Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. Nov. 81, 1898.

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WASHINGTON. Nov. 81, 1898.
All the members of the House ways
and means committee met this morning.
When the new tariff bill, prepared by
the democratic members, was laid be-
fore them;the republican members said
they were in the dark as to the differ
ences that would be made by the pro-
posed change from specific to ad va
loren duties, and as the bill did not
contain that information they did
not know exactly what to do.
To supply them with that informa-
ton the committee adjourned until
Friday next. As anticipated, the inter-
nal revenue schedule is not incorpo-
rated in that bill, but will, it is said, be
ready by the time the House commit
tee shall reassemble. 1t is understood
that it will provide for tax on rents
and legacies, and on the earnings OF
corporations. so that individual mil
lionaires will not be taxed, but the cor
porations will be, which, of course, will
recoup by raising their charges. The
bill puts wool, coal, lumber, salt and
iron ore on the free list, and reduces
the tariff on refined sugar from one
half TO quarter of cent per pound;
it also provides for the determination
of the bounty by degrees. There is no
duty higher than forty-fve per cent. on
manufactures of wool, and that only on
ready made garments, the average be-
ing less than forty per cent. The cheap
er qualities of blankets and dannels are
taxed 25 per cent, and the lower grades
of carpets only 90. A gradual reduction
has been made in the wooden schedule,
so that at the end of five years, the
highest duty will be forty and the aver
age near thirty per cent. Very mate
rial reductions have been made in the
cotton schedule Iron ore is on the
free list and large cut is made all along
the metal schedule, the duty on steel
rails being reduced more than fifty perct.
Lumber and salt are also free. Agri-
cultural implements have been placed
upon the free list in order to enable the
farmer to better compete in foreign
markets, and because many of the agri-
cultural implements are being sold
abroad to-day cheaper than at home.
Many people labor under the belief
that the Raleigh Colston whose death
in Richmond was telegraphed here last
Saturday night was General Raleigh I.
Colston, first of the c. S. A., and subse-
quently of the Egyptian army. But the
latter is alive and comparatively well,
and holds an Office under the govern
ment in this city.
Mr.. Cuvillier, the young Alexandria
lawyer who refused to pay the fine i'm
posed upon him by the criminal court of
this city for soliciting practice, and was
sent to Jail last Saturday for forty-eigbt
hours, was released to-day. AS the
fine was twenty dollars, and as Sundays
don't count, and as a penny saved is a
penny made, he made twenty dollars
in one day.
The President was at church yester-
day, and to those who observed him
critically he looked to be in perfect
health.
The old Washington and Falls Church
Railroad Company has offered to sell
its charter to the new company, and
the latter, if they determine to build
their proposed electric road from the
Aqueduct Bridge 10 Falls Church. will
buy it. The subscriptions to the latter,
however, up to date, are not indicative
of the building of the road.
Captain Cooke, the recently defeated
populist candidate for Governor of Vir-
GINA, who had been here for week or
two, left last Saturday for his home.
While here he tried to get offices for
some of his friends in his State, but,
as many of the Virginia congressman
had previously done, made q signal
failure.
The Supreme Court of the United
States to-day, in an opinion read by
Chief Justice Fuller, dismissed the APP
peal of James Lennon, striking rail-
road engineer, from the judgment of the
Circuit Court of the United States for
the northern district Of Ohio, which
fined him $50.