Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-06-06

SA'S nAA pass tuo Uoll " COIIeC6 bQ&
error in Section 25O4, Revised Statutes
on the classification of wooden cloth
lost, not two thirds voting aye.
SENATE.
Davis, referring to his absence ON Sat.
urday, said his designating Ingalls, u
President pro tenn was according to pre-.
csdent set by Thurman, and he would
like some authoritative expression ON the
matter from the Senate. The Commit.
tee on Rules was instructed to inquire
into and report on the question.
Shufeld', Of Chicago, President OF
the National Distillers' Association, tes.
tilted that he raised $4coO from Ken
lucky distillers 70 get the bill passed 70
ducinz the tax to 10 cents per gallon.
The intended to hire lawyers. The
bill was amended by striking ont the re-
duction Of the tax, and the fund is now
intact. The money was collected from,
Kentucky, because the bonded section
of the bill is more in their interest than
in the interest Of the Northwest. He
had besides this raised Sl5CO in Cm-
cinnati, $1,000 in Lexington, AID $1,000
in Pennsylvania. Fifteen hundred dol
lars had been used in defending prohib-
ition suits in Kansas and Ohio, and
about Sl5co in defrayine personal ex-
penses Of the Executive COMMITTEE. Not
a dollar was used otherwise. Nobody
ever approached witness offering assist
ance. or wanting employment. The
Northwest was chiefly interested in So
curing reduction of the tax because
largely interested in the export trade,
and wish it reduced to fifty cents per
gallon, which would leave the tax nine
ty'f ~ur cents per gallon on proof spirits.
1t would enable them to export and
also sell their alcohol spirits for
use Mt home in the arts and
manufactures which they cannot
do and compete with foreign spirits.
Liquors can now be imported cheaper
than they can be made. II the bonded
period were not extended about 34,0cO,-
600 gallons would be unloaded on the
market in 1884, against the ordinary
amount of six or eight million gallons.
BY reduction of taxes they could ex-
porttheir product and would save them.
A Rich Man SuicldeS.
PHILADELPHIA, June 5.-James Win
penny, proprietor of the Nicola Mills,
suicided today. He leaves an estate of
$2jO,O00. Mental derangment was the
cause.
silver Dollars.
WASHINGTON, June 5.-The circulation
of standard dollars for the week ending
June Sd was 117,Coo, against 1889 for
the corresponding period Of last year.
May Die.
Jail officials say that as the fact be-
comes moro apparent every day that he
must hang, Guiteau is failing mentally
and physically. His condition yester-
day was startling in the extreme, and
forebodes total smash up before June
30th. His appetite is failing; he has
become taciturn and uncommunicative
since Lawyer Reeds visit yesterday, and
spends his entire time between rising
and retiring, lying stretched on his cot,
pondering, perhaps. on the few inter-
vening days between life and death. He
will surely fail before hanging day. 1t is
the opinion Of those who see aud know
him that the Jail officials will have to
carry him to the scaffold, and prop him
up until the fatal dropfall. Abject fear
is taking possession of him. Some are
inclined to think he will go stark mad a
few DAYS prior to the event, and present
indications point in that direction. One
thing is certain, and that is, Guiteau
will sink into abject terror, become Sc
riously sick or become wholly crazy be-
fore many days pass.
Dead.
Boston, June 5.-Prof. w. Frank
Stewart, of Nevada, died at the Craw-
ford House this morning, after a short
illness. Up to 1879 he lived in Califor-
MIA and Nevada, where he was mining
editor of the State, Senator aAd mining
expert. For the past year he has been
interested in Maine mining interests.