The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-25

For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The senatorship contest in North Caro-
lima promises to become as lively and in
teresting as the senatorship contest in
Georgia. Up to this time Senators Vance
and Jarvis have been the only avowed
candid ates for the seat. Capt. S. A.
Ashe, formerly the editor of Raleigh
paper, will probably enter the field dur
ing the coming week. Capt. Ashe is well
known, is a man of ability and popularity,
and will make a good race.
No appropriation has been made for
carrying the income tax law into effect.
But that does not mean the law will fail,
as suggested by certain newspapers The
law does not become operative until Jan.
] next, and there will be practically moth
ing to be done until the following March,
when returns are to be filed. Between
this time and January next there will be
another session of congress, when, there
is little room for doubt, the necessary APP
preparation will be voted
p. Senator Caffery of Louisiana says that
while he has no direct information rela-
tive to the reported suits to be instituted by
Louisiana sugar planters against the gov
eminent for this years bounty on sugar,
he is inclined to believe such suits will be
brought. He thinks the beet sugar pro-
ducers of Kansas and Nebraska will also
bring suits. The senator regards the
governments obligation to pay the bounty
on this years crop as legal and binding
The planters have taken out proper
licenses and otherwise complied with the
law, so that they have proper standing
in the courts. At the next session Sena-
tor Gallery will introduce a special bill
for the relief of those who, having com
piled with the law, failed to receive the
promised bounty.
The treasury department has made a
decision that goods now in bond. on
which the duties are lowered by the new
tariff bill, may be withdrawn at the new
rates, but the goods in the bonded ware
houses which were put upon the free list
by the new bill must pay the Mckinley
duties. This seeming anomaly is ex-
planned by the New York Post. which
says the language of the bill admits of no
other Interpretation than that put upon
II by the treasury department The first
section of the bill, which fixes the rate of
duties, says the duties shall be levied
upon articles imported "or withdrawn
for consumption" The second section of
the bill, which makes the free list, saws
nothing about Withdrawals for consump-
ton, and merely says the goods exempted
from duties shall be free when i'm
ported" The words ''or withdrawn
from consumption" were added to the
first section as an amendment 1t was
probably the intention of the senators to
add them to the second section also But
they forgot it. The result will be that
certain articles, the freight charges on
which will be less than the Mckinley
duty, will be sent 10 Halifax or Bermuda,
and then shipped back and entered free
The need of bringing senatorial terms a
little closer TO the people is pretty well
illustrated in the cases Of Senator Call Of
Florida and ex-senator Walthall of Mis-.
sissippi. The cases are considered from
an impersonal standpoint, as matter of
course. The term which Senator Call is
now serving is hardly half overt will
Cali is in Florida conducting his campaign
for reelection. The legislators who will
select his successor will be elected in the
fall, will meet in general assembly in
April, 1895, and then ballot for a senator
for the term beginning March 4, 1897.
The sessions of the Florida legislature
are held biennially, and the one Of 1897
will convene Just one month after the
senatorial term begins. The result will
be that the senator elected will take his
seat nearly three years after the people
have had an opportunity to express their
opinion. In the case of the Mississippi
senatorship. the period of time TO elapse
between the election and the beginning of
the term was almost as great. Owing.to
the lateness in the year Of the meeting Of
The legislature, Gen. Walthall was in
lsS2 elected for the term beginning in
le95, and was enabled, through the pecu-
lar circumstances Of the case. to resign
Tor the term he was then serving while
holding on to the term TO begin three
years later.