Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-01
TARIFF QUESTION.
WHAT. THE SENATE WILL EMpgAvoR
TO PASS.
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Notes.



WAsHsSorox. December 3f.--A promi-
uent Democratic member Of Congress,
who has always made the tariff question .
special study, II of the opinion that the
Republicans Of the House will endcavor TO
pass q bill at this session practically In nc
cordancc with the Senate bill OF last year.
That measure while It gives considerable
relief in the way OF tobacco-tax repeal. 10
IN other respects n grossly unfair bill to
the South, rs was shown in this CORE
sponuence last winter. 1t attacks sugar
and rice M jother products which are dis
tinctiyely southern. Representatives OF
che sugar interest arc 10 have q hear
ing before The Ways and Means Com
mittee next Monday. Several persons in
tcrested In sorghum sugar in Kansas will
DO here. That industry is becoming Q con-
siderable one, not only in Kansas but in
Illinois, Missouri. and Iowa. and under the
Republican theory of protection as preach
ed Tor many years reduction OF 30 per
cent. In the sugar duties would be severe
II not fatal blow to sorghum. The Demo-
Gratis have uniformly opposed more than q
20 per cent. reduction of the sugar
duties, and in the Morrison bill during
the Forty-ninth Congress only 10
Per cent. cut on sugar was pro-
posed. IL was not on account of the pro
lection idea. however that the Democrats
favored retention Of only nine tenths Of
garded II as "a revenue duty The sugar
duties amount to moro than $4,000. 900 per
year and the tax per capita is about 81. 1t
Is regarded by experts as the easiest tax
collected, and if the entire tax were wiped
out IL would make sugar no cheaper TO the
consumer rs long as the duties on the re-
fined articles are kept at pronioltory hg;
ures practically. When the Senate bill
was framed Mr. Aldrich. of Rhode Island,
and others looked out for the interests OF
tho .efners. II the Republican leaders
continue to legislate In the interest OF the
refiners the sugar trust will boom and
flourish. Duties on the refined article are
increased by the Senate bill.
THE SORGHUM INTEREST.
The sorghum surear-growers Of the West
are mostly Republicans and they are pro
teating against the proposed reductions.
Some of the Republican congressman
favor giving bounty OF two cents per
pound to the producers OF sugar. but any
legisla ton Of this kind would make
favored class and would anger the pro-
duccrs OF wheat and corn, who are getting
no prof Is Con those crops.
PERSONAL.
Mr.. On rlisle is very regular attendant
upon the meetings of the Ways and Means
Committe, ,, and during the hearings given
mapufactu rers fof The past ten days ne has
mt many q uestions TO those who gave tes-
fmopy. IL e ex-Speaker puts his queries
m q most po inted way,
The indjcat ions are that comparatively
few ladies' will receive callers here to-mor-
row. The Gust ON Of keeping open house
on Eew-Year's day has been gradually dying
ont in Washington until within few years
net half az many people receive as former
" IL has got TO be something OF farce
In this town. where young men cart out TO
see how many "Howdy- acknowledgements
better be-gwinen calls, as Uncle hemus
would say, they can make. The g0ou ola
custom established by the Knickeroockers
wAs ENJOYABLE for years. for in former years
gs,od friends went to see each other and re-
NAMED for hours, and fashion and formal
~ had not then made New-fears Gaining
ridiculous.
The Superintendent Of the Gems Us. is ap-
pointing special agents to go TO the va,
rious States 10 ascertain the munlcipai ana
personal indebtedness. A Kansas lawyer
has Jus. been appointed TO 60 to Mississlp-
al and get the statistics for that State.
State-Senator Heaton, of Loudoun coun-
ty. was in tho city this morning ON his way
TO Richmond. ~,
C. G.. Snead and G.. III. .Snead, OF Rich
mond, are at the National.
L. W. johnson and wife. OF hichmond,
are at the ST. james.
]. A. Haskins, Amos Rngan, and Joh'l
H. billiard, Jr., of North Carolina. and
Frank Z. Conrad, of Leesburg, Va, are al
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