Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-18

 fective nor are they of equal physical, men, tai and moral condition. On this account any mechanical law of definite imprisonment is necessarily in conflict with the purpose and system of reformation, and the indeterminate sentence plan is almost if not quite absolutely essential. The obstacles to be met by any plan of reformation were classified by MT. Brockway into three general divisions-phy- sical, psychical and moral. He described the physical criminal type, emphasizing the eranial and facial peculiarities with reference to the dissimilarity of the criminal, to the normal skull, brain and physical organism. Fiftieth C0ngress--First Session.
 WASHINGTON, July F.
 SENATE.-The bill to place John c. Ere mont on the retired list as major general in the army was considered and passed.
 The Senate then resumed consideration of the bill providing for the adjustment of ac- counts of laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by the government under the eight hour law. After debate the bill was passed yeas 25, nays 22.
 laborsr, workmanR or mechanic has been employed by or on behalf of the government of the United States since the 25th of June, 1868, the date of the act constituting eight hours 8 days work, whether en- ;sss gsgsd er at price ts.k per o, day .bo1i or
 
 be paid for each eight hours he has been em- ployed as for a full days work without any reduction of pay on account of the reduction of the hours of labor. The second section provides that all claims for labor 80 per formed in excess of five hours per day are hereby referred to the court of claims te be adjudicated upon the basis that eight hours constitute a days work and are to be paid for at the price per day as provided for in the first section and judgment against the United States in favor of each claimant for the amount found to be paid as other judg- United States; and no statute of limitations or payment made or receipt given for less sum per day than the full price of days work as pro- vided in the first section shall bar the right of recovery. so provided that all suits under this act shall be commenced within two years from and after its passage, and any number of said claimants may join; and pro vided further, that any amount allowed un- der this act shall only be paid to such claim ant in person or to his personal representa- tives.
 The bill for the admission of the State of Washington was taken up and the Senate at 4:40 adjourned.
 HeUsE,-The House went into committee on the tariff bill, the internal revenue feature being pending. On behalf of the ways and means committee MT. NcMilian, of Tennessee, offered an amendment providing that the bond required to be given by cigar manufac- turers shall be in such penal sum as the col lector of internal revenue may require-not less than S100, with an addition of $10 for every person proposed to be employed by such manufacturer; adopted. There were two pending amendments coming over from yesterday, one offered by MT. Wise of Virginia repeating the tax on cigars, cheroots and ci- garettes, and one by MT. Sowden of Pennsyl- L ka-r srsk 1Saksn n1Sl from apples, peaches and other fruits. Mir. Wises amendment was defeated, 43 to 7S, and Mr. Sowden's was withdrawn.
 Mir. Nichols, of North Carolina, offered an amendment repeating all internal taxes. Rejected.
 Mr. Farquhar, of New York, offered an amendment reducing from $3 to g the spe- cial tax on cigar manufacturers. Lost. MT. Sowden again offered his amendment abolishing the tax on fruit spirits. MT. McMillan opposed the amendment, de- claring that there was no way of preventing frauds on the revenue If fruit spirits should be exempted from taxation.
 Mr. Brewer, of Michigan, presented letter | from a women's temperance union of Michi- gan in favor of the abolition of tax on | spirits.
 MT. McMillan sent to the desk and had read an extract from MT. BlaiRes Paris letter | in which he opposes the repeal of the | whisky tax and says that to cheapen the price | of whisky is to increase its consumption l enormously. He thought MT. Blaine had | been carried away by enthusiasm when he | indited that portion of his letter. The re- | peal of the spirit tax would not cause men to \ rush into drunkenness.
 | MT. Brewer said that MT. Blaine would | find that ninety per cent. of the Republicans | of the country were in hearty accord with | the views expressed in his letter. MT. Milliken believed that the views enun ciated by Mir. Blaine were his views when he wrote the letter, were his views now and would be his views | when he returned to this country. He knew ! Mir. Blaine intimately for twenty-five years and he knew that he was accus toned tc l speak deliberately, and suall-sized men were not very often able to move him out of his belief. He (Mr. Milliken) denied the charge that the Republican party is a free whisky party. The Republican party had only de- clared that rather than to have free trade and cheap labor to destroy the industries oi the country it would repeal internal revenue taxes.
 Mr. Gallinger, of New Hampshire, said that if the Republican party was for free whisky, 50 was the Prohibition party and SC was the Women's Christian Temperance union. He was in favor of the repeal of in 1 ternal taxation rather than destroy the tarih laws. On that issue the Republican party proposed to go to the people of the country | In NovomDeT next, ana on that Issue they proposed to elect Harrison and Morton. l MT. Wilson, of West Virginia, suggested that the Republican party in Chicago had got drunk over the Oregon election and that the platform was the result of Dutch courage
 When that courage evaporated the Republi cans came back and attempted to show thai the platform did not mean what in black and | white it did mean on the record.
 MT. Sowden's amendment was then reject ed, 45 to 79.
 Mr. Warner, of Missouri, offered an amend ment providing that the special tax on whole
 sale and retail dealers in oleomargariue shall
 be $1O and S5 respectively. Rejected.
 Mr. Cox, of New York, said that it was hi idea to reduce the surplus in any way hs
 could, either by reduction in the tariff or 1T the internal taxes, or in both. Replying tG l some remarks made by MT. E. B. Taylor, o
 Ohio, he denied that this bill with it's sever | per cent reduction in duties looked toward free trade. The gentlemen on the other sidt
 were all mixed up son their platforms as i they had been taking some ''tanglefoot" fre' l whisky themselves. He read of the tribula ! tions of farmer who rose on Sunday morn ing to go to church and found eveyrthint from his blanket to his child's Sunday schoo : l book taxed.
 Mir. Milliken, of Maine, asked if MT. Go, had read in the schedules one per cent. ol rice and eighty-two per cent. on sugar. ) MT. Cox replied that he could not read i 7 five minutes the taxes on four thousand arti F cles.
 , Mr M;Ilikar dac1arad that tba RanubIiea