Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-03-07
from the We .I.burE Herald.


HOH. WIN. q. B-owa, our former Con-
gresham. now Of the Monong-lia district.
to U.s. his own expression, gig gagged"
sonew shat, recently, in his YOtes Ou the
question Cf leTyinR an excise tax on whis-
ky ON nands, aud the deviation from the
straiEh; !ir- Of strict prOprirty was no.
ticCd To- the Wheeling InfeI!igtncer The
notice stems to have touched sure spot,
as ia the EtsL!iysheer VI the 1t ut March
Is an tIpiNaHIion OF the Congressman,
very tnuch after the style uf all such exp;A
nations, Father mud1ling the matter with
out eArusIug himself much that we can
see. The hopeiuiness OF tGe case is in
tAct tha; the member had grace enough TO
manifest suLIe drErve OF shame tor appa
rent uCqU'esccucH in a measure concerning
tue supporters of which there are rot
only cnatgrs Ot bribery Hfloa,, but sus-
PiciOusiy CoatemnNtory circumstances
and which Il, in itself, one OF the most
htgranIiy uet~rluus efforts to defrAud
the ErycuUe that has lately sigualizeG
size annals Of legislation. Mr.. Brown did
cot yUIe aI'uii on the occasion referred to,
hs does not SAG whether he would have
voted for il or not, bat he does say he was
sick. Mr. Brown "as in:rnveniently sick,
:" that lac could not possibly be in his seat
and record his vote against the whisky
bltis VT W BAsrJ NbItu lOE Tue blllY pre-
viously he voted against it, and we pre-
sumo Ec ~ ~; ashamed of it and has no
explanation 80 offer. Mr. Blair voted
against it all the time. aud Ia our opinion
Is the only mra Q! the tito that acted
Tignteously. The DILL as 1t came from the
Senate passed ih- House by vote OF a
to 20, but has subsequently, encountered
unexpected obstacles to rIs final passage,
that renders SAID final pass igc very doubt
tut
The state OF the case is about MS follows:
On the 22j Of January ias:, q clause OF the
Revenue Bill was passed 81 To 81, prOvi
ding for the taxing oi stucks VI liquors on
hand, as we'll as what might be thereafter
manufactured. Fernando Wood, Il y. Y,
10 mis- credit, and lie has u,e'i nt ali tue
credit that eau Or placed to his side OF the
account. favored tins feature. The whisky
spucuIaiOrs objected 10 /; sIreuuOus!y, some
OF the wholesale dealers IN death and desc
latiOn having mOrIgiged their estates for
money 10 invest in liquor at 40 cents n
gallon tax, expecting that when the tax
was raised to GO cents, the stock on hand
would be exempt, aud they would bag the
difference OF 20 per cent, amounting in the
aggregate to about S5,OOO,00O. Many OF
the members of Congress are said to have
been bribed, Al least, large sums Of money
are known 10 have been used for improper
purposes, aud on or about the lTIh OF
| February the bill came from the Sen
ate with the clause taxing liquor on
hand stricken out, aud on the motion
to concur with the Senate, tue House
turned round from its previous vote OF 81
to 81 against exrmpt,ng, aud voted II to
| T3 to exempt There were other Disagree
ment4, however. between the two Houses,
and on the motion to receive the report OF
n Committee of Conference on the whole
subject, IL majority voted against it, among
the rest, MIR Brown, as he says, because
the report yielded the point OF exemPIing
from taxation the stock Of liquor on hand.
There is evidently some hoSus-pncus
about all this that the public ut the dis
tAuce is not expected to understand, but il
is enough to know that the whisky
spectators are in great travail yet, aud
that sir. Blown enjoys fair prospect oI
coming out nil right in the end.
As sort OF a supplement to tue auovG
article of the Heyalds we may mention
the fact that the whisky question ngaiu
came up 10 the House OF Representatives.
on Thursday last, in the shape of n motion
to recede from the tax on the stoGz 1t
hand. Mr.. Brown WAS again absent ant
is not recorded yea or nay. This Thug Q
being absent on important occasions il
no new ailiment with Brown, we are sorE!
to sLy.