Show A M MONKEY AND PARROT TIME The latest news from fron Washington is both important important important im im- im and edifying The ways of Congress are mysterious and past finding out until afterwards In the beginning the House of Representatives did not take kindly to the proposition to wipe out the war taxes probably because the leaders in that J body thought that a Treasury surplus which according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to Chairman Payne of the Ways and Means F r committee amounts to one hundred and seventy seventy- I 1 four million dollars in cash would be handy to have ave in hand in view of the ship subsidy bill and other measures in requiring money But the haughty Senate has managed to create a a revulsion of feeling in what what Senators Senators sententiously sententious- sententious ly term another place and by threatening to hit the sug sugar r tariff a solar plexus blow for the benefit of Cuba by means aris s of a treaty with that semi inde pendent or so h to to- tobe be so State has incited the House Rouse to vengeful Now the war taxes faxes are to go as far as that branch of the National Legislature can cati dominate the matter the idea being being being be be- ing that with those sources of ot revenue eliminated J it would be impracticable to further reduce Uncle L. L Sams Sam's income by the Dingley duties on I. I sugar or anything elser else r It is an ill wind that blows nobody good and beer tea tob tobacco cco and arid other necessaries of life will willbe willbe willbe be relieved of their Spanish war burdens that burdens that is t I in case the scheme should go through In this connection connection con con- it is as well to remember that while the I Senate in conjunction with the President can reduce reduce reduce re re- re- re duce the tariff on Cuban productions by treaty without ithOl t reference to and indeed in spite o of the House of Representatives the latter cannot secure secure fior cor reduction of any internal revenue t tx- tx r without the concurrence of the Senate Senat So 0 i as we have remarked hitherto there are the maki makings mak- mak jj ings of an extremely entertaining row in the situation situa situa- tion tion-in tion in fact what might be referred to as a i Monkey and Parrot kind of a time |