The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-01-14

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| "a seVgashtngaon. ssa3a5sa /
| SENATORS IN FAVOR OF REDUCTIoN-TRE
/ SUGAR, TARIFF AGREED uPON-AN ENDORSE
+ MENT OF THE JAMEs-RIvER IMPROVEMENT:
sIxTY-FfvE THOUSAND DOLLARS Likely TO;
| BE APPROPRIATED FOR NEXT yEAR-NAyAL-,
| = PERSONAL ITEMS-RESPECT TO THE MEMORY
OF DEAD CoNGREssMaN--BRIEF ITEMS, &C.
from Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, January Ex-senator With
ers informs me that he has had a conference
with Senator Bayard, and that ! stated his
position on the tobacco tax correctly in my
dispatch the other night-viz., that he is for
reduction to 16c. Senator Eaton, Of Con-
necticut, has been reported as against re-
duction to &c.,, bat he said this morning
that he is in favor of reducing the tax to
Ice. He and his colleague, Senator Barnum,
may be both counted for the House bill
when it comes before the Senate either with
or without the favorable consideration Of
Mr.. Morrilps committee. Senator Johnston
to- day arranged pairs on the tobacco bill for
Messrs. Coke and Bayard, who 90 south
with Mr.. Schleicher's body. Colonel Bur-
we'll, who was before breakfast this morn
ing looking after the pairs OF senators
about to leave Washington, has arranged
in regard to pairs for Messrs. Bailey,
OF Tennessee, and Garland, OF Arkansas,
and others, who are in Louisiana with the
Teller committee. A valuable tobacco
| document was placed in the hands OF sena-
tors to-day. 1t gives extracts from the
speeches OF Senator'S Sherman, Thurman,
and Bayord in the Senate March 1 and 2,
1875. The present Secretary OF the Trea-
sury then ably and earnestly opposed an in
crease from zoe. to 24c., and said that the
law under which tobacco is now taxed was
dishonorable and unjust. Mr.. Bayard said
that more money could be raised by re-
ducing the tax below zoe. than by increas-
ing it to 24c., and opposed the increase.
MIR. Thurman, in opposing the increase, al
luded to the enormous burden under which
tobacco then groaned, and asked, II even a
tax OF 5 per cent. was imposed upon wheat,
or Indian corn was taxed 10. 20, or 80 per
cent. uDon its value, what would you hear
from the country? And yet, he said, to-
baeco was taxed from 100 to 400 per cent.
THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE AGREES
UPON A NEW SUGAR TARIFF-LoUIsIANA
LIKES IT.
The Ways and Means Committee to-day
agreed upon sugar tariff which fixes the
duty on sugar up to 10 at $40, from 10 to
16 at $2.75, and above 16 at 81 per hundred
pounds. Those representing in the COM
mittee the consumers Of sugar were sub
stantially for the Richmond plan, but they
were defeated. The representatives OF the
large re6ners wanted no change in the tariff
except the addition Of such regulations as
would prevent frauds. After the defeat Of
! the consumers demand, Mr.. Tucker and
otEer southern representatives voted for
the plan adopted rs the best that could
be obtained. 1t is better than the pre-"
sent law, because it has only one grade
OF sugar below 10, and under it sugar that
rated really as 10 cannot be imported as at
7. The New Orleans people hike 1t because
they say low grades OF sugar, while now
protesting to pay an average OF $40, really
do not pay more than S2.19, but under the
proposed tariff they will be compelled to pay
S2.40, which will give Louisiana sugar amin
creased protection. have heretofore stated
that the refners, and the importers whc sell
| to retiners, wanted one system OF duty below
IL, and yet they differed as to what that
system should be, as was shown by the Bos-
ton and New York plans, but still they
agreed that whatever plan was determined
on should apply only to sugar UP to 10.
For sugars above Is they wanted different
system. On the 18th the committee will re-
port their sugar tariff to the House.
THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARB0Rs
! 80 AT WORK TONIGHT. ..-.
Messrs. Reagan, Kenna, and Hnbbell are
at work tonight on the river and harbor
bill, and inform me that they will hold daily
meetings until their work is completed.
NV information leads me to believe that the
bill will only appropriate in the aggregate
Sc, OOO, 0OO This would give the James, il
a uniform rule is adopted, about 5000,
though / think the committee will see that
| it has more than ordinary claims upon the
Government.
It will be remembered that the engineer
SAYS in his report that it will take $4,000
to complete the work, and that $150000 can
be expended during the next year prohta-
blv on this improvement. DR.. Mills the
collector, too, bears testimony, in letter
now before the committee, to the fact that
previous expenditures haYe greatly helped
! navigation in The James, until vessels that
formerly had to be relieved Of part OF their
cargoes below the city By means OF lighters
can now come up to the wharf at Richmond
with full loads.
wHITEwAsHING BEFORE THE HOUSE NAVAL
| COMMITTEE.
| The Whitthorne report severely criiHises
| Wood, the chief Of the Bureau OF Steam
| Engineering under Robson, and no is now
having number Of witnesses examined by
| q subcommittee Of the House Naval Com
mittee.to show that there was no crooked
1 ness about his operations. It i sought
through this examination to relieve Robe
4 son. who is membe al, the next Congress