Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-10

rom our Regular Correspondent. j



wAsHIxGTox. Mar. 5.
The tariff bill presented to the full COM
mittee of Ways and Means last week is de-
signed to reduce the annual revenue of the
governments somewhat more than $50 ,000.-
COO The professed purpose of all sections
Of the tariff reformers is to obtain as great
reduction as can be secured without injury to
any legitimate industry. The painful differ
ences of opinion arise in deciding as to what
is and what is not injurious. In the north
west there will be complaints that the duty
on sugar has not been cut down further,
while Louisiana will protest most vigorously
against the cut thst is made, as ruinous to the
cane-growing industry. Pulp for paper max
ers' use is another matter over which fight
is bound TO be made. In the new bill it is
put on the free list In the present law it
pays a duty of 10 per cent ad raiorea
Every publisher of books and newspapers
will recall the struggle against monopoly
which took place about eight years ago. " hen
the market for printing papers was eornered
and the prices run up so high that many of
the publishers who were operating on slender
capital were driven TO the wall. There came
then a loud appeal 10 Congress for relief; but
at the first talk of putting pulp on the free
list or reducing the duty on foreign paper. the
rich pulp men put the screws upon the man
ufacturers who were in their debt. and the
manufacturers turned their backs upon their
patrons and used all their influence with Con-
gress to fight off the threatened change. We
shall probably see the same scenes re-eEacted
this year when the paper schedule comes uI
for consideration. Salt, wool and lumber
will also find vigorous champions TO fight for
| their further protection. In short. the sum
mer's natural dizziness may be expected TO be
enlivened to no slight degree by the warfare
| between the friends of the afflicted industries
and the foes of the Treasury surplus and the
struggle will be all the more interesting from
| the fact that every member of Congress
knows that his constituents are watching the
part he takes and are preparing TO reward oil
punish him accordingly on the 9th OF Nosem'
/ Der.
| The average Washingtonian duly apprecia-
ties the fac, that Washington is rapidly be-
coming great art center. Twenty-Five OF
more years ago, when the Corcoran Art Gal
! lery was used by the Government as a militia
~ warehouse, there were not half dozen
book stores or other stores in the city in
which could be found pictures, paintings, en-
cravings, or etchings for sale. Since then
nearly every business thoroughfare in town
has been embellished with an "art store; :
the Corcoran Art Gallery has fulfilled its
missions, and there are art schools, teachers
of painting, art clubs, sketching clubs, and
| all that sort of thing too numerous to emu
merate. Besides that the number of private
art galleries has increased amazingly. and
| while there are no thirty thousand-dollaI
Meissoners that know of, such as New
York boasts of, yet the fact is We have origi
nal Reuben's and Titiaus scattered around
and about that are rarer and better illustra'
tons of the productions of the easel and tht
| studio than any modern painter has evel
brought forth.
That one half the world does not know
how the other half lives is particularly true
of the gay world here at the Capital which
now and then resorts to some astounding ex
pedients for the purpose of cutting dash oil
outshining neighbor in the matter of Lavish
displays at entertaining. Nor is this weak
ness confined to persons of limited means, ;
notable instance to the contrary having come
to nv personal knowledge. In the height o.
the season one of the large private residence
was thrown open for an afternoon tea, at which
the company strolled through the spaciou
apartments, furnished in the most luxuriou!
manner with silken hangings, Oriental rugs
sofas, divans and softly cushioned ottoman'
ad hbitum. The next morning the proprie
tor of well-known house furnishing estab
lshment was informed by the hostess of thu
previous afternoon that the furniture an'
hangings-valued at 81 ,00O-sent up on APP
probation were not satisfactory and she woul'
like to have them removed at once Thu
enigma was not solved by the proprietor unit
by chance his attention was attracted to
glowing account in local paper of the tel
referred to with graphic and detailed de
scription of the interior of the handsome
| house.