The Placer herald., 1864-05-07
From S. +. Press
MINES AND MINERS-.-ONEROUS TAXA.
TION.

The deed is done. The U. S. House Of
in the Revenue bill, taxing the proceeds of
the mines A to egraphic dispatch dated
Washington, April 9Th. states:
On motion OF Morrill, of Vermont. fvs
per cent al palOren, was placed on qgicksil.
ver produced from ore.
One clause was amended 30 that a duty of
fve per cent. shall be imposed on qoM and
and silver produced from quartz mines, from
beds of rivers from earth or in any Other
manner, provided that all such duties shall b.
payable IN coin or bullion
Highly, OF California moved an amendment.
that no duty shall be collected on apy
amount produced under six hundred dollars.
Rejected.
Wallace, Of Idaho, moved to strike out
the proviso requiring the payment of ,hi.
tax in coin or bullion, Adopted.
We have heretofore, and more than once,
warned tine miners agains, the designs of
Of the party in power. We then predicted
the passage Of a measure such as is referred
to above, in case there was found to bs
a Lincoln majority in both Houses of Con.
gress
But the worst is yet to come The pro.
ject of the Secretary Of the Interior which
provides for a tax equal to one dollar per
foot per annum, we have now no doubt, will
also become law
Lincoln to secure his own re election
and his corrupt officials in filling their own
pockets, have drained the National Treas
ury to the bottom, and rendered largely
icnreased taxation upon the people abso-
lutely necessary. The Florida expedition
under Gen. Gilmore, and Louisiana expsdi-
ton under Gen. Banks were both for poIiti-
cal purposes only and in aid of Lincoln's
aspirations, and both failed. In these politi-
cal expeditions the union cause has sustained
loss OF not less than twenty thousand good
men thirty or forty pieces of cannon-im,
mense numbers of muskets, rifles. wagons.
horses and mules, and in addition thereto
more than one million doors in green.
backs
The people are to be taxed to the extent in
the aggregate of thousands of millions Of
dollars to continns a war; which we honest
y believe could be terminated in less than
ninety days, and upon Union basis too, if
sincerely desired by Lincoln and his party.
But, as Lincoln and the nggerites desire the
use of the army TO secure their continuance
in power, and regard defeat at the polls As
certain without the aid of the army, the peo,
pie are called upon to bear the burtheus of
the onerous taxation proposed.
Our delegation in Congress, weak and
inefficient at best, cannot be relied upon to
stand up boldly against the wishes Of Lin.
coin and the majority of their party. Highly
alone took part in the discussion of the
question, and he, by proposing to exempt
from taxation in all cases where the proceeds
we're under 5000 greatly injured his constit.
uents, because he thereby created the i'm
preston that he had no objection to the tax
provided limited as be devised The Jack,
ohin majority in the Nevada Constitutional
Convention 80 far endorsed the proposition
to tax the mines, and to give it greatly in
creased strength with the people of the East
ern, Western, Middle and Northern States.
The last legislature of this State also took
action upon the subject, thus showing that
ven in California the proposition had
supporters. 1t is therefore true that tho
party in powsr-ths Lincoln party-ars
alone responsible for the onerous taxation
with which the mines Of California, Oregon
and the Territories are to be burthened.