The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-21

What :, me pi~osies by restoring
one 1q Win 10 " u will dogood business. -
". 7. Herald.
The whole internal revenue tax for the
year ended last July was $ll8,s37 ,30l 0o
an increase of 81 ,934 ,49l &c over the pre-
ceding year. The whole tobacco tax wa;
$50 1896 13, an increase in year OF
So. 200, 7046O. The receipts from Gus
toms taxes were sell, 2e8, 1891 10, an in
crease In one year of $14,3S1 5000 Tho
increase of 1885 over 1885 was 81, 43S,
OSLO.
These figures will disclose The annual
enlargement Of revenue, the rates remain.
ing the same.
The Republican party in The House
has, az q party, retreated from insislenct
on repeal of all the internal taxes, and
will not now follow Mr.. Kelley. Why
Is it only fear of the temperance vote
But Mr.. Kelley demonstrated in the 70
rum how little the repeal OF the whisky
tax would diminish the price OF one
drink. The rich and well to-do will have
drink, tax or no tax. And so will the
laboring poor who wish it. X tax on
whisky, beer, and tobacco Is tax on
consumption, Ike a tax on imported ar
ticles.-N. I. Star.
A Washington correspondent intimaie'
that the position taken by the Centra
Pacific managers, to the effect that theil
company owes the Government nothing
foreshadows the position that they vii
decline to enter upon any arrangement
to make provision for the debt that /;
not preposterous They have confidence
It is thought, that the Government cannot
take measures to make them pay either
principal or interest-save to the amount
of half the cost of transportation done
for it-until the maturity Of the bonds
nine years hence.
Then the Government can take the road
II 1t wants TO without its terminal facili
ties and worthless 80 far as the people
dues are concerned. II there is any value
yet remaining In the property-whict
there probably Is not-it can be removed
during the nine years OF grace. This !;
not new view of the situation, and 1t is
probably the correct one. II the Govern
ment is 10 recover anything from these
men it must doubtless be by prosecuting
them personally and attaching theii
stolen boards. N Y. World.
The most obvious criticism OF the local
Government bill brought forward in The
House of Commons yesterday Is that
made by Mr.. Gladstone there is no men
ton of Ireland In its provisions. I'm
doubtedly larger degree Of local self
government in England and Wales will
be an excellent thing but why should
not every part of the United Kingdom be
included In the blessing By comforting
larger privileges upon rate-payers (thal
is, tax-payers) throughout England, the
Tory Government apparently hope TO
strengthen their hold upon the country
and keep themselves in power. The
scheme Is not lacking in shrewdness.
How successfully II will work time alone
can SNOWY Y Tribune.
But It does 9 great deal more than that
To use the veteran metaphor once en-
ploved so expressively by Mr. Samuel
Wilkeson at the Beecher trial, 1t knocks
the whole fabric of the Pan Electric com
bination higher than kite. Ii leaves
not a sound shred in the case undertaken
by the present Administration nj the In
stance Of the promoters OF a stock job
bling speculation which has been rightly
characterized as conspiracy. II con-
firms the opinions expressed nearly two
years ago In the Ranney minority report
of the committee appointed by the last
Congress 10 investigate the conduct OF
the Department of Justice, and IT justitiea
In every particular all that the sun has
said from the first with regard to the
scandalous misuse OF the Government
machinery by Government officers and
outside parties interested In the attempt
to sell to the public some telephone
schemes of their OWN Y. Sun.
A New York paper, In describing the
feelings Of the stockholders OF Jay
Gould's road, says that "There is lively
row In the Gould camp; not little row
but big row, row where names art
being called and threats INDUCED In
Well may the interested and involved
persons fill the telegraph wires with ur'
gent solicitations to Jay Gould to hurry
home. 1t was at the meeting of the Mis-
souri Pacific railway directors held a
week ago to-day that this delectable how.
dyedo broke out II was rather hot al
the start, but day by day 1t has grown
hotter and hotter, till now the air in all
the Gould headquarters Is loaded down
with the smoke of denunciations and the
bla2es Of threatenings."
Every evidence that the Brotherhood
of Engineers has not descended TO the
level OF the Knights of Labor is welcome
and Just at present no evidence OF this
kind can be said to be super6uous. The
ending Of the strike on the Santa Fe road
Is such an evidence. The strike seems 10
have been ended by the voluntary with
drawal Of the engineers from an untena-
BILE position they had taken without re-
hection. Mr.. Arthur. 1t seems, did no,
advise the strike, and did advise the re-
turn to work.-N. Y. Time.