Year: 1875

lhe new hGFenue Bill.


The Senate Finance Committee has met
and talked over the tax bill, but without
indicating any line Of action. Secretary
BristOW viii give his views to the commit
tee tomorrow. He has already expressed
himself as being for a tax on tea and coffee,
and opposed to the increase of duties on
whisky and tobacco, but would probably
prefer the present bill TO none. Mr.. Sher-
man has also expressed himself against the
new whisky tax. The bill will not be re-
ported before Friday or Saturday. The
best opinion to-day seems TO be that the
House bin viii be accepted as 4 basis, and
that possibly the 90 cents tax on whisky
may be reduced some five or ten cents.
The bill is lot likely to be made more
onerOUs in the Senate, and may be slightly
improved.


Executive Session of the Senate.


There Il considerable speculation as TO
tbe purpose Of the President in calling an
extraordinary session Of the Senate to meet
on the jth of March. The only treaty Of
any Importance before thai body is that
with the Sandwich Islands. There are
large number Of nominations for various
offices, but the business now pending is not
of such a character that it could not be
easily disposed Of between this and the 4th
Of March. There is 4 report that the
President has some new matters of an I'M
pOrtant character 70 submit, but what they
are exactly has not yet been made public.


The Alabama JudgeshiP.


The nomination Of Gov. L. E. Parsons
for the Office of District Judge Of Alabama
was strongly opposed by MesSrs. Edmunds,
Coukling, Frelinghuysen, and Wright. On
their remonstranCe to the President il was
Withdrawn, and the name Of one Bruce,
an Iowa carpet-bagger, sent in. Bruce is
backed up 10y the Iowa delegation, and is
said 10 be very ignorant and incompetent.
The objection 10 Parsons undoubtedly was
a fear that he would not be a partisan and
oppressive Judge.


Judge DUreIl's Bench.


a strong fight is being made on the NOM
inatiOn of Pardee for Judge in Louisiana,
and il is said that purse Of $4,000 has
been raised to beat him. The plot is to have
Billings made Judge, and Maurice Chester,
q cCal-black negro, made clerk. Chester
is the same fellow that was shot by Pinch
bak not long ago, and on whose thick skull
a pistol ball proved utterly harmless.


The Admission of Colorado.





The bill for The admission Of the Terri
tory Of Colorado as a state, which has al
ready passed the House, was approved by
the Senate to-day with sundry amendments.
1t was put through as a caucus measure;
and Mr.. Chaffee, the Delegate from the
Territory, says tonight that the amend
meuJS of the Senate will be acceptable to
the House. He also declares that the Re
publican party has a majority in the Terri
tory, and that there is no doubt whatever
that two Republican Senators will be
chosen. The recent changes in the Guber-
natOTial and other offices were all made
with a view to secure this end, and the
programme for the future is understood to
be as follows: Delegate ChalIee
and the present Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court in Colorado are 20
be the Senators, and R0Utt, the newly-ap-
pointed Governor, is to be nominated for
Governor when the State is admitted. The
whole purpose OF the bill is to strengthen
the Republican majority in the United
States Senate, and its passage is dictated
by the fear that after the 4th Of March next
there viii cease to be a working majority
i'm that body for the administration The
Democratic Senators objected to the bill
chiefly on the ground that it required that
the Constitution shOuldmake 40 distinction
in civil or political rights on account Of race
or color, which was a test not heretofore
applied TO any State seeking admission.
Several Democrats voted TO admit the State.
a5 they think it Will be Democratic.