Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Two tariff bills, says a Washington telegram, will be submitted to the Ways and Means committee. Mr. Hewitt will present a plan ot reduction based on the various tar'ff bills of last year as compared with the schedule of duties previously existing. Mr. Morrison will ofTer a bill providing for a horizontal reduction of from 16 to 25 per cent. Secretary Frelinghuysen is afraid, it is understood, to take any steps looking to retaliation against France and Germany. In fulfillment seemingly of the first duty of a railroad President nowadays, Robert Harris, of the Northern Paciflo, has already appeared before a committee of Congress to apprize the Federal Legislature of his wishes, and to convert the Representatives of the people to his way of thinking on the land-grant-forfeiture question. He presented no new idea —in fact, the roads have but one idea—namely: that the land to which they lay claim is theirs whether they have earned it or not. The prospect for the carrying of the

Hennepin canal project has been vastly improved by the indorsement of the Board of Trade convention.