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Show I'he Fight on the Tariff. ' WA'sinNOTON, Feb.' 19. The-' Committee Commit-tee on Ways and Means , yesterday, in- ' 8tructed Chairman 'Morrison 1 to1 request 1 Ian opinion from the Secretary. of the"" Treasury as to Hie probable effect of the UwdHrtkm mMlw-tariff -reposed ' inrthe Morrison bill u ton.tlic Government re ve- ! j nues, lnjK)n the pasis of Last gear's Customs, ! I bueiiiesa. Jit has been stipulated; by the ' i low tariff niembers Jthat jnlthe .event of ; i the failure of the Secretary to return an , .answer by next Tuesdav, the considera-f-ti&h'of the tariff bill will begin on that : ssa m Hi. ramwmjw, '".'" "'-'"" "" ' "' I 7T r''A physician of Washington, now seventy sev-enty years old, recently found near 45partansburg, S. C, a daughter, now over : forty years old, whom he had never seen and" but recently heard of. ? He married ; her mother about the time of the break-1 break-1 ing but of the Mexican war and joined a ! regiment for Mexico on account of the ' opposition the match uretTiith from her j parents. Before the troops dtebanded he j heard of his wife's death, but not the ! birth of her daughter, and therefore did ! not return; .to the! home pf her people, i Recently he saw a notice in a newspaper that led hint to-look up a -Mrs Cook at j the above mentioned place, and found I she was' his daughter. The doctor.did not marry again after the death of his Wife. ,'.,.;,.' '. ,. j" .,.;;,:' '- |