The Portland daily press., 1872-04-09
washington Letter.

The Arms Investigation Foay-ALfttte Story
The Cincinnati Conuention-Mother Gree /
leys Plasters-Personal
WASHINGTON, ID. c., April =, 1877
POPULAR RIGHTS.
The "popular branch" threw up their heads |
Of tho Senate amendments to their bill placing |
taa and coffee on the free list when those
amendments were sent to the House for con-
currence, and upset the whole thing by passing
the following resolutions: .eas.sg.sss 80
Resolyed That the satisfactorily the Senate,
under the form of an amendment, for the bill
of the House III. r. No. 1887 entitled San act
to repeal existing duties on tea and coffee" of
a bill entitled "An act to reduce existing tax
es," containing general revision, reduction,
and repeal of laws imposing import duties and
internal taxes, is in conflict with the true in
tent and purpose of that clause of the Constitu-
ton which requires that "all bills for raising
revenue shall originate in the House of Repre-
sentatives;" and that therefore said substitute
for House bill No 1857 do lie upon the table.
1fld be it further resolved, That the Clerk of
the House be, and is hereby directed to notify
the Senate of the passage of the foregoing reso-
luton. Aa
/ This kills the bill, and the duties are notre-
pealed as stated in my last letter, although the
bill to that effect passed both Houses 1t will
probably be presented anew before adjourn
ment as a majority of both houses are in favor
of the repeal Quite spirited debate attended
the passage of these resolutisns-in which Mes
srs. Dawes, Garfield, Butler, Hale, Wood and
several others took part The vote was 153 to
I9. kE8 "a
THE DETAILS OF THE HOUSE TARIFF BILL.
The Ways and Means Commits will, it is
thought without doubt, report their Revenue
Bill before the close of next week. 1t will en-
brace in one act all the proposed reductionsin
the Internal Revenue taxes and the Tariff. In
the latter the reduction will be quite considera-
BILE on all products of iron, wool and cotton,
probably averaging fifteen per cent But it
must be remembered that considerable Tariff
Duty was added to offset and compensate for
| the Internal tax that was laid on Manufactures
| in 1862 and 1868, and since the Internal tax was
removed there has beeu no reduction in the
Tariff. This adjustment will now be made
with possibly shade taken off from some du-
ties that are extra high. Pig iron viii be re-
duced one dollar, leaving the duty at six dol
lars per ton. Steel rails will be proportionally
| reduced. se4a "a Hee s53
In the Internal Revenue Department pretty
much every tax will be removed except those
| on whiskey, tobacco, stamps and the tax on ma
| tional banks. The whiskey. taxes will be con-
solidated in one uniform tax of about 65 or 20
| cents per gallon; tobacco will be made uniform
| at 20 cents per pound. The income tax for
1871 will be collected, but as the present Law
| expires by its own limitation, the tax will not
be renewed SO that all who have been annoyed
by the inquisit0ral features of this tax will be
rejoiced at their permanent release in the fu-
ture. The outlines have given relate to the
bill as it will be reported from the Committee
on Ways and Means What may be done with
it in the committee of the whole House is, as
Lord Dundreary would say s'What no fellow
can find Out" and you will therefore excuse me
from predictions or opinions relating thereto
1t is hoped that some provision for the relief
of the shipping interest will be incorporated in
the Tariff Bill. Messrs.
BLAINE, LYNCH AND HALE
| made arguments before the Ways and Means
Committee few days since urging that
policy and there is good reason for hoping that
the relief asked for will be incorporated in the
permanent Revenue Laws of the country where
1t would not be subject to annual agitation, and
the hazards of frequent test votes in Congress,
to say nothing of the log-rolling of other inter-
| ests g.s
THE GARULOUs CHAMBURN.
Since ] have already introduced the Marquis
de Chamburn to the readers of the PRESS per-
haps they may desire to hear from that Illus.
trious gentleman once more. 1t will he recol
lected that Senator Sumner in his testimony
before the Arms Investigation Committee paid
very high tribute to this distinguished (now
nearly ea-tinguished) foreigner, and spoke en-
Enthusiastically of his superior knowledge of the
affairs of our country; but the testimony of
G. X. Garrison, General Ingalls, and Mr.. Peck
has proved beyond doubt that he is not suff-
GENTLY well versed in our language to speak
the truth in English, even under oath-whether
he can do SO in French or not will probably
never be known in this country. His whole
sale charges against Gen. ingalls, were denounc.
ed by that gentleman as unqualfedly false,
which denunciations were virtually admitted
hu that willy specimen of the polite frog-eater.
AFTER Y. K Harrison had testified to the false
hood of the statements OF tire marquis that he
Garrison, was of the sureties of w. NJ. Tweed
the former acknowledged his error, but saidin
extenuation that he had readit in a New York
paper, thus showing that he had based has scorn
testimony on the same foundation upon schich
acas based the original Preamble of Mr. Sumner
utz; false statement found IN q newspaper
Bear in mind, if you please, that this same
Marquis de Chambrun is the instigator and
prime mover in the Arms Investigation which
has already cost the people of this country so
much money, and judge for yourselves whether
those who aid him in this contemplate scheme
are true reformers or not. 1t is expected that
the testimony to be introduced early next week
will prove the most interesting yet given, as it
will show some of the inside workings of the
original conspiracy. FETn r.
1t is not hard to understand why
SENATOR scHURz DECLINES
to disclose the names of his informers in the
Arms matter. Several witnesses, whose names
he has given to the committee and who are
presumed to be the same to which he SO often
referred with such an air of profound mystery,
during the debate, and the early part of the
investigation, have appeared and testified
They are generally -
ENTIRELY IGNORANT ~,
of any facts whatever in the case; and every
one who has been able to display any knowl-
edge on the subject testifies to having had re-
cent interviews with the
MARQUIS DE CHAMBRUN,
in relation to their testimony and even then
there is nothing that can give any consolation
to the sorrowing progenitors of the Arms In
vestigation. There has been mistake some
where that places them very much in the "a
POSITION OF THE HEROINE
of the following little anecdote of which l am
forcibly reminded
A girl, evidently servant, rushed breath
lessly into drug store, threw down quarter
and hurriedly inquired of the clerk in attend
ance if he could SO disguise dose of castor oil
that the taste could not be detected. He an
swered that he could and asked her if she was
fond of soda, and receiving reply in the af-
frmative, proceeded to prepare the medicine
as ordered, compounding it with glass Of that
sarTa8 DELIGHTFUL BEVERAGE, R
which he handed to his fair customer who
drank IL with much apparent satisfaction. To
the surprise of the clerk, however, the girl did
not leave at once as he had very naturally ex-
pected, but remained standing by the counter
evidently waiting for some further attention,
SO he blandly inquired:
WHAT ELSE 1nss?"
81 am waiting for that OIL" she replied some
what pettishly. 'You have taken it." said the
astonished clerk.
rr TAKEN IT
Why didn't want it for myself, twas for
gentleman up at the house who don't seem to
be very WELL" fi