Birmingham age-herald., 1894-09-07
WASHINGTON GOSSIP. Salt From England Free From
 Import Duty.
DEMOCRATIC HAND BOOK
Showing What Congress Has Done-Pythianism to Be
 Taught Only in English.

WAsHINGToN, Sept. 8.-The treasury de- partment has decided that salt imported from England is entitled to free importa- ton into the United States under the new tariff bill, notwithstanding the fact that several of the dependencies of Great Britain impose duty on that commodity when imported from the United States. Section 60S of the new tariff bill treats on this sub iect.
 DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN BOOK.
 The democratic congressional campaign committee will issue their campaign book September 12. A list of the contents is as follows:
 l. What the democratic congress did.
 9. Causes of the panic of 1893.
 8. Not caused by fear of tariff legislation. 4. Labor Day law.
 5. Alien contract labor law-its repeal. 6. Chinese immigration.
 2. Immigration. 8. Tariff schedules and ables showing schedule rates and articles upon which duties had been reduced 100 per cent or less.
 g. Some statistics on woolen cloths.
 10. Income tax provisions.
 Il. McMilin' s report on income tax.
 12. Scott Wike's speech on income tax.
 l3: Tax on luxuries aud wealth repealed by the publicans.
 IA. Sugar duties.
 15. Trust provisions of tariff laws. 16. Carlse's letter to the senate on sugar tax.
 F. Mills' speech on tariff.
 IS. Appropriations, Sayers' speech aud tables.
 19. Reforms in departments, Dockery commission, etc.
 20. Diplomatic relations.
 21. Indian appropriation bill.
 22. Democracy and Its relations to union soldiers.
 23. Pigott's speech on populism.
 24. Abuses of civil service reform, By num- s speech, Cooper's speech.
 25. Ds mocratic platform of 1892.
 26. Cleveland's letter of acceptance.
 27. Cleveland's letter to Wilson.
 2S. Cleveland's letter to Catchings.
 29. Taxation of greenback law.
 80. Sherman silver law.
 31. Silver statistics, exports and inn ports of gold and silver, production of gold and silver, price of silver dollars in gold, price of silver dollars in bullion.
 32. Currency tables, character and amount outstanding.
 33. Commercial statistics, exports and imports of United States and from the United Kingdom. The committee had received advices of the results of the nominating conventions in 13l districts which are now democratic. Ninety seven representatives have been re- nominated, and only thirty-four districts have chosen new democratic candidates.
 WITH THE PYTHIANs.
 The question of allowing certain lodges to use translation of the ritual into Ger man was the special order for consideration before the Pytbian supreme lodge this morning. Both the majority and minority reports were read, and lively discussion followed. The majority report was finally adopted-yeas 79, nays 36. And thus the German question was settled adversely to the use of the German language. The special order for tomorrow at 10 o'clock will be the report of the council of administration recommending the non- recognition of the Pythian Sisters. time has not been fixed for the final disposition of the temperance question, although it is expected that the action taken will be a ratification of that taken yesterday in com mittee of the whole. The proceedings show that since the decision of the Kansas City supreme lodge against the use of any but the English ritual but one lodge, a lodge in Birmingham, Ala, has surren- dered its charter on that account.