Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-12-15
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
TO CORRECT ABUSES OF THE
LATE Illustration.
Carlisle Has Been De
Iayed in Making Isis Report-Tax
Suggested on Stock Exchange
ment of Agricultural Experiment
Stations,
From our Regular Correspondent.
Wy InnO

-NASHlN6ION, Dec. ., 1875.
Secretary Carlisle has not completed
his annual report and does not expect
to finish it before next week. 1t will
probably be one of the longest and
most comprehensive papers of its kind
ever submitted to Congress, owing to
the bad condition in which the re-
publicans left the finances of the
country. The absence of this report,
although not the only reason, was one
OF the principal reasons for the delay
in getting the new tariff bill before the
House. 1t would have been sufficient
of itself, as it is necessary for that
report to be in the hands Of members
before they take up the tariff.
Chairman Wilson's present inten-
ton is to report the tariff bill to the
House next Wednesday, and he hopes
to be able to make public its twin
measure, the internal revenue bill, at
about the same time. The last named
bill would have been ready before this
had not the revised estimates of the
officials OF the Treasury department
shown that the deficiency in revenue
caused by the reductions in duties and
extension of the free list made by the
new tariff bill would be in the neigh
borhood OF $60,0O0000, which was
some $25,00O,OO0 more than had been
estimated by members of the Ways
and Means committee. This, of course,
necessitated a revision of the internal
revenue bill, which is to be made to
supply the deficiency caused by the
tariff bill. Among the new PROPOSE
tons submitted to the committee this
week was one from Representative
Hatch, Of Missouri, to tax the transac-
tons of the stock and produce ex-
changes, instead of the earnings of
corporations, which had been previous
ly agreed upon by the committee.
Mr.. Hatch thinks such tax would be
felt less than any yet proposed.
AS there is no estimate for the ex-
penses of the Bureau of American Re
publics in the figures submitted by
Secretary Gresham, for the next fiscal |
year, it is safe to say that there will |
soon be no Bureau of American Re- !
publics. 1t was a sort of a side at |
tachment to the beautiful-on-p paper
Blaine reciprocity programme. Its
cost has been annually about $50 900,
principally for salaries. and the benefit |
it has been to the country has been
undiscoverable. Secretary Morton re-
CARDS the money spent at the forty
eight agricultural experimental sta
in each State and Territory
AS largely wasted, and having recon-
mended in his annual report that they
be abolished he left the $4,000 which
it would require to run them out OF
his estimates for next year.
The probability of a change in the
Senate rules is very slight although
there are several proposed amend
ments now before the committee on
Rules, Of which Senator Blackburn, of
Kentucky, is chairman. The other
democrats on the committee are
Senators Harris, of Tennessee, and
German, OF Maryland. The action of
the republican caucus in deciding not
to fillibuster to prevent a vote on the
Wilson tariff bill when it gets to the
Senate has weakened the desire for a
change to a noticeable extent.
Governor-elect O'Ferrall, of Virginia,
will retain his seat in the House until |
the Christmas recess, as his resigna-
ton will not take effect until the %,
inst. He will be inaugurated Cover
nor on the first day of January and |
will, contrary to custom, deliver an
inaugural address, something that has
been done by only one other governor
OF that State since the war. He has |
been warmly congratulated by his |
colleagues with whom he is deservedly |
popular.
Congress got to work very smoothly. |
The regular business in the House in |
the Oates bankruptcy bill, which will |
be disposed of late this week or early |
in the coming week. The Senate has |
listened to some stump speeches on
the Hawaiian question, and taken up
its routine work in its usually leisure |
ly manner. A concurrent resolution |
was unanimously adopted by Congress
accepting the bronze statue of Gen. |
James Shields, which was unveiled by |
daughter of Gen. Shields, in the |
Statuary Hall of the Capitol Wednes-
day afternoon, and thanking Illinois
for having presented the statue. The
ceremonies attending the unwilling
were imposing and interesting and |
were participated in by a large
number of prominent people, includ.
ing Gov. Altgeld, whose Grafton in
honor OF the warrior, jurist and states
man." made splendid impression
upon those who heard it.
1t is not probable that any of the
regular appropriation bills will be re-
ported until it can be seen from the
tariff and internal revenue bills just
now much revenue there will be to
draw against, although Chairman
Sayers of the Appropriations COM
mittee has several of them in con-
dition to be reported at an hours
notice. Dem.
DEATH OF PROF. lTINDALL.-One OF
the most prominent scientists the world
has ever produced. died at Haspemere.