Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1882-02-12
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 11th.-The
President said to-day that the sub
] eet Of Important foreign appoint
ments is under consideration be-
tween himself and the Secretary of
State, and that they expect to
have them ready for the Senate
early next week. The missions to
Berlin, Vienna, st. Petersburg,
Chile and Mexico are to be fillei.
Ex.Attorney General Taft, his
trends say, will get the Berlin
mission.
sherman Doases.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11th.-Sen-
ator Sherman publishes the fol-
lowing letter:
have seen o telegram in the
leading Ohio papers of Friday
morning, purporting to give the
testimony of Pitney before the
Treasury Investigating ommittee.
l have read the testimony given
by him and there is not one word
of truth in the telegram. No Such
testimony was given, no such
scene occurred and no letters OF
Senator or Mrs. Sherman were pro-
duced as alluded to. l am author
lied by Senator Hale, who is men,
toned and to whom I showed the
dispatch, to make the same de.
NAL. The telegram is a wholesale
lie, as the testimony when printed
will show.
[Signed.l JOHN SHERMAN.
Proposed Revenue Reductions.
WASHINGTON, February 11th.-
A Washington special to the Mail
and Express says: The Sub.COm-
mittee on Ways and Means charged
with the consideration of all mat
ters relating to the internal reve-
nue., is holding frequent sessions.
The members are unanimously of
opinion that the first reduction
should embrace offshoots, or the
little taxes which are imposed on
proprietary medicines, soaps, per-
fumery, bank checks, deposits,
matches and playing cards, about
$12, COO, 900 in all. 1t is estimated
that the internal revenue receipts
for this fiscal year will reach $780,.
600, 900. Kelly, Randall aud other
leading members Of the committee
favor taking of $40, 900, 900 of this.
They advocate the scaling of
taxes on liquors, tobacco, cigars,
snuff and cigarettes in equal ratio.
There is O decided feeling among
members Of the House against any
reduction of the tax on WHISTLES
or tobacco because, principally,
agitation of the subject Injuries
business on these commodities and
because it would make it impossi-
BILE under these ciIcumstand to re-
duce the tariff.
Goes for she ktniwsrss.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1lth.-ThOmas
M. Michel, in a card in to-day's
Tribune, in reply to the attack by
the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser, in regard to the Cleveland
Garfield monument, charges the
Stalwarts with being responsible
for the death of Garfield and says
they will not much longer be per-
mitted to hide the stains on their
hands and distract attention from
themselves by raising a dust round
the heels OF Blaine, throwing mud
at Sherman and heapiDg ridicule
on the writer. He denounces them
as stupid fools for provoking dis
cussiOn Of the matter, adding inso-
lence to guilt, aud intimates that,
if they wish full discussion OF the
subject, they can proceed with their
abuse.
A Daatb BeG C0afessioD.
New ALBANY, Ind. Feb. 11th.-
There is great excitement here
over the announcement that an
old German, named Peter Hotf-
man, who died in Harrison county
yesterday, had made some start
ling disclosures regarding two
mysterious and brutal murders
that had been perpetrated near his
home. 1t appears that Hoffman
was taken sick short time ago
and as he grew worse he evinced
great mental suffering. When told
that he was about to die,
he cried out for q priest
and in despairing tones confessed
that he had murdered three men,
One OF the crimes ne had commit.
ted in Germany, to escape punish.
ment for which he fed to this
country. The other two murders
he said he com mitted in Harrison
county, and since he was taken
sick he had been overcome with
remorse. His mental torture be.
came so unbearable that he was
compelled to confess his guilt. His
statements are fully corroborated
by evidence in the hands of the
authorities.