Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-06-12

ts'he OCCASION TO say here now that 1t Is not
the expectation, believe, even of the
committee, that the amonnt of direct tax
Will be retained by the House, or by Con-
gress. Ii we had let it be known four
months ago that whiskey was to be taxed
only one dollar or seventy-i five cents gal
lon we would have lost about S., ,0O0,OOO of
revenue. l do not know whether Congress
Will agree to the reduction. [, for one.
have come very reluctantly to the conclu-
sion that it should be done. From the
very beginning was inclined " to fight it
out on that line." But I have come to the
conclusion that keeping this tax at two
dollars per gallon will eventuate in con-
tlnulng the rule of the whiskey ring in this
country, and that the tax, therefore, had
better be reduced. We must not be con-
trolled, we must not be governed by the
whlskey men who are at this very moment
sWarmlng In the city, especially anxious to
know whether the tax is going to be kept
at such rate as that they can continue their
operations. Step by step, therefore, by de-
grees,. l have brought myself to the conclu-
sion that the direct tax on distilled spirits
ought to be put down to something like
seventy-five cents gallon. And the rea-
son why would be disposed to seventy
five cents is, that from the examination of
many taxes, and the investigation of the
whole subject, believe that seventy-five
cents is about the standard at which the
tax can be collected, and which will make
it impossible for illicit distillation to be
carried on with profit. Illicit distillers
cannot carry on their business in concealed
places, in cellars and garrets in Chicago
and Philadelphia-the two great points at
which most OF the enormous rascality is
carried on-with any advantage at all if
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From q number of calculations that I
have made, I can come to no conclusion
but that we shall get at least seventy mil
lions out of whiskey in the coming year,
instead of thirteen millions, to which we
are now reduced.
In reference to the income tax, it was to
be retained at five per cent; but salaries
from the Government, on which no allow
ance was now made for house rent, bad
debts, &C., were henceforth to be account
ed for as other incomes, instead of having
the tax deducted on their being paid
In reference to the tax on railroads, par
ticularly horse railroads, they were no
longer to be allowed, under the revenue
law, to exact from their passengers that
tax, or rather eight times the tax but
would have to apply for relief under that
head to the local municipal governments.
AS to tobacco, the committee had made
a great many amendments in regard to the
collection of the tax. It had endeavored
to make the law rigorous, certain of execu-
tion, and to have the collection made
through the medium of stamps. While the
country had been astounded with the enor-
nous frauds committed in evading the tax
on whiskey, it had not been much better
with tobacco, though he confessed that
whiskey was little ahead in the race of
rascality. Instead of the three classes of
taxation-4O, 30, and Is cents pound
the committee now recommended only two
classes, at 40 and 16 cents The committee
also provided that smoking and chewing
tobacco should be put up in small packages
and the tax paid by stamps.
AS to cigars, the committee had thought
of doubling the present tax of five dollars
per thousand but that, perhaps, would
not be insisted upon. His own opinion
was that they ought to reduce the tariff on
cigars, as not affording the protection
which was intended to home manufactures.
The tax on imported cigars now averaged
$76 the thousand, and the consequence was
that smuggling was carried on to an alarm
ing extent.
"A Picture for Distrtbut1on-samples OF
sReconstruction"
Wilmington is the chief city of North
Carolina, and Charleston of South Carolina
These two cities are respectively repre-.
sented in the bogus Legislature, elected
under the reconstruction swindle, as fol-
lows
WILMINGTON, N. G.
SENATE.
A H Galloway, negro;
HOUSE.
Jos G Abbott. New Hampshire;
L G Estes, y S A;
G W Price, negro.
CHARLESTON, S. c.
D T Corbin, unknown;
Il IL Cabin, negro.
HOUSE.
r @ De Large, negro;
A J Ransier, negro;
r Tomlinson, unknown;
w III IL Gray, negro;
B Boseman, negro;
George Lee, negro;
Is + jackson, negro;
Jos FL jerks, Freed's Bureau;
VIM McKinlay, negro;
T J Moses, Jun, S G;
W J Bodie, negro;
J B Dennis, negro;
John Wright. negro;
VIM Jervey, negro;
Abraham Smith, negro;
Samuel Johnson, negro;
Stephen Brown, negro;
Edward Mickery, negro.
Trenton True american.
The above is picture which ought to be
put in frame and distributed for general
circulation and preservation. It constitutes
a mirror in which " Radicalism - can see
it's practical development It is the great
fruit of Radical speeches! It is the sweet
particular blossom of its policy 1t is
fragrant exhibition of its craftsmanship !
It is what we have gained by the war, and
about all we have gained, except the gigan-
tic debt, and loss of million lives -
How do the people of the North like such
rulers and copartners, for it must be re-
membered that they select United States
Senators to vote on and rule not only the
South but the North also ? What pro-
gress we shall make in the South, with
"Cuffee and "Sambo" thus leading the
van in its principal lcities-dishonored and
degraded vagrants, who have crawled into
the places that were once filed by genius,