New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-21

ditional banks preference shall be gwen as far as
practicable, 10 such existing banks, in good re-
pute, as shall signify desire to the controller to
be converted into national banks. 1t suspends the
operation Of the provision of the internal revenue
act of June 80, 1866 referring to State banks and
banking associations, until the lst day of June,
1867.
MEMORIALS OF NATIONAL BAEKs-sANTA ANNA Re
GARDED AS A SPY.
Officers Of the national banks are writing to the
controller Of the currency from all SECTIONS OF the
country, urging the necessity Of some legislation
OF Congress to protect them from the additional
shareholder tax imposed by local authorities under
the recent decision of the supreme court declaring
such tax to be permissible under the currency
act. They aver that the inevitable result will be
the winding up of q large number of the national
banks if relief is not secured.
The Mexican legation here say, in reference to
Santa Anna, that, they regard him as French
spy and express hope that If he reaches Chi
huahu, he will be speedily hanged.
SENATOR sHERMAN's BILL TO REDUCE THE INTEREST
- ..r ON THE NATIONAL DEBT.
WASHINGTON May l5.-The bill heretofore in
trodueed by Senator Sherman to reduce the rate
of interest on the national debt, and for funding
the same, was reported back from the Committee
on Finance to-day, with an amendment providing
that the expense of disposing OF the bonds shall
not exceed per cent. of the amount disposed of.
The original bill fixed the amount at per cent.
for preparing issuing and disposing of the bonds.
MA&IMILIANs DETERMINATIONS AGAINST UNITED
STATES COMMERCE. aa.-
WASHINGTON Nav I5.-In the message sent to
the House to-day concerning MaxmIlianis dis
examinations, against American commerce, the
secretary encloses a copy OF communication
from the collector of customs, OF brownsville, in
which mention is made OF an order promulgated
in the city of Matamoros, Mexico, to the effect
that all goods going to Brownsville from that city,
or coming to Matamoros from Brownsville should
pay full duties. This order is represented to be
in conflict with the policy which, for four years,
had been recognized in that section under which
all goods entering Matamoros was free of duty,
being subject thereto only when sold 10 go into
the interior of Mexico, or having entered Mata-
moros as they were exported, to a foreign
country. They are said to have been subject to
one.quarter of the full duties AS the order re-
ferred to is alleged not to extend to Bagdad,
Mexico the collector considered its object to be a
discrimination against the trade of Brownsville
but he fails to state by what authority, whether
merely local or otherwise, it was promulgated.
The collector, in his letter, says the reason of
this order is pure anger, and fear that Brownsville
will do all the business of Mexico as it did before
the war They hope by decree against Browns
vile to force all the trade through their port and
put all the freights in their own hands. The work
ing of the decree is as they hoped. No business
can be d ne at Brownsville, as the whole trade of
Brownsville is with Mexico. OF course all trade
is paralyzed. There is, he says, one mode Of re-
dress, which would have the immediate effect OF
showing them that the rule will work both ways
An order from the secretary of the treasury to the
collectors of the ports of New Orleans, Galveston
and ndanola not to clear any vessel for the ports
of Bagdad or MatamoTos Mexico, until the matter
had been laid before the authorities at Mexico
would cause CONSERVATION at Matamoros, as they
draw all their supplies of corn, hay, lard -four
and in fact, nearly all groceries, from those cities
The cities of Tampeo and Vera Cruz would theI
do all the business of the interior of Mexico, anC
San Antonio, Texas, the trade of Chihuahua
while this place would feed all the Rio Grand
valley. In justice to many of the prominent mer
chants of MaamorOs, the collector states that the
are entirely opposed to this decree, while other
interested in the promotion of Bagdad are tn
orgnators.