The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-22
THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
ASHEVILLE AND THE PRESIDENT
EXCHANGING COURTESIES.
The Gist Of the Weeks News in Both
Houses of Congress--A Kind Word
for Gen. Cox.

for Gen. Cox.
Special correspondence Of The Sentinel.
WASHINGTON, July 19-Grover
Cleveland and the citizens of Ashe
vile hare been exchanging courtesies.
Grover Cleveland refuses their appro-
priation to erect court house; he
sees no necessity. The citizens OF
Asheville repudiate the message cit
izen sends in response; they see no
necessity of insulting or offending the
President OF the United States The
result is this, the citizens of Asheville
retain their confidence in Grover
Cleveland, and Grover Cleveland re-
tains his confidence in the citizens of
Asheville. This is very pretty. 1t
shows, as THE SENTINEL has often
shown, that the mass of the people
have faith in the purity of Grover
Cleveland's motives, the honesty of
his heart, whatever course he pursues.
THE SENATE
passed the Mexican pension bill. Con-
sideration of the river and harbor bill
was resumed. On the Hennepin canal
provision, which was passed, Senator
Vance voted in the negative and Sem
ator Ransom In the affirmative The
question of horizontal reduction on
the bill upset the dignity of the Sen
ate beyond description. To the bill
releasing Georgia, Senator Hampton
presented an amendment releasing all
States from the direct tax, and refund
ing SO much as has been paid. Sever
eral premature disclosures of the next
act in the comedy of railroads cause
widepread merriment.
THE HOUSE
passed Senate bill to erect public
building, in jacksonville, at cost of
s15O,O0O. Also, bill to amend Sec
tions 3151, 1862, and 1868, Revised
Statutes, relieving tobacco manufact-
urers. Also, bill to amend Sec. 1914,
Revised Statutes, abolishing commits
sions Of collectors OH distilled spirits.
Representative Wheeler, of Alabama,
presented resolutions expressing the
sense of the House as being against
adjournment before educational as
sistance has been rendered the States.
Abram S. Hewitt delivered master
ly speech against the Marine resolu
ton, reviewing the condition of public
finances at length.
THE INTERNAL REVENUE
measures adopted by the House last
week are the subject of considerable
gossip. Democrats feel very happy,
as it is regarded as a step in the right
direction. On the other hand, Re-
publicans appear dissatisfied, and pre-
dict different reception for the meas
ures elsewhere. OF course, nobody
expects Republicans to favor any
thing reducing taxation or abolishing
burdens. From the passage of the
Excise Tax Bill down, Republicans
have studiously sought to burden, in
stead of relieve, suffering people.
THE QUESTION OF TAXES,
weighed in the light of the duty the
government owes its people, discloses
tyranny which would have long
since caused revolt in any country
whose citizens were not so patriotic as
ours. In fact, the real taxpayers
have been the victims of a gigantic
political engine whose object was its
own perpetual motion. When this
political tyrant and tennist was crush
ed, suffering people looked for re-
lief. 1t did not come; it has not
come yet, but it must. 1t may be un-
fortunate that the sophistry of Protec-
tionists has alarmed careless thinkers,
but the arm of Democracy must re-
main firm, and hold the tyrant down.
THE TARIFF AGAIN
upsets the minds of everybody guilty
of its solution. In plain words, to ex-
press general sentiment, Morrison is
crazy and Randall crazier This, hard
though it may seem, is their reward
for respective endeavors to solve what
Pig Iron Kelly swore wasn't solvable.
Ordinarily, men thus defeated would
do something better than court defeat
again. But here are Randall and
Morrison, unconscious of the wounds
they have received and the political
death that awaits them. The men
who have let these gentlemen assume
leadership at an age and condition
entirely unsuitable. may now read a
lesson long since apparent, and that IS,
this country wants positive Represen-
tatives.
POLITICAL CAPITAL
has been plentiful this session. The
tariff question has given illimitable
scope. Republicans intend to make
the country believe that the Demo-
Gratis never had any intention of re-
vising the tariff, but let Randall and
Morrison present their OWN sweet
views to dlsarin suspicion. 1t may be
quite iiard to convince someboaiy that
this isn't the truth. True, against Re
lublics,irs there is the ras,.,iity IF "a
years. hui it is !, rather old complaint