National Republican., 1883-02-13
ON TnE AYENUE.
ll mn Abont nIen nnd 1Ieasure

SchaJOr Sherman IS reported 10 nave IN
| formed o friend that he expected TO be on the
tariff conference committee, and that he could
not vote for the senate bill in its present shape.
Should a necessity arise for the appointment
of such q conference committee, there is pos
sbility that Senators Morrill,, Aldrich, Beck,
Bayard, and Sherman will compose the
senate end and DIessrs. Kelley, McI6in-
ley or Haskell, Kasson, Carlisle, and
Morrison the house end. This is the
committee outsiders have kindly named
in order to relieve the vice president and
speaker of the trouble of making selections.
That the appointing power will fail to ratify
tho choice of the outsiders none of the out
siders doubt for moment.
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A New England member in trying to ex-
plain Senator Shermans position on the tariff
bill last evening, said: "The senator,
you know, is very anxious that the
bonded spirits bill should pass this scs-
sion, and the representatives of tho iron
interest have given him to understand
that they will plump their votes against the
whisky bill unless they are given show.
They are ugly and mulish, and just mad
enough to kick every fellows fat in tho fire
who opposes them. Sherman is afraid of
them, and is doing his level best to placate
them. That is one of the reasons he is against
n sweeping reduction in the duty on iron and
its products
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There is a wide difference of opinion among
republicans touching the fate of the Kasson
resolution. The very high and the very low
tariff men vow they will oppose it, aud the
"middlo class" is anxious to have it 90
through, so that tho tariff discussion can be
choBod of and the house bill sent to n confer
onco committee. The opponents Of extreme
measures claim to be stroug enough
to defeat tho resolution, but tho
iron mon have not boen able thus far to show
the strength they claimed to have, and a sus-
picion exists that the votes will not material
ize. Some of them have gone regularly into
the obstruction business, and by absenting
themselves from tho floor of tho house per-
sistoptly they arc delaying matters consid-
erahly. They do not come sQuarely TO the
| front and join hands with the free trade dem
ocrats, hut sulk in the back ground and cum
Der the ambulance train. The members who
are honestly dosirous Of seeing a bill pass this
session are declaring themselves for the
Kasson resolution.
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| A vinegar battle was fought out in the sem
ate chamber yesterday and the result was q
substantial victory for the manufacturers Of
whisky vinegar. They knocked the cider
vinegar crowd out in very fow rounds. The
eastern senator's fought nobly for their
orchard owning, cider-pressing constituents,
but they couldn't muster votes enough, and
the infant mash vinegar industry will not
languish for lack of protection By the time
congress meets again it will have become u
vested right. 1t will take very moan con-
| gress to bother vested rights. Infant indus
tries mature very rapidly sometimes
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The men who fix things lin their minds)
have it that Senator Logan is to succeed tho
late Marshall Jewell as chairman of tho re-
publican national committee. Tho senator
might object. A possible president would
naturally feel deicacy about taking such
an Office under the circumstances, and
| give his opponents an excuse for charg-
ing him with "fxing things" in his own
| interest. To be sure chairman will
have nothing to do except to call the
next national convention to order eighteen
months hence, but that would not prevent the
gabblers from accusing him Of scheming to
| capture the nomination. No chairman will
be needed, however, until next December, and
it will be time enough nine months from now
to begin discussing this question. John A.
Martin, the secretary, can attend to the pre-
liminarieJ.
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Representative Klotz ought to be happy.
In anticipation of the passage of his repres-
sive horse car bill the Metropolitan company
has caused placards to be hung in their cars
prohibiting the drivers from stopping the
cars to take on passengers when the seats
are full, forbidding passengers the priv.
ilego of hanging to the straps, prohibit
ing smoking on tho platforms, and declaring
that there shall be no overcrowding The
men who wait for the last car and see it roll
by unresponsive to their frantic signaling
are already filling the air with anathemas
but the vision of Klotzs wrath is over before
the company's eyes, and belated passenger:
may yell themselves hoarse and swing theil
arms off at the shoulders. They should have
been born lucky instead of pretty.
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The senate employees who are paid by thu
year do not believe the senate will reorganizC
its working force before adjourning. The
candidates who want their places think diff
ferently. A republican senator when asked
for an opinion said "Why, of course W,
will reorganze. We want our fellows to bC
drawing pay and doing nothing instead
of the other fellows" The candidates fol
sorgeant-at-arms are Col. G. w. Hooker, o
Vermont; Hon. w. p. Canaday, member o
the national republican committee from Nortl
Carolina, and Mr.. George Christ, of Iowa
Mr.. George G. Gorham is the only candidat,
who has been announced for secretary.
Mr.. Blaine and BIr. Window.
Oskd'ooSd Herald.
SO it is claimed that Mr.. Blaine's friends IL
Minnesota joined in tho defeat OF Senator Win
dom, because that gentleman permitted his nam,
to go before the national convention in 1880 anJ
this tool; Blaine -mortgOged state away from tha
column Some Of Mr.. Blaines friends in III,
western states have been exceedingly wild
foolish, and bossy, and If they have had anything
to do in the defeat of Window, and the elevation
. Of Il mere machine, 1t will be n troublesome tim
for them. Some of Mr.. Blaine's methods are 4
be condemned. Take Iowa. A little syndicate
was formed of small handful OF Blaine mon
, under Gnriieds administration, and none bu