Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-30
TARIFF LEGISLATION.
MIR. HEWITT TO INTRODUCE
THE NEXT BILL.

]
ing the Concessions the Projections
ists are willing to Make-Object OF
Mr.. SehOenhors Appointments as C0n-
sui at Tunstall-Messra. jerks anG
| Parks Not Out.
/ WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-AlthOugh Mrs
Morrison will be Chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee OF the next House,,
he does not propose TO introduce a tariff
bill in the House in the coming session.
/ He thinks that it is understood that the
failure of his former tariff bill would
prejudice any tariff bill he might now in-
troduce. 1t Is understood that the tariff
bin which the revenue reformers VIII
favor Will be offered In the House by Mrs
Hewitt, OF New York, who will be a mems
Der Of the Ways and Means Committed
| in the next as in the last House. Mr..
Hewitt has been at work for several
months on a tariff bill, which he will subs
nit TO the revenue reform leaders when he
| arrives here. The revenue reformers will
consider and amend IL at a cOnference1
and IL will then be offered in the House,
Free raw material will be provided for in
! this bill, and general reductions In most
of the schedules. MIR. Randall is pre-
| pairing bill which will embody the cou-
cessions which the protectionsts are
willing to make respecting the reform OF
| the tariff. These two bills with the re-
Communications of the President and Sec
rotary Manning will be the basis Of the
work Of the Ways and Means Committee
THE TUNsTALL CONSULATE.
| Jacob Schoenhof, OF New York, recently
appointed consul at Tunstall, Eng, is
here TO receive his instructions. As isi
well known. Mr.. SchoenhOf is a revenues
reformer, and an able and accurate writer
on economic subjects. IL is understood
that the intention of Secretary Bayard I'M
appointing him consul at Tunstall, was
not so much to fill that consulate accept
ably, as to send TO England a
| trained and trustworthy Observer,
who could be depended on for
complete and truthful reports Of the cons
ditious OF labor in England, and particu-
/ larly 70 report the rates of wages and cost
Of living. Mr.. SchoenhOf will be expected
TO extend his Investigations beyond the
! limits OF the Tunstall Consulate through
out all the manufacturing districts OF
/ England. Mr.. SchOenhof spentsome time
| to-day with Representative Morrison, and
! tomorrow will have talk with Speaker
/ Carlisle.
SPARKS AND jerks NOT. OUT.
| Commissioner Sparks, OF the Generae
/ Land Office, denies emphatieally that
there 10 any personal feeling between him-
| htAa anu Ahbisbhnt NftAGAAlf 1EnhHa NA
the Interior Department, because the
latter has reversed some of the Commits
sioner's decisions. He says that when
the President made him Commissioner OF
the General Land Office the President told
him that the land Office was full OF fraud
in all its ramifcations, and instructed
! him TO root IL out. This he has honestly
endeavored to do. He believes that the
course Of Mr.. jerks in bis official career
has been as honest and disinterested as
/ his own, and can only regret that they
should differ In their opinion now and
then.
THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.
Civil service Commissioner Edgerton
returned to-day from the West. TO-mOr~
| row the Civil Service Commissioners will
| proceed with the preparation ef their an
! nual report. Some minor changes in the
/ rules will shortly be announced. The
commission has not as yet adopted am
/ amendment to the rules extending tha
! maximum limit of age for applicants, but
/ it will do so.
OUR RIVERS AND HARBoRs.
The numerous River and HarDOr Com
ventiOns which have been held thrOugh-
| out the country In the past Two months
/ are attracting a good deal OF attention.
here. They are interpreted as meaning
4 that the people are beginning TO under-
along understood, that the present system
/ OF river improvements is great
waste OF money. ''If this government
/ had a few years AGO expended, say
/ $780, 900 or $l50,000,OOO In the improves
ment OF the large streams, and done 80 I'M
a judicious and intelligent manner" said
! Gen. Newton, the Chief OF EngineersS
talking to your correspondent, "ovr rivers
and harbOrs might have been III much
/ better condition than they are now, and
/ We would have saved Y hundred Million.
or say two hundred millions OF money.
sis the present system such an unsatis-
factory one, thenW
ayes, it Is great waste Of money
Congress won't take advice, and we have
nothing 20 do but sit here and carry out
/ It's Instructions. 1t undertakes an inn
/ mense number Of Improvement schemes
1 covering small streams that are OF little
/ importance at the best. The amount ap-
/ prOprated for these undertakings Is so
| small that the work drags along, ana
| costs double what il would II the ap-
propriations were promptly made. Itisa
VERY COMMON EXPERIENCE
with us TO find our works being greatly
damaged during the periods in which wa
are without money to carry them on. IL
sometimes happens that tho works in an
unfinished condition prove an actual det-
riment 10 navigation, and require US 70
spend great deal OF money IN dredR-
| ing during the time they are in
| the process OF construction. re-
member one case In which ! was
| Obliged 10 recommend that the works be-
/ gun, and standing in an uncompletedc0n-
/ dition, be at once removed unless their
/ early completion was contemplated, 40
/ they we're so injurious 10 navigation that
the situation was worse with them un-
/ finished than without them. The result
was that got money enough az the next
appropriation % complete them, and thus
! doubled the depth Of water at the point in
/ question"
| "You favor large appropriations, thens
/ for the large enterprisesP
eyes. large appropriations for the large
enterprises. and a system by which the
appropriatiOns and expenditures may be-
made under direction Of competent per-
] sons"
! MAYOR knocked Down.