Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-23
Special Dispatches.
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Special Dispatches to the Western Press.
TIE NEW TAX NIL.


New YORK, June 22.-The amend
ments to the new tax bill tax
bank circulation 10 per cent, and provide
for the transforming Of State banks into
National banks; also for the return of the
income tax. The Senate non -concurred in
striking from the free list iron bridges, ma
chinery for mills, and agricultural imple-
ments. The House agreed TO placing els
terms, tanks, safes, spinning machines, steam
and eordage on Jne IrseiI t-r: an Perlase=irSs
are not regarded as retailers. Fraudulent
distillers to pay double tax, or impris-
Onment for two years, and apparatus 10 be
forfeited; every distllery TO give notice Of
firm and capacity OF the same also of any
change in any essential particular, and TO
give bonds for compliance with the law.
Every agent or manufacturer is to keep a
record OF the quantity OF material used,
and such returns are to be verified on oath.
The penalty for fraudulenuy marking
casks or packages with importers brands
was fixed at a fine of not less than $1,000,
nor more than $4,000, and imprisonment for
not less than two nor more than five years.
The word " rectified " must be placed upon
all packages containing liquors the charae-
ter Of which is changed after inspection,
under penalty of forfeiture, and any person
so branding package, knowing that the
tax has not been paid, shall be imprisoned
for not more than two years, besides incur
ring forfeiture. ...
The unlawful removal of spirits from the
place where they are distilled is made pun
ishs BILE by fine of double the amount Of
the tax upon such liquors, and imprison-
ment for not less than three months. Brib-
ing an officer of the Internal Revenue is To-
be punished by a fine not exceeding three
times the amount offered and imprison-
ment not over three years. The person ac-
cepting the bribe will forfeit his place and
be forever disqualified from holding office
DIPLOMATIC
WAsHiEGrox, June 22.-Mr. Bigelow, in a
dispatch to Secretary Seward, recites that
he mad delivered Stewards dispatch to the
French Minister for Foreign Affairs, who
said the Imperial Government proclaimed
its intention to retire from Mexico because
il suited its convenience and interests to
retire, and for no other reason. When,
therefore, it announced formally, not mere
Iy to the agent, but to ell the world, that
the army would be Withdrawn from Mexico
within the specified term, he thought 1t
| should be sufficient The Government
made its declaration in good faith and
means to keepit. 1t means to withdraw its
| army within the time prescribed, and it
| does not intend to take one or two hundred
| in the first detachment and one or two hun
dred more in the second, leaving the great
| body of them to the last, though it had not
| deemed it necessary to specify with
| minuteness details of this kind, which de-
| nend upon hygienic considerations, Of which
| Il was the best and the only cOmpeteni
/ Judge. This his Excellency said he wished
/ T would saw to our Government. / asked
his Excelleney if 1 had ever intimated to
| him whether in writing or orally any sus-
pieion of the Emperor's intention to with.
! draw his army from Mexico IN unequal
| nortions. He replied that | had not j
tben asked him If any other person suthor-
| ized TO speak in the name Of my govern
ment hgi done SO. He said not, but h'
had read imputations of that kind in one oi
o,1r naners. freplied in substance that thG
press was a law unto itself, and thst We had
| better not accept it as q law unto US, and
ne asked me to communicate to my govern
ment a formal answer as to what sounded
like an accusation of insineerity and bad
faith on the part of the Emperor. / wanted
his authority for stating that no such &C
cusation had reached him through any OF
fetal channel. ,.--...r
newspaper. ,-5-e-
/
simply to extend to an explanation Wh1cl
was sure to be required Of you, Of the ship
ment in France of large bodies of troops .
Mexico, after the purpose to- withdraw tn
whole army had been officially proclaimed
To this his Excellency replied that sinc
aeeine me he had received from his col
Isegnes in The Marine and War Depsrtmen
information to the purPOrt that no troops
| baIong ging to the corps expedition had beel
sent 10 Mexico this year, unless for the sax
of partly replacing soldiers missing, but
| anY rate without augmenting the numoe
of standing troops. That the snPment
troops referred to IN public. PRINT ana Il
vonT dispatch was most likely that made II
tbe transport Rhone, about the beginning
of the wear; that this Rhone touched a
Martipaue, but not at st. Thomas as wa
stated that she carried 9I6 and not LOO
i<oIdiefse that they belonged 10 the toreigi
/ Isgion and not TO the expeditionary corps
troops which had long beea waiting trans
, ,,oytation in France and AlgerfS %. JOIN thei
reoiments; that no new troops had bee
enrolled for the foreign legion since the En-
+ peror proclaimed he purpose TO Withdraw
his hag from Mexico, and thAs no more Fer
: intended to be enrolled. = .rf =.
ain regard to the shipment Of troops iroT
Husiria he said that was an affair entirel
ha1vveen that Government and the Mexica
, IGoyernment, with which France hAd noth
, inc 10 do. That since l had spoken 70 hiI
! on the subject he had verified his own cor
!, | victions by q reference to the Ministers
war and Marine, and had ascertained thi
n no engagement Of any sort had been entel
! ed inte, either for enrolment er transports
: ton from Austria to Mexico. De went Q
4 further to say it was the Intention OF SoN
: eminent 70 withdraw the army from As4