Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1883 — political Notes. [ARTICLE]

political Notes.

Mb. Keieeb wishes the great American public to understand that he never swears. As Disraeli once said of Gladstone, Keifer hasn’t a solitary redeeming vice. Mb. Robeson has gone from us, probably for ever. Foreign nations may discover his absence in the fact that our future naval appropriation bills will be less formidable than formerly. Senator Van Wyck remarked with great earnestness, during a late debate in the United States Senate, that “Brewster,” as he signs himself, was “robbing the people in order to punish star-route robbers.” It looks that way. The President is taking very good care of the men who last fall couldn’t carry their own districts. A general White House order is understood to read: “Come unto me, all ye that were kicked out by the people, and I will give ye an office. ” The gallant Benjamin F. Butterworth retires from public service without achieving his dearest wish—the passage of the whisky bill. However, there is sufficient Whisky out of bond to prevent private life from being utterly intolerable to retiring statesmen. The Government has refused to pay salary to Tom Ochiltree, and the statesman from Texas is accordingly very careful not to get into any poker game with such men as Tom Bowen, Vest and Blackburn. He probably would prefer safe games with such innocents as Edmunds and Hoar.

It appears that Thoman, the Ohio member of the Civil Service Commission, is proverbially successful as an office-seeker. His friends call his new appointment “Thoman’s luck,” and a correspondent at Youngstown, where he lives, says: “It would surprise no one if Thoman wefte to become President of the United States, Governor of the Sandwich Islands, or King of France.” It is plain enough that Thoman is a genuine Ohio man. A number of Democratic papers have taken up the rebuke administered Randall by Mr. Hewitt, the other day, and, without an exception, they pronounce it timely and just. Randall’s commit-tee-packing business is generally admitted to have killed him off for the Speakership. He might as well throw away ambition and make up his mind that it is not on the cards that he shall succeed Keifer as a committee packer. A Washington correspondent says that Blaine and Chandler are holdingfrequent “midnight conferences,” and that a few nights ago “Mr. Chandler and Mr. Blaine emerged from the latter’s house at a late hour and walked around an adjacent square until nearly half-past 2 in the morning, engaged in earnest conversation. ” This might look like some dark and hideous political conspiracy, if it was not well known that Mr. Blaine is trying to prevent ' Chandler from making him a Presidential candidate. Fitz John Porter will be compelled to look to a Democratic Congress for the relief to which he is rightfully entitled. In spite of Mr. Logan, the bill for his restoration passed the Senate; but, owing to the pressure of tariff and other business, it was not reached in the House. Representative Bragg, however, did not let Congress close without getting in a valuable word for the wronged man, and his thorough and careful speech, which, indeed, is one of the best that has been presented, will serve as a useful guide and basis of action for the next Congress.

Keiteb has left a long record of meanness as a Speaker, and his last act in that capacity added a long black mark to it. He has a nephew who professes to be a capable short-hand writer. In order to give him a job, he requested one of the regular House reporters to resign. The latter had performed the winter’s duties faithfully, and Keifer himself could allege nothing against him, but, a nephew of Keifer's being in need of a job, there was no power on earth to save his head. The salary is $5,000 a year, and the ex-Sen- - ator’s relative will draw about $4,000 before being obliged to do a stroke of work. It was a great oversight in the tidal wave of last fall to permit the escape of Keifer.— Chicago Times. What a woful mess everybody seems to be in over the effect of the last monstrosity of Republicanism, the new Tariff bill. It is a veritable “What is It.” Read this Washington special: “It was stated by Republican orators in the final debate on the Tariff bill that by it there would be a reduction of at least $75,000,000 annually in internalrevenue taxation and in customs duties. The officers of the Treasury Department take a different view of this. They have examined the bill carefully. They say at the Internal Revenue Bn-J reau that there will not be a reduction of taxes greater than $35,000,000 annually, if it is that, and it is said at the Customs Division that the reduction •will not be more than $20,000,000 or $25,000,000 annually in customs taxes. The reduction in internal revenue this year which will be caused by the bill will be about $6,000,000. Of that $4,000,000 comes from the tobacco tax, sl,500,000 from the tax on special stamps and about $500,000 from the tax P® other stamps," ; ,; s «