Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-17
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. OUR IMPORT DUTIES A Dual Report on the
 Tariff. CHANGES MADE BY THE SENATE. The Bill Laid Over in
 the House. AN ARREST MADE AT MIL LWAUkEE, The Barkeeper of the New
 hall House.
AN ARREST MADE AT MILWAUKEE.
Tine Barkeeper of the New
 hall House.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The TariR-A Report From the Ways
 and Means COmmfttee-NIajOrity and
 Minority Views-PIans For Making Up
 the Republican Convention.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-The report accom- panying the tariff bill reported to the House by Mir. Kelley from the Committee on Ways and Means is very brief, covering but three pages of letter paper. It states that as soon as the report of the Tariff commission and it's sev- eral schedule rates of duty and of administra- tive provisions of law embodied in the exist ing tariff were received from the printer the committee entered assiduously upon their consideration, and has carefully examined all the suggestions of the commission, and now presents as the result of it's labors the bill re- ported. The report further states that in matter involving so many distinct proposi- tions as tariff bill, touching as they do the unanimity of opinion in SO large committee as that of the Ways and Means could not be entertained and that the bill is not the unani- nous report of the committee. Mir. Ran dolph Tucker, of Virginia, speaking for the minority of the committee, states that they have addressed the Secretary of the Treasury for information and that the minority will be ready to report probably by Monday next. The opinions of the minority on the tariff is- sue will in most points be the reverse of those entertained by the majority.
 The more important changes proposed by the Senate Committee on Appropriations as amendments to the Postofice department appropriation bill reported to the Senate are the following: Fixing July 1, 1883, as the date when the reduction of the rate of post age from three to two cents shall go into effect instead of January 1, 1884. as proposed by the House of Representatives to wholly compensation of subsidized railroads for car rying the mails; to insert an appropriation of $1S5, GOO for necessary and special faciI- ties on trunk lines (this is intended to con- tinue the existing fast mail service) and to in- crease the item from steamboat mail service from $500, 900 to $625,O0O.
 The naval appropriation bill for the year ending June 30, 1884, as reported to the House this afternoon by MT. Robeson appro- priates the sums recommended by the naval advisory board for the completion of the largest cruiser of the dispatch boat and the engines and machinery of the dou- ble turreted monitors. The leading features of new legislation relate to promotions The total amount of the estimates for 1884 are $23, ,3887. .54. The total amount recom- mended in the bill for 1884 is $15, ,349, 100. 23. The total amount appropriated in the law for 1883 is $16, 83O, 476.80, an increase of $578, ,623. 43. The total amount of the bill as it was passed by the House for 1883 is $15,- 359, ,996 so.
 Among the postmasters confirmed by the Senate to-day was w. Fl. Tubbs at New Lon- don, Conn.
 The sub committee of the National Repub Hcan committee met at the Arlington House tonight and arranged that all plans for rep resentation saSeld be submitted in the form of series of propositions to be voted on separately at the meeting to morrow, after which they will be formulated and adopted by the full committed. There were present tonight about thirty members and proxies.
 At the meeting of the Cabinet to day the civil service bill was discussed at considera- bic length and methods of enforcing it's pro- visions were suggested.
 In the case of Clinton E. Williams, the fif- teen year old soldier boy who was sentenced to six years imprisonment by 8 military court fof desertion, Judge Advocate General Swain has ordered that his imprisonment shall be reduced to one year.
 s'The Sineyys of War'-How They Were
 Slightly Provided For a Tariff Com
 missioner.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-The following let G6Ea WA4CA WdS AASs4O PuOA4O GO "Gho written by MT. Duncan F. Kenner of the Tariff commission to a gentleman in New Orleans, and is interesting in connection with the debate on the tariff revision now going on in the Senate
 Long Branch, Aug. 10th, 1882.
 Dear Sir Our friend has arrived and is busily engaged under my direction in seeing certain parties in New York and preparing for certain combinations in case of necessity He will be of the greatest service to us in all these matters. I regret very much that you have succeeded so slightly in providing the sinews of war. I beg you will see all the parties and say that # his Stay here terminates before the object is accomplished it will be cause of regret to us ali There are certain things which cannot look after. Circumstances forbid me ostensibly to appear in the matter at all Consequently without some such assistance l lose half my efficiency and chance of success beg you will see all of them again and ur- gently insist upon the amount appropriated So far being increased. Use this letter with discretion but do not hesitate to show it to anyone who is equally interested in our suc-