| Show POINTS gossip from the national capital enquirer correspondence washington jan 1 1897 chairman deneley haa proven himself to be the right man in the i feht place since the tariff maga began before the hoose V and means committee e gentlemen who baye appeared be fore the committee have mostly been considered experts upon the particular matters about which they and some of them have been greatly bur prissy to learn by chairman comments and questions that abe knew as much or more about them than they did in other words the experts apon particular schedules or branches of the tariff have learned th t chairman dingey is an expert on all branches of the tariff without exception every man who has been heard by the committee has condemned the democratic idea of imposing duty on the value of the article ad valoree valorem va lorem as the present tariff does as an incentive to fraud and an inin stice to the honest importer one gentleman called attention to the fact that turkey was now the anly country besides the united states that ased the ad valoree valorem system it had oner ago been settled by the republicans that tho new tariff bill would impose specific duties advises advices from north conr olin asay the reelection reelect ioa of senator prichard is now fully assured notwithstanding the opposition of senator marion butler an opposition which so treachery the news from kentucky is not so ps euring owing to party factions among the republicans which ara being worked for all they are worth by both wings of the democratic party the gold democrat Demo craa hope the republicans will fall to elect a senator because they will votes fot carlisle or bome other gold democrat and the silver democrats want them to fail because they believe the be deadlocked and the election thrown over to the next legislature chich they expect to control ii the republicans of the kentucky legislature are diee thoy will get together and elect a senator lamouth LamoD th an official order directing tae of tha cabels of the academy at the inauguration of dene elect mckiniry and a similar order to the naval cabets cadets at annapolis is expected irom secretary herbert these cabets cadets have not taken part in an inaugural parada since president grants second inauguration when their exposure without overcoats over coata to the terrible weather of that day resulted in several deaths and much sickness the of the republican committee are now regularly open in washington for tho transaction of business secretary perking is in charge and his terse statement we are in for the war for four years tells the purpose in view the committee will continue to send sound republican literature where it will do the most good and invites demands from individuals as well as from state and county committees the democratic members of the house ways and means committee seem to know 1 where they were at when mr W E of vicksburg miss who appeared before the committee as a representative of the growers of extra or long stable cotton in mississippi tennessee arkansas and louisiana asked for a duty of 3 cents a pound upon egyptian cotton which comes in direct competition with their product in the new england market representative wheeler of ala whose constituents raise cotton but not of the kind that the egyptian article competes with got hot under the collar and after spitting oat some fotr about the south its birthright for a mesa of pottage by asking for this krotec aloa to leavo the hearing but before doing so said in reply to representative senta tive payne that the birthright referred to consisted of institutions free free trade free everything somebody in the crowd remarked except speech there am really no new developments in connection with the cuban question and none are expected until after congress reassembles but every hour brings a new rumor to the surface as to what is going to be done by spain and one or more of tho european nations if this country interferes in any way that these rumors are intended to influence the action of congress is certain but if they do it will not bo in the direction intended by their originators there are too few congressmen in town to speak at this time |
