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Show H1 ,'-' i In tho sundry civil appropriation bill, re- Ej1 cently passed, there is an item of three hundred H ' thousand dollars to provido for the'work of thft H; ' 1 newly created tariff commission for tho next H, ! fiscal year. It-la interesting to note that that H i sum Is about seventy-five thousand dollars more, H , than was spent by tho republican monetary com- H' mission during its entire lif of four years, in t ' & wliich time It collected data and made n report, Ht . , . which has proved invnlunblo in tljo framing of H i 1 fiscal legislation by both parties. Judging by' H1' ; I tho record o other new government bureaus 1 j,'' create under this ntlministrntion tho present Hh k cm or the tariff commission is modest com- V; ' ? n, iwred with what it will bo in future yenrs after ij f they have enlarged the. field of activity and H h , loaded their office force with impecunious free H ' i :t t trade democrats. ! r |