The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-01
FROM WASHINGTON.

The Internal Revenue and Whisky
Tax The Smuggling Business =
CeuptreIIer Of Currency-Rceen'
struetieu-Impertant Csse-The q
ency Printing Bureau-The Ne"
Orleans Riet Committee.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3l.-The Tribune's
Washington special says: Commission
ar Rollins was in conference with the
WAYS and Means committee to-day, III
regard to the internal revenue tax bill.
They have thus far passed on but q few
articles, which it is proposed to put into
the list. The commissioner informed
them that there was a great falling OH
in the revenue receipts within the last
sixty DAYS, and from present indications
il was likely to diminish still more
during the next six or nine months, on
account of the general stagnation OF
hnsiness. The committee have there
fore decided not to pass upon any artl,
cles until they get the tariff bill, and
then it is likely that but little, II any
reduction will be made on leading arti'
cles.
The subcommittee are engaged IN
examining into the whisky tax. 1t will
be some days before they will be ready
TO report. Commissioner Rollins Is in
conference with them every evening.
He Is opposed to making . reduction ut
present. He favors stringent leglsla-
ton, believing it will put n stop to
frauds. The committee, however, are
very much divided on the question, and
il is doubtful what they will recon-
mend.
The Times Washington special says
some idea may be formed OF the frauds
perpetrated by snugglers from the fact
that a special agent, sent to the frontier
70 investigate them, was able to make
arrangement with twenty-five custom
officers out of twenty-three i'll the Dis
trict for smuggling goods INTO the
United States.
One of the most important causes YET
that for We lthf1 5fppHftt n Sf Claims ia ! Is
against the Government for the seizure
by the War Department, in 1856, of 4
large tract of land at the confluence of
the Columbia River, in Washington
Territory, since occupied as a military
post, the land belonging to George w.
johnson.
The Worlds special says: The De-
partment and Congressional investiga-
ton of the Treasury printing bureau
continued to-day, and although no act
ual fraud has been discovered, there
have appeared some discrepancies in
the accounts, which may be explained
away.
The President has nominated to the
Senate Hon. X. II. Hurt, tn be Comp
troller of the Currency,
The Ways and Means committee have
added tanned leather to the free list.
The Tribune's Washington special
SAYS: Quite u number of leading South
ern men are in the city, arranging a
new plan of adjustment, which has
been approved by a number of Republic
cans, based upon the Constitutional
amendment.
The President has recently said to q
number of persons that the worst thing
he ever did in his life was to pardon
Mayor Monroe, of New Orleans.
Ii may be safely asserted that not.
withstandiug the voluminous testimO-
ny taken 10y the special committee ap-
pointed to investigate the New Orleans
riots, but few additional facts have
been developed, and the Chairman is
already making up his report, which
will, of course, he made to reflect Sc
verely on the President. 1t will state,
however, that the committee do not
propose to recommend the impeachment
Of the President.