The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-08-03
NO TARIFF REDUCTION.
THE sen ATE WILLTRY TOA MEND
THE MILLS BILL.
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OF the COnfederacy-.The New Chief
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OF the C0nfederacy--The New Chic
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Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLEl
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 81, 1888. -
The text of the Senate tariff bill is antici
pated with great interest 1t will be
offered in the Senate about the sixth OF
| August or early next week as a substitute
for the Mills bill. This course was decided
upon by Republican caucus which sat
| up in Senator Evart's house until long
after midnight trying to determine what
they should do. The Republican party is
much more widely divided on the tariff
question than the Democratic party. But
the entire vote of the Republican Senate
will be given to this Senate substitute bill
heard yesterday from prominent Re
publican Senator that every member of
the Senate of his political faith was al
| ready pledged to vote for the Senate bill
He added that when two Republican Sen
ators made this party pledge, they admit
ted that their vote for the bill would cost
them their seats in the United States
| Senate chamber. | am told on first rate
mittee have decided on the following
items: The tobacco tax will be nearly. if
| not entirely abolished. and the whole in
| ternal revenue system virtually repealed.
| Sugar and wool duties will also be arranged
| so as to meet as far as possible the views
of the protectionists The general tariff
will be only nominally altered AS the
! House will never concur, l do not see how
| either the Senate bill or the Mills bill can
ever become a law. There may be com
! promise measure passed at some future
! Congress, but if the Fiftieth Congress at
| tempts anything of the sort it will proba-
/ blv remain in session npfil If aynrar NV
/ limitation.
! Mr.. H. i. l.ittlepage, who was once in
! the servlce OF the Confederacy, was a short
| time ago appointed by the Secretary of the
! Treasury to hunt up various kinds of prop
erty owned by the Confederate States
! Government. This was done in response
! to a Senate inquiry as to property to which
/ the United States has a valid claim but
which is held in adverse possession. On
] Friday last the report of Mr.. Littlepage
was sent to the Senate by the Secretary of
! the Treasury. Among other items is that
of sloop of war named the Texas" for
! which tn" Confederate States Government
! pad 81 100. 900 The Confederacv col
! lapsed Il few months after she was com
| pieted. She is a very valuable ship yet
| and is now trading between Edinburgh
! and Copenhagen There were two power
| ful rams also paid for by the Confederate
i Government which now belong to the
! British navy. Admiral Luce, Commander
| of the North Atlantic Squadron, recently
| recognized these rams anchored off Ber-
muda and flying the British flag. There
were several other powerful Clyde built
steamers and rams supposed to be in the
service of France. There are two new
! Clyde built steamers. the city of Peters
| burg and the Old dominion. built and
/ paid for by the Confederate Government
which are now running between Liverpool
| and Dublin. In the United States the
| property once owned by the Confederate
! States consists of iron works and lands
together with Touring mills, machine
| shops, foundries and railroads in Marion
and Davis county, Texas, which cost the
! Confederate Government IS, ,00O. .0oo: one
million dollars worth of mineral lands and
/ iron works in Northern Alabama: two
steamers and the proceeds of -four teen
| thousand bales of cotton together with
! other goods III and around Memphis est-
mated at 81 900, 600; 81 900, 600 worth of
| property in Baltimore; cotton that be-
| longed to the Confederate Government
shipped from Brownsville, Galveston and
| Matamoras amounting to many millions
of dollars. Mr.. Littlepage files an item
lied statement of Confederate properties
unrecovered by the Cnited States Govern
ment, but which he thinks might have
been recovered had proper steps been
| taken, and large amount of which, he
says, may yet be recovered. The proper
ties include specie, cotton, army aud navy
equipments and stores in hands OF Frazer,
| Trenholm 4 Co., and their agents, about
So, 200, 600; proceeds Of eight steamers,
| Ravenburg, Abagall, City of Richmond,
Whisper, Florence, Louisa, Eugenie and
Ptarmagan, purchased since the close Of
| the war by responsible parties, original
cost $3.50, 900; Confederate Government
money in the hands Of a we'll known Con
| fedcrate agent in Paris, 1888, 100; Danish
| frigate under the control of London and
Copenhagen bankers, cost j. ,4uo, O0i; pro
oeeds OF steamers Cyclone and Tornado,
and other property iii the hands OF the
contractor, 5000, 900; proceeds Of the Rap
pahannock. sold since the war by United
States consul at Liverpool and purchased
again with Confederate money, $35 900;
proceeds c. cleaners Palmiston and Alex
audrla, in the hands of London Confed-
crate agents. cost $500, 900; steamers Rat
tlesnake and Mary Augusta, under control
of London shipbuilder, cost 1912, 900;
sieamer Harriet Pinclney, or proceeds
! consigned to commission merchants in
| London, and by them secured for 800, 900;
! Old DOMINION ana City OF Petersburg,
consigned to Steam Navigation Co, Liver
pool, cost 1890, 900; proceeds OF steamer
Wierhrenda and Wyvern and Scorpion.
original cost 81 900. 900; two sets of Enfield
rifle machinery, 100000; seven tons of
bar silver, worth $2a3, 1888; eighty chrome
meters, spoils OF the Florida and Alabama,
estimated at $40, 900: rified cannon ma
cAinerY, in :ianda OF responsible parties in
London, cost 81 900, ,Ol0, the Ruby, Ro
bine, Penguin, Owl and Lawk, consigned
to Frazer, Trenholm Il Co., $7a0. 900; cot
ton shipped TO Frazer, Trenholm u Co
or order, since the war, worth by shipper
estimate. 100000 sixteen cases OF
specie In hands of Confederate agent at
St Georges, Bermuda, value not known
money and Confederate machinery in the
hands of a Confederate agent, $3.50, 900
iron works in Scotland, $4,000 the
original contract between the Confederate
Government at Riehmana and Erlange,
4 Co, the bankers at Paris; money de
posted to the credit of the Confederate
Government in Vienna, Brussels. Frank
fort on the Main, Amsterdam, Paris and
London, amounting, as can be shown, tt
$11 ,Qnh, 600,
The following bills of local Importance
to North Carolina passed Or virtually
passed both Houses within the last few
days. Saturday Col. Rowland reported