Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-01
FROM GRAVE TO GAY.
Washington Society Not Much Both
cred by the Coxeyites.
Nellie Grant Sartoris Very Popular-Ike ia''
in and lncems Tax.

WASHINGTON, April 3d. Especial J.
At the close of March everybody agreed
that il was the most wonderful Washing
ton had ever experienced. with the largest
number of warm, beautiful days. AT the
close of April there was still more en-
phatic agreement that it was the worst
April the oldest inhabitants could remem-
Der. There certainly is an unusually large
percentage of sickness both in and out OF
congress, and the discontinued portion of
the Democrats sometimes say nature is pc
culiarly unkind to them, as SO large per-
centage of their majority is on the sick
list, and were it not for their new quorum
counting rule they would be at the mercy
of the minority. 1t is little singular that
nearly all the disabled are Democrats.
Reception to Nellie Grant Sartoris.
Despite the sickness, the racket about
Coxey's cohorts and all the rest of 1t, the
gayeties of the season seem to go right on,
and there are feasting and entertaining,
marrying and giving in marriage. Mrs.
Nellie Grant Sartoris has received all sorts
of attentions ard has found that many of
At reception given in her honor by her
old schoolmate, the wife of Surgeon Ma
gruder, L. s. n, there were present the
chief Justice and lady, Mrs. Stanley Mat
thews. Mrs. Harlan and many Others who
were friends of the Grants in the olden
times. 1t is noticed that there are rather
more popular entertainments in aid OF
charities than is usual at this season, but
only two or three of them We're arranged
with special reference to the wants of Cox
ey's army.
Sublime Confidence.
1t is quite pleasure to talk with the
cheerful Democrats since the party wings
got together or are supposed to have got
together on the tariff bill and agreed upon
its speedy passage. Senator Voorhees,, who
Mt one time was so respondent as to admit
that the debate might be prolonged till
September at once resumed his ancient
confidence that it will end in June, while
some southern senators now begin to drop
hints about setting a day and taking a
final vote so early as the Goth of May.
OF all the many schemes suggested for
securing harmony on the income tax, only
two seem to have much backing-one that
the tax shall expire in a limited term of
years unless made permanent by subsc-
qucnt congress, and the other that it shall
expire whenever the surplus revenue equals
that brought in by this tax. AS both fac
tons express the most sublime confidence
in the result of an appeal to the people,
there really seems no reason why the tax
should not be for a specified term and
leave the question of its continuance to be
decided at subsequent election. Even
the Populists admit fricndliness to this
scheme as it never enters their heads to
doubt that if the tax be once established
the people will never knowingly consent to
its abolition.
On the other hand, quite number of
Internationally all those east of Indi-
ana, in fact-dcclare that the adoption of
an income tax will be only the beginning
instead of the end of the fight, for those
they represent will fight it continuously so
long as it is the law. No secret is made
of the fact that Mr.. Cleveland would like
the bill to come to him without the income
feature but leading Democratic senators
have been saying freely for several days
that the income clause will remain in the
bill, and that all disagrecments have been
arranged and such harmony insured that
the bill will get the vote of A Democratic
senator's
Gold Men In Minority.