The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-11-15


| Navy officers are now telling one on the Army.
1t was at Fort Monroe, where one of the vessels
| of the Navy was temporarily waiting orders,
! that delegation OF Army officers stationed
at the fort came aboard There is a set naval
regulation that nothing can be so on board
ship until the commanding officer orders it..
! While the Army party were looking over the
ship - o'clock arrived. A junior officer APP
preached tile Captain aud said, with a salute:
| 1T is II O'Clock, sir"
snake ii So" responded the Captain; and
eight bells were struck. The Army officers
suspected that the Navy men wanted them to
ask some questions. aud get sold. or that this
was a bit OF fooIery got up to joke the land
warriors
Some time after party of the Army officers
| invited the officers of the warship to dine with
them. The dinner was progressing, when a
Lieutenant entered, and salutng the senior
officer present, said gravely:
Colonel the Majors blind horse is dead"
Make it So" responded the officer at the
head of the table. with the greatest gravity,
aud the dinner proceeded. Nothing was said
at the time, but the Navy officers tell the story.
4
The work preliminary to carrying into effect
the new income tax law is going forward as
rapidly as its nature will permit, under the
direction of Mr.. William II. Pugh who in Octo-
Der last was appointed Superintendent of the
Income Tax. 4 number of complicated and in
teresting questions having arisen under former
laws. and anticipating that questions will
arise in the future of equal Importance, it is
s;ofF IL.
has been the former legislation of Congress,
the decisions of the courts, and the rulings Of
the Department upon the subject of the in
come tax. With this view Mr.. Pugh has been
occupied since the appointment in examining
and preparing digest of the court decisions
and Department rulings curtaled under their
respective headings. lie has also prepared a
comparison of all the former laws upon the
income tax arranged so that all the provisions
heretofore made upon the same subject shall
appear properly grouped and anyone at a
glance can see the various changes and modi-
fcations that have taken place.
There are many bills that ought to be dis
posed of in the short session of Congress soon to
begin, although it is doubtful if the Democrats
will bother their heads much about enacting
legislation. In the Senate the bankruptcy
bill. those for the admission of New Mexico
an Arizona, that for anti-option, all of which
have passed the House, will come up for dis.
position. The Nicaragua canal, the free COIN
age of silver, and the Pacific Railroad indebt-
ednes5 bills will be brought up. A bill to pro.
mote The efficiency of the revenue cutter sery-
ice and one to allow National banks 10 in |
crease their circulating notes to the full amount
of the bonds deposited as security for their
circulation should have hearing. The House
bill to provide for the election OF United States
Senators direct by the people obviously is rot
likely to pass the Senate. In the House the
Nicaragua canal BILL the revenue cutter serv-
ice BILL and the bank circulation bill must be
attended to. One of two bills from the Senate
for the deportation of aliens is to be considered
and the anti-anarchist provision. Certain Dis
trict bills, including one for additional accom-.
modations for the Government Printing Office. !
will also be urged before tue peoples repre-.
sentatives.
As the result of every election like that of
last week there usually is reapportionment
changes hands. In some States the law nre |
seuts an obstacle in the matter of periods in /
which this apportionment may take place. but /
often the law is evaded. At present there are /
"A states apportioned by the Democrats. and II /
by the Republicans, as well as eight not appor I
TONED. The Republicans will now reapportion
California, Connecticut Illinois, Massachusetts |
Michigan, Nebraska, New York, Wisconsin. In /
diana, and West Virginia. The law is against re- /
apportionment in Indiana oftener than once in
six years, but the Republicans will probably |
get around that. The Fusionists will reappor.
ton North Carolina. Thus the Republicans
will have % States to reapportion. the DENIM.
Gratis l3, and the Fusionists one. Delaware.
NORTH DAKOTA, Idaho, Montana. Nevada, South !
Dakota aud Wyoming, and Washington will |
probably not be disturbed for apportionment. |
X
Senator Cameron came ont emphaticallv last
week in a statement to the effect that although
much had been said about his possible candidacy
for the Presidency, he never had been and was
not now candidate. But Mr.. Cameron thinks
Tom Reed is the coming man, the while believ-
ing that ex-President Harrison and Gov. Nc.
kiney will give sharp fight.
IL looks as IL the Administration did not do
the right thing by Dir. Wilson, of West Vir.
ginia, IN his recent contest, and there is I'm.
derstood TO be some liitle soreness on the mart
Of the Chairman Of the Ways and Means Com
mittee. contribution OF SIS from Internal
Revenue Commissioner Miller and few
speeches by Assistant Secretary Hanllin are
believed to be the sum total of the assistance
given him by the Administration officials. Who
is 10 blame?
r
Secretary Carlisle, it is understood. win in
his annual report recommend 20 Congress an
Issue of short term bonds. The Secretary is a
believer in the popular loan idea The senti.
nient in Congress last Spring was against an
it- ne Of bonds, aud as the same people control
Conlre . this session it is not likely that it will
tsnge its mind.
A plan has been recently formed 10 extend
tho Civil Service to the lower grades of EN- ploves