The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-04-26
Committee New
Tax Bill - Admission of Colo
rado-Trial of efIersOn Davis, &c.

Tho Reconstruction Committee had a
fare-up to-day, and came near making an
end OF their work by agreeing to disagree
and report that fact TO Congress, with re-
quest that they be discharged from further
consideration Of the matter submitted to
them.
MIR. Boutwell,. of Massachusetts, proposed
n resolution providing for representation
based ON population, with proyiso that,
where citizens over the age OF twenty-one
years are excluded from suffrage, there
shall be no representation for that class,
He urged also, that the question Of negro
suffrage be left to decide, and he argued
that, with the exception of two or three
New England States, the whole Union
would vote against universal suffrage.
Thad. stevens proclaimed that IL the
Committee was now going to undo all that
they had done, they had better throw up
the work, and adjourn sine die.
Mr.. Howard, of Michigan, was of the
same opiuion and hereupon great hub
bub ensued, In the midst of which the com
mittee adjourned to Saturday next.
| Mr.. Stanton was before the House Judi
ciary COMMITTEES to-day, giving his views
upon the assassination plot. and arguing
that jeff. Davis was engaged In it.
The new Tax BIZ was reported In the
House to-day. The important changes In
the old law are very few. The cotton tax
is fixed at five cents per pound. The in
come tax is five per cent. on all sums re-
ceived from all sources, in excess OF one
| thousand dollars. The tax on crude petrO-
lleum is taken of. The license to brewers
is increased FROM fifty to one hundred dol
lars per year. The only change In the tax
on tobacco Is reducing the tax on smoking
tobacco from thirty-fve to twenty-five
,cents pound. No change is made in dis
titled spirits. In the free list the tax Is re-
moved from nearly every kind of agricul-
ltural implement.
/ The Senate to-day passed the bill for the
admission Of Colorado into the Union, by a
majority of six. The proposition of Sena-
tor Sumner TO provide that the Territory
Isha1l, by majority vote, declare that there
shall be no abridgment of the elective
4 franchise on account of race or color was
T rejected. The only Republicans who voted
forit were Messrs. Edmunds. Grimes, Howe
Foster, Morgan, Poland and Sumner. The
bill has yet TO pass the House. The Colo
RADIO Senators and Representatives are here
and ready to take their seats the moment
J the House has passed the bill and the Pres
, ident has signed 1t.
The Judiciary Committee of the House
has made no progress In the jeff. Davii
case, but it is learned to-day, from trust
worthy source, that the President has di-
] rccted the Attorney General to actively
proceed in preparing for the trial of Davii
before the United States Circuit Court
r which meets at Norfolk, in May. Chic
| Justice Chase, IL is said on excellent au
: thority, has consented to hold the Court
{ There seems TO be but little doubt, there
: fore, but that the trial will come off mex
!, month.
| The President has approved the join
: resolution appointing the following namet
f persons managers of the National Asylum
a for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, under tn
= provisions and conditions of the third sec
e tion of the act approved March %, 1866:
e Richard J. Oglesby, of Illinois, Benjami
f. Butler, of Massachusetts, and Fredericl
lSmith of New Hampshire, of the first class
o to serve six years; Lewis B. Gunckel q
lOhio, Jay Cooke of Pennsylvania, and L
lJoseph Osterhaus, Of the second class, +
serve four years; John ii. Martindale q
New York, Horatio G.. SLebbins of Califor
: MIA, and George III. Walker Of Wisconsin, G
= the third class, TO serve two years.