The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-02-19
AL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES.
GEN ERAL

GENERAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Is. 1873
THE TARIFF BILL-AcTIoN OF THE COMMITTEE
OF WAYS AND MEANS.
Tho Committee OF Ways and Means at hcir meeting
to-day considered the tari schedule relating
ais, but concluded action upon It. When the sub.
committee commenced tho preparation of the bill they
had before thom the tabular statement OF Mr. j. $.
Moore, of the Statistical Bureau, located at tho New
York Custom House. After the bill was re-
ported to the committee 1t was discovered
that there wore papabe discrepancies in tho equiv.
lent nd vaorem OF duties paid on imported mcrchan
disc during the last fiscal year. between tho report OF
tho Bureau OF Statistics and Mr. Moore's Statements
and therefore the committee requested tho Secretary
OF tho Treasury 10 furnish them with statement OF
tho actual rates OF equivalent ad vaorcni, with a
statement Of articles to which such rates apply. SEQ
rotary Sherman has wrtton letter the committee
In which he says that Director of tho Bureau of
Statistics is understood TO state that the dlscrep.
ancics which exist between tho two sets OF tables
arise In part from the fact that tho values therein
given were obtained from different sourccs-the
bureau taking for It's basis the home consumption
statement, which aggregates the quantities and values
OF articles entered for consumption ut all ports
while Mr.. Moorss calculations wore based upon the
returns from tho port OF New York alone frequently
upon 4 wiae range and better class OF goods Tho
committee preier the statement OF tho bureau, and
Mr.. Wood says tho rates In the bill would, in many
instances been different they had received the
bureau statemons at an earlier date.
NAIL STEAMSHIP LINES TO BRAzIL-FAvoRABLE
REPORT OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE.
Representative waddell, OF North Carolina, chair
man OF tho House COMMITTEE Post Onices and Post
Roads. to-day appeared before the Semitic Post once
Committee and road his report accompanying the bill
a. adopted by tho House Committee to provide for
ocean mail steamship lines between The United states
and Brazil-one line from New York and one from
Now Orleans. In assigning for recon mendinR
legislation In regard to mail the
report says that the subject involves considerations
reaching very far beyond the postal interests Of
the government The main object contemplated IL the
revival OF Ameficau commerce BY the opening new
avenues oil trade thus giving quickcning impulse to
all our Industries liberal policy, such policy AZ
that adopted by other countries to great dsadvan
tage. fostering merchant by every means
including liberal compensation for carrying tho
malls Is absolutely necessary In tho judgment OF tho
committee, to the national wcfaro at this time: and
believing the cultivation OF closer commercial rca.
lions with Brazil and other ports OF South America of
vital Importance, tho committee express themselves
satisfied that private enterprise unrecognized
and unassisted by the governments cannot
successfully compete with tho we'll established
European lines for this trade fostercd and sustained
as tbs lattcr are BY their respective governmental
and suggest In connection with this subject that Amer,.
can shipping interests might perhaps be greatly ben
chtod by q reciprocity treaty with Brazil IN
regard TO tariff questions Nine-tenths of
our imports from that country are free
OF duty, but there is complicated tariff there infect
ing our exports. and In addition to customs duties
there other duties imposed by tho various prov
inces OF the Empire on goods brought into them. In
1871, when the imports from Brazil were dutiabie
they amounted to 800 DOC, 900. In 1876, whom iree
they amounted to s45 OOO 900, and tho increase Of
SIS, 000, 900 was entirely in the FREQ articles.
The bill as agreed upon and heretofore published In
these dispatches will be submitted to the House at
the first opportunity
APPROVED BY THE PRESIDENT.
Tho President has approved the joint resolution de-
caring that reduction OF tho tax dstilled spirits
10 inexpcdenL Also horzing printing and dis
trbution OF the memorial addresses on the lie and
character OF the lato Edward foupg Parsons, Rep.
rssentatvo from the State OF Kentucky Also an act
10 remove tho charges against Lieutenant Charles
Wilkinson, late OF Company X, 102d regiment, Penn.
sylvauia volunteers, file with the War Department
CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE SENATE
Tho Senate. In executive session, to-day confirmed
tho following Dcm,nations:-
Alfred v. Dockery, OF North Carolina TO be United
States Consul ut Leeds; John O. Smith, Of Ohio TO be
Consul General Of the United States at Montreal;
Benjamin Spooner. 10 be United States Marshal for
Indiana.
Collectors Of Customs John T. Collins, for the
District OF Brunswick, Ga William H.. Sargent
cas.ino, No.. !; Noel D. Mutt, Passsamsqaoday, Ne.
Pawnee Agency; P. b. Hunt, of Kentucky, for Klowa
Agency; Charles A. Runec, OF Minnesota, Tor the
Chippewa Agency. Minnesots
Tostmasters -WiIiam II. Pelton, Warwick, ~:
William NJ. Hasey, SAY Harbor, n. Y; john T..
DAVIS. R'verheaa, n. T.; oliver TAN, whitsIone,
N Y. Charles Willing, Jamaca, N. Y: Henry G.
johnson, Astoria, N. r.; Bcnjanin NJ. Pcaroe, OK.
lord, N. Y. Jamos y. Loach, Ballston, N Y; q. W.
Cornell Iansingburg, N. Y; Gilbert Robertson, Jr.,
Troy, N. Y.
THE PARIS Neutrality-suspicious. OF POSTPONE
MENT DENIED BY THE FRENCH MINISTER.
MI. Outroy, tho French Minister residing here, do.
MES the report that tho Paris Exposition will prob.
ably DO postponed on account OF tho grave situation
Of affairs Europe. He states that all reports from
Paris to tho Exposition most favorable ana in