The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-01-23
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p THE sBIIis-THE, I0bACCc"IAAr QUESTION: A
REDUCTION TO sIXTEEN CENTS DEMANDED BY
TIE TRADE--suGAR TARIFF DEFEATED---PER-
x soNa1.--MEMoRIAL CEREMONIES IN HONOR
OF THE LATE HON. b. +. DoUGLAS--LAB0R
AND CAPITAL. &C. &-...,.....-.s >
from Our Regular CORRESPONDENCE
WASHINGTON, January 22,-As I predicted
yesterday, the House judiciary Committee
has unanimously agreed to report adversely
on the Royal bill. There have been SO
many applications to Judge Harris for copies
OF this bill by members OF the Legislature
and others that Isend youits complete text.
1t reads as follows - s.ue3
Be it enacted by the Senate, and House of
Representatives of the United States Of
America in Congtes Assembled, That it is
the true intent and meaning Of section 100
OF the Revised Statutes OF the United States
that the jurisdiction Of the Supreme Cour.
OF the United etateS Has oastended and does
extend to reaxamining, reversing, or affirm
ing, FOR the causes therein mentioned, the
final judgments or DEGREES OF the highest
court of State in which q decision in the
suit could be had, in all original proceed
which the judges OF such highest court are
equally divided in opinion. And the said
Supreme Court OF the United States is here
by expressly given the same Jurisdiction
and authority to reexamine, reverse, or al
firm any Judgment OF decree Of the highest
court Of State in which decision in The
suit could be had in any original suit or
proceeding in such highest court. tn which
the Judges OF such highest court were
equally divided in opinion, as the said Su-
preme Court has to reeNamine, reverse, or
affirm any other Judgment or decree OF
such highest court of State.
Section 3. That this act Shall, extend 10
all cases upon the docket OF said Supreme
Court at the date OF its passage, as we'll as
TO such rs may be placed upon it after its
passage. .,.-- :4.stF - ...ftT
THE ToBACCO-TAX QUESTION To-S1GHT-THE
i. ULT1NATrM OF The ToBACCo-AEN. - =. s...f
The Executive Committee OF the National
Tobacco Association have held a meeting
and declared that the trade demands re-
duction of the tobacco tax to 16 cents,
and will be satisfied with nothing short OF
this, because it alone can prevent Congress
from yielding to the demand for free-leaf
law, which, in their Judgment, will utterly
destroy.the business OF tobacco manufac-
turing. ...,,,,
Messrs: Wallace and Bayard are absent,
and Mr.. Morrill, to-day informed Senator
Withers that he feared there could be no
conclusion reached Oh tobacco this week.
Senator Withers urged him to use all posi-
BILE haste, as the, country is suffering sadly
from delay. Governor Walker has laid be-
fore the House. the petition of the Ashland
Grange, in favor Of reduction. Your COR
respondent anticipates stirring work In IA
vor OF reduction. .9na ...,,.' ~ ,tHs
THE PROPOSED SUGAR TARIFF ALREADY. De-
| - 4. ......-.... PEATED.' - 5f".t'- . ''ia "
Mt. Tucker still has some hope that the
proposed sugar tariff will pass, but your
cores pendent regards it as already defeat-
ed. His reason for this belief is that Mr..
Wood, chairman OF the Ways and Means
Committee; Mr.. Garfield, leader of the Re
publicans, and Mr. Kelly, OF Pennsylvania,
also members Of the committee, have given
notice that they mean ito oppose-it, and all
the influence Of the Treasury Department
is against it. Mr. Burchard. OF the same
committee, says it. will be defeated, and I
asked Republican member to-day how he
would vote on it, and he promptly replied
that he would so against 1t, because it
does not. embody the recommends
tions of the Secretary of. the Treasury.
The reasons which. will control his action
will, 7 am sure, generally influence other
Republicans. It looks to me nowsas il moth.
ing viii be done in regard to sugar this SEES
sion, but il, there should be legislation. il
my Judgment it win result only in the
adoption Of the polariscope. rs means. %
preventing the alleged frauds in the i'npor
tation OF sugar between ! and Ii, Dutch
standard. ,.-.-
A WISCONSIN DEMOCRAT STRENGTHENS HIMSELF
AT HOME, By, oUTRAGING THE FEELINGS OF
! HIS SOUTHERN BRETHREN: -
One of those inevitable southern foya
war claims which turn the stomach OF every
| Confederate to-day in the House gave Gen
eral Bragg (Democrat), from Wisconsin, an
opportunity to offend outrageously every
southern Democrat. He told them il they
intended to continue their demands upon
the Treasury they had better join the Re
publicans and leave northern Democrats to
replcte their ranks in their own country.
Dir. Ellis was the only Democrat who got
an opportunity to repls, and he said that
the South was willing now to close the
books containing these claims, never TO
be opened. again, and that it was Just suci!
northern Democrats rs Bragg that led the
South by their teachings into the war.
The fact is that these loyal war claims oush
| not to be before Congress, but should be, as
| Dix. CabeiI, OF Virginia, proposed two years
ago, turned over to court Of claims, so
that both sides could be heard. The com.
mittee, if it had agreed with him, would
have acted wisely. AS it is, the evidence Is
always ca parte; but9wheneyersa "A. Claim is
reported after passing the scrutiny OF Eden,
of Illinois, and Cabell, it Is safe to bet that
the claimant, never 10 their knowledge OF
belief, during the war, had tlisloyial
thought. ;ghe smiles, that played over the
faces of Conger, Harry Libby White, and m
Eugene Hale, while Bragg was perfermsns'
were expressiyeiy satanic. All The Repuo'
llcans, Of course, floeked to the Democratic
side. The claim which oecasioned this e.
citinf. ar,fso,i n, flie de ineratiols " the