Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-12
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. BEFORE THE SENATE. The Tariff Bill Reported
 From Committee. THE CHANGES FOR ITS PASSAGE. Other Matters That are Be-
 fore Congress. THE MURDER OF LORD CAVENDISA. New InfOrmers Brought
 into the Case.
THE MURDER OF LORD CAVENDISH.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

l E. The TariF-SOme Few Changes Made or l SGturday-The BiII Laid Before tn, | Senate-A Hope or Its Passage by Wed, l nesday-Other Bills that Congress hal 1 to Struggle with Meantime.
 l WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-As for the last two
 weeks, most of the time during the week tha
 has drawn to 8 close was occupied in tn,
 work of revising the tariff. In both houses yesterday another day was added to the rec
 ord of time which the present Congress hal l given up to this important matter. Int pension appropriation bill was passed in ths
 Senate, and the tariff bill was at once taken ] up. The internal revenue tax on snuff 1 smoking and manufactured tobacco was re l duced to eight cents per pound and the tax
 on cigars was made $3 per thousand instead I of $3, as in the bill. A section was agreed
 to which in effect made all goods in bond tc | share in the reductions made. The bill af 1 amended was reported to the Senate. In the 1 House, after long discussion and number l of amendments had been voted down, the l duty on cotton ties was left as at present | fixed in the bill, 4 cents per pound. A duty 1 of one and quarter cents per pound was l imposed upon cast iron vessels, plates, stove plates and irons sad irons, tailors' irons and hatters' irons. Though number of other matters involving reductions or increases in the rate of taxation on the various articles coming within the schedules under consider ation, these were the only changes of inn
 portance made.
 The tariff bill remains the leading business of the Senate. MT. Merrill will endeavor to sit it out to morrow night, but the difficulty in keeping quorum afier 6 o'clock may again interfere with his plans. Long dis cussions are expected on propositions to in
 crease the duty on iron, ore and pig iron, and MT. Logan's motion to admit salt free may also lead to protracted debate. Very few Senators think the bill can be passed be- fore Wednesday night and many believe it will take the whole week to dispose of it.
 The tariff bill appears to have the field in the House during the coming week at least at the day sessions, or from 12 noon to 5:3o D. m. MT. Kasson's resolution offered last Friday to make it in order to suspend the rules by 8 majority vote and consider in the House any appropriation or revenue bill will be bitterly contested by the minority and may consume good deal of time in the House before it is adopted. After this week there will remain but twelve working days of this session. This week will probably show the fate of the tariff bill. At present there is about an equally di- vided opinion as to whether it will pass be devoted mainly to consideration of the legislative bill and Saturday is fixed for eulogies upon the late Representative Shack elford of North Carolina. The whiskey men have not given up hope and are on the alert for any opportunity that may present itself. With an undeubted majority against the Sher- man bill it may yet be gotten through at an evening session through the absence of mem bers who do not care to attend on a cold or stormy night.
 Senator Plumb, it is said, will tomorrow offer an amendment to the internal revenue and tariff bill in which he will propose to levy an income tax of per cent. on bonds and like securities.
 The Future Lffe-Senat0r Ingalls, Com
 jures Up a Hell for Baptist Editor. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-Senator Ingalls,, of Kansas, yesterday sent the letter given below in reply to some editorial strictures which appeared in the columns of the New York Baptist Weekly upon the Senator's eulogy of the late Senator Hill, of Georgia. The edi- torial expressed the belief that MT. Ingalls, was an infidel whose ''gloemy, hopeless ut terances" on that occasion itly embodied his sentiments in relation to future hfe-senti- ments which it was "a piece of pure imperti-
 hence" to announce in connection with the solemn commemorative services of a Chris
 tisn Senator. To this Mir. Ingalls, sent the following reply:
 A. S. Patton, D. D., New York city:
 Sir-I have received the marked copy of the BGptist Weekly of February Sth which you were good enough to send us. In my brief tribute to the memory of Senator Hill, | whom honored as man and loved as a 1 friend, I presented those reflections which arise in all thoughtful minds when medltat- | ing upon the impenetrable mystery which 1 veils the future state of man from all except l the editor of the BGptist WeetlT. suggested
 the argument for immortality based upon the | imperfections and incompleteness of earthly ] careers, even the longest and most forum
 ate, unless, supplemented and rounded out hereafter and affirmed that from this stand point knew of no one whose life was as 1 rich in the prophecy of future existence as
 that of Senator Hill. I said further that
 though his sun went down at noon, it sank amid the prophetic splendors of an eternal dawn. Upon this you publish detached par 1 agraphs of my speech and tell your readers, | if you have any, that am heathen and an | intidel If you are Christian prefer to be
 a heathen. If your religion prompts or per-
 mits you without provocation to libel those
 with whose views upon the great problems
 of human destiny you do not agree. prefer | to be an infidel. But am neither the one
 nor the other. have had some doubts
 hitherto whether eternal punishment was
 consistent with infinite love, but am quite
 sure if there is no hell for such bigoted
 slanderers and malignant liars as you there ought to be. With great respect.
 | Your obedient servant,
 l JOHN J. INGALLS,.