Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-06

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house here.
The Luzerne county bar unanimously
approves the bill to pay county officers
with salaries instead of fees; but the
Schuylkill bar declares against it. The
passage of the measure now depends
upon the members OF the Legislature from
Berks, Luzerne and Lancaster.
NOTWITHSTANDING Arthur's inclination
for dining and wining he got his work in
during the last session of Congress, having
sent in s72 executive messages and making
more political appointments than any
other president ever did 10 the same space
of time sioce the war.
THERE is q lamentable absence in the
newly elect Democratic city committee of
Philadelphia of the gentlemen who in the
last campaign gave the most character and
efficiency to that body. Their successors
may be of equal fitness, but it remains to
be proved.
THE Monday evening session Of the
Legislature did we'll to provide for a
Thursday afternoon session Of the House
and to refuse to dispense with Saturday
sessions it will do still better to enforce
better attendance of the members on the
last day of the week. Landis' bill to pre-
vent political organizations paying taxes
was placed upon the calendar. The Re
publicans refused to fix special order for
the consideration of the congressional
apportionment bill on Tuesday of this
week.
OVER in the old world, where monarch
les quake before the plebians and a repub-
lie trembles at a poster tackled on bill
board by remnant of royalty, they carry
their timidity into society and seek to
gloss it over with pride. At Cannes, in
France, where Mr.. Gladstone finds recu.
peration for his shattered health, $50.
ciety" has become very indignant with
Lord Wolverton, for introducing NJ.
Ctemonceau to the English statesman,
because NJ. Chemonceau is a republi
can and Mr.. Gladstone is not. The ole
vated social position of the Orleanis:s
and Legitimists, the effete supporters of
moribund principles of monarchy, is held
to be holy ground not to be polluted by
the presence of ofrepublicans, for whom per-
petual ostracism is considered an made.
quate fate. Very likely these paranymphs
of royalty begin to perceive the material
augmentation to the ranks of the advo.
Gates of free government, and seek to
display their disdain, whilo they dissemble
their fears, by bringing the weapons of a
fimsy society against tho arms of the dis
satisfied people
NOTHING can exceed the vulgar greed oi
ex- Speaker Keifer in removing Stenog
rapher Tyson at the adjournment of Con
gress and appointing his own nephew to
the place during vacation. There are two
official stenographers of the House, and
upon Mr.. Tyson has dsvolved moro than
one. half the labor and expense of report.
ing committee proceedings during the
long and short terms of the Forty seventh
Congress, he being obliged to pay mis-
assistants for their services. By
Keifer's action Mr.. Tyson is deprived
of just compensation for his labor. the
pay for two years at 5000 per annum
being considered by Congress as fair
allowance for expenses incurred and SER
vice of this kind. His successor will have
nothing to do, as there can be no proceed
ilgs whatever to report before the next
Congress meets. The position of private
secretary to the nominal speaker will con
tinue to be filled by his son. His clerk
will be a relative, who, up to the adjourn
ment, was clerk of Robeson's committee
on naval expenditures. and the clerk to
the speakers table is also a nephew oil
Keifer. So that, all in all, the K ,ifel
family will draw about $40, 900 pay fol
doing nothing during vacation.
SoME years ago the INTELLIGENCER
pointed out how cigars, free from internal
revenue tax, could be exported and re-
imported at customs duty less than the
internal revenue tax. Under the new law
the whisky men have begun to do some
thing like the same thing. They are pre-
psring for extensive shipments abroad
under the provisions of the law by which
they can withdraw their whisky from
bonded distillery warehouses, ship it to
the seaboard in bond, export it to Bermuda
OF Liverpool, and reimport it whenever a
market is presented in this country on
payment Of a tax equal to the internal
revenue tax of 80 cents per gallon. II
may remain In custom house warehouse
after being reimported for twelve months
before paying the tax, and it can even
remain in bonded warehouses two years
longer by payment of 10 per cent. on the
tax, as penalty When whisky is with
drawn from bond here for home consump.
ton the tax Of ninety cents per gallon is
paid on the quantity originally entered
No allowance is made for the whisky
that has meanwhile escaped by leakage.
But when Whiskv il reimDorted thu fax