Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

“Edmunds called, on me last week,” remarked Secretary Lamar, Friday. “I suppose he will object to my confirmation, if I am nominated for the vacancy on the Supreme Court bench. When Edmunds cads on anybody under similar circumstances you may depend npon it that he means to object to his nomination in thq Senate. I know him of old.” Comptroller Trenholm recommends a reduction of the bank deposit to secure circulation. A friend of Mr. Randall is responsible for the report that that gentleman will not abate in his opposition to tariff reduction, and will fight any measure of the kind with all his strength. Mr. Randall and Mr. Carlisle have had several interviews recently, but both are Implacably wedded to their theories, and unwilling to harmonise their differences. Representatives of the American Tobacco Manufacturers’ Association state that they have not the slightest doubt of the repeal at this session of Congress of the tobacco tax. Circulars addressed to 170 members of the House brought out 120 replies favorable to such an amendment of the internal revenue laws as should make tobacco free. The producers of leaf tobacco in all parts of the fcountry, especially in the South ,are emphatic in their desire for this repeal, not so much oq acoount of the burden of the tax as of the conditions, forms and licenses to which they are subjected. An overwhelming mass of petitions for repeal have been received from the retail dealers in tobacco, of whom there are 430,000 in this country. The tobaceo men are scrupulously anxious to divorce their proposition from that which asks for the abolition of the tax on whisky. They do not believe that the country desires this, and prefer to have their proposed repeal considered separately and on its own merits. The Congressional delegations from Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Connecticut and Ohio are almost' solidly pledged to vole for free tobacco. A large portion of the New York delegation signify the same intention. The manufacturers say that the reduction will not affect prices to the consumer materially, although manufacturers and wholesalers will not enjoy any addition to their profits on that account. The manufecturer will, in the first instance, receive a demand from his laborers—that their wages be increased at least one-half of the tax. On the other hand, the wholesalers and the jobb'rs will make a demand for Their proportion of the tax, and, finally, the nearly 500,000 retail dealers will demand a reduction of prices. There will be some reduction upon smoking,chewing and plug tobacco, but upon cigars it is not apparent that there can be any. It would be difficulto divide up the tax in sqch a way as would make prices at all lower to buyers. The people who buy three cigars for a quarter, or six for fifty cents, would hardly know that there was a reduction of a third of a cent on a cigar, even if it could be made, bat the effect of the repeal would be altogether to the advantage ot the workmen in the factories and the retail dealers all over the country. The Secretary of the Treasury Monday transmitted to Congress the estimates of appropriations required for the fiscal year ending Jane 30, 1889. The total amount estimated required for all expenses of the government is $326,530,793, which is $1,344,999 more than the snm called for in the estimate submitted last year, and $16,890,406 more than the of appropriations for the present fiscal year. The estimates for 1889, are made up of the following items: Legislative, $3,272,111; executive, $lB,852,785; judicial, $422,200; foreign inter course, $1,947,»65; military, $25,692,574; naval, $21,248,032; Indian affairs,ss,4Bß, * 697; pensions, $76,312,400; public works, $30,081 984; postal service, $1,493,409, miscellaneous, $55,087,806; permanent annual appropriations, $115,640,798. Aere is an excess over last year in the estimates for the executive, judicial, foreign intercourse, naval establishment, pensions, public works and miscellany, and a decrease in the estimates for the legislative, military establishment, Indian aflairs, postal service, and in the permanent annual appropriations.

Senator Palmer, of Michigan, will introduce, at the first opportunity, a bill to restrict immigration into the United States. The bill will make it necessary for prospective immigrants to secure certificate) from the United States Consul of the district from which they came as to their good character. The inten tion is to prevent the influx of nibilkts, anarchists, socialists,, etc., which seems imminent from anarchists threats that their great coup made during the elections next fall. Nominations by the President. The President, Tuesday, sent the fol* lowing nominations to the Senate: Indus Q. C. Lamar, Mississippi, to be»Arso date Justice of the Supreme Court of the Halted States. Wm. F. Vilas, of Wisconsin, to be Secretary ol the Interior. Don M. Dickimon, of Michigan, to be Postmaster General. Charles 8. Fairchild, oi New Tort, to be Secretary of the Treasury. : “ " Geo. L. Rives, of New York, to be Assistant Bccretary of State. ~~ ■ Isaac C. Maynard, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. • Sigourney Butler, of Massachusetts, to ond Comptroller of the Treasury. James W. Hyatt, of Connecticut, to be Treasurer es the United States.