The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-07-06


following reporte-
The House is recommended TO receJo from the amend
ment requiring sit to be brought against the Illinois
Central Railroad for sums paid for the transportation
troops and munitions Of To 10 the Senate
amendment making appropriation for the construction Of
nreproo store houses ~ the arsenal at Philadelphia
u agree 10 the Senate amendment making the mileage OF
army officers instead OF six cents The Senate
mended 10 recede from its amendment making appro.
praton for purchase OF land used Nashville
Tenn The section in regard to quartermasers stores
Is 10 DC amended rs 70 require articles issued the
Pacific States and Territories 10 be delivered and inspected
al points designated and tho advertisements for such
supplies TO be published In the newspapers OF Fran
cisco, California, aud Portland, Oregon. The section
regard TO the Military Academy is tobe amended to
provide that the superintendent hereafter be
oceu ana the officers detailed from any arm OF tho ser
vice. and that the supervision and charge OF the academy
shall be IN the War Department The section in regard
70 the extra pay for soldiers employed m constructing
pubic works Is TO be amended so Al 70 allow enlisted
men working artihccrs and officers
employed as overscers thirty Ave cents day, and
h,sd nnen employed az iaborers twenty cents day.
The report was agreed to.
rnR QUIET LAND rnRs T. c,IHoRs.
The House then resumed, the business the morn
ing the consideration of tho bill reported from the Com
mittee ON Public Lands to quiet land os in California
Inc morning hour having expired while Mr. Julian
tomorrow
rHs rARny mII
The House then went into Committee Of the Whole
the state OF the Union Mr. schoned in the chair tho
Tarn oi having previously ordered evening session
The amendment offered by Mr.. Myers, trepl OF Pa,
on Tuesday last 10 make tho duty glass bottles vis
Jars demohns and carboys four cents per pound Was
rejected-i3 10 so.
Mr. MYERS then offered similar amendment, making
the duty on glass walls &c, three and half cents per
pound Rejected
Mr. MooRHEAD, lrep) OF Pa, moved 10 amend the par
agraph about cut glass by adding the nd yaorcm duty
aspocihc duty OF two cents per pound Rejected.
Mr. DAWES ropl OF Mass, moved 10 amend the para
two to two and onefourth per pound from two and
oneha TO two and three fourth cents from three and
onshaf 70 four cents per pound and from four to four
Mr. MYERS again offered his amendment, somewhat
modified, which Mr. MORRILL, trep.) OF w., opposed,
describing Mr.. Myers various propositions playing
upon tho harp Of thousand strings the demohns and
spirits Of Just men made perfect Qaughtor) Rejected
paragraph was added, taxing hre bricks thirty cent
ad valorem
ON motion OF Mr. KELLEY. frcp) Of Pa. a proyso was
added to the paragraph taxing books as follows.
Provided that II the imported quantities
Of more Than Ave copies IN any ono invoice they shalt 4
liable TO duty o. twenty cents per pound weight and
books and casts 81 wood cuts daty Of twenty cens per
pound weight and wenty nyc per cent sd vaortin.
striking o., tho wo s ~ ~ movs s 10 amend d ~
sorting in lieu of IL. books wholly In foreign Ian.
guage agricultural and scientific reports and nerodicaa
not being American reprints, ten per vaiorem
He argued that such books only purchased by
scholars and scientific men. who should not he heavily
taxed for the benefit OF fat book publishers IN Boston
and New York.
Mr. KELLEY denied that book publishers in this
try had been making fortunes from their business and
said that many Of them were having books published IN
England and Belgium from American stereotype platos
on account Of the relative chaapncs OF labor and
IN those countries
Mr. RICE, (rep) Of Mass, opposed the amendment
without disposng OF the amendment the committee
rose having disposed Of three pages o. the bib al fol
lows
on all plain mould and dass not cut. engraved
wstehes forty per eentnm adj ,alerem on lansc. for
out frsmss ,." do.rs Der gro.s psr. and in addition
thereto forty per cens"a sd % al otSer for
csnum al ysIorem All articles glass cut Engraved
cudng plate glass svered looking glass peS BITS
na sa a on as ~ 3 .a &
inches sqnare two and qusrtsr e,n's per POND abye
two and per pound above hat
BREEDING twenty four By .hriy inehs. SQUARE four en!s
cylinder and glass pclished no, eIeens
that and mol eresdns sisrn BY twenty
not i've s a sf 30 ,oG .soss s'
eight cents per square foot above that and not eIced
s.s o al sSov .' . % osn p .a S
o. ra'ra roiea 2. wrc'sh. plate s@,s no. 10
exceeding BY fifteen inches square. dollar
s sTls sI by
iaa e.S sr na aSS 's' o .a @ Per
square foot an and half cent. per square
ssshns @ pounds Per fansrs
rs 'Ss S na s a % po "a & & m
sysses noa breeding I'm Y anssn nss. quar- lou,
By twenty inches sqaare sin eeots Per .2a.le oo,
above that and not eI'e-dng oy afv aenss
sfsssdins twenty fas.. y si,y ,.e-ss SQUARE ,iry
pss SQUARE 2sss: n sas, ss.s..S gsis ss,s::
nsSss oi ass n n.. r ssrs @ aso not
ss.Sssdin .lseea ~ n.s.. sass seven I'd
twenty fosi e h,y iasSe, -asr w,l.. cert, rsI
siIy inches sqArr, forty cents per ssasrr zoos .eoys
sss pss n or sl F rs ,smr
sss h. Iss o. gy ~, 'sna .ss' . a ' .n
ray In addition thereto forty per osnua al ,lon upou
sgen frame. on porcelain ard Bessssn gs. ps's .
shall Be coraronen, material Of chief value o,hefsis.
nes,s or preserves not Otherwise provided fo Iy pr
psr I'd sss On a o are es q y pr r.
r.oro~rp ngvrSorSG % rrcvs-ryr TAI
Mr. Dtov, frepD &C Mo, introduced a bin providing
that whero license imposed upon Wholesale dealers
and calculated uron NE previous yssr SALE shail
The or actually made the ~ the tx
shall bc refunded IL read twice and referred %
the COMMITTEES ~ Way and Means.
EyrsIIdoS.
ON motion ~ Mr. scsEScs, The senate Joint resolution
The Rebellion vas taken from tho speaker abIc ,rad
twice, and referred 70 the COMMITTEE on Mhafy AIR.
Al halfpast four o'clock .he House TOOK fccfF dl'
half.past seven o clock T. "
FvESIsG SESSION.
CONFEDERATION NIL rsSrWp
Tho House mct Mt half past seven, and iinn dnisiy
went Committee 81 the Whole the State ~ tho
Union Mr. Scoielf in tho chair and resumed the consi
deaon of The fan bill the question being N laiter.
sons ainondmen, 70 the paragraph taxing books Ia
foreign languages
M GaKrgip trep) or Ohio moved 70 amond TIE
paragraph Uy flfklhR oHt thc Wofuh pfhtu hot
than nfleen year. prior the Of importation" lie
spoke In favor ~ the amendment
y Mr. MORRILL, suggested a. make u Ave year and hr
0snrfvLD accepted this modification.
The amendment az modified wac sgrced 70
Mr. Patcrson's amendment was rejected No other
amendment made 20 the paragraph taxing brooks
Gu motion OF Mr.. SHrLLsRsRcEs, rep ~ Ohio. mili
tary maps charts excepted from the paragraph
taxing maps aud charts.
Mr. HusruRkY, (rcpl OF " Y, moved 70 amend tho
paragraph taxing sa, by reducing tbs daty on salt 70
sacks barrels AMI other packagss from fortytwo 70
twenyfpur cents per one hundred pounds, and on salt
In bulk from thirty 10 eighteen cent He made an argu
ment In support ~ his amendment
Mr. HAIR, lrcp1 OF n. ", opposed the amendment
stating that the per capita consumption Of salt IN this
country forty pounds year the increased cost
or which would only be ak cents and advocating proec
ton 10 the saitories of this country.
Mr. IOxgYssp. (repl Of Mich, moved the amendment
BY increasing the duty nifty and thirty per one
hundred pounds spoke IN favor Of protection "
American salt works
Afir oonsiderabo further debate, participated IN BY