The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-03-10
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Washington.
FREE sALT-THe COMPULSORY PILoTAGE DUES
TIoN-A RAILROAD sENsATi0N-MR, VESTS
BILL AND THE INDIASs-HooP IgON--Co-
LoRED METHODIST CONFERENCE, &C &C.
From our Regular Correspondentl
WASHINGTON, March 9.--The Ways and
Means Committee to-day agreed to hear the
advocates OF free salt on Thursday, and on
Friday those who want free paper and also
TO have placed on the free list all articles
which enter into the manufacture OF paper.
TIE committee heard to-day further discus
sion Of the duty on bi-chrOmatc OF potash,
and the indications are that the rate will be
reduced. This Is a Baltimore enterprise,
and Of course New England and It's allies
think it most oppressive monopoly.
Sugar was referred to sub-com-
mittee consisting OF Messrs. Tucker,
Carlisle, Frye, Gibson. and Garfield
majority OF whom are for some
reduction. would not be surprised, from
all gather tonight, il an ad vdtOrem duty
OF 81 per cent. on all the different grades Of
sugar were finally adopted. Now, II we
take the average price OF the different
classes OF sugar under the present tariff, we
! find that any uniform duty, say $50, on
sugars under lS, would make almost an ad
cdtorem du'y averaging 81 or 81 per cent,
and the only variation between the highest
and lowest of the three classes would be 6
per cent. The reduction on the present
tariff Of 81 percent. ad Ualorem be adopted,
will be found by calculation to be about as
follows: On sugar between 10 and IS. 81
cents per hundred pounds; on sugar be-
tween IS and 10, SO cents per hundred
pounds; between l6 and 20 GA" sugar.
so cents per hundred pounds, and above 20
(oai sugar.. SI.10 per hundred pounds.
| take it that the refiners will oppose most
strenuousIy a bill Of this character, but it
would be acceptable TO grocers and relief
| to the consumers OF sugar.
THE PILOTS TO GO BEFORE THE HOUSE COM
MERGE COMMITTEE.
Representatives Of the different pilots as
sociations all along the Atlantic coast are
here, and MessrS. Edwards OF Norfolk
CooEe of Baltimore, Harbiuson OF New
York, Guerney OF Boston, Textbook of Sa-
yannah, and Schelinger and Verden Of
Philadelphia, will go before the House Com
merce Committee tomorrow and reply to
the delegation Of ship-Owners who ar
gued the other day in favor OF the aboli-
ton OF compulsory piloiage. They will
urge the committee 10 leave the subject TO
the States, and are willing that the mer-
chants OF each port shall regulate the
charges for piIotage. Mr.. Edwards, OF
Virginia, Is at the head OF the Association,
which has its headquarters at Norfolk and
Old Point, and is thoroughly posted as to
the merits Of the question now before the
Commerce Committee.
LEssEPs AND EaDs BEFORE THE HOUSE CON-
MITTEE TO-DAY.
NJ. de Lesseps explained to the House
special committee on the inter'oceanic
clnal to-day his plan for a Panama canal,
and made most favorable impression. His
project Seems perfectly feasible, and he
saws by means OF the railroad and telegraph
he was able in a few weeks to ascertain as
much about the route, its difficulties, adj
yantages, &C.. through his twelve engineer
partles as could have been done years
AGO in that section in six months. Captain
f ads also explained his ship railroad, and
IL seemed cheaper than the canal, and the
ONLY obstacle apparently 10 the way
WIS the strain on ships transported over
it. Captain Eads, however, contends
that there will be no strain worth consider
ing. He proposes to construct twelve par
allel railroad tracks, on which he will put a
cradle like a dry dock, and with this, he as
serts, be can take ships with ease from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. This is no new
idea, however, because just above George
like principle, only that they are kept while
being moved from one level TO another in q
basin OF water. Captain Eads and his
friends wanted NJ. de Lesseps to give his
views in regard to the ship railroad, but
the gent!emanly and enterprising French
man did not crafty them. lie evidently
came here TO discuss bis own plan, not to
criticse the plans of others.
ARATLROAD SENSATION TO-DAY.
Senator Bailey, of Tennessee, to-day in
PRODUCED and had referred to the judiciary
Committee a resolution about the contrae'
of the Union and Central Pacific railroads
with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company,
by which it is alleged that the railroads
agreed to pay the steamship company
$4,000 per month as bonus. for which
the steamship company agrees that the said
railroads shall fix the charges for freights
and passengers. This created at once
sensation among railroad-men, and it was
telegraphed TO stOckmen in New York.
TIE CIVILIZED INDIANS AND THE VEST BILL
The delegations OF the Greeks, Choctaws
Cherokees, &C., to-day sent remonstranct
to the Senate against the passage OF the Vesi
bill, which proposes to extend the iurisdic
ton OF the courts over the Indian Terrific
~, &c. They say that if~it passes it vii
/ reyolutioniZe the relations now existing
between them and the United States Gov
eminent, and bring into their country
foreign and miscellaneous population who
have always been aggressive In tbeil
conduct towards the Indians. This
court idea was never advanced, they
say, until the railroads ran through the
Territory and issued bonds for millions
predicatcd upon the so-called grants made
by Congress in 1866 The Indians do moi
object to the courts having criminal luns'
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