The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-02-27
Washington.


WASHINGTON, February 26.-The Ways
and Means Committee discussed sugar TO-
day, and its members were never more at
sea than as to what will ultimately be done.
The Louisiana sugar interest is trouble
some factor In the movement to reduce the
duty, because members from that state
want the tariff TO remain as it is. They say
sugar is the only southern interest protected
by the present tariff, and il you redace the
duty on il you ought also to reduce The duty
on the articles which planters use in pro-
ducing il, including machinery. This
would inevitably involve a general revision
OF the tariff laws; and this is impractical
BILE, because every State nearly has some
article which it wants protected. BY the
way, congressman are surprised at the de-
mand, which now comes up from even
Virginia, for the protection of iron. At
the meeting to- day letter from Mr.. Have
never, the great sugar-refner OF New
| York, was laid before the committee.
1t is in reply to two questions
propounded by Mr.. Tucker while Mr..
| Havemeyer was before the committee some
tine ago. They were as follows: If you
can compete upon equal terms with Eng
laud what duty on refined sugars will equal
| ize YOU 18th England, that gets raw sugar
free, to compensate you for the duty OF 2.l6,
go, 2.S1 on raw sugars! or, as you pay
80 (say average) on 100 pounds Of sugar,
: A 1T fhaf xCb 0f
duty will compensate for the duty on raw
sugarT Mr.. Havemeyer, in his letter, re-
| plies that four cents per pound will do 1t.
! When asked the same questions when before
the committee be wos unable to answer, and
said his brain was not as active that day as it
ought to have been. Mr.. Tucker asked the
same questions of Mr.. EastWick the other
| day, VINO is connected with the firm OF Hav-
emeyer Brothers, and he replied that duty
! OF 3l3, 8 -, and 9. % would do 1t. Now
the fact is that at present the duty on sugar
| between IL and 20 is 4 06. and over 20, &c.,
| and it is therefore evident, from the ad-
missions Of Messrs Havemeyer and East
wick, both re[DerS, that the tariff on tue
| higher grades OF sugars can be reduced.
Nv judgment is that the committee will
ultimately report in favor Of Sc. a pound on
sugar between 10 and 16, the lowest grade
OF merchantable sugar; 8 % on sugar be-
tween 16 and 20, and 80 on sugar above
| 20, which embraces loaf-sugar. The COM
mittee will meet again Tuesday, when the
discussion will be resumed.
RICHMOND RENT CASES.
Senator WitherS to-day presented the pc
titions OF Anime f. Grant, G. Thomas,
George s. Palmer, Garrett +. Watson, f.
| n. Garnet assignee OF Joel Il. Watkins
Isaac Davenport, Thomas w. McCance, w.
II. Palmer. and John EDders Robinson
and they were referred TO the Committee Oh
Claims. Of which Senator Cockrell, OF Mis-
souii, is chairman, and Senator HEREFORD
of West Virginia, member. The parties
named, after the war, rented at stipulated
price storehouses to the military authorize;
for the use OF the United States army, anC
are entitled to compensation.
HOW THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC CAN BEAT TIE
M'LANE BILL.
Iasked a friend Of the Southern Pacific
| (Nr. Uuntneton's road how it could gel
along if the McLanc bill giving Congress
control over il passed, and he replied
"Mr. Huntington can complete it before
the bill can become law, and thus evade
lis rigorous provisions" "HOw?" said |.
"Why last summer" he replied, :" he built
two and half miles a day, and by increas-
ing his force and working night and day nc
can now construct five miles day. The
iron is all ready along the route, and a.
tine distance between Tucson, Arizona
to which the road is now com
pleted, and FL Paso, Texas, is only
three hundred miles, you see that it can b6
finished in sixty days" "Tbe McLane bill
YOU hardly think, with your experience as
to congressional legislation, can become
law by the 1st OF Mayi" " Ii Mr.. Hunting
ton does this quick work under the law OF
March 3, 1875, he will, OF course, defeat, as
far as the Southern Pacific is concerned, The
! objects OF the McLane bill"
| EULOGIEs ON THE LATE SENATOR HOUSTON
In the Senate this afternoon addresse;
were delivered or the life and character Of
the late Senator Houston, OF Alabama, by
Senators Morgan, Hamlin, Thurman, Sauls'
bury, Davis of Illinois, Pendleton, and
Pryor. That OF Mi. Thurman was brief
and that Of Mr.. Hamlin was eloquent and
strikingly appropriate, while the speech OF
Mr.. Pendleton was model of its kind
There was no fulsome praise INDUCED in,
but the tributes were Just what an honest
representative OF fair talent and great en-
eroy deserved at the hands OF those who
knew OF his practical work as legislator
and a man.
JUDGE REAGAN HAPPY.
The House Committee on Commerce to-
day granted permission 10 Judge Reagan 10
report his inter. State commerce bill, the
Henderson bill, and the McLane bill TO the
House. The Henderson bill provides for a
commission. and has other features besides,
while the McLane bill provides only Tor
commission.
Personal NEWS ITEMS.
Senator Randolph says he expects to
make his Fitz Jsbn Porter speech to-mor-
row or Monday. w. G.. Taylor, OF Rich
mond, was ut the Capitol to-day. Mr.. Have
meyer and other sugsr-men have returned.
Senator Williams expresses himself as
highly pleased with the Kindness with
which he was received and entertained