Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-05

carried down. Davis Island dam is piled over with wrecks.: The steamer Den Thomp | son, famous boat, is wrecked at the dam tremendous gorge is coming from up th' river.
 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
 The eTarif-Chanses Made on Saturday, The Outlook i'm Both Houses-Senaton Merrill Hoping to Pass the Bill Thil Week-A River and Harbor Bill-Othe1 Matters.
 WAsH1NGToN, Feb. Hast week vas given uninterruptedly in both houses to labo,
 on the tariff bill, and some progress was
 made::towards it's final disposition. The eulo- gies on the late Representative Orth, of In.
 diana, took portion of Wednesdays ses.
 sion, but even on that day some little worl
 was done on the tariff bill. In the Senate
 yesterday number of amendments were
 offered and voted down, and the following
 rates were made on thread yarn, etc.: On
 thread yarn valued above 25 cents and not
 above 40 cents, 15 cents per pound above
 40 and not above 50, 20 cents per pound above 50 and not above 60, 25 cents Der pound; above 60 and not above 70, B cents per pound above 70 and not above 80, 3S cents per pound; above 80, AS cents per pound. In the House the duty on flint and lime glass bottles was changed from two cents to 35 per cent ad valorem. A motion to reduce the duty on unpublished cylinder, crown and common window glass, not ex ceeding 10 by 15 inches, from 1-2 to 1 3-S cents per pound; above that and not exceed ing 16 by "A inches, from to 7S cents per pound above that and not exceeding 24 by 30 inches, from Is to 2 3-S cents per square foot all above that, from 3 to 2 7-S cents per pound, caused long discussion, which took wide range, touching upon the relative merits of a protective and revenue tariff, embracing the abstract question of the rates of wages in this country and Europe, but seldom addressed to the question in hand. The motion, however, was lost.
 The Senate will to morrow resume discus. sion of the tariff bill and an effort will be made to limit Senators to one speech of five minutes on each amendment. MT. Merrill hopes to pass the bill by the end of the week. Most of the time of the House this week will probably be given to the consider ation of the tariff bill Monday, after the call of States for bills for reference, will be given up to motions to suspend the rules and pass. such measures as the commit tees may designate, each commit tee being entitled to enc motion under the rule. Mir. Cannon, sn behalf of the Appropriation committee, will endeavor to pass the legislative appropriation bill, but tonight it is believed this motion will meet @ solid Democratic opposition, and therefore fail to receive the necessary two-t thirds vote. The whisky men will try to do something this week. The most they can hope for is 8 night session to consider the House bill with the Sherman amendment. At 3 o'clock on Tuesday eulogies of the late Representatives Hawk of Illinois, and Updegraff, of Ohio, are in order, so the tariff bill can have but a little over three hours consideration before Wednesday, when there will remain but twenty-two working days of the session. As far as the House has gone with the tariff bill there is not much difference between it's action and that of the Senate, and it may yet be found practicable to pass the Senate bill under suspension of the rules. At the rate of progress the House has been making with this bill thus far the remaining time of the session would not be sufficient if devoted wholly to discussing the tariff to get through the bill, Action by the House on the sev- eral appropriation bills which have been amended by the Senate will prob ably be postponed until the tariff bills are in the hands of 8 conference committee. The new river and harbor bill is expected to make it's appearance in the House about the middle of the month. Strong pressure will be brought to bear upon the Commerce com. mittee to induce it to provide for the i'm provement of a number of rivers and harbors where the Secretary of War has refused to disburse the appropriations as authorized in the last river and harbor bill. Some of these, it is said, will be coupled with other rivers and harbors in the new bill, not included in the Secretary's list of unworthy impro vements. The special committee of the House on the improvement of the Missis. sippi river will be ready to report the latter part of this or early next week.
 A. H. Ward, of New York, arrived here today. It is stated by his friends that he will be appointed chief of the bureau of printing and engraving tomorrow.
 curious case having relation to the par doning power has come up in Ohio. Gov ernor Foster lately pardoned a convict sen fenced to Imprisonment for life for the mur- der of his brother. He pardoned him on the certificate of physicians that the convict was in the last stages of a deadly disease and would only get home to die. The man had cunningly deceived the doctors. He was car ried out of the prison too weak to stand and scarcely able to speak. He grew rapidly stronger when he was put into conveyance going to his home, and he recovered his full strength as soon as he got safely home. Thereupon Governor Foster, seeing he had been made the victim of 8 trick, promptly revoked his pardon and put him back into prison. Now the Supreme court of Ohio is asked by the convict's counsel to decide whether the governor had power to revoke & pardon. The case has attracted the atten- ton of lawyers here because of it's novelty. It is the opinion of an able Ohio lawyer iv- ing here that the court cannot interfere in the matter and that not only did Governor Foster do right in revoking the pardon got under false pretenses, but that there is no legal power anywhere to interfere with this vindication of justice.
 The House Committee on Commerce is preparing a river and harbor bill fer a total appropriation of between $8, O0o, GOO and $9, 00o, 900, including $2, ,000,OO0 for the Mississippi from the Gulf to Cairo and $5O0.- 900 for the stream above that point It is understood that the committee will not em- brace in it's appropriations the streams, creeks, harbors and bays to which the Score tary of War called attention as incapable of commercial utility. The committees delib- erations are secret, the clerk being enioined from giving information even to members of Congress.