Connecticut western news., 1882-04-05

~ SSAA&4AA<4S ' mining and industrial industries o the United States so far as the sam
 may be necessary to the establishment of judioious tariff or revision of tn,
 existing tariff and the existing system
 of internal revenue laws upon a scale o
 justice to all interests, and are to repor
 to Congress from time to time and tt I make final report not later than the
 first Monday in January, 1888. | Mir. Platt, from the Senate Commit
 tee on Pensions, reported a bill which
 provides "that all soldiers and sailors
 who, since July 16, 1880, have been pensloned or rated at $50 per month fol total and permanent disability, requir. ing the regular personal attendance of another person, shall receive in lieu of such pensions the sum of S72 per month, and be paid the difference between said sum monthly from the date of such pension or rating to the time of the act taking effect. Hereafter. the rate of pension for such disability shall in all cases be SIP per month"
 The House Committee on Ways and Means agreed upon bill to reduce in. ternal revenue and instructed Rep- resentative Kelley to report it to the House. The bill repeals the stamp act on bank checks, drafts, orders and vouchers the tax on the capital and deposits of banks and bankers under section 3,409 of the Re- vised Statutes of the United States, as amended; the tax on the capital and deposits of national banks under section 5,2l4 of said revised statutes, and re- duces the taxes on high wines, cigars. matches aud patent medicines. An analysis of the bill shows probable reduction of internal revenue in $23.- SIS, ,286, the calculations being based upon the collections of the past year.
 Agent Miles, of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency, in the Indian Terri tory, states that it will be very difficult to prevent an outbreak if the rations of |%he Indians are reduced. Miles says the crop of the Indians last year failed. and to shut them up on the reservation with less than half rations may result in an outbreak which will cost the Government ten times theamount neces- sarry to provide for a fall issue of rations. ---.. .
 l-An order has been issued by the Treasury Department, aequiescine in the decision of United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of New York, that hay is dutiable only at 10 per cent. ad valorem as a non enumer- ated unmanufactured article.
 It is stated that General Grant is making personal efforts to bring about the reinstatement of General Fitz John Porter. -..3- se M v
 The President sent to the Senate the nomination of Sterling P. Rounds of Illinois to be Pablic Printer.
 1.-The Secretary of the Interior, in reply to the inquiry of the House as to hoy much money would Ee required to pay the pensions of the survivors of the Mexican war and the Indian wars prior to 1S46, has submitted the estimate made by the Commissioner of Pensions, hxing the total amount at $93, ,582, 112.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 MT. Lowell our minister to Enp. land has been instructed to express the Presidents personal wish for reprieve of Dr. Lamson.
 Two large British steamships loaded with Chinese passengers have sailed from Hong Kong for Victoria.
 Warrants are said to be out in Ire. land for six members of Parliament.
 A nihilist proclamation in St. Pe- tersburg says that the Czar has been definitely condemned to death.
 --7The recent messages between the Emperors of Russia and Germany will | do much to allay the apprehension of | disturbance of the peace of Europe
 The members of Parliament from Dublin are warned by their constitu- ents not to vote for the closure.
 "A dispatch from Pesth, Hungary, reports that sixty houses and fifty out. buildings at Boeszenfa, and PAS houses It Paks have been burned, and several hundred families are in destitute con- dition.
 The coasting steamer Pelton has Loundered in the British Channel. Eighteen persons were drowned.
 Canon Fleming, preaching at West. minister Abbey, said "There are now SO many objects of the common inter- est, which makes America and England one in friendship and sympathy, that death will be as sincerely mouFned here as it is in the United States"
 A lfeboat, while proceeding to the rescue of the crew of 8 sloop during a | gale Oil Havre, capsized and both crews. numbering nineteen persons, were drowned.
 An American lawyer has been ar. rested in Belgium for malversation. in. volvlng several millions of francs.
 The police had 8 skirmish with a | party of thirty men in Tipperary. Ire. land, Friday night, in which one of the | citizens was killed and several wounded. A priest in Queens County, Ireland, has been sentenced to six months inn orisonment for reading an insurrection- .ry letter said to be from the Bishop of Nevada.
 MT. Jennings in hls cable dispatch 'eports that the British Government is seriously considering the question of or trying the American sus- oocts.
 UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
 SENATE.
 MT. Miller presented and read peti- lon signed by 10, 900 bankers and other 'usiness men of New York protesting 4gainst any bankruptcy measure that will give the courts large discretionary lowers. The Senate bill granting pension to Iucretia R. Garfield was amended on potion of MT. Teller by substituting he bill granting pensions to Mrs. Gar. ield, Mrs. Tyler, and Mrs. Polk. The Tariff Commission bill came up. 1 nd MT. Harris (dem. ), of Tenn, spoke I advocacy of action on the tariff by , committees of Congress without further ,, clay. Several amendments to the bill 'ere offered and lost, and the bill was S