The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-07-21

force 1t wide open. PropoSltlOnS
are being submitted from every side of
the chamber extending the reduc-
tion to nearly every taxed articles, in
Guiding tobacco, whiskey, railroad
iron, snuff, cotton goods, earthen
ware, hemp, jute, silks, wool and
woolen goods, sugar, spices, land vari-
Gus kinds of machinery.
Thus the question has drifted from
one of internal revenue proper to the
tariff and all kindred issues. What
the end will be there is now little
chance to make an intelligent guess.
Mr.. Kelley is mad because the Sen
ate will not leave his bill as he fixed
it, and especially at the intimation
that the tariff on steel rails is threat
ened. He says that the Republican
party in Pennsylvania is overloaded
now with difficulties-so. called bosses,
reformers and other kindred weights,
and interference with the tariff would
be the last straw that would break the
over-burdened back of the suffering
organization. The Louisiana mem
bers are showing their teeth because
the Senate proposes TO reduce the
duty on Sugar IS per cent, and alto
gether the only unalloyed happiness
in store for our law makers seems to
be the privilege of dividing up among
themselves the Treasury surplus in
public building and river and harbor
schemes.
Commissioner Marble succeeded in
getting the appropriation to carry on
the Abridgment Of Patents, by means
Of a Senate amendment, after the
House had voted it down. 1t would
have been ridiculous thing for Con-
gress to drop this work where it is
and throw away the $40, 900 already
expended, with the work of dozen
or more experts for nearly year past.
The thousands of applications for
patents that are filed every month
form not one of the least important
signs Of the restless vigor and prog
ress which the people of America are
displaying in science and mechanics.
But while many of these patents are
of great practical value, there are
great numbers which would appear to
be visionary, though perhaps ingen-
ious, to a practical man. The
"cranks" are almost as numerous as
the sound, practical men in making
applications to the Patent Office. Not
long ago an inventor, who is now in
Jail on charge of fraud connected
with the Peruvian claims, applied for
papers of protection in connection
with a chemical composition that
would absorb as much caloric as
might be required and retain it for
twenty-four hours. BY the means of
this invention he saw his way to heat
cars without any chance of danger
from fire, or to allow every man to
carry about his own foot-warmer in
his pocket. A more ingenious gentle
man has recently struck upon the
idea of preserving beef and mutton
while the animals to which these ar
ticles belong are actually in life. For
instance, he will inject boric acid in
to the veins of sheep. The natural
circulation of the blood will carry the
antiseptic through every part of the
body, and when the unfortunate ami
NAL that thus innocently preserves its
own flesh for future consumption
comes under the care of the butcher,
it will be found that the mutton will
keep perfectly wholesome for con-
siderable period. o . haS
The brief speech of ex-senator
Conkling at his home in Utica the
other night, has been the subject of
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considerable interest and comment
here. His criticism of the lavish ex-
penditure of the public moneys is
more marked from the fact that this
expenditure is controlled by the party
with which he has so long been as
sociated. Some Of the political Cos
sips pretend to see in these utterances
the signs Of separation between the
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