The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-03-10


directors or any other association Of busi-
ness men, butthey forget that Congress
is primarily deliberative body, and it
is as necessary TO know what a man says
in Congress as how he votes in order to
fiud him out. Long sessions for every
year will have to come. Imagine Pnrlia-
ment restricted to three months session
every other year! Some change in tue
mode of seating the Representatives will
probably be determined on before next
year as the new Congress has thirty ad-
ditional members. Tue confusion on
the floor of the house is enough to drive
a nervous man to distraction. Besides
the walking, talking, smoking and every
other form Of idle amusement going on,
there is the perpetual clapping OF bands
for the pages and the rushing to and fro
of these youngsters The lobbies and
galleries are 80 crowded that tits as much
as MEMBERS life is worth to venture
through them. He is sure TO be seized
before he has gone dozen steps, and he
firs TO the floor of the House as to city
OF refuge. The floor of the Senate is Il
little better, as seventy y-eight men can't
make as much noise as 800
The scrpe aud character of what is
known ss the Senate tariff bill, which
would have promptly pissed the House
hid direct vote been sllowed on it, may
not be generally known. L. bears the
title of "An act to reduce int, rpal rsven-
ne taxation" though only its first five
sections are devoted TO internal taxes.
! These repeal the tnxes OH capital and de-
posits Of banks and bankers, the stamp
tax on bank checks, drafts, orders, and
frmery, patent medicines, &c. They fi1
the annual tax on Wholesale dealers in
leaf tobacco at $12 instead of S25; on
manufactures of tobacco and cigars al
Sc instead of $40, and they make simi
lar reduction in favor of the variou,
grades of tobacco peddlers; and the bill
enables farmers and producers Of tobacco
to sell At the place of production tobacco
of their own growth and raising at retail
directly to consumers to an amount no
exceeding 500 annually. Section 4 o
the bill makes the taxes on snuff ant
smoking and manufactured tobacco
cents per pound instead of 16 cents, ant
on cigars SO instead of Sc per 1000. AL
these are in the nature ofs substitute fo
the House internal revenue bill of las
session; the other l02 pages the act com
prise what is really the tariff bill. 1
would be useless to attempt to summar
ize this portion of the bill, but it may b.
noted that it reduces the duty on stee
rails from $2S ton to SIS 6S a ton, o
about As per cent. II reduces slightl'
the duty on tin plates; on various form
Of iron aud steel manufactures by som
20 per cent. on bar iron / cent pc
pound; on Russia sheet iron cent pc
pound. II rejects the tariff commits
sion's proposion to increase the duty ol
cotton and on some other forms of irol
generally used. 1t reduces the duty Of
sugar below No. 13 some IS per cent.
and on the higher grades still more. /
reduces the rates on some forms of cot
tons, on some forms of woolens, and OF
woods. on silks, aud puts jute butts oil
the free list. 1t considerably increase
sundIies; reduces books from 25 pc
cent. to Is per cent, and admits book
in foreign languages free. 1t reduces til
duty on salt 20 per cent, and grants
drawback on salt used in curing mea
and fish. On the other hand, the bill
makes only an illusory reduction in piI
iron and none at all on iron ore. 1t re
tains some Of the most onerous duties ol
woolens and appears to tax cloths NOR
heavily than ready-made clothing,
All last week Washington was Graz,
over q dog show, and everybody went
except the President and few others
There was an immense display of yelpini
pugs and spitz dogs, marked $500 anC
similar values, and few good pointers
settlers and collies, some of which wei
labelled S., 900 and $40 600. Their own
ers might just Us well put the figures a
100000. 1t wouldn't have cost an,
more. The kennels OF the ladies' pet
were decked eff nsthe'ically, having
many o: them plush cushions and sill
curtains; and the young women who &C
wretched little beasts were tireless il
their attentions and bestowed a vas
amount of misplaced affection on them
The judges complained as usual tha
every woman il the lot expected the frs
prize, and as there was only one frs
prize to be given. embarrassment wa
created. However, beyond a grimace O
disappointment and an additional hug t
the yowling, bowling things they cnrrie
in their arms, the young women behaves
pretty well.
At reception the other night th
Chinese minister met Mrs. Sam. Bright
who is slightly deaf and uses an ca
trumpet. Mr.. Tsao Ju, ambassador eS
traordinary and minister plenipotentiar
rom the empire OF China to the Unite
States, took 1t into his head that the ca
trumpet was new kind Of pipe, to /
smoked through the ear. 1t took fou
I secretaries and an interpreter to convinC
q him to the contrary, and even then 1
insisted, in choice Chinese, that /
Shonld he allowed to thy it for himself.
I, Don PEDRO.
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Our New York Letter.
Regular correspondence of ADVOCATE.
NEW YoRK, March G, 1888.
Colonel Mipleson is out with his al