Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-03-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. March 8. 1883.
Congress is on lis last legs and we nre |
having lively time OF il this week There |
is an enormous volume of business. In I've |
transacted yet before the gayel finally falls
on Sunday noon, but ms It il in order to |
move suspension of the rules at any time
during the last six days of a session. ills
possible to work off the most importan,
measures very rapidly. AS the time an
proaches :or Congress TO adjourn u cloud
Overspreads ever brow in Washington
The capital wishes that Congress was AL
ways in session. But however people NAV
talk and write, there is general impres.
sion here that there will lie an extra ses.
sion, though do not share II. The trutb
is that fifty years ago three month"; ses.
sion every other year was enough for the
legislation OF the country, but Il ia not
enough now. This has been remarkably
industrious session; the members have
worked faithfully and the time has not
been taken up with speech-making to anv
appreciable degree. Still there is much
public business lett unsettled. There seems
to be, however. great and growing and
an unreasonable prejudice against speech
making, and everybody tries TO bring Con.
gress down to the system of a board of
directors or any other association OF bnsi.
ness men, but they forget that Congress ia
primarily deliberative lody, and it is as
necessary to know what a man says in
Congress as how he votes in order t1 find
him out. Long sessions for every year
will have to come. Imagine Parliament
restricted to three months session every
other year! Some change in the mode of
seating the representatives will probably
be determined on before next year az the
new Congress has thirty additional men,
bers. The confusion on The floor of the
House is enough to drive nervous man to
distraction. Besides the walking. talking,
smoking and every other form of idle
amnsement going on, there is the perpetual
clappng OF hands for the pages and the
rnshing to and fro of these youngsters
The lobbies and galleries nre go crowded
that 1t is as much as members life il
worth TO venture through them. He is
sure To be seized before he has gone a dozen
steps, and he lies to the floor IF the house
ms 10 city OF refuge. The floor of the
senate is little better, M aeventv-eight
men can't make as much noise as 300.
i he scope and character of what is known
as the senate tariff hill, which would have
premptly passed the house had a direct
vote been allowed on it, may not be gener.
ally known. i. bears the title of "An act
to reduce internaP revenue taxation. y
though only its first FIVE sections are deyo.
ted to internal taxes. These repeal the
taxes on capital and desposI's of banks and
bankers, the stenp tax on bank checks
drafts, orders, and vouchers, and the tax
on matches, perfumery, patent medicines
DC. They fix the ANIMAL tax on wholesa IL
dealers in leaf tobacco at Sl2 instead Of S25
on manufacturers of tobacco and cigars al
So instead $40, and they make similar
reduction IN favor of The varions grades of
tobacco peddlers; and the bill enables
farmers and producers OF tobacco to sell al
the place of production tobacco ef their
own growth and raising at retail directly
To consumers 10 an amonnt not cvceedinc
500 annually. Section of The bill IN kes
the taxes on snuff and smoking ar.l mann
fartnred tobacco cents per pound insiend
n! 10 cents, and on cigars SO instead of Sc
PEI LOCO. All these are in the nature of a
anbssitnte for the house internal revenue
bill OF last session the other 102 pnges a.
The act comprise what is really the tariff
bill. IL wonId he useless to ntfempt IN
summarize this portion Of the bill, but il
may he noted that II reduces the duty on
steel rails from S2S a ton to Sl56S n ton
or about 40 per cent. It reduces sligi,ly
the duty on tin plates; on various foim,
of iron and steel manufactures by some o(
per cent on bar iron ! cent per pound or
Russia sheet iron cent pcr ponnd. L
rejects the tariff commissions proposition
TO increase the duty on cotton ties and o,
some other forms uf iron generally use,I
II reduces the duty on sugar below No. !:
some lS per cent, and on the higher grade,
still more. II reduces the rates on som,
forms OF cotions, on some forms of woolens
and on wools, on silks, aud puts inte bntl
ON the free list. 1t considerably increase
the free list as 10 chemical and ns to sun
dries reduces hooks from 25 per cent 1,
10 per cent, and admits books in foreic,
languages free. IL reduces the duty O,
salt 20 per cent, and grants drawback q,
salt used in curing meat ard fish. On th
other hand, the bill makes only an illusor,
reduction IN pig iron and none nj nIl i,
iron ore. II retains some of the most on
erons duties on woolenH. and appears 4,
tax cloths more heavily than ready.mad
clothing
All last week Washington az crazy owe
a dog show, and everybody went, excep
the President and lew others. There wa
an immense display of yelping pugs an,
spilz dogs, marked $500 and similar val
nes. and few good pointers, settlers nm,
collies, some OF which were labeled SIS 90
aud $4,000. Their owners might Just n
wei pnt the figures at 100000. Itwou',
not have cost any more. The Kennels n
the ladies' pets were decked off astheticall
many oflhem having plush cushions an
SIX curtains; and the young women WIN
} acknowledged the ownership of thes
: wretclied little beasts were lireless in thei
attentions and bestowed vast amount {
/. m'Splnced affection on them. The Judge
complained "a usual that every woman
the lot expected the first prize, and as thel
D WAS only one first prize 10 be given, en-
! barrassment was created. However, beyon
e a grmnce OF disappointment and add
0 tional hug to the yowling, bowling thin
e they carried in their arms, the Young W,
= men behaved pretty well.
b Al reception the other night the Ch
/ nese minister met Mrs. Samuel Brigl
Il who il slightly deaf and nses an ear trnn
r pct. Mr.. Tsao Jn, Ambassador extraord
/ nary and minister plenipotentiary fro
Q the empire of China 10 the United Stat,
o took II into his head That the ear trump
2, was new kind Of pipe. TO he smok,
h through the ear. 1t took four secretari
10 and nm Interpreter 10 convince him TO Il
Z contrary, and even then he insisted,
n choice Chinese, that he should be allow,
y totiy II for himself. DON Pedro.