The Durham daily globe., 1893-12-13
GROWERS SCHEM E !
A Desperate Effort to Put a Bounty
on Sugar,
In Which Event the Income Tax VIII
Be Abandoned.
THE CONGRESS OPENS VERY TAMELY
But Few Visitors Seek the Galleries and
Little Interested Is Manifested
in the Proceedings.

in the Proceedings.
WAsuINGToN, Dec. II Special !
A desperate effort is being made by the
president to have duty Of / cent
pound put on raw sugar and the income
tax scheme abandoned. II duty is
levied on raw sugar it is believed the
sugar bounty will be repealed at single
stroke, wiped out Immediately. Chair
man Wilson, of the ways and means com
miticc has been at the white house nearly
all dav and was with the president last
night, and it looks very much like a cent
per pound will be put on sugar.
Less interest was manifested in the
opening Of this congress than has been
shown in The beginning Of the work OF
any congress during the past ten years.
Few visitors or directly interested per
sons fIOcked about the corridors or OC-
cupicd the galleries when the gavels OF
the presiding officers Of the two houses
rcsoundcd at noon on Monday last and
the regular session Of the fifty-third con-
grcss began. There were few hundred
persons, men and women from town
and various sections Of the country who
wcGc &i,i,ing the national capital, On the
that Jam and rush and excitement which
usually electrodes the same incident upon
the opening Of new congress.
Explanation Of this languidness and
lack OF interest is found in the fact that
there are not half as many private meas
ures 10 come before this congress as are
usually suggested, and that there is but
the least chance Of action upon the few
private measures which will be intro
duccd 1t is stated that the house com
mittec on claims and war claims, COM
merce and public lands, as we'll as inva
lid pensions, the committees which usu-
ally have thousands and thousands of
bills before them, and which commonly
get iut0 law hundreds Of measures at
each session, have no hope whatever of
any legislation emanating from them,
with the exception Of possibly two or
three general propositions Of little in
dividual interest
The tiily-third congress opened like a
May morning, but there are indications
that ii will close admit the buster of the
March day when its life expires.
The postotlice department is deter
mined to minimize losses through the
mails. Hereafter letters and packages
containing money, checks, drafts, and
other yaluables, or supposed TO contain
anything OF value, will not be delivered
10 any other than the persons 10 whom
they are addressed. Ii has been the
custom for the carrier To leave these let
tiers orpackages with servants or visitors
st the house or office, but recent losses
OF government drafts, and notably pen.
sion drafts, have called the attention Of
the department TO the fact that a great
many losses which have never been re-
ported are continually oCcasioncd by
oycrconddence upon the par, Of those
who deliver the mails
Il is great deal easier for The ordinary
citizen TO have loss in the mails traced
than he or she may imagine 1t is the
Custom Of unin:ormed persons who lose
money or other yaluables to simply sigh
and pocket the loss or 20 10 the post
office and make complaint. 1t is much
better and specdier to send the com I
plant 10 the first or fourth assistant |
postmaster general. Washington. y. c |
Then the complaint is placed immedi |