Connecticut western news., 1883-02-07
The Senate passed the Morron sub-

HtDoSON~ - stitute for the sugar Schedule. 1t pro- vides that all sugars not above No. l3 Dutch standard in color, testing by the polariscope not above 75o, shall pay duty of II cents per pound, and for every additional degree or fraction of a degree shall pay 1-2O cent per pound additional sugars above No. 13 and not above No. 16, Dutch standard, ? 65-10o cents per pound sugars above No. 16 and not above No. 20, Dutch standard, 15-100 cents per pound all sugars above No. 20, Dutch standard, 8 65-100 cents per pound molasses test ing not above 56 degrees, shall pay 4 cents per gallon above 56 degrees, 8 cents per gallon.
 In the tobacco schedule the Senate fixed the duty on cigars and cigarettes at $2. 50 per pound and 25 per cent. ad valorem: tobacco in leaf, ,unmanufactured when the greater portion is suitable for wrappers, 75 cents per pound all other tobacco in leaf, unmanufactureda and not stemmed, 35 cents per pound tobacco stems, 15 cents per pound tobacco man. ufactured, 40 cents per pound.
 An effort will be made in the House to prevent and punish the adulteration of sugar by legal enactment.
 -Quinine was placed on the free list by the House.
 After eulogistic addresses both Senate and House adjourned on Wednesday, in respect to the memory of Godlove s. Orth, of Indiana.
 The Society of the Army of the Potomac will hold it's fourteenth annual reunion in Washington on May 16 and IF, 1883. This will be the first meeting of the society at the national capital, and it is desired to make the reunion more successful and interestingi in every respect than any that have preceded 1t.
 In the House the joint resolution requesting the President to take the necessary steps toward negotiating new treaty with the German Empire was re- ported.
 In the Senate, Mr. Logan reported the Army appropriation bill. The bill as 1t came from the House was $24, ,696, 300. This has been increased to $25, All ,50O in round numbers, net increase of $775, ,O0O.
 In the House bill was introduced by MT. Deuster, of Wisconsin, directing the Commissioner of Agriculture to set apart for distribution among the sufferers by the late disastrous floods in the Valley of the Rhine, Germany, such quantities of seeds, plants, vines, sapGngs or grains as may not be required for the ordinary uses of the Department of Agriculture at the present time, and to receive such contributions of grain, etc. foE the same purpose from private parties, and to make proper provisions for their storage, shipment and delivery. MT. Deuster said he had no doubt the German steam CTS would carry the contributions free of charge.
 A fourth report upon the Pension Bill granting an increase to one-legged and one-armed soldiers and sailors has been presented in the Senate from the Pensions Committee, prepared by Sena- tor Van Wyck and signed by himself and Senator Chilcott. The report, which favors the House Bill (No. 1,41O says; stNo reason exists why the soldier who carried the musket and made the charge should not receive the same amount for the loss of a leg or other disability equal to that of 8 captain or colonel.
 EXC -Congressman Acklen, of Louisi- ana, withdraws his contest for William P. Kellogg's seat in the next Congress.
 MT. O. H. Irish, chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, is dead.
 The Senate Pension Committee have split into three parties on the proposed measure to increase the pensions of sol diers and sailors who lost an arm or leg in the government service during the War of the Rebellion. The majority of the committee, represented by MT. Slater, are against the proposition. The minority, Messrs. Blair and Mitchell (the chairman), are in favor of the measure and Of enlarging it's scope so as to in- crease the pensions of those whose eye- sight or hearing has been impaired by reason of service in either of the arms of the war service. Mir. Platt is unable to agree with either the majority or minor ity, and proposes to offer bill of his own, embodying his individual ideas.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 The date of the Czar of Russia's coronation has been fixed for May 27.
 Tt is believed that the Powers in- tend making an effort to preserve the peace of Europe.
 Cuban deputies in Spain want the
 
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 The President of the German Reich stag acknowledges the receipt of 8 further sum of 50, 1000 marks from New York for the relief of sufferers by the in mutations in Germany.
 Two of the leading Nihilist prison CTS, 8 man and woman, confined in the fortress of Peter and Paul, Russia, have become insane.
 Switzerland has rejected the natural ization treaty proposed by the United | States
 | M. de Giers's visit to Vienna has re suited in complete understanding be | tween Russia and Austria on the leading political questions and also in the ar rangement of the differences regarding the navigation of the Danube.
 The exports from Yokohama during 1882 amounted to$26, 600, GOO and the i'm ports to S23, BOG, GOO.
 -Cetewayo has been reinstated as King of Zululand.
 American exhibitors are asked tt erect separate building at the Cork In dustrial Exhi bition.
 An Italian steamer has been wrecked on the coast of Tripoi. Twenty of tn, crew were drowned.
 Lieutenant Harber will be at Ir kutsk in April with the bodies of tn, Jeannette explorers.
 A famine prevails in Kherson, Rus sia.
 The pinch of the famine in Ireland will occur in February or March.