Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-25

1 history of the rebellion.
Mr. Stewart. of Nevada called up the bill to estsb
fish land office and appoint register in the Ter
rltory of Idaho. 1t was passed..
| \, REIMBURSEMENT.
Mr. Sprasue, of Rhode Island. called up tho join
resolution to reimburse Massachusetts for the cx
penses incurred by that State in her harbor deences
| :, THE TAX BILL.
PENDING the discussion or the above. the tax bill
was taken up, and its reading was resumed from
| where 1t terminated yesterday.
! The first question was on agreeing to the amend
meut of the finance committe to make the salary o
which was agreed to.
In the clause authorizing the employment of fifty.
hVe copyiSts IN the Revenue Bureau the committee
recommended the substitution of the words 'femaIt
CLERKS" for copy SITS" Agreed to.
| The last amendment of the committee was to in.
That all the provisions of said acts shall be in
force Tor collecting al taxes, duties and licenses fol
property assessed. or liable to be assessed or
already accrued, which may hereafter accrue nm.
ger SAID acts, and for maintaining and continuing
he;S' nnes, penalties and orfeitures incurred under
and by virtue thereof, and for carrying out and com
petng all proceedings which have been already com
menced Or that may be commenced. to enforce such
fines penalties and forfeitures or criminal proceed
lng under said acts, and for punishment Of crimes
which any party shall be or has heen found r,iItT
and provided further, that whenever the duty i'm.
posed by existing law shall cease in consequence
Ot any limitation therein contained before the re-
Spectlye PROVISIONS OF this act shall take effect the
same duty shall be and is hereby continued unit
such provisions of this act shall take effect and
| ed thereby shall be held to cease in conse.
| qucnce OF such repeal until the respective cor.
responding proyisians of this act shall take effect
ana provided further that all manufactures and pro
| auctions on which duty was imposed by either O.
the acts repealed by this act which shall be in tht
possession of the manufacturer producer or of biz
agent or agents the day when this act takes effect
Ihe duty imposed by any such former act not HAVING
| been paid shall be held and deemed to have beef
manufactured or produced after such date; and when
ever by the terms Of this act duty is imposed upor
any articles, wares or merchandise, manufactured OF
T.ttr
OF said former acts II shall apply to such as Her,
manufactured or produced and not removed from Tho
place OF manufacture or production on the day wher
| this act takes effect.
Tho above was agreed 10.
MIR. Fessenden moved to amend by adding the fol.
lowing proYls0 TO the tax on turS: Provided that on
all articles made of furs the retail price of which sha
not exceed twenty dollars, duty of two per cen .
| only shall be paid. Adopted.
Dir. Fessenden offered an amendment to one of the
sections, as follows: Provided that when such i'm
ported articles except lucifer and friction matches
cigar lighters and wax tapers shall be sold in miro
ken packages, the person so selling such articles
shall not be subject to penalty on account of the
| want of the proper stamp. Adopted
| Mr.. Fessenden offered an amendment taxing steel
made directly from nut bars, three dollars per ton
Mr.. Howard moved to add iron roofs for railroad
depot9 and the iron therefor, to the free list Dis
Mr.. Edmunds offered the following. which was
agreed to But this tax shall not be assessed upon
nor cole ted from such converted bank or con-
verified banking association, whose total average cir
culation, including State bank notes. rs well as ma
tl0na currency, shall nOteXceed the amount of cir
culatlon allowed by the act to provide for national
currency, etc The above is added in the bill tn the
following provision: Provided further. that when
ever any State bank banking association has BEEN
or shall be converted into national banking asso-
citation, has ceased do its usual banking bust
ness, including the making ofloans and the receiving
addition to the taxes already imposed d tax of one
fourth ofone per centum each month upon the aver
| age amount of the circulation outstanding of any
such State bank or State banking association.
Mr.. CONFESS moved to amend by changing the tax
on leather tanned or partially tanned from to per
cent. Disagreed to.
| Mr.. Van Wrinkle offered as an amendment the fol-
lowing: That section l04 be amended ny striking out
all after the enactng clause, and inserting in lieu
or doing express business shall be subject to pay
tax OF per centum on the gross amount of all re-
ccipts such express busneSn excess all amounts
paid to any railroad company for the transportation
| OF cars or freight"
Mr. Davis offered an an amendment to tho whisky
| tax, the tax to be $2 till November next, and rom
+hf DG2vt9 6h9eFbu n&e6t II aud tEQm Dis:
cost of special license dstillers, according to the
amount distilled. Disagreed to.
/ Mr. Hendricks offered amendment, that where
railroad or CANAL or other such company shall owe
accrued interest its Indebtedness, which it is
able to pay; the tax of five per cent on its coupons
| the interest on its indebtedness. Agreed to.
| DEATH OF Mr.. HUMPHREYS.
| At four o'clock, pending the consideration of tn
tax BILL the clerk of the House announced the pro
| ceedings CT that body on the death of james n
| Humphreys, member from Brooklyn, New York
| MIR. Morgan delivered an eulogy on the deceased
giving sketch of his life, and paying nigh tribut
| to his character in public and privat tie life.
At the conclusion of his speech Mr.. Morgan offere
the customary resolutions of respect and esteem 20
the memory of the deceased, and the Senate, at tou
| O'Clock, adjourned.
| HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
! MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr.. Julian, from the Committee on Public Lands
reported back the House bill to remove the office c
the general of the States of Iowa and Wis
| eonsin to Plates Mouth, Nebraska which was rea
| third time and passed.
Mr.. Washburne, of Illinois, presented the record
an Investigation into the accounts and official con
duct of George N Carleton, special agent and actin
surveyor of customs at Memphis, Tenn, showing tn
lion dollars and asked that it be referred to the Com
| mittee on Banking and Currency, with directions t
| examine into the whole subject, with authority t
| send for persons and papers, and to report at an
| time which adopted.
| Several private bills were called up and passed.
| Mr. WaShbarn, of Massachusetts, reported bill
pay claims of Washington city against the Govern
ment for improving streets and repairing bridge
| prior to May, 1864, not exceeding S3l, 81.
| Mr. Washburne. Of Illinois, raised the objectio
that the bill made an appropriation, and must fir
be considered in Committee of the Whole. The oil
| lection sustained and the bill so referred.
| Mr.. briggs, from the Committee Mines an
| Mining, reported a resolution recommending ii
| creased duty foreign copper of at least six cen
| Der mound on ingot and three cents on fine copp,
| ores. Referred to the Committee on Ways an
| Means.
| his colleague from the Third Congressional distri
I of Newly Ork. the Hon. James N. Humphreys. Apr
l
Bergen, Washburne of Illinois. and Davis. II
usual resolutions of respect offered by Mr.. Da
| ling, and unanimously adopted.
| The. House then, as further mark Of respec
adjourned.
| PROBABLE ARREST OF A MURDERER.-A ma
| named Charles Wilkes. alias Henry Myers, was n
rested at Mannheim, Lancaster county, on Wedne
| day evening, on suspicion of having committed II
| murder of the Squibb family. Whether he was
| accomplice of Donovan, who Is IN the DIRK jail,
the sole perpetraor of the tragedy cannot be earne
/ traveller. n
| who gives her name as Mary Ann Pontel. She sa!
| Wilkes committed the murder, and makes the 70
| lowing statement: She first became acquainted vii
Wilkes at the poor house, In Lancaster and that 81
afterwards met him at the Cumberland county pc
house. They started from Carlisle on Sunday, Jul
10th, begging money and yictuals on their way. {
the afternoon they passed the house In which Il
: murder was committed. she went In and got t.
, cents and piece OF meat and bread. After comlI
out of the house he asked what kind of folks live
| there. when she told him an old man and woman al
| young woman. They passed on some dlstanc
where they stopped until about nine o'clock in Il
evening, when they returned to the house. He trit
to force her to assist him in robbing it. but she
] | fused. and went into the stable close by.
! He went in by himself, and, after some time, r
turned with blood on his hands and pantaloons. 81
| assisted him to wash the blood from his hands al
clothes, after which they went back into the stabl
| where they remained until early on Monday NOR
ing, when they started tor Wrightsvllle, and cross
: toe river, landing at Columbia. They then took Il
direction of LitZ, staying over night a barn ne
; | that place on Monday night. On Tuesday they we
= | to Mannheim
Whether the story of this woman is true it is diff
1 cult to tell Her mind to be slightly affecte
though she speaks inelligently and gives satlsfa
l tory account OF the circumstance, and what to-
n | place subsequently. On a few minor points, no
l ever. there a slight contradiction in her stol
IS ! the woman has also been committed to prison. 5
| Is about Oh years OF years, aud bears d number
n | marks on her person, which she says infigt
IS | by the prisoner. Wilkes is German about q yea
| OF age. Neither of the prisoners had any mon
= when arrested.-Harrts6urg Telegraph.
d | TIE "CRAMMING SYSTEM" OF EDUCATIoN.-N
have examples Of this truth by scores and hundrs
Il | in schools and colleges. We students ab
IL willing, and most assidous to learn; asSldious,
n deed, as hen over an added egg; but, alas tn
T. aSsduity shows itself but seldom the fruit of
d l full activity AS education Is practiced, tn
\ learning is too often but nightmare to them, ov
| laying and expressing them; and, instead of brea
q ing into their the comfort Of gentle spi
| prone to suggest forms Of hatetulness, melancht
/, | lmagnings. discomfort mOodiness and despair.
cannot lmpart warmth to the old carcass quick
Its deafness into energy, by wrapping 1t in muI
II | phcity of garments, though they be wrought I'm
y, | and curiously The learning is to prOpel
10 natural fire within u.s. and call it into action. The
% fore 1t should be laid on lightiy-Set
l. A MISSIONARY ZELDA letter from Califorl
says:
The blausted Englishers must have queer il
Ds L of this country and Its resources Recently e
at 4 leman metallurgist brought from England as,
n 4 furnace and apparatus for making assays. supp
ing probably that this not being British possessi
only fire bricks, to use In the furnace, but conn
bricks to set II up and thirty eight feet stO
pipe, paying the heavy rate of freight on all by
IN | steamer and over the lsthmus. He must have b.
1t | somewhat surprised to find he could obtain b
Ye apparatus of every kind and quality, and a v