Show OUR TON LETTE 11 mo aroni our own ou corro candent washington dee dec 4 1880 about the time this thia letter reaches you the two houses of the tha forty ninth CoD will meet and open antho in the s u aj way vay for the short busy session ees Bion u tha ft rul rush h of congressman to the tha city and of the crowd that always follows them began yesterday and will continuo fox for the next month the indications are that there will be pretty full fall representation of both senators and congressmen congressman on next monday when the garvels gavels fall simultaneously in in both ends of the capitola Capi capitol tolt the tha question which e excites the most tit attention in the of the hers who are coming in is ia whether anything can or will be done with the tariff this winter the high protectionists projectionists are bound that there a shall allbe be to no reduction of protective protect iva duties if it can be prevented the reform leaders are anxious that some deference shall be paid to the pro promises m of 0 the party to which the MR majori acl r ty belong one of f the things which the president is ia c credited with saying baying in regard to the tariff is ia that it should bo be arranged with reference to economic interests instead of political conditions dit ions that as a party issue it is dig tr trading acting and as experience for several long and fruitless years his has shown leads to no practical results nor even points out but practical methods of reform A pennsylvania member elect of the F fiftieth congress who has heen been liere here during daring the tha week was talking about the millions and about the probability pro bablity of the administration leing being able to submit a plan for their r reduction he thinks a great deal will depend upon 0 n what the president will ibay aal lo 10 the ibo ont has MS before him hain now the greatest greate Bt op port anity of his hi life ila it amounts arao unta to a i crime said eaid he be to heap up needless needles taxes axis if in the treasury in in time na of peace mace and if the president takes a old bold stai stand id against it he will have the country to back hira him just a at t this time the grobi president id out 13 ia giving the last po polishing lishin strokes to the he message with which chic b he a has been wrest wrestling Eug for the last few weeks he has baa had a very hard bard time with figures of those surplus millions and in try ing ng to solve the problem for reducing those hobe needless taxes dobard so hard a time indeed that he be has grown nervous an and d irritable and explosive over the work to the great consternation of bis obsequious attendants sec secretary t Blann mannings ings annual report will do deal al moat t ex exclusively clu with the surplus and the best beat method of reducing the taxes and it will be interesting to see sea whether he be or the lF president resident can produce the better financial matter the report of the tha postmaster gen eral era was before the public more th than an a week ago but the tha report of seers secre tary tarv endicott will riot not amount to any an thing this year nor will that 0 of f ia the attorney general secretary bayard will make no report but will cepro sent the state department by send ing to Cong congress tess the d diplomatic we dispatches of the year he is is not cot dis cou court raged ged however by the in differ euce ence shown at the lust last session othon grees gress tobis to his recommendations aea rotary mitney will ask tor for five more millions this year in addition to what has alread been given for a now new navy and secretary lamar will reiterate his bis views on the settlement of 0 the indian problem he advocates a generous policy on the part of the government towards its wards and at tile the same time re commends such measures as a will result I 1 in their becoming independent of its fostering care our oar indian policy he insists is based on considerations of national honor and philanthropy rather than of trade or self defense last year he sald the indians indiana as is a race are few poor and harmless and they have a just claim for help belp and nd protection which should be protection bously respected the well wail worn argument that it would mould be cheaper to keep the indians indiana at a fashionable hotel than as all they are now dealt with is often revived revive by western people who co come melero here the argument is ii strictly trae but the trouble lies in the fact that the V 78 S has I 1 no right to savo save money in in I 1 that way T the be I 1 indiana enjoy no privileges that ar r not theirs by right and these connot betoken betaken ba token a away wa y because the he con country u try would make money by the the act ur mr lamars report reflects a breadth of view ana force of espres sion which give the document a literary value not cot always to be found in a state paper last year lie be was startled by t the a estimates for pensions ensigns tor for the fiscal year just jug t p passed abay 8 1 but bat he it is a tax that is ia cheerfully borne |