The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-19
WASHINGTON.
Loss OF Property at the Executive
MansiOn-Ways and Means Com
mittee-Tariff Bill, &c. % -no

ManSiOn-Ways and Means Com
mittee-Tariff Bill, &c. r,o
WASHINGTON, Jan, 18,@The bill
reported to the House to-day by
Randall, provides, that after its pas-
sage, it shall be unlawful to issue as
1 money, any notes or bills not author4
lied to be issued, not EXCEEDING
ree,ahuudred millions ins United
/ States notes not bearing interest, of
I such denomination as May 0e deemed
expedieht, not less than lawful money
I and legal tender, SAD notes to be
used only IN exchange for national
isbank ISSUES. and for the purchase Of
such amount of Us. bendsaas may
| be necessary to carry out the true IN
/ tent Of this act ,+.g 81; ri dp
/ Also, that all circulating notes of
national banks hereafter paid into
! the treasury. shall not again be put
/ in circulation, and that the Secretary
may pay out an equal amount of Uni-
/ ted States issues, and that national
/ banks must redeem within 30 days
I their notes thus retained IN the trea-
sury, where said amounts are not
less than $500, and present them to
the Secretary for cancellation, who
will return to them the proportionate
amount of United States bonds de-
posted as security therefor. The
bill contains other provisions, but
the foregoing are its main features.
The Secretary of the Treasury, At
I torney General, Secretary of the lnte-,
rior. and Comptroller of the Treasury,
are appointed Commissioners of the
Sinking Fund, by the bill, whose duty
it.shall be to receive from the Secre-
tary 81 bonds and other evidences of
| debt purchased, properly stamp them,
and receive the interest aecruing upon
them till their maturity, said interest
to be invested In bonds, or other in
| terest bearing debt of the United
4 States and becomes part Of the Sink
ing fund. cd 81 b8baijDJ .aoAoaA r
/, !, Brigadier- General Sewell, Inspector
General of the bureau OF refugees
! freedme n, and abandoned lands hss
been ordered to North Carolina to in-
vestigate the matters of complaint
growing out of the action of State
courts, in apprenticing colored chill
dren to their former masters.
Governor Worth has requested of
Al General Howard a Joint Commission
to examine the alleged abuse of the
4 apprentice system General Sewell
Illwili act for the bureau in this Com
misslen,.u A report will be made to
the Commissioner and also to the
Governor Of North Carolina.
WASHINGTON, Jan, 18.-The con
seryatory attached to, the Executive
Mansion was badly damaeed by fire
this. forenoon, at least one7third OF
4 the valuable plants therein being de-
stroyed.- Loss on building $4,000
! The plants destroyed are Of the rarest
: character and foreign orange, and
cannot be replaced for years, and at
a cost Of $100000.iog hue 8yagi9~
ia A majority of the Ways and Means
| Committee are understood to favor q
d reduction of the whisky taxao3q51
The tariff bill in its present shape
: is likely to fail in the Senate. @
1t is stated that in the opinion Of
the Treasury Department it would
ahreduce the present receipts of customs
= one half and thus render any reduc-
tion in internal revenue impossible.
The Ways and Means Committee
have reached no decision on the gold
! sale bill, and the chances are against
any interference with the present dis
cretionary power Of the Secretary Of
the Treasury. f alg VOC
The Senate Finance Committee
have agreed to amend the tariff bill
by changing the specific duty on
books to an Gd Ual0rena duty, and FIX
the duty on wines at ffiyc cents pei
gallon, if imported in casks, aud two
dollars per dozen if in glass. ogea
WASHINGTON, JAN 18.-In the
Supreme Court, to-day, Bradley and
johnson, formerly rebel Generals,
were admitted to the Bar under the
new rule resembling the test OATH
The receipts Of Customs, at New
Orleans from the 1st to the 9th inst.,
was $59,O24. ...H .rI 80
Dispatches were received here a few
days ago announcing that Deputy Col
lector ct internal Revenue, Brown,
had been assaulted at Duyall's Bluff,
Ark, and robbed of $4,000 belong
ing to the Government. An inVesti-
cation proved that the party had pur-
lolned the money for their own purr
pose. This morning the Commission
: er was app 's@d by telegraph of the
arrest OF Etcwn and his accomplices
and their confinement in jail in Ar
kansas: ~ stolcn funds were all
recovered. tis. ,..ao.qi 81.
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