ats
I in tho house on the tariif question, and wo
! must do something to reduce tlio surplus. I
spent an hour with Mr. Randall this morning
and wo discussed this matter at some length.
Mr. Randall understands tho situation fully
ami assures mo that a tariff bill will bo passed
nt this session. Ido not know whether he
means tho bill tho ways and moans committee
are maturing, or whether he will have one of
his own. lam entirely satisfied with his as-
* surunee that something will be done. If tlio
I d* in erats fail to pass a tariff bill, I am afraid
it will bo extremely difficult for us to succeed.”
He further said that Tammany would give
a local and Cordial support to tho democratic
| candidate, whoovet lie might be.
i The national democratic committee will
■im et hero in Willard's hotel on Wednesday,
to determine the time and place for holding
■ tho national convention. New York and San
Francisco are both working vigorously f* r tho
convention, but the impression now among the
i m. inbers ot the house seem to bo most general
' that the convention will bo hold in Chicago in
I July.
There is decided opposition to Sherman’s
' nomination expressed by tho republican mem
bers of the house. They are of the opinion
that if Sherman is nominated, it will drive
from tho republicans every Irish-Aineiican
i who voted for Blaine, when his true position
I on the late British treaty becomes known.
: Sheridan is probably tho greater favorite
- among the republicans here now.
A prominent southern congressman was to
i dn the center of a group of uiso and learned
I representatives in tho house lobby. They
were discussing trusts, ami tlio congressman
in question explained to his colleagues the ef
fect upon the people tl.e sugar trust would
I have.
Said he ■ “So far as the sugar trust is con
; corned, although two or three factories are not
; in the trust or combination, with the advance
i in price of about two cents per pound on refined
’ sugar, made by the trust within the past two
mouths, tho cost to the consumer if entertain
ed for one year will, and must bo, a-least sixty
; million dollars, or. in other words, with a pro
duction of three thousand million pounds of
sugar, in advance of two eeuts per jhiuihl
means a profit to the sugar refiner of sixty mil
lion dollars over and above the prices of re
lined sugar ruling last year. It may bo said
that all of the cane sugar refiners on the Atlan
tic coast, including two or throe in I’liiladel
phi» and Boston, will maintain tho advance
of two cents per pound."
"This much may be said of refined sugar,
I but the sugar trust proposes to go further, and
I is going further. It can and has advanced the
I pii. e ot relined sugar, and it can and has re-
■ duce l the buying and selling price of rnw
, se.g.irs Cargoes of raw sugars recently or
, riving in Atlantic ports and especially the port
of N* w York, hat o found no sale except at a
| red ictioii amounting to an average rate of
i nearly or quite one cent ]x*r pound. Tho ro-
* ii: .1-, therefore, control tho market for raw
* sugars, as well as tho market for relined
* "gars. The profit of the sugar trust is sui,.
■ i>v. and the* stock today in New York is
se'.i ng nt eighty-tive cents on the dollar. It
i tl.e price on relined sugars and tho control of
the market for raw sugars can be maintained
. as i.ow, the trust can make at least s•’*»,ikX',*
, iMJ w itlnn the next six months, double that
amount in twelve, and soon ad infinitum.”
| Caueers Cured.
Dr. A. G. XVollard, ot Richmond, Va.. is
having great success in curing cancers. He has
a vied hundreJs preuouneeil incurable by other
I pbj>iei*uis. fiend for paiuphkt with’ rcler
-1 on. s and certificates. Tho doctor can bo
I touml at his office. No. 7 North Sixth street
< iwfiere he is permanently located), Richmond
| Va. wks
Purify Your Blood
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impure particles, and effete matter through the
lungs, liver, bowel”, kidneys and skin. It effectually
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it eradicates disease.
“I must say Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the best medi
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Ibc-;an to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and soon I felt
as if I could do us much in a day as I Lad formerly
done in a week. My appetite is veracious.” Mi<s.
M. V. Bayard, Atlantic City, N.J.
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’ “100 DO'CS One Dollar,” so familiar In connection
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but is absolutely true of and original with this prep
aration; and it is :1 o absolutely true that it can
honestly be up.; Led only to II ol’s Sarsapa
rilla, which is the very best spring me li inc and
blood purifier. Now. reader, prove it. Take a Uot
t’e home and measure its contents. Y<»u will find
j it to hold 100 teaspoon fuls. Now, read the direc
tions, and j oil will find that the average dose for
persons of different ages is loss than a teiispo mini.
Thus economy and strength are peculiar to Hood's
Sarsaparilla.
Spring Medicine
“I take Hood’s Sarsaparilla for a spring medicine
and I find it just the thing. It tones up iny system
and makes me feel like a different man. My wife
Likes it fur dyspepsia, and she derives c.rt benefit
from it.” Fkank C. Ti uneu, Hook A: Ladder No. 1,
Friend Street, D »st»»n.
“I bud salt rheum on my left arm three y •ars. suf
fering terribly; it almost disabled me from work. I
pook three bottles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla, ;.:ul the
I salt rheum has entirely disappeared.” IL ii. Mills*
j 71 French Street, Lowell, Mass.