Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-22
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. TARIFF CHANGES. Revising the Work of the
 Commission. No Vacation For the Senate. A Vote Against the Holiday ResO-
 luti0n. A Large Fire ill Buffalo.
A Large Fire in Buffalo.
Destruction of the Commercial Ad-
 vertiSer'S Building.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Changes fn the TariH-The Alterations
 Blade By the Ways and Means Commit
 tee--Co1one1 Insersolrs Plea For His
 Cients-Tho News Budget From the
 Capital.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-The Committee on
 Ways and Means today passed upon the \ schedules of sugar and tobacco and @ portion Aof provisions. Amendments were made as Follows: On all sugars above No. 13 and not above No. 1G Dutch standard 3 instead of 33 per pound; all sugar above Mo- 1G and n9t above Mo- 20 Dutch standard, $40 in stead of 375 cents per pound; all sugars
 above No. 20 Dutch standard if per pound ::
 molesses testing above 56 by the polariscope
 duty of 5 instead of 5 1-2 cents per gallon j;
 molasses testing above 56 degrees G4 instead
 of Tod, per gallon; cigars cigarettes and
 cheroots of all kinds ?. 50 instead of 3 per
 pound tobacco manufactured of all descrip-
 tions aad stemmed tobacco not special y
 enumerated or provided for in this act, 40
 instead of 50 cents per pound all tobacco
 unmanufactured not specially enumerated or
 provided for in this act 35 cents per pound
 instead of 20 per cent cd Uazorena rye flour
 at 20 per ce nt od vazorema; potato, corn, rice
 and other starch two cents instead of 1-2
 per pound. A new paragraph was adopted
 fixing barley, hulled, pearled or patent, at
 cent per pounQ. Barley, meat and tobacco
 leaf unmanufa&tured and not stemmed were
 left over for \further consideration The
 committee adjou urned when rye in the sched-
 ule of provisions was reached. During the
 session the comm ittee turned back to the schedule of iron and amended the rate on iron steel screws one inch and over one- half inch in lengthto be ten cents per pound instead of eight cents and those one-half inch cents per pound.
 The hearing before Assistant Attorney Gen. eral Freeman of the Postoffice department of the charges preferred by l.. Lum Smith, of Philadelphia, against twenty-five Boston firms was concluded to day. The matter will now charges are sustained the firms in question will be deprived of the, use of the mails for money order and registered letter purposes. Three and half per aent. bonds to the l amount of $2s6, 926, 400 Nave thus far been exchanged into 3s, of which $27, ,555, 900 have been exchanged since November l.
 In the Star route trial Colonel Ingersoll, as counsel for ex-Senator Dorsey, made the opening speech this morning. He prefaced l his remarks by an eloquent tribute to civil liberty and trial by jury. The jury were to ! try this the facts and render ver- dict regardless of the wishes of, the President, letters from the Attorney Geperal and the islanders of the press. He then took up the l charge of conspiracy, saying that the gov ernment admitted that it was hard to prove, yet to convict these defendants they must prove it. This charge called forA an exhaust l i've legal analysis, to which MT. Ingersoll pro- ceeded to address himself.
 In the Dickson bribery to-day Mir. Dickson testified that he never received a
 dime or dollar for his vote in the Star route | trial He voted nccOr3nO tn hic honest con ] viction, and as he believed then, he lbelieved 1 now. He could conscientiously say that he did not understand when he took the paper 1 into the jury room that he was violating any l law. He was then taken in hand by the prosecution for cross examination, which was ! in progress when court adjourned.
 ! Minister Hunt, at St. Petersburg, has been ! informed by the Governor at Irkutsk thGt it 1 will be impracticable to remove the bodies of ! the late Jeannette crew at this time.