Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1890 — WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.

The House committee to investigate the Silcott defalcation Thursday reported that the loss should be sustained by the government. ; I Congressman Gear, of lowa, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, said, Friday, that the chances are that the committee will have its bill ready to report very soon after the Ist of February. Mr. Gear said that the sugar duty will be reduced at least 50 per cent., with a oorres ponding bounty for such sugar as may be produced in the United States, whether manufactured from sugar cane, sorghum or sugar beets. The idea that the proposed: bill will be simply a measure for the reduction of tariff duties is erroneous. The principal cause of the complaint against the existing law is the inequalities of the schedule, which has created so much com ment on the part of those most directly interested. The committee will try to bring in a bill which will relieve the law of its bad features, while maintaining the protective policy just as far as possible.