New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-09
Crude Petroleum Exempted from
Internal Revenue Tax.
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Associated Press Bispatches.l /

WASHINGTON, May s.-House-A resolution was
adopted directing the Committee on Banking tein-
vestgate the circumstances connected with the
failure OF the National Bana at Washington and TO
state what further legislation is necessary to pro-
tect the public and government from similar dis.
asters.
The House proceeded 10 discuss the constita
tional amendment reportediby the Committee on
Reconstruction. Mr.. Stevens, speaking thereon
said Heaven forbid that the Southern States or
any of them, should be represented in Congress
until the monuments of freemen are built full high
and firm. against the will Of Congress the South
ern States had been absent for four bloody years,
and must wait till Congress is ready TO receive
them. Ibeleve this Congress would not approach
the full measure Of justice until every full grown
man in the late rebel States was provided with a
homestead on the land he had been held on as
slave"
Mr.. Blame called attention to the third section of
the amendment providing that until the fourth of
July, 1870, ,all persons who voluntarily entered the
rebellion should be excluded from the right to
vote.
Mr.. Stevens admitted that pardon extinguished
crime, and those who were fully pardoned did not
come within the operation of the third section.
The points raised by Blair and virtually admitted
by Mr.. Stevens, created considerable stir in
Republican ranks, the members listening to the
colIoquy withinterest as if recognizing the pos
sibly fatal character of the objection.
WASHINGTON, May 8.-The, Republican says the.
report of the cabinet discussion was ION what is
left to inference-ED. CRESCENT. from the highest
source, andthat Secretary Stanton's opposition to
the bill was as uaeqRivocal as that of any other
member.
| NEW YORK, May s.-An the parties implicated
in the Adams Express robbery, in January last,
have been arrested, and the s500y000 except
$40, 900 have been recovered.
! WASHINGTON, May 8,-Senate- joint resolu-
ton relative to the attempted assassination of the
Czar of Russia passed.
| Mr.. Chandler, from the Committee on Com
merce, reported the House joint resolution to pre-
vent the introduction of cholera into ports of the
| United States.
The joint resolution to exempt crude petroleum
from the internal revenue tax was-passed.
NEW YORK, May S.-The health officers report
three new cases and three deaths from cholera
Sixty-fvs, convalescents, have been transferred
from the hospital ship to the ship Saratoga. The
total nuraber of cholera deaths amounts to fifty.
The bark Winthrop, from Genfuesos for Port
land, sunk at sea on the, I'd, from the effects-o
heavy gale. Capt HlE and the crew were
picked up by the schooner Walter Raleigh an
brought here.
: WASHINGTON, May e.-The President has ar
proved the bill providing for an active list of tn
pay corpse the navy which shall consist of eight
Y paymasters, forty passed assistant paymasters an
: thirty assistant paYmasters.
f The. House has adopted a resolution nstruetin
r the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the sxpt
II u shall not hereafter be denied or abridged in an
territory on account of rAce or color.
NEW YORK, May 8.-The Times's Washington
1t special says nearly all the claimants of cotto
s. seized by the government at Savannah have com
I'd menced suits in the United States court at NeV
,e York against Simon Draper the cotton agent, 10
s. the recovery of the value of the cotton. Th
in Times numbers I42, and strong array CT counsel
il have been ret aimed by the plaintiffs
Gen. Sickles arrived at Washington yesterday
and had an interview with Gen. Grant. Sickle
aI having declined the mission to the Hague, wi
IS nrobablv return to the command of the district
on South Carolina.
oi NEW York, May s.-The Commercials speei
en- saws District Attorney Chandler has prepared
at bill of indictment against Jeers Davis at Nc
lat folk. It is understood Chief Justice Chase W
,ts preside at the trial.
IS, HALIFAX April s.-The United States Consul
"a, Liverpool took formal possession of the exec
nd nd federate cruiser Tallahassee in the name of L
by American government
ne An Austrian dispatch to Berlin Of the 26th
re re April, says Austria has not begun to disarm
ed account of fresh complications with Italy.
&C. late Paris dispatch reports great uneasine
"a there from rumors asserting the imminenoe
We as war.
nd Prussia is said to hava declared that she co
not consider the proposal Of Austrig. for disarl