Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1883-02-02

majority OF thCee memorials has Gre.
atrd some curiosity rs to their genu.
inuness ia representative petitions.
La many Instances oil SIGNATURES on
the petition to the number of 80 or
|, 0 are found TO have been written by
the same person with neither crosr
marks nor memoranda to explain the
eing liar fact. The peii iors are not
dated and with but one exception are
from tho south.
THE RETIRED LIST.
The following is a list of vessels
stricken from the navy register under
the provisions { the naval sppropr's.
ton act of 1882, they being unfit
further service: Cor -ess, Guail,
Ksnsss, Massachusetts, s S,bine, Con-
nectiout, lowe, Niagara, Oregon,
Ohio, Peunsvlvania, Florida, Vr.
oinia, n " Otleans, Colossus. Java,
Susauehans, Bdrliugton, Supply,
An ietam, De,ator, Frolic, Relief,
PAwnee, II mecca, Old Monad 1ock,
N ,rrapausett, Nyack, Ssco, Tuscs.
rora, Worcester, Cansndaigua, Shaw
NUT, Savannah, Santee, Wyoming
aud n suoke. Most of the vessels
mentioned will be broken on the
stocks, while few will be sold at auc-
tion.
foLGER ON TIE REVENUES.
Secretary l, lg said tonight that
his action in issui lg call for 10 000,-
600 extended 5's was not influenced
by sp cuations as to the course which
congress- would pursue with reference
to reducing txes. He believed the
surplus of revenues which would so.
crue before any law mskinya reduo
tion could go iuto eff ct would un-
doubleday provide redemption of
these bolds, and under such circum.
cumstances 1t was his plain duty to
issue the call wi hout regard to the
attitude OF congress pres.
ent or ptosp i've. OF courae
if he had thought il probable
tho bouds could not be redeeme
without reducing tho treasury reserve
he would Tot have is.u1d tho call,
b At such was not his opinion. Even ad-
mrttlAg for a monet that congress
nigh. reduce tho taxes aud import
duties at the present session, It did
rot, he thor git, follow as All inevita.
bic cOnsf quence that the reduction of
revenue would he correspondiugly
G. .est. The 10 seriog Of custom duties
and internal revenues and tho taxes
would Itimliate importation and
c1nsnmp'i ~, 80 that the frs eff,c. Of
such legislition mighJ b. to increase
the revenues inetead Of dimishing
them.
In the senate Mr.. M )rrill offered
resolution suspsrding 80 much ct tho
act of February 2Sh, 1878 as author.
zss and directs the Eecretsry Of the
treasury to purchase silver bullion at
the market price, not less nor more
than four million dollars worth per
men,h, and cause the same to be
coined into dollars as fastas purchased.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Special Dispatch 60 1BE bEH.
SENATE PROCEEDINGS
| WASHINGTON, February 1.-At the
close If tho morning buslness the tar
if bill was taken up. The pending
question ives on Fry's amend.
ment proposing an ad valorem
duty Of 40 per cent On oil
sugars. Carlisle moved to strlke
out the item imposing duty OF / of
cent per pound on sulphate OF iron or
copper as agreed to.
Senator Frye subsequently modi.
fiod his amendment SO aa to make the
duty on all sugars under thirGeen
Dutch standard 80 per cent, and on
sugars above thirteen 40 per cent. A
long debate onsuod.
Senator Kellogg said that II Frye's
amend mt WAS adopted it would
: ruin Louisiana sugar producers, who
generally voted the republican ticket
} He was sorry 10 see the attack made
. from tho repub ican side f the cham
: Dor upon these black cohorts. X ,-
|, lo1g gave ststistlc' Of sugar pro iuai n
q in Louisiana. He said it employed
/ about 500 600. COZ olpttal, of witch
t SIC, 0C0 ,O00 was ~ machinery. -Four
? hundred thousand peop'e lived by it;
{ sixty or seventy thousand men aud
I women were employed az labsr,rs, #
q whom more than two.thirds were col
. ored. The number of ex'slaves own
3 ing homes and other property was
two or three times as largo In
a Louisiana as In any other state, and
/. that class OF population was more
o quiet and orderly there than in othe.
2 southern states. These results were
o largely attributable to the sugar in
h dustry.
Senator Beck said the more he con.
r sidered the question the more satisfied
n he became that the effort to get away
!. from the finance committee bill wa,
d in the interest of refuers. That bil
@ was more favorable to planters thar
+ any other proposition and was th'
i beat they could get.
q Frye's amendment was rejected.
IF The substitute offered by Senate
Morrill,, on behalf of the oommitteeo nj
,r finance, for tho sugar schedule in th'
10 committee bill was then adopted.
Senator George offered an amend
te ment reducing the duties laid In tn
et schedule 10 per cent. upon article
d Imported from countries where slav
labor is not employed. Lost.
Senator Morgan gave notice of a
Il amendment which he would offer Il
~ tho senate probib ting the adulteratioI
-. - Of sugar, nolasses, etc, by mixin
;, glucose with them
y Senator Beck gave notice cf a.
- amendment to prevent the sale of an.
~ mixture OF sugar and glucose as snga
10 without advising tho purchaser Of tn
- - fact Of It's being = mixture.
~ - Senator ingalls, deprecated the 81
:, forts to bring glucose into disreput'
-, Senator Sherman offered an add
- tional proviso, to be printed aud RI
ferrsd TO the committee on tinanct