The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-12-21
NO REPEAL EXPECTED.
THE INTERNAL REVENUE LAW
WILL NOT BE REPEALED.
Senator Vance's Episode--A Mistake as
to Gen. COx--There will be no Extra
Session. Personals. tSc.. Nc.

Senator vance's Episode--A Mistake as
to Gen. COx--There will be no Extra
SessiOn--PerSOnals. &C., Ac.
Especial Cor. to STATE CHRONICLE.l
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 1S, 1888.
During the past week | made an effort
to find out If anything would be done with
the internal revenue tax during the pres
ent session Of Congress. The consensus
of opinion among Democratic Congress
men is that nothing will be done. Sena-
tor Vance, who, with Senator Harris, is
the leader of the minority on the floor of
the Senate during the debate On the Sen
ate tariff bill, thinks there will be no leg
islation affecting the internal revenue sys-
TEN this session. The Senate tariff bill as
it is now constituted, will not pass the
House. 1t is equally impossible for the
House to adopt the Senate substitute bill.
Senator Vance tells me he would not ad
wise constituent to leopard dollar on
the strength of his prediction, but the
above embodies his opinion. Hon. John
| 5. Henderson who is the author of that
part of the Mills bill bearing on the inter
nal revenue, says positively that nothing
will be done this session with the tax. He
is confident that the present House and
Senate will never agree on a general tariff
bill, and he thinks the passage of such a
bill is the first step towards reducing the
| internal revenue tax. Several Congress
men intimated that there was possibility
after the holiday recess Of the passage Of
a separate bill to repeal the internal reve-
| nue. system through the House, by the vote
| of the Republicans, the Virginia and North
Carolina delegations and some other Dem
ocratic members whose constituents are
especially oppressed by the burdensome
tax Such a bill would unQuestionaby
| is committed to that policy. This possl
| bility is, however, a very remote one. Mr..
Miller, Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
says: 'You may quote me as saying,
positively, that nothing will be done with
the internal revenue tax by this Congress,
and that there will be no extra session
after the 4th of March" 1t is admitted
by everybody that, if there should be an
extra session, one of the first acts of that
body would be to pass a law repeating the
entire system. By this means, the Repub-
licans expect to add the States Of North
Carolina and Virginia to the Republican
column in 1892. Mr.. Brewer has prolis
ed me carefully prepared opinion as 10
what he thinks will be done with the in
ternal revenue tax by this Congress. |
will send it to you as soon as it is finished
and as he will probably give the Republi
can side of the subject his views, If he
tells all he knows, will be especially valua-
BILE The tobacco trade is deeply interest
ed in this matter and ! have spent three
DAYS trying to get the exact facts in the
case. You will see from the above that
large majority of Congressman think moth
ing will be done and that from the pres
ent outlook the prospects of an extra ses-
sion are very slim. | have made my in
vestigations more than usually exhaustive,
for the suggestion was made to me by my
friaD6 Iulion - Garr ESQ who tbGnUbt
that some reliable information on this sub
ject would be of interest TO the large mum
Der of tobacconists in the State.
LATER have been promised the opin-
ion of Senator Sherman and other leading
Republican Senators on this subject | do
not vouch for the reliability of these Re-
publican opinions, but high officer of
the Senate is going to get them for me,
aud it is a good plan to hear all sides of a
question, especially where business mat
ters Of such Importance are involved.
The President desires TO appoint a South
ern Democrat who is a Civil Service Re
former to the vacant position on the Civil
Service Commission. He has offered the
place to First Assistant Secretary Thomp-
son. but that gentleman does not want it
for various reasons. First, the salary,
which neither this nor the next Congress
will increase, is not sufficient for a man Of
Secretary ThOmpson's requirements, nor
is it enough for the support of his family,
which is large one. Moreover, before
Secretary Thompson accepted his present
position he was Governor of South Carroll
na Previous to that he was President Of
South Carolina college. He naturally
has higher political ambitions Many Of
Secretary Thompson's friends expect biz.
, to succeed Senator Hampton two years
hence | think it is a mistake to say
that Gen. W. 4. Cox wants the place.
have reason to know he does not want it.
In the first place, if he accepted it it would
kill him as dead as Hector for any future
political preferment at the hands OF the
people. a Civil Service Commissioner
will not, for many years to come, be
popular candidate for the suffrages of the
people. The law is not yet sufficiently
popular.
Senator Vance was the hero Of an cpl
, sode in the Senate last week with Riddle
berger Senator Vance was making a
speech, wi hen Riddleberger, who was drunk.
!. wanted the floor. Senator Vance, of
: : course, would not yield, and Senator In
! : gals had to threaten force to make Riddle
berger take his seat. Senator Vance is
doing himself great credit by the way in
! which he manages the Republicans Of the
: Finance Committee IL the tariff debate
! now going on in the Senate.
: The House Democrats decided in eau
Gus, after considerable discussion, to ad-
nit as States the four Northwestern terri
tories, Washington, Montana, Dakota,
and New MEXICO. Dakota will make two
States to be known as North and South
Dakota.
P. NJ Jackson, of North Carolina, has
! ! been appointed to place in the office OF
! the Coast Survey. Z. S. Trapier, of North
u Carolina, has been promoted to 81 900
;, clerkship in the Interior Department.
4 Lewis J. Battle, the son of Richard Bat
tie, Esq, of Raleigh, has just returned
from his duties in virginia where he spent
the Summer in the service Of the ileOi0gi
cal Survey.
There are great many applicants tol
the position made vacant by the death OF
| Judge Thomas Settle.
Their Business Booming.
Probably no one thing has caused such
, a general revival of trade at Lee johnson