The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-02-22
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
THE ADVANCE OF TARIFF Reform
FROM WEST TO EAST.

The baltimore Herald The Montgomery
(Ala) Dispatch-Ths New York Times
on Resuits of Protect ON blaine In Italy
Canadian Haiiroads-The Chinsman.
The demand Of public opinion In the
great Northwest, especially in the States
OF Minnesota, Nebraska aud Iowa, for q
tariff revision Is becoming so pronounced
that the position of the representatives
in Congress from those States, mostly
Republican, Is likely 10 exert decisive
influence in the adjustment Of the prob
lem this session-Balto. Herald.
The Montgomery (Als) Dispdsch, q
Democratic paper. speaks in very strong
commentator Of the resolution of Sen.
ator Plumb in favor Of investigating the
mail service. 1t says:
The management of our postal affairs
especially those relating 10 the mails
is not of such a character as TO reflect
credi, on Mr.. Clevelend's administration,
fact that the Administrations warmest
supporter cannot pretend to deny. The
people Of the South have especially suf-
fered in this particular and at no time
have they cndeavOred TO conceal their
disappointment over the dreadfully bad
mails during the last three years.
The bad mail system ought TO go ; in fact,
it ought to have gone long ago.-NationGl
Republican.
In reviewing the testimony of Mr..
Havemeyer before committee charged
with investigating Trusts, the New York
Times saws
This curious testimony will recall the
assertion of the anonymous circular To
which reference was made in our news
columns Yesterday, that the profits OF the
Trust or Arrangement were already IL
per cent. on the certificate capital, or in
the neighborhood OF $1,000, 900. The total
annual consumption of sugar in the
United states exceeds 3,0O0,000,00O
pounds. An advance of cent a pound
maintained for year yields $50, DOC, 600
The Trust as it stands to-day does not
control the entire supply, although it
takes in almost everything east OF the
Rocky Mountains The market reports
show that there has been marked adj
vance in prices of refined sugar since the
Trust was formed, while the price of the
raw sugar which the Trust uses has not
advanced in like manner. Fair re
fining" was quoted at At, and centrifu'
gal " at 7-l6 on Friday last, and on DC.
tober 10 the quoted prices were Il and
81, respectively. Some one has made
great deal of money out Of the advance
in refined sugar. Who has made it, Has
the Arrangement been defrauded :
Our readers are familiar with the Oh
stinate and unnatural silence Of the volu
BILE and ardent Blaine lieutenant, Mr.
William Walter Phelps, with the dam
aging explanation Of Senator Frye that
the letter only takes the personality
of Blaine ont Of the canvass or, in other
words, is intended to silence his oppo-
nents and stimulate his friends, with the
cynical avowal Of Mr.. Manley that the
letter Is only a part of prearraDged
scheme to secure Mr. Blaine's nomna-
ton. with the prompt assertion OF the
| Trljun6 that the letter is Withdrawal
only so far as Mr. Blaine's action is con
cerned, and with the numerous Other
declarations OF Mr. Blaine's friends thai
show that the efforts to secure his nomi
nation will not be abandoned, and that
the Florentne message is not al obstacle
to their success Exchange.
We learn from Washington that there
is no doubt of the prompt passage of the
amendment to the Interstate Commerce
law which the Senate Committee la.
adopted, and which is substantially a.
| follows
Nothing in this act shall be construed
TO allow any common carrier TO receive
any freight in he United States to bt
carried in sealed cars or in bond by rail
road through foreign country 10 any
other place in the United States free o
duty: and all laws and regulations which
have been construed 10 permit such prac
tice are hereby repealed. N J. Sun.
Dennis Kearney continues to ask TO
more ironcad legislation to protect thu
United States from a terrible invasion o
Monaghan cheap labor. Just how terri
be this danger is is made apparent by
the report of the Chief of the Bureau OF
Statistics.
When the treaty of restriction wen
into operation in 1888 the number o
Chinese immigrants fell in that year t
3sl. In 1884 there were "a in 1885, 81
and in 1856, s.
1t Is evident that Dennis Kearney ha
grievance against the Bureau of Stats
tics rather than against the Chinese
Phita. Times.
The Tammany braves are now at Wash
ington bent on persuadng the Demo
cratic National Committee to call thu
Presidential Nominating Convention II
this city They have persus sive tongues
and what wires are left unpulled by suci
experts as Richard Croker, ex-Registel
Reilly, Sheriff Grant, Joseph j. O'Don
oiue and Bourke Cochran will not b,
worth working.
1t is said, however, that Tamman.
favors San Francisco as second choice
In case the National Committee fears thu
seductive snfulness Of New York.-N
T. World.
A Queens county Republican says