Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-10
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proposition for shipping their goods out |
OF the country rather than pay i tax on it |
when they don't want to. Your CORE
spondent to-day met DR.. Rush, of Chicago |
formerly secretary of the Distillers' assoc
citation, and who has been here all winter |
working for the bill. His necktie was
under his left ear, his beard was two days
old, and he bore every evidence of a
man who was in hurry. He was boom
ing up Pennsylvania avenue at a rapid
pace, accompanied by Charley Reed,
of Guiteau trial fame, who, rumor
says, is kept here by the
old whisky ringsters not yet pardoned, but
wanting to be.
'Tell me, DOCTOR" said your correspond
ent, falling into the procession up the ave-
nue., what there is in this talk about ex-
portation of whisky to prevent the pay
| ment of taxes?"
''There's good deal in it," replied the
| doctor, pulling his hat down determinedly,
"a good deal in it. Just so much that the
government is going to lose the interest
on about $20,O0O,OOO by not passing the
bonded whisky BILL"
| "How so, doctor?"
| Because all the bourbon whisky IN the
country in excess of the demand for ths
next two years is going to be shipped out
| of the United States at once"
Really"
"Of course. Large warehouses have
been engaged at Liverpool, and already
considerable quantity has been shipped,
and more is to follow. You see it only
costs twelve cents a gallon to ship it over
there, and if it is brought back and sold
here the owners only have to pay the tax
on whatever is in the package at that time.
The cost of shipment is but little more
than the interest on the tax, and the owner
gets the benefit of the improve ment in the
value of the goods"
But how about the duty on the goods
when they come back?"
''There will be none, for exporters of
goods may reimport the same article
without payment of duty on it,
''Will all this bonded whisky not intend
ed for market at once go to Liverpool
then?"
"No, some will go to the Bermudas, and
some to other points, probably into Can
ada"
''How much will go in this way to es-
: cape taxation?"
about 25,OOO,OOO gallons, I think; and
all through the stupidity of this congress
= in refusing to do a reasonable thing"
IN F1ETCHER's FIX.
s Judge Cook, of Iowa, is in a strait. HI
was elected to congress as a Grsenbacker
but the certificate of election was given tt
Mr.. Cults, whose majority was made up by
the votes of number of Virginia negroes
shipped to Iowa to work in the mines at
convenient time preceding the election o
= 1880. Judge Cook contested Mr.. Cult
- right to the seat in congress, and after be
'. ing kept hanging between hope and fea
IF for two years, was sworn in as membe
of the house during the very last week O
the session. These two years seemed
him to be at least four, as he saw hi
pocketbook collapsing daily and the eZ
pensive demands of lawyers and Washing
D. ton boarding HOUSE keepers. But whe
he became a fullfedged congressman hi
spirits rebounded, and he returned to tn
Q. He applied for his two years salary
mileage and other allowances that goes
make congressman happy, but inst 6
y his hand was ready to take the prize
- scrupulous official raised the questio
IN whether the judge is entitled to the Who'll
er $4,000 salary, he having had the Office c
~ judge in Iowa during a part of the tim
Il covered by the congressional term of whic
~ he was elected. Now the Judge rubs hi
IL bald head and strokes his long red viii
IT kers while he meditates and awaits the d.
A. cision of Comptroller Lawrence.
r. INTERFERING WITH OTHER PEOPLES BUSHES:
y A certain congressman from Pennsylv ami
OF seems to have been getting himself di-
liked by the Catholics of his vicinity
NJ his course toward nun in convent,
y Georgetown. The nun in question
lister Lorenzo, who formerly lived
Reading, Pa. Recently maH
Der of congress from that stat
visited the convent with some ladies WI
- had known the sister when she was know
H. by the euphonious name of Miss Smi
or and in conversation asked her if she woul
,or not like to return home. The talk SCENE
rk to revive the old times in the mind of til
lg sister, who WAS quite belle when at HON
me and she soon after Mortified the member
ny of the order by telling them she was di
satisfied and wanted to go home and OF
the convent. They tried to persuade h'
adj. against it, but to no avail, and she, visiti1
Mo the bishop, persuaded him to remit h
III vows, and allow her to go to the wor
nat again. Meantime she has fallen heir
lrg some $4,000, and reports from Readir
est state that she has re-entered socie
NJ; and is likely to marry. The case is SUI
'Nu an unusual one that it has created a go
~ deal of gossip among the faithful here. an
while no word of reproach is I
tered, the course of the congressm
referred to is not looked upon with a
on marked degree of satisfaction.
Uo THE FEMALE LOBBYIST.
Tue Reports from Boston show that Euge1
iol Moseley, the female lobbyist who held SD
nm high sway here last winter, has been fou.