The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-01-13
WASHINGTON.
Reporters Galleries OF the senate and
House Connected by Telephones.
II tho Senate Falls 10 Pass the Silver Bill
II viii DO Attached 10 the ExeOu.
tive and judicial Appro.
prlatlOn Bill,

The Tobacco Men, Reinforced, Urge
Ihe Reduction Of ihe Tax-Neithcr
the House or senate IN Session 3OV
eminent Advertisements,
WASHINGTON, January IL Neither
house is In session.
Orders have been issued 10 detnln
the Estella at Bristol.
The reporters galleries OF the senate
and house have been connected 0y
telephones,
j. n. Camden has been appointed
commissioner to the Paris exposition
from West Virginia.
The Star says that Representative
Buckner, chairman OF the banking
and currency committee of the house,
IL reported rs threatening that II the
senate fails TO pass the silver bill, or II
the president should veto II, he will
have the rules OF the house suspended,
and the Bland bill attached as an
amendment to the Legislative, execu
tive and Judicial appropriation bill,
This afterno IN the postmaster gen
eral transmitted to the speaker of the
house IA communication recommend
ing u change OF the law in the prices
to be paid for advertising. In case no
change in the prices IL made he sug-
gests that no list OF routes be published,
but that notices informing contractors
that proposals will be received for car
rying mails between stated points, be
published instead, and that the con.
tractors be referred for all the infor-
nation usually advertised TO the sec,
ond assistant postmaster general.
The tobacco delegation were rein
forced to-day by delegates from Balti'
more, Lynchburg, Liberty, Virginia,
and other places. Conferences were
had with several memb ers of congress,
The several delegations were unanim-
Gus for reduction to twelve cents per
pound and drawback on the old
stock in theihands of manufacturers,
their agents and jobbers, when the
new law goes into effect.
They urged upon their members that
this rule would bring more tqan thirty
millions of dollars into the treasury, a
sum beyond which congress ought not
to require the staple production to con-
| tribute, and there be any deficiency
it should be made up on other subjects
now untouched by federal taxation.
That this reduction of the rate would
generally increase the consumption,
thereby increasing the price OF the
farmers and planters leaf; that the
price Of leaf has been steadily falling
since the present high rate OF taxation
went into effect, March 3, 1876, until 1t
ranges on average grades in the east
ern and western markets at six and
three.fourth cents per pound, price
unremunerative to both farmer and
planter.
This move in hehalfsof reduction,
was commenced by the representatives
of Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri,
Tennessee ard Kentucky, in the inter
ost of the farmers and planters, and
has been since, taken up by the manu-
facturers OF Richmond, Lynchburg,
Danville, Louisville and Cincinnati,
whose interest Is considered with that
OF the growers of tobacco.
The Baltimore delegation insists
upon the drawback as set forth in rep
resentative Cabell's bill. In fact, they
represent that the dealers and Jobbers
OF the north, will not take this Oil az
il is. The tobacco manufacturers have
a strong accession to their ranks on
the basis of this bill, which seems to
be one which harmonizes different In
terest to greater degree than any
which has yet been offered to congress
The representatives Of the cigar In
terest, represent that they are more
interested in change Of the bonds
now required of them, than they are
In reduction ofthe present rate on ci'
CARS aud cigarettes.