The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-03-29
THE TARIFF BILL READY.
LIGHTNING CAUSES VANCE TO
QUOTE SCRIPTURES.

| QUOTE SCRIPTURES.
Chief Justice Waite Dead. Movement
| to Elect Senators by the Direct Votes
of the People. James w. Reid here.
Personal Mention.
Special Correspondence of the Sentinel.
WASHINGTON, d. c., March %
Congress has just adjourned, on ac-
count of the sudden death this morn
ing of Chief Justice Waite, of the Su-
preme Court of the United States.
| l am not at all given to disserta-
tions on the weather, but this month
deserves more than usual attention.
| On the heels of last weeks blizzard,
came few very warm hours, the pre-
cursors of a genuine summer thunder
storm. The clouds were black as
night, and the lightning, most vivid.
| A flash struck the iron dome of the
Capitol, knocked two or three men
down and frightened several others.
Speaker Carlisle had just taken his
hand off the telephone in the Speak
er's room when tuat instrument was
shivered. The electric lights, made
necessary by the darkness, were put
out. Senator Vance was in one Of
the corridors when the flash came, and
bystander declares he jumped sew
eral feet. When he reached the Sen
ate Chamber, he became facetious and
said: "The wicked flee when no man
pursueth, but this is time when even
the righteous hastens to get out of the
way" This gentleman is writing a
series of papers for the Baltimore Sun
which everybody ought to read. The
first has created profound impress
sion, and is we'll worthy of the gentle
man, statesman, and scholar who
wrote it. THE SENTINEL has it
this week.
The Ways and Means Committee
concluded the consideration of the tar
if bill yesterday. The bill will be re-
ported to the House in day or so,
and the discussion of the bill will COM
mence about April 1st.
At yesterdays session the bill was
amended in the following particulars
at the instance of the Democratic
members The paragraph imposing a
twenty five per cent. ad Ualorem duty
ON the tarletans, mulls and crinolines
was stricken out, leaving the duty on
these goods at forty per cent, as al
present. Uncieaned rice was defined
as having the outer hull off, and the
inner hull on; p paddy was defined,
and the duty fixed at one cent per
pound instead of three quarters Of a
cent, as in the original bill. Whiting
and paris white were stricken off the
free list and made to pay duty OF
twenty per cent. nd valorena. Linseed
oil was also removed from the free list
and duty of ten cents per gallon i'm
posed. The clause of the free list re-
lating to brick was amended by the
| addition of the words, "other than fre
| brick"
The changes made in committee
will not materially alter the reduction
| of revenue estimated on the bill as il
was originally laid before the commit
tee and published.
| A sub committee has been appoint
ed by chairman Bafnum to go to ST
Louis and cooperate with the locaI
committee in making preparations fol-
holding the National Convention
June 9Th. This sub committee i:
composed of Chairman Barnum; Sec
retary Prince; Col. j. G.. Prather, o.
Missouri; Senator German. Of Mary
land Senator Ransom, of North Car
olina ex-senator Davis, of Yves
Virginia ex Senator Wallace, O
Pennsylvania p. Ell. Kelly, of Min
nesota and o. w. Sulloway, OF New
Hampshire.
The House Committee on Revision
of Laws, has decided by an almost -un
animous vote, to report joint resolu
tion proposing an amendment to th'
Constitution, for the election of United
States Senators by the direct votes O
the people. This measure is a wis,
one. IF it could pass both Houses, i
1 would bring the Senate to more rea
sonable sense of their responsibility tt
the people. It would also cause to b.
| eliminated from American politics
some of the most subtle and dangerous
methods of trickery. Legislatures are
manipulated every year, and in sth'
I Northwest it is no unusual thing fo
q millionair to buy up the Jegislatur,
in order that he may have the righ
to place the prefix "Hon." before hi
name and occupy seat In the U. S
Senate. Elk Senator Tabor is a not
able instance of the outcome of thi
disgraceful method.
Messrs. w. w. Applethn of New
York, 81. d. Houghton, of Houghto1
MiA1in, Boston, Geo. Haven Putnam
of Putnam & Co., of Philadelphia
DIR. Edward Eggleston and Geo. Wal
ter Green, are at the Arlington. To
morrow they will be given hearing
by the, House Committee on Paten.
in charge of the Copyright bill. The.
are all confident of its early passag
with hardly any change from its pres
ent form. Their addresses and ar
guments will probably be supple
mented by a '.few remarks" fror