The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-19
TOBACCO CONVENTION.
Close of the Session-A Tax OF Ten Cents
ON Tobacco and SnuR Recommended


CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. l9.-The National
Convention of Tobacconists closed this after
noon after harm onious session of two days,
most oil the time at the Weddel House parlors.
Resolutions were passed faVoring the imposition
OF a tax OF ten cents on all manufactured tobacco
and snuff, cigars excepted; favoring Govern
ment stamps 10 be paid for before using, pro-
Vidod the tobacco tax s reduced to the specified
rate-ten cents-and to be placed on each pack
age, so as 10 preclude a second USE and that
any legislation reducing the tax on tobacco
should be prospective, and not go into effect in
less than. sixty days from the passage of the act.
The delegates present have mostly represent
ed the Western and Southern States, though
there we're strongly sympathetic letters from
prominent New York firms.
Mr. W. IL. Pierce, of Utica, delivered long
address at the close of the Convention in favor
OF the proposed reduction of the tobacco tax.
AN ExecuuVe COMMITTEE was appointed to draft
a memorial at the close of the session, TO be
presented to Congress, setting forth the reasons
why reduction of the tax on tobacco was
asked by the Convention, and those whom they
represented. The committee is composed of the
iBSlioWlhg "a ii: Bucknor st. Louis; F. A.
prague, Cincinnati; John W. Stone, Lynchburg;
- +. spence, Cincinnati; 3. c. Murray, Chi
cago; and w. B. Pierce, Utica.
Hon. George ii. Pendleton aud George e.
Eugh were serenaded at the Kennard House
TINS evening, and responded IN speeches of CON
siderable length, giving most hopeful view of
Sne .Democratlc prospects IN Ohio In the ap-
me- tHSttSsug tSo eleeaons, etc. Mr. Pendleton went
eating IN substance the payment of the Govern.
ment debt IN greeubacks
An Immense crowd listened In tho snaacbas
TIE Fx1MPLR OF AMER1C1-M mee,iog Of
y; Dllslsn Assocl alton, on the 9th of September
LILY ~ ane S1ectlon OF Economic Scienceb Mr. o.
SEant fsn' Dun the chairman, used the following
Would that the people of this ouarter of the
elobe would awake TO the danger of beiug sur.
passed by the great nation on the other siae Of
.t0e Atlantic An American politcisn came
PACK last autHmn from Prussia declarine
HnAt II was impossible to walk ten wards in q
russian Town without meeting a soldier An
EnISjlsh politician came back a the same tiraa
from the United States, declaring that he had
trayersNed The country from end to end VVttbont
seeing even q single soldier. When will mo.
naIchs a,Nd cabinets and popular assenbIies
learn that old wisdom of William III. that thsf
nation will Mold the balance of power which in
pfoDortion tso its strength. has economical
material reso Irees TO the highest point, and
ac0nired the hie Nest degree OF moral ascendancy
nv an honest ana consistent allegiance to the
laws of morality in its domestic policy and in
its foreign relations ~
Gen. Sheridan en- TO0Ne Tor W Was, WSShin = e0n'
CIECTRNATI Sept. l6.-Ge oeral fhl' She5I IAN
arrived here this morning, ." IOaS % loI w ash
iDgtOn. He visited the Mer0ha uts' I ILHcuauge a.
noon, where he was enthusiast, faiiy rSoelVea,
This evening he was serenaded at ehe puIhet'
House, He responded in . few words oitnanSs