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MARCH 18,

Potato Starch. :

ir is, of course, well known to our readers that a Bill has been introduced

into the United States Congress to taxation here in Canada includes the

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reduce the present redundant tariff. Mr, | Provincial taxation, all the Provincial ‘reveaues coming from the Federal

Morrisov, who introduced the Bill, made it short avd comprehensive, the reduc- tion being on a sliding scale of twenty

. avd Canals, while io the United States

that with which he made the comparison does not inelude the State taxation, while the

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here are no such i‘ems entering into the axation. More: ver, the hon. gentleman orgot to tell the Llouse, and we’ suppose twas eutire forgetfulness on his part, the taxation in the United States

Government and being a part of that | taxation. In

the United States, every

per cent., but it appears that through State, to a large extent, produces , > ta “ wet } . 3 ts

the amendments made in Committee ol is own revenus avd taxe its the w hole, that the reduction will only -™ n people for Ahose Fevenuce. he total State taxation in the United

average fifteen per cout. Ever since

Mr. Morrison announced his measure, every interest which would be affected by the reduction, has appeared in|

Washington, by delegation, aud has

ei:her pro ested agi in t any change lo

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the preseut tar iff, or begged for a Sug- gested amendments to the. proposed | evacimen! Among these delegations |

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was a stropg one from Marve, backed up by several promivent persons from othe

States, proleating emphatically against | the prope if the Morrison bill to put | on the free list dextrine, burnt starch, |

gum and British gum, all of | which ar from potato} starch ihey siated that there are some | laciories 10}

substitute } reparations

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twenty-eight potete starch Aroostook Us: Vs Maive.with n capacity for consuming about two idlions of bush |

e's of polatoes, and } roduciug about eight thousand tons ol sufficient to si ply tne ary Uniied States. The f{aetories, the afford a home market to the!

starch, or demands of the}

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gation said,

farmers at tweuty-five cents per bushel] just “us they are dug. A fair yield Is | ove hundred aud twenty-five to one}

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hundred and filty bushels per acre, worth

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at the factory $30 to $40 Abolition -or | reduction of the duty would, it was] maintained, close every factory and)

Dextrine, says the Washington cor respoudent of the Bosten Journal, is potato starch dried uutil the weight is reduced ove-third, but the duty on it is only one cent, while the duty on the crude starch is two cevts, so that three pounds of starch reduced to two pounds of dextrine, pays but two cents duty, while the crude starch would pay six cents, Burot starch is only a little more dried than the crude article.

Sinee the protest of this Maine dele- gation, the Morrison Bill has been re- ported to Congress, and ihe prospect is that it will pass the House of Repre- sentatives. It is believed, however, that it caunot pass the Senate, as the Repub- licaus have a majority of one io that body, avd it is possible that some of the Southern Democratic Sena- tors will vote against the Biil, as it attacks some of the Southern manufac- turing interests. If the Bill does pass the Senate, it is thought probable that President Arthur will veto it, and « tremenduous pressure will be brought to induce him to io so,

In any event, perhaps the fact that dextrise, under the present tariff, only pays ope cent a ponod duty, may be of interest to our factories, as they may be able to turn the crude article into dex- trine at a nominal cost.

The Public Expenditures.

In reply to a poiut raised by Sir Richard Cartwright, respectivg our in- creasing expenditures, the Minister of Marine and Fisheries said: “I have never yet heard the hon. geotleman make a financial speech, tut he has gone back to 1867, and pointed out that the expeu- Giture which was thea $13.000 000 has ran ep to $23.000,009, $25,000,000 and $30,000,000, Is it a crime that the coun'ry grows and prospers aud requires more expenditure. aud that we are able to meet it without ivordinate taxation ? Why, the hon. geu'leman would have the country warped and standing still, with an expenditure of $13,000 000. Ifthe hon. gentleman bad been bora in China he would have been famous as one of those meo who cultivate dwarf vegetable trees. He would not have this country

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States, independent of the Federal taxa- ation avd the large som collected through Customs and Excise is $52.019.959; for State aud county purposes $69 606 571; than counties, $180,- 740,000, or a total of $302,200 694, or £6 per head; while the indebiedvess of the States is proportionately large. So that, it the hou. geatleman had ished to make «a correct comparisou he would have omiited from the Cavadian taxation the several sums I have vamed, or added to that of the United States the taxation that was devoted to State purposes.’

PARLIAMENTARY. COARESPONDENCE,

UTTAWA, March 3,

The House has been | some days en-

| yaced in considering ‘Ways and Means.”

To obtain sufficient revenue by means of duties on imports, and give our own peo} le as many incidental advantages in our own home markets as we can; or to obtain suffi-

| cient revenue and give our own people as

tiew cean!—that was the question. in the tariffare intended to give ncidental advantages than they now pos- aess to a few infant industries which have been established; ard they were oppused, onthe old ground that it is better not to have the indus‘ries at all than to be obliged © pay an enhanced price for the products f those industries. One of the indnsiries mvelved is the steel manufactory lately established at New Glasgew, Nova Scotia, in the midst of our coal and iren deposits. It was argued that this very important industry can as well be prosecuted in Canadi asin any other Gountry; and that, once established, competitors in the busi- nees will produce and sell steel at lower prices than those at which the same quali- ties of imported steel can be obteined here, The argument was supported by evidence drawn from a “long time ago,” from ‘‘far and near,” and from the present experi- euces of every consumer in Canada. Every- one knows that gooda jn ordinary use are not so dear as they were when we began giving some special incidental advantages to those engaged in making them in this large country; and, in illustration of the cause of this fact, Mr. Wigle exhibited in the House, yesterday afternoon, several producis of our own factories—a felt hat, a yard of cotton, and a piece of cluth. Here is his illustration of THE PIECE OF CLOTH :

‘IT had occasion to go te a factory in West Kent and I said: ‘1 want a part of a yard of your heaviest cloth.’ There is the piece of cloth J got (holding it vp). It hasa peund ef wool in it, and I paid fitty cents a yard for it. lt costs thirty ents to manufacture it. . Now, I would like to know where is the fifty per cent. paid on that piece of cloth. 1 will promise the hon. gentleman that if te or any of bis supporters behicd him—and there are a Jet of merchants there—can stand up and show the House that there is fifty per cent. of duty paid on this kind of clovh, I will leave thia side of the House and go and support the hen. gentleman. Well, I explained this at a meeting in West Kent Aiter I got through, an old French gentieman came up to me and said: ‘Do you see that cloth in these pants ? slapping his hand on hisleg. ‘My sheep grows that, my wife spins it, and my girl weaves it, and I world like to know how I pay 50 percent. on that.’ All these things are done in West Kent, the wool comes in free of duty, and I would like these hon gentle- men $> show me how there is a cent of duty paid on it Put it is just like the case of the hat. A poor man goes intoa store, and he sees different kinds of cloth there at from sixty gents a yard to ac llaror adollar and twenty-five ceuts, al) manufactured in Canada, but if he must bave Sco'ch goods or goods im- ported from other countrics, then he pays the twenty-three per cent. the hon. gentleman spoke of. So that it is the gich man that pays twenty-three per cent. and the poor man does not pay anything at all.”

This is putting it in a strong light. Bat, after all, :ts the old well-known story over again; and it will please and profit your readers better to hear what’s being done by

THE AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEE.

These Committees, by the way, are a capital institution. Members of Parlia- ment are, as a rule, very intelligent men, and know a good deal about everything in

advantages in our own markets as we The changes greater

grow. To use an American expression, if the hon. gentleman had been born a | polywog, he would not have become a| frog, except for the satisfaction of being better able to croak over the ills avd mis- fortunes of other people. I need not elaborate this question of the expeudi- ture of the country. If the hon. gevtle- min will come down to millions, if he will point out to the House, wherein large unnecessary expenditures Lave been made, then it will be in place to discuss the subject. But with the growing pros- perity of this country, with the improve- mevts that have been made, with the demands that have been made on the Public Treasury, iv consequence of the uudertakiogs eutered into during the hon. geotleman’s administration, we have also the fact that the country has been prosperous, and that all these ex- penditures have been met from the in- creased ievenue, without taxiug inordin- ately the people. Before 1 pass away from this, let me refer to just one point. The bou. genilemau wanted to alarm the country by saying we were taxed nearly double per head as compared with the

people of the United States. The hon. gentioman did not stop to explain that in the gross amount which is taken as the taxation of this

country there was incleded none of the

general. But, with few exceptions, they are perticularly well up in some particular branch with which Parliament must deal, One has given particular attention to Rail- ways, another to education, and another to the temperance question; one knows all about the Northwest, and another is cog- nigant what is going on in the older Pro- vinces; Dr. Fortin louks after the fish, and Mr. Gigault gives special attention to the farm. The Committees ave ugua'ly struck with apecial reference to aptitudes; and a large proportion of the members of each Committee are thus warmly intcrested in, aud familiar with, the spec al work which each Committee has to do. The Com- mittees meet every forenoon in rooms set apart for the purpose, and enquire into the subjecta within their purview. In doing this they call as witnesses specialits, wh«im they examine and crogs-exemice. Thus

relating to the q-estion they are to deal with, are evabled to Lricg to bear upon it, light from many different pcint of view, avd are. the more likely to come to a right decisiva in the premises.

Mr, Gigault’s Committee have had before them a number of ‘‘specialisis” in the vari- ovs branches, of agriculture, for the pur- pose of finding out what the Federal Gov- ernment had bet‘er do about it.

PROVINCIAL BCREA® OF STATISTICS.

To-day the evidence of Mr, A. Secretary of the Burean of Industries of Ontario, was obtained. The Bureau has

veveuues from Vullic Works, Railways

i's headquarters in the City of Toront». ia Uwty us vo ClAala aud dastribute aguursis

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statistics of the agricultural and other industries of the Province. It has between seven and eight hundred correspondents who furnish it with statements as to the conditions and circumstances of industries in their respective localities, It also furnishes each farmer in the Province with a echedule to be filled up, and returned. The following are some of the questions :—

Number of acres in farm,

Number of acres cleared,

Acres in spring wheat,

Acres in barley,

Acres in oats,

Acres in buckwheat,

Acres in field beans,

Acres in hay and clover,

Acres in potatocs,

Aeres in mongold-wurtzels,

Acres 1n carrots,

Acres in turnips,

Horses,

‘Thoroughbred cattle,

Grade and pative cattle,

Sheep,

Pigs,

Poultry,

Weol,

Bushels of old wheat on hand,

Pounds of butter made last year,.....

Rods of underdrain completed on fam,

Value of farm property,

Rent value of farms per acre,

Weges of farm hands,

W axes of servant girls, pyr week,........---- The schedule is accompanied with a cir-

cular in which the objects of the Bureau

are explained, and in which the farmer is

assured that the return will be known enly

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AMINER,

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represented ecitier that I was ordered by the Government, or asked hy the Govern- | ment, or of my own will and purpose did | diberately engage to talk out and kill the | Now, sir, [ wish simply to state | this: the mauner and the matter of my) speech are legitiniate subjects for criticism | but my motives L hold are my own propersy, | and | have aright to explain them to the | House. With respect to these statements | | may say that as regards fact and intention | they are absolutely without foundation; |

‘they are utterly, entirely and completely

falre. ‘MR. BLAKE'S REPUDIATION,

A few days ago, Mr. Blake stated that he had nothing whatever to do with the Globe's article headed ‘Is it a Crisis,” in which a ccatition of the Bleus of Quebec and the Opposition is suggested, on condition that the Bileus should vote against the Railway Resvlutions and the Opposition should yield the Better Terms demanded by Quebec. . ——-- _ The Entertainment Last Night.

Tur Market Hall was never eo crowded

a8 it was last night, when every seat was tilled and every inch of standing room ccenpied. Sale of tickets had to be die-

continued before eight o'clock, and hun- dieis of people went. away unadmitted. ihe hall was tastefully aod prettily decors ated with bunting, spruce, and National devices, which made the room cheerful,

to the Bareau and will be treated as strictly confidential information. It is also ex plained that the main object of the Bureau is to benefit the farmers themselves, by coll eting and publishing useful facts about farms and farm-work, crops, live stock, ete. This benefit is represented to be chitfly two-fold, as foilow: —

(1) By knowing whether there is a likeli- hood of abundance er scarcity of crops or stock, farmers have a good guide to prices. | Iv often happens, for instance, that some kinds of erops are excellent in one part of the conntry, and a failure in another past Much depends on the rainfall, on local sterms and drouths, and on weather eficcts generally, So, too, with the supply of fat and store animale, Farmers may have large numbers on hand, or they may have nope to sell, Dealers know pretty well the state of the country in these respects, for it is part of their business to keep posted and they have correspondents to supp!) them promptly with information, And 50 informed they may, and often do, buy up the surplus grain, fiuit, roots or live stock, of a neighborhood betore farmers know that there is eifher scarcity or abundance elsewhere) 'to have any effect on prices. The Bureau, in collecting such information from all parts of the country and publish- ing jt in special Reports and throvgh the newspapers, 6nables farmers to judge for themselves as tothe courge of prices, in- stead of selling or holdirg cn in the dark,

(2) By compaiing results in their own anci other countries farmers are better able to judge of the value of their property, and less likely to part with it too cheaply in the hope of getting richer Jands and makin, foruines easier elsewhere,

Last year, three special reports of the Ontario Bureau were issued; and the value of the information thus distributed has Leen recogniz.d and appreciated. The Burean was established and is maintained by the Provincial Government at a cost of about $8,000 a year; and Mr. Blue thinks industria] statistics, to be useful, mnst be collected by each Province, though a Cen- tral Burcan, in affiliation with the Provin- cial Bureaus, would, in his opinion, be beneficial to the whole country.

CULTIVATION OF SORGHUM.

Yesterday Mr. Dogherty, of Ottawa, gave some interesting ipformation to the Com- mittee respecting sorghum. Three or four yeags ago he became interested in sorghum, and started a small factory on the halves principle, with very satisfactory results to the farmers and to himself. He obiained a product of about one hyndred and twenty gallons of syrup per acre., werth in the market about seventy cents per gallon. In the United States, he says, sorghum has been cultivated with great success. Oc- casionally, there is a bad year; but the farmers ergaged in sorghum culture report that on the average it pays better than any other crop. Sorghum will succeed where Indian corn succeeds; indeed it is a rather hardier plant. The eaily amber is the best variety. It grows under favorable circum- stances toa height of twelve feet; but its average height is eight feet. The yield of sorg.um seed is from twenty to thirty bushels per acre; and the teeding proper- ties of the seed are fully as good as these of corn. In Mr, Dogherty’s opinion, the best way to carry on the busimess ia by means of factories,Rworked on the same principle as creameties and cheese factories. In some years, sorghum is destroyed by early frost; but there is alarge part of Cenada in which it can be grown at a gross profit of forty dollars per acre. The yield of syrup is from 100 to 200 gallons per acre; andithe sugar is of fine quality and excelient taste when properly mad. In the neighbor- ing Republic, the respective States in which sorghum is grown, offer a bonus of a dollar a ton on.all sorghum grown, and a cent a pound on the sugar manufactured; and in the opinion of Mr. Dogherty their example should be followed here. A sorghum fac- tory, he says, could be established, on a good basis, with the best machinery for $10,000. The seed should be planted about the 15th of May.

THE PROHIBITION KESOLUTION,

Mr. Foster rose to makp a personal ex- planation, yesterday, and said: ‘‘f desire to say a word ona question of privilege. I find in an issue of the Chicago Inter Oeean, a copy of which I hold in my hand, the fuiiowing special telegram :—

Orrawa, Ont , March 5th. ‘4 resolution to test the members views on

they obtain the latest and best Berea prohibi'ion, was brought up in the House to-

nig.t wy Prof. Foster of New Brunswick. He gave a lengéhy speosh, so jt was impossi- b'e vo reach a yote, much to the disgust of the tempcyance people, aad the motion was there- fore put at the foot of the order: aper, which makes doubtful jts coming up again this Session. It is stated openly that Foster ar- ranged to do this with the Government, as the Ministers were in a quandary how to act, with the prohibitionists on one side, and the licensed victuallers on the other,”

I hid the ci riosity, after receiving this from a very earnest aud warm friend asking

;what DL meant by such action, to lock through phe bles of the newspapers in the reacling Room, and { found the majority

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although it must have done some injury to the sound of voices and instruments. Our readers have seen in our recent issues how varied was the programme prepared; it was rendered well from first to lest. We ere sorry we cannot spare space for extended mention of cach performer, but we think the audience proved good jadges as to what was best by their encores of Mrs, Strick- land, Prof. Caven and Mr. Reid. Mrs. Strickland sang two Irish songs with the usual taste and sweetness which has made her such a favorite among us. We were delichted te hear Prof. Caven’s rich, ma- tured vo'ce after solong x silence; Mr. Reid always secures @& deserved geod hearing We mnst not neglect to compliment Mr. Hermans upon his solo, sung with taste in the rich voice he is the happy possessor of, The excellent choir of the cathedral! furnished four charuses, of which we liked the ‘‘Last Rose of Sumer” best. The voices blended pweetiy aad were well balanced. In “Domestic Seenes” we had an amusing and very pretty chorus promul- gating wholesome views ppon young ladies’ expenditure. Mr. Fletcher played a cornet solo, and Mr. Vinuecombe, for a violin solo, Gounou’s dclightful ‘‘Ave Maria,” support- ed by a string guartette. The Misses Quirk played a brilliant galop, and the O.ch: tral Club played three -elections with marked improvement. Mr. F. J. Conroy, in his address, dwelt upon the Irichman’s greatest characteristic— his love compound- ed of the severe! features of attach- ment to his mother country, devotion to her National Church, and loving rever- ence for her clergy. He portrayed the Irish endurance of suffering, and paid an elegant tribute to the memory of America’s wator, Wendell Philips. Mr, Conroy urged toleration of various creeds and peaceful citizenship and loyalty as suggested by the characteristics of Jrish character. Before ‘*God Save the Queen” was sung, Father Carroll, ina happy and eloquent address congratulated the Irish Catholics upon heir worthy carriage throughout the celebration, their large and devout attendance in the

Sanctuary at the celebration of Mass, their orderly appearance’ in pracesgion, and their liberal patronage

of the Concert, honored by the presence of our venerable Bishop. The Rev, Gentle- man proved conclusively ‘0 the satisfaction of every Irishman that the aiscovery of America is the rightful claim of the Sons of Erin, as proved by the fact that long before Colaumbys landed in America, some Indians

were found in foprg Island speakirg with a sweet touch of the brogus. Father Carroll expressed the hope

that pefore he should leave this Parish he

Cathedral werthy pf cheir name and creed.

The Concert was a grand sucpess financially, ! 3 i : r

about $350 having been realised.

SS a LETTERS T0 THE EDITOR,

A Steamer Wanted on the Capes Route.

(By Telegram.) Care Tormenting, March 18. Sir,— Boats crossed and returned yester-

day. A steamer could have effected a crossing each way with very lititle difficulty,

boats todoy, but a steamer’s chance is good, Ice HoummMock,

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Our Advertisers. KE. Palmer, Jr., publishes a statement of the Equitable Life Insurance Company, of | which he is the agent for this Island. Father Carroll thanks the ladies and gentlemen who contributed toWards making the concert last evening a grand success. F. L. Haszard:calls ‘a special meeting of the Law Society in the Law Library, on the 26th inst., at eleven o'clock.

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ard of Thanks.

ATHER CARROLL thanks the ladies and gentlemen who {toox part in last eveuing’s concert. He especially wishes te thank the Orchestral Club, whose masterly and tast«ful execution was one of the best features of the entertainment.

The Law Society.

SPECIAL MEETING of thp Memb rs of t'e Law Society of Pijnce Edwaie Island will be held at the Law Library, in Charlottetown, on Wednesday next, the twenty-sixth day of March, instant, at the hour «f eleven o'clock a, m., to take iato cone sideration certain necessary amendments, re: quired to be made in the laws at the presert session of the Legirlature.

By order. F, L. HASZARD,

Ch’tywn, Maruh 13, 188%

“MARCH 18,

| bound to say, to one political party alone,

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