The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-10-29
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Oct 2s, 1865.

WASHINGTON, Oct 2s, 1865.
PRESIDENTIAL VISITORS.
Generals Grant and Schoneld and OK Mayor John Went
WORTH Of Chicago, were accorded interviews with the
President this forenoon Several others in attend
ance who had to await the ordinary afternoon reception
Ex-oFFIcERs OF THE NAVY RENDERING THEIR SER
VICES TO GOVERNMENT.
The Navy Department is already receipt Of q num-
Der Of letters from officers recently tender
ING their services in vessels about to be put in
commission and despatched for SERVICE stated in the
HERALD Of yesterday.
THE TUNIsIANs
The Tunisan Ambassadors spent some time yesterday
evening with the Secretary of State at his residence
They will be formally presented TO the President on Mon
day.
IMPORTANT TO HAcKMEN AND cARTMEN.
The following important decision is just made
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE or INTERNAL REvESuE,l
WASHINGTON, Oct. %, 1865.
SR-Your letor Of the 18th ultmo relating to the
taxation OF hackmen and cartmen, duly received
and have given the subject all the attention which has
been possible. have never been fully convinced that
the provisions Of section 103 which impose duty upon
the gross receipts Of persons having the man
agement Of railroads canals steamboats,, ships barges
canal boats other vessels, or Of stage coaches
or other vehicles employed in the business Of
transporting passengers or property for hire, were
intended TO apply TO the business OF cartmen
and hackmen az ordinarily conducted In the
large cities. The phrase ''other vehicles is the
j
that carts and hacks vehicles but true that tho
business in which they are usually employed is the
meaning Of the aw cana Soa se
stage coachesand omnbuses are employed to convey
property and passengers established routes between
nxed points, while II is the business Of carts and hacks
TO gather up property and persons and to deliver them
at the points OF departure on such routes.
IL has been held heretofore that under the Limitation
for hire persons using their carts or hiring the
carts OF others exclusively for their use
liable TO tax while those less Fortunate who obliged
in ha rnrlsa
ties for profit are less favorable liable. The prnc
pie upon which imposed Is the presumed ability
OF those who made Liable therefor either pay them
out OF accrued profits or TO recover them from Others by
making the proper addition TO the price OF goods
the charges for specific service This view is sustained
by the provision in the section referred to, which
thorizes the persons nbe TO the thereby imposed
add the same TO their rates Of fare charges for
service In the OF railroads, steamboats, and
stage coaches this addition be easily made
the case OF hackmen and cartmen Is almost impossible
TO 40 So and instead Of being able to recover IL from
their patrons they must IL held liable therefor subtract
1t from their wages, which will rarely permit any dimi
mutton for tax without making appear oppressive by
rendering the business Improbable Where the law
plainly imposes tax IL must be collected, without
gard TO its being polite equitable just but where the
authority merely inferred and cause exists for grave
doubts as TO the intention OF the Legislature will be
advisable to discriminate generally in favor OF the tax
payer especially IT. as in the present case he belongs to
class whose alleged taxable receipts the moderate
wages Of unskilled labor
amof opinion, therefore, that il Is mpoitic TO re-
qure further and payments from the persons en-
gagged IN the business under consideration and all asses
sors and their assistants viii be instructed accordingly
Very respectfully, WIN. ORION, Commissioner.
York.
PERSONAL.
Ex-Governor Perpont, Judge Daily, Samuel Blackford,
Charles X. Tuckerman and other noiabcs are at VIII
lards
Judge Cooley Commissioners of Indian Affairs, started
for New York city last evening" be for several
days.
Assistant Postmaster General Alexander Randall is
pected back from the West on Monday next.
Congressman L. Morrill,, Of Vermont, is stopping at
the National.
Lieutenant Colonel W. j. Howell, OF General Ingalls,
stan, was Today commissioned quartermastcr In the
regular army with the rank OF captain
Captain George II. Batter has appointed special
Treasury agent Mt Panama, vice John H. simonton,
who resigned his appointment to date from November
Mr. Green, appointed pension agent at Philadelphia,
place OF Mr. Poulson received his commission to-day
and left for home this afternoon.
SALES OF cOMMissARY AND QUARTERMAsTER's
STORES, ETC.
Sales Of unused buildings the property the Commits.
sary and Quartermasters departments, are going on
brskly and bringing considerable the govern
mcnt. For instance, about three thousand dollars
worth OF lumber the form Of buildings was got lid Of
yesterday, under Colonel Bells direction. The Quarter
fnhster department naS conslucfabe amount OF
perry in camp equipage and wagons-relics or Grants
and sherman's campaigns-yet to be sold. and the
Cavalry Bureau sell their hundred horses weekly TO
crowd Of lively competitors
NATIONAL CURRENCY.
During tho wcef ending to-day g., 9ji 575 in national
currency issued by tine Treasury Department The
total issue M 10 date is sos, ST., $50
TIE TENNESSEE RAILROADS.
The government dcgrous of bene0tfno all thu mil
roads within the limits Of the Military Division Of the
Tennessee has arranged for the sale them on credit
OF such rolling stock Is not needed by the United
States.
NEW YORK REPUBLICANS GOING HOME TO VOTE.
The New York republicans start for home and a vote
next Tuesday, numbering about hundred aud eighty
Those Of them from the departments have ecn days
leave those from tho mechanical pursuts-the smaller
proportion-proposc TO spend little time NJ possible
Not half the republicans in Washington think IL worth
while TO 90 home.
PATENT BUREAU BOARD or APPEALS.
Considerable remark has been excited by the delay in
the appointment OF the additional member required TO
make mp the Board Of Appeals in tho Patent Bureau. IL
Is said that the President has already signihed that the
appointee had been designated but yet nothing has
tsanspired TO discover who the individual is.
NEW PATENTS.
One hundred and nineteen patents will be issued by
the Patent Department Tuesday NEXT and about tho
same number that day ona week