Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1886 — TARIFF REVISION. [ARTICLE]

TARIFF REVISION.

Tlk- Ways and- Means Committee Almost Ready to Report a Revenue Bill. [Washington special.] The Ways and Means Committee now hopes to be able to report a tariff bill much earlier than seemed probable a few days ago.- A large part of the parliamentary work, including general information and computations, that was done two years ago is still available, and will largely reduce the labor of working out the details of a new bill. Two years ago Colonel Mcrrison started out with the assumption that the protectionists had devoted enough time and talent to the tariff bill to make it substantially symmetrical and properly adjirsted in the relations of the different parts to each other. Consequently, he merely raised the question of high duties or low ones by the provision that with certain exceptions only eighty pert cent, of the existing duties Should be collected. Thereupon the protectionists set up a great clamor that it would be wholly unscientific to leave the different duties in the same ratio to each other. They discredited the work, they had been doing fort twentythree years, and which they had just revised with the help of a commission of professed experts, by declaring that Mr. Mdrrison’s bill was a mere botch and utterly unfit for enactment, because it reduced duties not in the same amounts but in the same ratios, whereas he ought to reduce some duties a great deal more than others if he were to make any reductions. These 1 candid and straightforward critics of the horizontal bill will soon have the opportunity to make ’ criticisms of a diametrically opposite character, and no Consideration of consistency will prevent their doing it. The Ways and Means Committee hope to report a bill within the next two weeks, which will bring the bill forward so early in the session that there will be ample time to debate it. The bill will be rather longer than the horizontal hill, but a good deal shorter than a general bill. It will enumprate only the articles the duties on which it is proposed to change. The bill will, in effect, be a good deal like the bill of two years ago, except that it will state the new duties instead of expressing the proportion of the old duty that the new duty is to be. It will not, however, affect quite sc many articles as that bill did. Mb. Arthur, the ex-Presidetit, who has been suffering from dyspepsia, is how much improved, and good digestion.bids fbir once more to wait upon his appetite.

“Father Watched AH Night.” \ Little Ella and her father were once traveling together, and in order to reach their home it was necessary for, them to travel all night. When it became too dark for them to look out of the windows and the lamps were lighted inside, the father laid aside his little girl’s hat, and, spreading out cloaks and shawls, said: “Now we will rest.” But a little troubled face peered out upon the strange scene, a mist was gathering in those blue eyes and the cherry tone of voice changed to a very plaintive one as she asked: "Father, how can we go to bed*here?” “This is your bed, darling/’ he said, drawing her to his heart, “and a warm one you will always find it.” And then he tucked her in so carefully that, in place of what had been a little girl, there’ seemed only a great bundle of Ihawls. But every now and then then, was a movement inside the bundle, and a voice would say: “Oh, father, lam afraid to go to sleep here I" Then the father reminded her that he was ticking care of her and would do so all nikht. fed at last, soothed by this assurance and worn out by unwonled fatigue, she fell asleep. "When she opened her eyes again,- after what seemed to her only a few moments, the sun was shining brightly. The train stopped, and there, just in sight, was her own dear home. She could even see her dear mother standing ir the open door, with arms outstretched, to welcome back her loved ones. Their first meeting was too full of joy for many words to be spoken; but, after those close embraces and warm kisses were over, the mother hsked : “And so my little girl has been traveling all night? Did she find it a long and weary time?” “Oh, no, mother, not at all; I had (such a good sleep, and father watched over me all night! Only think of it! All night, mother, he watched over me ! At first I was afraid to go to sleep in that strange place; but he told me to lean against him and shut my eyes and rest easily, for he would stay awake and take care of me. So I crept up close to him, and, before I knew it, I was really and truly sound asleep; and ’dear father "stayed awake and took case cf me all night. How I do love him forit!” Then the mother, with the love-light beaming from her eyes, told her child of that heavenly Father who watches over each of his children, not only one, but every night of their lives. And the words she spoke were so iffipressed upon Flla’s mind that,; though grown to womanhood now, she still remembers them, and never lies down to sleep without the glad feeling, *fMy Father will be awake to watch over me.” And her first thoughts on waking to the beauties of the morning light are of the dear Father in heaven, yhose loving care has made her rest so safe and pleasant to her.— Children's Record..