Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-20
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\ PROM WASHINGTON.
Mesrnge from the President on the
I lSMbiect of the Ismhlic lIlehI. lM

yesterday sent a message to the House in
Il response TO d resolution concerning the
provisions OF land and ordinances OF the
late insurgent States on the subject of the
rebel debt, so-called. The following facts
are gathered from the papers inclOsed: On
the 10Th of October last the North Carolina
Convention passed an ordinance prohibit-
Ing the paymen of all debts created or in
CURED inHid of the late rebellion. In the
Legislatureof South Carolina iD December
q resolution reported by the committee on
/ Federal Relations, was passed, to the effect
| that they had not the necessary information
to enable them to act adyisedIy In relation
to repudiating debts incurred in support Of
the rebellion. They called on the Comp
4 Croller-general to furnish IL, and until 1t
should be forthcoming they could make no
! definite recommendation on the subject.
/ The Georgia Convention in November,
! passed anl ordinance rendering null and
| void all debts created for purposes Of car
ryipg OH the late war against the United
! States. The Legislature, besides, passed an
act prohibiting, in any way, the payment
of the money. The Convention of Ala
| bama passed an ordinance forbidding the
| assumption'of any part of the rebel debt.
| The Florida Convention in November, de-
clared the debt null and void. The Missis-
slppf Convention In August, repealed the
I passed a law prohibiting the Treasurer from
! paying any debt,until authorized to do so
by that body From the papers in posses@
| sion of the State Department 1t does not APP
! pear the Treasurer has been ordered to pay
1 any part OF the debt incurred in the late
| rebellion. The Texas Convention declared
the Confederate debt null and void. ~
| lm4m The Free LIst. .-
! WASHINGTON, June l9.-The Senate FL
\ nance committee, in their amendments TO
| the tax bill, include in the free list the fol-
| lowing: prussiate of potash, retorts and
tiles Of clay, stamped copper bottoms, deer
skins, smoked or not, oil, dressed India rub
Der, springs used exclusively for railroad
cars, iron drain and sewer pipes, cordage,
ropes and cable made of vegetable tibres,
peat, printing paper of all descriptions, and
paper for roofing aud other purposes, fish,
plates, saltpetre, safes, looms, spinning ma
chimes, pumps, steam engines, hot water
and hot air furnaces, sewing machines,
spokes, hubs, bows and felloes, wood tanks
and cisterns for crude mineral oil, rails
made and fitted for railroads, sugar from
corn, flowers of sulphur and sulphur flour,
paints, oil and spices, wine made of grapes,
currants or other fruits, and rhubarb. The
committee propose to strike out from the
proposed free list, iron bridges and cast
ings for bridges, reapers, mowers, thresh-
| ing machines and separators corn shelters
and wooden ware, and sulphate Of barites.
Substitute for SrctiOn Fourteen OF
| the Tax BILL loo
The following substitute for section four
teen of the tax bill was reported by the
Senate Finance committee yesterday. =
Section IA. That the capital Of any State
bank or banking association which has
ceased or shall cease TO exist, or which has
been or snail be converted into National
bank for all the purposes of the act to which
this is an amendment, shall be assumed to
be the capital as it existed Immediately be-
fore such bank ceased to exist or was con-
4 yerted as aforesaid, and whenever the out
standing circulation OF any bank associa-
tion, corporation, compiny or person shall
be reduced to an amount not exceeding
| per centumt. of the stock or de-
clared capital existing at the time
the loan was issued, said circulation
shall be free from taxation, and whenever
any bank which has ceased to issue notes
for circulation, shall deposit in the Treas
ury of the United States, in lawful money
the amount of the outstanding circulation
to be redeemed at par under such regula-
tiOns as the Secretary of the Treasury shall
prescribe, it shall be exempt from any tax
upon such circulation, and whenever any
State bank or banking association has been
converted into National banking associa-
d tion, and such National banking association
has assumed the liabilities Of such State
% bank or banking association, including the
redemption of its bills, or by any
agreement or understanding whatev-
er with the Representatives of such
State bank or banking association shall
use the files of such State bank
i or banking association, such National
banking association shall be made to rem
der the required return and payments on
the circulation outstanding, long as such
circulation shall exceed 5 per cent. of the
\ capital before such conversion of such
State bank or banking association. Nv
:, That the act of March 10th, 1864, to
declare the meaning of certain. parts of the
internal revenue act, be amended by strik-
ing out sections 3, and 8, and inserting
the following: r' %. "-
That it shall be the duty of all persons
required to make returns or lists of reve-
nue. income and articles or objects charged
with an internal tax, to declare in such re-
turns or lists whether the several rates and
amounts therein contained are stated ac-
cordipg to their. value in legal tender
money. ~ ,",g f... = -p..,.J % r., l,.r|
i Miscellaneous Items.
New York, June 19.-The morning pa:
pers have the following special dispatches
from Washington: .'-
The Ways and Means committee have de-
eided not to report on the question OF ad-
journment until the tariff bill is safely
through the House. A compromise has
been effected between the wool growers and
i themanufacturers ,'l.hl "
The Secretary of the Treasury decides
that iron, imported or domestic, for steam
i boilers for propelling vessels, must be
stamped in the manner required by law.
! The President has reported that there has
| been expendeds up to. March 9TH, 1864 of the
appropriation for colonizing persons of the
African race '$3E901. The act having been
repealed, no further action in the matter has
I been taken, - rz o. a -es, 81. ~
Secrstary Mccullough has said that a
military man win be appointed naval Off
i Ger at New)Yofk. Col HELLER is the only