The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-06-16

PeTp1erities Of the Tdrif'-Repatbli-
cans hold q C0ucats-Men Of marked
PeculioTitieS IN Congress. Public
School E.rominotionS- White and
C0lored Scholars ta0o Races
Comparatively Considered.
WASHINGTON, June 18th, 1882.
The proposed adjustment or modifi-
cation of the tariff is one of the per.
picking questions in Congress. There
always have been and always will be
differences Of opinion among members
of the same party in regard to the
tariff. There can be no permanent
settlement of this policy, for the reason
the business interests of the country
are not stationary, but change, and,
therefore, from time to time need new
legislation. The Republican members
Of the House recently held a caucus to
compare views, and to harmonic, if
possible, on course of action. The
bill now before the House known as
the Kelley bill, which provides for a
considerable reduction on many arti-
cles of common necessity, also indi-
rectly favoring the whiskey and to-
bacco interest, was the text for dis
cussion in the caucus. Diversities of
sentiment were strongly expressed, but
no greater than might be expected on
a subject Of such latitude. Several of
the leading members gave opinions as
to what action should be taken. Kel-
ley, of Pennsylvania, advocated his
bill with much earnestness. Page, of
California, was decidedly opposed to
any change of the present tariff, not
even to the disturbance of the tax on
matches. Hiscock, of New York,
favored the main provisions of the
Kelley bill. Haskell, of Kansas,
argued the public sentiment of the
country demanded a modification of
the tariff. Williams, of Wisconsin,
favored the adjustment of the tax on
matches, bank checks, medicines, and
possibly the tax on bank deposits, if it
would tend to harmony. Bank depos-
its largely come from the industrial
classes, as the proceeds of their saw
ings. Mr.. Williams was not in favor
of q reduction of the Whiskey and
tobacco tax; especially would such re-
duction be inconsistent while no di-
minution of the tax on steel, iron and
sugar is proposed.
More Importance attaches to the unit
ed action of the Republicans on the
tariff than many suppose. 1t is sus-
pected if the Republicans become
divided on the question the Democrats
will, in body, go in for the reduction
of the present tax of ninety cents per
gallon on whiskey to fifty cents per
gallon; that is what the Whiskey COM
binations throughout the country now
ask. A move like this, by the Demo
Gratis in Congress, would bring to the
party an immense element of strength.
The party which can secure the liquor
power of this country in its support
will be hard to beat at the polls.
PUBLIC SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS
WHITE AND CoLORED- COMPARISON
OF THE TWO RACES.
The graduating exercises of the pub
lie schools in this city, 10th white and
colored, occurred the past week. Both
have normal schools, and all the
schools of higher and lower grades
are furnished with teachers equally
competent, and school house accommo-
dations as near alike as may be. Not
a great many years ago there was a
large class of old fogies in the Northern
states, not all dead yet, who insisted
the negroes were an inferior race, in
capable of being raised to higher
state of mental Improvement. There
is no city in the United States that
furnishes better advantages for test
ing the relative capacity of the two
races for educational requirements
than Washington; the colored being
one-third of the population, have their
own schools, churches and social in
are of themselves a separate
and independent class. The situation
of the two races for school advantages
are precisely the same. The Boards
who conduct the examinations are the
same in both. What fairer test to
settle the question of superiority could
there be? The Board of Examiners
and visitors are agreed as to their re-
spectiye merits. While it is generally
believed the white exhibit greater pro-
fciency in the some branches of edu-
cation, the colored excel in other
branches; the two races average about
even. so far as school learning goes.
Whether the colored people have equal
with the white in general
business occupations of life, is ques-
ton that cannot be tested in schools.
The colored people have made great
progress since the close of the war
wherever they have had advantages.
Prior to the proclamation of enamel
patton it was a penal offense in South.
ern states to teach a negro to read and
write. Less than twenty years ago the
and stump orators of one
of the political parties prophesied, if
the negroes were given their freedom,
of white and black
would be the result. Short-sighted
instead of such conse-
quence, the freeing of the negroes ar
rested amalgamation, During the past
fifteen years there have not been half
a dozen cases of intermarriage in this
city, with a population of forty
thousand.
PECULIARITIEs OF MEN IN
CONGRESS.
AS in all other public bodies, so there
are in Congress men of peculiarities of
habits, manners and dress, which, for
their uncommonness, are noticeable.
There are dozen such men in the
House of Representatives, each of
whom would furnish material for
some delineator Of character. Only
one OF two will be briefly noticed now.
The tallest member in the House os
Representatives is Col Jones, of Texas.
who was elected as a Greenbacker.
His dress is strikingly in contrast with
that of other members; he wears blue
flannel or checked Bingham shirts,
without. collar or cuffs, homespun
clothes, coarse boots, and all else to
match. When not in the Capitol he