The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-03-07
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Senate Proceedings to be Made
Known to the People.

WASHINGTON, March 6.-An amendment
made today to the Senate rules in respect to
the publication and consideration Of trea-
ties,embodies concession sin radical contrast
with the practice Of century. 1t confers
upon the Senators the right to NOV eand up
on the majority the right to order the publi-
cation of treaty Immediately after its re-
ceipt from the President, aud the further
right, with the assent of the majority, to dis
cuss its provisions in open session. There
have hitherto been no such rights, even
when the Senate unanimously favored pub
licity. Very rarely has the Senate even
given the Senator the privilege OF making
public his own remarks upon any subject
which had place upon the executive calen-
dar. 1t is now probability that the fish
cries treaty will be debated in open session,
though it is understood many influential
senators will oppose this proposition.
Revenue Reduction.
A prominent Republican member of the
Ways and Means Committee says that Re-
publicans had agreed upon the following
substitute for the Mills bill: A single prop
osition to entirely repeal the tax on tobacco,
no matter in what form it may be manufac-
tured. This plan, it is believed, would keep
SS0,0OO,0O0 out of the Treasury. The tax on
spirits to be used in the arts to be abolished,
thus saving from S6,OOO,OOo to S1O,0OO,0OO,
and the remainder Of the reduction to come
by abolishing the duty on sugar and giving
the producers bounty of two cents a pound,
and by adding to the free list such articles
as are not at the present time produced in
this country. The total reduction which the
substitute would make has not yet been fig
ured out.
West Virginia has answered the Mills bill.
Here is dispatch from Wheeling: "At a
meeting OF the stockholders OF the Labelle
Pottery Company Monday night 1t was de-
cided to withhold contracts for the erection
of the new building until it is seen what is to
become of the Mills bill, and whether
Congress will make the attack on the
pottery industry contemplated by that hat
Wheeling Pottery, who is also the
directing head of this new concern, says tits
useless to build with tariff bill staring them
in the face, that means no profit to the man
ufacturer and 25 per cent. reduction in the
wages of employees"
Buying Bonds.
The Senate committee on finance has or
dered a favorable report ON the House bill to
provide for the purchase of United States
bonds by the Secretary ofithe Treasury, with
verbal amendments. The bill authorizes the
Secretary of the Treasury to apply from
time to time the surplus money now in the
treasury and such surplus money as may
hereafter be in the treasury not held for
specific purposes and not otherwise appro-
priated, or so much thereof as he may con-
slider proper, to the purchase or redemption
Of United States bonds, provided that bonds
so purchased or redeemed shall continue no
part of the sinking fund.- but shall be cam
celled by the Secretary Of the Treasury.
Stockings for Mills.
Congressman Mills has another pair of
seamless stockings. Mr.. Boutelle Of Maine
has given him pair. Mills will never hear
the last of that speech in which he declared
that seamless stockings could not be made in
the United States; that the secret of making
them was known only to the English, while
Mr.. Arnold says they are made by thousands
in factory hardly a stones throw from the
banquet hall where Mr.. Mills made bis
speech.
The Nations Bounty.
The following Maine pensions were
granted today
ORIGINAL INVALID.
Marshal McCluass, Brownfeld.
Leander X Marston, Richmond.
Leander r. Grant Freedom
Jos. Russell, Danforth.
Daniel Pierce, Jr.. Owls Heao.
INCREASE.
Asa Smith, Ellsworth.
ORIGINAL, WIDOWS, ETC.
Martha, mother of VIM +. Dunn, West Gorham.
Margaret H., mother of Wesley Bridges, ChaI-
lotte.
Almeda c., widow Of Isaac Grant, Waterville.
VIM. ii. Sweeney, East Dixteld.
JULIA A., widow of VIM. 7. Hall, Gray.
MEXICAN WAR.
George II. Welch, Bangor
Notes.
Ex-senator Bradbury of Maine, has been
visiting this city on his way to Florida.
j. Z. Everett was today appointed post
master at East 0tisfield, Cumberland Coun-
ty, Maine, vice Simeon G. Wardwell, re-
- al