The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-04-17
most plainly appear, from the conclusion
to which the members arrived, and ex-
messed as follows

ITO winch the members afIlfeu, anu CA
pressed as follows:
| ''Your committee therefore, finding moth
ling either morally wrong or improper, much
Hess any implied real violation of positive
l,statutory enactments upon the part of any
one in this connection, ask to be discharged
from the further consideration of the subject
As to the result of the Investigation of
the tonnage tax Committee, the estimate
placed upon it may be inferred from the
fact, that the House refused to perpetuate
its existence, as proposed by Mr.. Will
liams, Of Allegheny. The whole affair
has fallen sfat" The developments are
not destined to set the world in blaze.
To the author of the inquiry, who eVi-
IDENTIFY expected to be rewarded therefor
| by an elevation to the Chair of State, the
GOODNESS with which his grandiloquent ef-
! fort has been received is disheartening In
the extreme That the House placed
very Iow estimate upon the designs OF
the advocates of the Investigation, and
d "buncombe" arrangement, must be ev-
ident from the failure of the attempt to
keep the "mill going" Mr. Williams
offered the following amendment to res
olution to print the report, which amend
ment was votedsdown:
"And that the gentlemen composing the
| said committee be authorized to sit as a COM
mittee of this House after the adjournment
thereof for the further prosecution into the
means by which the passage of said oil was
| procured with the leave to continue their
sessions until the first day of July, if they
! shall deem it necessary, at such places as
they may Judge eXpedient, with power TO send
for persons and papers, and that they be re-
qired TO file their report, with the testimony
| accompanying it, in the office OF the secretary
of the Commonwealth, to be presented to the
Legislature at its next annual session"
! He then offered the following, which
was also defeated:
sAnd that it be recommended to the next
Legislature further to prosecute this lnVest-
4 cation. and direct such proceedings may
rectify the great wrong that has been done
the Commonwealth and bring the offenders to
Justice"
Thus ends this great "tempest IN tea
pot" and "nobody hurt" except 1t may
be the Urtuous Chairman Of the Commit
tee. and would d-be-Governor Of Pennsyl-
vania.
In the Senate, on the evening OF the
9th. the following substitute forthe House
Bill, restoring the tonnage tax on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, was passed by
vote of Is yeas to % nays:
"That on and after the first day OF july
1862 there shall be levied upon all the ton
mage of this Commonwealth, whether passing
through or transported to any part OF The
: State, 81 cents per ton upon all the products
f. of mines forests, and farms, and hVe cent'
per ton upon all merchandise; and the rail-
road, canal, and slackwater Navigation com
! panies upon which such tonnage snail De mrs
received. shall collect, for the use OF the Com
;, morwealth. all such duties as hereinfor'
l. directed and pay the same quarterly 10 III
i State Treasurer; and the revenues. derive e.
: from tonnage duties shall be appIed eAciu
5 sively to the payment OF any dept OF oeo'
oil now contracted, or hereafter TO be cohtracte'
n by this State for its own defence, or to sus
d5 tain the National Government in prosecuting
D-H the war to maintain the unity of the repubhe
until such debt shall be cancelled and s.
-s much of the act approved 10th of May, 1851
e as imposes n special tax upon the t"A"'i
propertv of this State of one-halt mill on IN
: dollar be, and the same is hereby repeated.
Il On Thursday, the House refused t
Is concur in this amendment; so the Bl
J. fell. thus ending this 'great cry @
Is those who claimed to be the peculiar cor
; servators of the interest of the people,
IT the production of an incalculably ''sma
:, + quantity of WOOL I ventured this pre-
II diction in former letter.
e Messrs. Pershing and Scott have ha
t their speeches, on the question of repe;
u of the Act of 1861, for the commutatlo
Is of the tonnage duties. published in pan
/ nblet form. These will be circulate
oi among their respective constituents, WI
d will thus be enabled to pass Judgmel
ie upon their votes. l have read the speecl
Us es with much care, and am free to So
ie that. for one, [ consider them unanswe
ie able. But my conclusion may not be tn
III of majority of their constituents.
as will. however, be conceded, that itwou
oy he but fair, that the arguments of Messr
s. Pershing and Scott should be weighe
'i- before condemnation be passed upon ther
In the Apportionment Bill, as it pa
~ ~ sed both Houses, the counties OF Can
he bria, Blair, Huntingdon aud Miftiin co
hg stitute the 18th Congressional Distri'
en- The Bill is considered to be an equitaa