Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-22
THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.
SAVANNAH, BRUNSWICK AND
MOBILE HARBORS.

Reports of the Engineers-The Postal
Biu-Pension for Mrs. De Long-ReIief
of Hon. Morgan RawIs-TariR Com
mission Trickery-Porter's Zeal for
the "Barons.''
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2O.-The President
laid before the Senate letters from the
Secretary of War transmitting reports of
| the officers of the engineer corps in rela-
tion to the improvement of the harbors of
| Savannah, Brunswick and Mobile, and of
! several Southern rivers.
AT the close of the mornings business
Mr.. Plumb moved to postpone the calendar
| to proceed with the post office appropria-
tion bill. Agreed to.
Mr.. Rollins introduced bill granting a
| pension to Mrs. Emma DeLong, wife of
Lieutenant DeLOng, of the Jeanette.
| The debate on the postal appropriation
| bill was resumed. Mr.. Edmunds' motion
to strike from the bill the provision re-
ducing letter postage to two cents was
! voted down by a vote Of 40 to 10. The
bill was finally reported to the Senate and
passed. and the tariff bill was taken up.
The metal schedule was passed over
| and Will not be reached probably till
| Tuesday. The duty on unpublished, cylin-
der crown and common glass was reduced
One-elghth of a cent per pound, but this
dSblOH 10 uOl uhdl llt ElnAntG AOHllllll-
tee offered amendments, which were or
dered printed, providing that sugars not
above 13 Dutch standard shall remain
as provided in the bill: and that on
sugars above No. 13 and not above No. 1G
Dutch standard, 3 651QQ cents per
pound; on sugar above No IS and not
above No. 20 Dutch standard, I5-lOO
cents per pound, and on all sugars above
No. 20 Dutch standard, 65-l00 cents per
pound.
Adjourned.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
The House, on motion of Mr.. Tucker, of
Virginia, passed the bin removing the DO
litical disabilities of Francis Ill. Smith.
ST., of Virginia.
The Speaker announced the regular Or
der to be the call of the roll on the passage
OF the bill for the relief of Morgan Rawls.
OF Georgia, which was under considera-
tion when the House adjourned yesterday.
The bill passed-yeas 96, nays g.
Mr.. McLane, of Maryland, presented a
petition from William II. Perot and others.
of Baltimore, asking for damages on ac-
count ofthe unlawful seizure and detention
OF cargoes of sugar by the Treasury De-
partment. Referred.
The House then, at 3:45, went into COM
mlttee of the whole. Mr.. Page, of Califor
MIA, in the chair, on the navy appronria-
tion bill.
Mr.. Calkins, of Indiana, said that he
had objected to many of the provisions of
the bill of last year, and upon eXamina-
ton he had come to the conclusion that
the present bill was worse thar it's prede-
cessOr. He then proceeded to criticise
1t In detail. Mr.. Whitthorne also attacked
the Dill, as did several other members
Mr.; Robeson was its principal defender.
Inc committee rose, and the general de-
bate on the bill was limited to one hour
on Monday next.
Adjourned.
TARIFF COMMISSION TRICKEPY.
Numerous other letters written by the
members Of the Tariff Commission have
leaked out. They show cQnclusivelv that
certain members of the commission acted
only as attorneys for different interests.
Duncan +. Kenner, of Louisiana. is shown
mp most vigorously as simply an agent for
the sugar interests. All of his letters
which have leaked out are about on the
same plane as the one recently given in
these dispatches. A letter written bv r.
L. Porter, Secretary of the commission.
to Mr.. Nixon, of the Chicago
Inter Ocean, advises the latter of the in.
tentiOn of the commission to visit that
city, and urges him to ''boom this busi-
ness" Another letter written by Porter
10 Judge Kelley, the protectiOnist boss,
lndulges III ettusive praise Of the latter
and speaks triumphantly of the fact that
1.-THE free traders are being doomed and
protectionists getting the upper hand.''
From POrter's language the conviction
cannot be but that all Porter needed to
favor any industry was that he should he
properly approached He speaks. after
writing to different cities and maaufac-
turers, that scare must be taken 10 inlu-
ence the Southern members 0G the com
mission with the Importance of ditferent
industries"
In view of this expose the Republicans
IN the House will have pretty hard time
in defending the Fariff Commission against
the onslaght of the Democrats.