New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-29

The sena!e took IN the .ax bilI.

THE TAX BILL.
The Senate took up the tax bill.
The salary of the commissioner of internal rev
enue was fixed at $1,000.
The employment of ifty-hye female clerks as
copglsts, was agreed TO.
The last amendment OF the committee was as
follows:
That all the provisions Of said act shall be in
force for collecting all taxes, duties and licenses
properly assessed or liable 30 be assessed, or &C.
curing under the provisions of said acts, the right
to which has already accrued, or which may here
after aCerue under said acts; and for maintaining
and continuing eins fees, penalties and forfeit
ures Incurred under and by virtue thereof and for
carrying out and completing proceedings which
have already commenced, or that may commence
to enforce such penalties and criminal proceed
ings under said acts; and for the punishment of
crimes OF which any party shall be or has been
found entity; provided further, that whenever the
duty imposed by any exiting laws shall
cease in consequence of any limitation
therein contained before the respective provisions
OF this act shall take effect, the same duty shall
be, and is hereby continued until such pro
visions of this act shall take effect; and where
any act is hereby repealed, no duty imposed there
by shall be held to cease in consequence of such
reDeal, until the respective corresponding pra
visions of act shall take effect; and provided
further, that all manufactures and productions on
which duty was imposed by either of the acts
repealed by this act which shall be in possession
of the manufacturer or producer or of his agents
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imposed by any such former act having been paid
it shall be held and be deemed to have been man
ufactured or produced after such date, and when
ever by the terms OF this act duty is imposed
on any articles, goods, or merchandise manufac-
tured or produced, on which no duty was imposed
by either of said former acts it shall apply to such
as are manufactured or produced, and not removed
from the place of manufacture or production, on
the day on which this act takes elfect.n
The above was agreed to.
Mr., Fessenden moved to amend by adding the
following proviso to the tax on turs:
Provided That on all articles made of fur, the
retail price of which shall not exceed $40, duty
of per cent. shall be paid"
Adopted.
Mr.. Fessenden offered an amendment to one of
the sections, as follows
g Provided, That, when such imported articles,
except lucifer and friction Matches cigar lighters,
and wax tapers, shall be sold in unbroken pack
ages, the person 50 selling such articles shall
be subject to any penalty on account Of the want
of proper stamps"
Adopted.
Mr. Fessenden offered an amendment taxing
steel made directly from nut bars So per ton.
Adopted,
MI Edmundg offered the following, which was
agreed to:
:" But this tax shall not be assessed upon, nor
collected from any such converted bank or con-
verified banking association whose total average
circulation including State bank notes. as well as
national currency, shall not exceed the amount of
circulation allowed by the act to provide for
national currency" etc.
The above is added in the bill to the following
provisions
Prouidedfa4ther, That wheneverany State bank
banking association has been shall be convert
ed national banking association, or has ceased
to do its usual banking business, including the max
/ ing of loans and the receiving of deposits, there
shall be assessed and collected, in addition to the
| taxes already imposed, a tax of of ] per centum
each month upon the average amount of the circu-
lation outstanding OF any such State bank or State
| banking association.
Mr.. Van Wrinkle offered as an amendment the
following: That section 104 be amended by strik
ing out the enacting clause, and inserting in lieU
the following: That persons doing express bust
ness shall besubject to pay tax of per centun
on the gross amount of receipts of such express
business in excess of any amount paid to any
railroad company for transportation of cars o
freight
hir. Hendricks offered anamendment, that whel
railroad, canal, express, or other company shall
owe accrued interest on its indebtedness which i
is not able to pay, the tax of per cent. on it
coupons shall not be paid until the company i
able to pay the interest on its indebtedness
! Agreed to.
HoUsE-REcoRD OF AN INVESTIGATE
Mr.. Washburne, of Illinois, presented the reeort
of an investigation into the accounts and oficia
conduct of George N. Carleton, special agent am
acting surveyor of customs at Memphis, showing
! the government to have lost the sum of about
million dollars and asked its reference TO the com
examine into the whole subject and with authority
| to send for persons and papers and report at ar,
/ time. 1t was 30 ordered.
4 Ea g REPLACEMENT OF NOTES. FL.
! Mr.. Washhurne of Massachusetts, reported
bill for the payment to Ober Manson q Co., o
New York, $4,000 compound interest notes, witt
interest thereon, which were mailed in October
1866 directed to 0ber, Atwater g. Co., New Or
leans, and registered, but which were lost by thu
sinking of the steamer Republic, provided that Sc
curity be given to indemnify the government
DUTIES ON COPPER.
Mr.. briggs, from the committee on mines an,
mining, reported resolutions recommending an in
creased duty on foreign copper of OF least sixt,
cents per pound on ingot and three cents on fnI
copper ores; which was referred to the committee
on weights and measures.
THE DEATH OF MR. HUMPHREY.
Mr.. Darling announced to the House the dealt
Of his colleague from the Third Congressional DIS
triet Of New York. the Hon. James Humphrey.
The House then adjourned.