The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-17

ing could;b further, from the truth than
such an assertion, which must have been
made this great ignorance OF the facts,
or with wilful design to mislead the pub
lie mind and bring this law (the most
equitable in its provisions for raising rev.
enue) into disfavor If you had read the
proceedings of Congress you would have
found that so averse was Congress to
making exemptions of ANY officers that
they refused to exempt even our soldiers
in the field. If you had taken the
amendment in connection with the law
as amended, you would have found that
tho assessors were not to assess such Off
cers with income tax, owing to the fact
that such tax is deducted when their &C
counts are audited by the proper officers
of the departments, thus saving the per
ceutape necessarily incurred in assessing
and collecting the same. Sec. l23 OF the
law. as amended, reads as follows: THAT
there shall be levied, collected, and paid
on all salaries of officers or payments for
| services to persons in the civil, military,
naval or other employment OF service OF
the United States, including senators
| and representatives and delegates IN
Cong when exceeding the rate OF six
hundred dollars per annum, duty OF .
| per cent on the excess above the SAID SIX
| hundred dollars, and it shall be the duty
of All paymasters, and all discussing OFF,
Gers under the government OF the Uni
ted States, or in the employment thereof,
| when making any payments to officers
and persons as aforesaid, or upon settling
and adjusting the accounts of such OIL
| cers and persons, to deduct and withhold
| the aforesaid duty of five per centum,
| and shall at the same time make certl-
| ficate stating the name of the officer or
nerson from whom such deduction was
made and amount thereof transmitted to
| thel Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
&C. &c.
By giving this an insertion in your pa
Der YOU will correct the misapprehension
occasioned by your editorial, and oblige
yours. &c, J. G.. ORR,
| Collector Internal Revenue.
II our amiable Collector had read the
concluding portion of our article he
would have learned that the "misrepre-
sentation of facts" or "wilful design to
mislead" belongs to two leading Repub-
can journals, one of them edited by a
$4,000 Postmaster as we remarked: 1T
is barely possible that there may be
some error in the version of the law
which we give above in the exact Ian
| guage Of the Albany Journal and Phila-
delphia Inquirer, two Administration pa
pers D."
We learn from special dispatch to
| the New York Tribune, few days ago,
that official copies of the new Revenue
Bill will not be distributed from the
Commissioners Office for a few days yet,
| we lave no means of knowing whether
the Albany Erening Journal and Phila-
delphia Inquirer "misrepresented the
facts" or not.
Here is the summary (upon which we
| founded our rcmarks) of the income pro.
vision by which salaries of Government
officials are exempted on all above $500.
In the succeeding columns will be
found the main and most interesting fea-
lures to the public generally OF the law
as it now stands to raise revenue from
internal taxation for the support Of the
Cove eminent A great many important
| amendments. as Will be seen, 10 the pre-
vious act were adopted.