Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, March Z.

THE CATTLE DISEASE.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has issued circular
to customs officers, and agents of the United States
in foreign countries directing their attention to the
amendatory act relating the importation of foreign
cattle and hides, copy of which is appended to the
circular. and says: In accordance with its prOvis
ions, have determined 70 suspend its operations
those of Europe, the cattle disease does not seem
to be prevalent elsewhere. Customs officers will take
care that neat cattle hides of neat cattle, ar
irving directly or indirectly, from any part Of EuI
after the first day of May, 1866.
Customs officers will require that the consular
tifcates accompanying each invoice of neat cattle
and of the hides of neat cattle, excepting those from
Canada and the other British North American
Provinces. shall state that the cattle disease is not
and has not been recently prevalent in the country
from which the importation comes, and that he IS
And until the ls of May and in the absence of such
consular statement any invoice arriving after that
date. report each case to this Department and await
its instructions.
1t will be seen that under this regulation the i'm
portation OF cattle and hides from Canada and the
other British North American Provinces is unre-
strcted it being understood that the Provincial au-
thortieS have adopted measures to prevent their in
PRODUCTION from Europe.
MILITARY ORDERS
An order has been issued by Lieut. Gen. Grant as
follows:-Brg. Gen. ?. George Cooke, U. S. A., hav-
ing been assigned t? the command ofthe DEPARTMENT
of the Platte is relieved from duty as Superntend-
ent of the general recruiting service and will turn
over the records thereof to Breyet Brig. Gen. D.
pointed superintendent in his place.
An order has also been issued by the President of
the United States as follows:
souri, Will be divided INTO two parts to be called
the Department of Missouri, to be commanded by
Major General John Pope, headquarters at Fort
LeavenwOrth. Kansas. The other to be called the
Department of the Platte. to be commanded by
Brigadier General ?; st. George Cooke, U. S. A..
headquarters Omaha, Nebraska. Major General W.
I. sherman, commanding the Division Of the Mis-
sssippi, will designate the limits of the new depart
ments, and report the same to the Adutant General
OF the Army.
Official news from Ell Paso, the seat of the National
Government of Mexico. has been received in this city
up to the 10th of February. President Juarez and
his cabinet had heard satisfactory news from the in
terror The dissatisfaction of the people against the
French rule vas growing every day Themovemeqts
necessary the evacuation of the city of Chihuahua
by the French.
THE AvDERsoSvILLE VICTIMS.
.Quarternaster General Megs has issued a pam
phlet entitled the natgrs ,oho for our country gape
up their hGes an the prison pens in AndersonUiHe
are in the cemetery near that place.
REIMBURSEMENT OF. PENNSYLVANIA.
The bill introduced by Representative Stevens to-
day to reimburse pennsylvania for the payment of
monies advanced by the State under promise of re-
payment, aPpropriates S900,600
TERM oF QFFICE-PREsIDENT JUAREZ.
few days ago the House of Representatives passed
resolution calling upon the President to communi-
cate If IN his opinion not with the public
interest, any correspondence other information in
the possession of the Government in regard to the
term of office of President Benito Juarez of the Re-
psbc of Mexico, as to the period when under the
Constitution popular election in that country shall
take place, when free from foreign invasion, and as
to any vote OF confidence and extraordinary powers
given to President Juarez by the Congress of the Mex
lean Republic. The President through Secretary
Seward, informs the House that it would not be ex-
pedient to publish the information called for.
TAXATION OF INCOMES.
The bill before the Senate reported with an amend
ment from the Finance Committee to-day, provides
among other things, for the taxation of income from
limited States DrOupriV held hV fnTaiuDnrS With
ference to its necessity, Commissioner Rollins, in
note to Hon. John Sherman, of that committee,
says as follows Income acquired under the pro-
lection of our laws should pay lis appropriate dis
tributve share for that protection. Whether the per-
sons to whom it accrues are citizens aliens resi-
dents or non-residents; it is. practicable to derive
that share from stockholders in those well recog-
nzed and established companies and corporations
Whether not it is practicable to secure when de-
rived from other sources has always been a doubtful
question.
It is understood that England dedues her tax from
the interest she pays upon her securities as we'll to
the foreigners as to citizens.
PENSIONS.
The bill reported to-day by Mr.. Perham, chairman
of the Committee on Invalid Pensions, supplementary
to the several acts granting pensions, increases the
pensions of those who have lost one hand one foot
where the same has been totally and permanently
disable III the military naval service to SIS per
month
1t provides that any pledge mortgage sales assign
ment or transfer OF pension shall be void, and that
any persons acting as attorneys shall take and sub
scribe oath that they have interest IN said PEN
Slony anu taxing the sad oath falsely
shall be guilty of perjury. That any person who
shall present to be presented any power of
attorney other paper bearing date subsequent to
that which it was actually signed, shall be pun
ished by fine or imprisonment. or both. 1t repeals
the provisions of the law withholding pensions from
pensioners in Government employ, that any officer
who shall have died or been disabled after the date
Of his commission or before being mustered such Off
Ger or person entitled to, pension shall reeeiye
pension corresponding to the rank as determined by
such commission That officers absent on sick leave
and enlisted men absent sick furlough, shall be
regarded in sthe administration of the pension laws
the same as # they were in the field hospital.
That the period of service of any person in the
military service shall be construed to extend to the
time of the disbanding Of the organization to which
s!ch uTsVrI 5olonsod fntil his actual discharge
teamsters; wagorerg, artiic9rs, hospital stewards
and all other enlisted men. however employed in the
service shall be regarded in the administration of tho
pension laws asnOu-cOmmssiOned officers or privates
That if any person in the military or naval service
shalt have died leaving widow and minor child
% children under sixteen years of age, and said
widow shall abandon the of such child or child
rer, then the pension shall be withheld from the
said widow and be paid for the support cf the said
minor child chi i1drno