Reducing Whisky and Tobacco Taxes Prompts Senate Talk
Washington February 1 A Senate ways and means member indicates the committee will back a tax cut on whisky and tobacco but not as high as some proposals. He expects a staged reduction and apportioning among taxed items. The report suggests whisky tax may drop to about seventy cents.
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Senate Committee On Ways and Means
New York
Senate
Utah
the Post
Nicarauguan
Eade
Miller
California
House
Hosecrans
Nicaraaguan Company
U.S. Grant
D. Morgan
Hugh Jewitt
W. J. Garrison
Frederick Billings
George B. Loring
James R. Keene
Ke, F. Beale
Daniel Amnen
George F. Baker
Wm. H. Barnum
A. G. Menocal
UL 8. Grant, Jr
Raiload
Congress
Senate Debates Polygamy Bill and Territorial Authority
In Washington on February 16 the Senate debated the anti polygamy bill focusing on the seventh section which would bar polygamists from office or suffrage and potentially strip rights for past offenses without trial. West opposed stripping personal liberty safeguards while Garland defended broad territorial powers and strict measures. Executive session followed with nominations and an inquiry about Utah and the Delegate’s seat amid discussion of Dakota admission.
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United States
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Morrow
Edmunds
Dakota
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Judiciary Committee
Morgan
Edmonds
Bills and reports move through Congress in February session
The House docket lists several bills from committees on auditing Garfield expenses seeking a $5,000 annual pen sion for Garfield’s illness and death. Wells beer tax collection, Dakota statehood, Indian training schools, four year revenue-collector terms, and civil service pay cuts are reported or referred. A resolution on apportionment follows, aligning with the Forty Fourth Congress method.
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Garfield
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Carlisle
Burrows
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Dakota
Hooker
Committee On
Indian Affairs
Daniell
Ways and Means
Internal Revenue
Tforr
Civil Service Reform
Congress
Prescott
Sumner Recalls a Great Man’s Profanity at Breakfast
The account recounts Sumner describing a breakfast with Lord Brougham and Brougham’s mother where a newspaper article provoked an eruption of curses from the lord. Sumner admits being shocked, while the lady remains calmly unmoved as the party resumes a pleasant meal.
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Lord Brougham
Mr. Sumner
Brougham
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Western Romance wedding in city after long courtship
The Denver Tribune notes a romance culminating in a wedding in Denver after thirty four years apart. Dr. John Smith, a wealthy New Mexico citizen, travels east seeking his boyhood sweetheart now Mrs Kilpatrick of Missouri. He finds her in Denver at the St James Hotel and the long awaited union follows.
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John Smith
Denver
New Mexico
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Kilpatrick
Missouri
Dr. Smith
Charles O Conor at Home a Missouri Republican
Charles O Conor, a famed lawyer and New York anti slavery figure, is described as living year round in Nantucket. The piece notes his new house above the Lawn with harbor views, a fireproof library being built, and his continued health and activity at age nearing eighty.
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Nantucket
An Awful Responsibility And Preventive Cures Advertised
An odd mixture of health claims promotes Pike's Toothache Drops Stomach Bitters Glenn's Sulphur Soap and Wint's Mam and Wiki Dye. The ad urges regular habits and bowel care to avert illness and touts rapid cures for coughs colds and digestive discomfort, with emphasis on consumer responsibility and widespread product availability.
Summons in Lewis and Clarke County Montana Suit
Territorial Montana summons orders E W Peck to appear before Justice Ira Bateman in Helena to answer a civil action by Kleinschmidt & Brothers for thirty dollars and costs for goods sold and delivered. Failure to appear will bring judgment by default. Dated January 23, 1882.
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Justice's Court
Belmont Township
R.H. Kemp
Joseph D. Comumil
Willam Muth
Lawrence Walsh
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Ira Bateman
Ira Butsnan
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Iysthe Justices' Court
JL Kemp
Jurgen & Ny
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R.W. Kemp
Justice
Independent Publishing Co
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Tra Bateman
A. Ty
Wo'clook
Prine Lists Co
Mm Tefanit
E.W. Peck
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