Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-07-02

geoRs were appointed bodu 70 insp Hct the
fr' eamens Village at Ariir-tou. Va and they
having perfoIncd the duty signed TO them
reported discrepancy between the report OF
dependents sId the ratsons drawn At Freed
mems Village, and the actual number of de-
pendents residing IN che village. The Assist
ant Commi> sioner of the Bureau for tni- Dis
trict has therefore sPpomt"d Surgeon X stnrt
ReybuIn- Capt. j. NJ Brown, disoprsing on
Ger, sad George T. M-rblc. gent Of the Bu-
Ieau- as board Ie further inve siisste the dis-
crepancy. which BOARD rs now engaged in the
performance Of that duty.
WHERE ARE THE FUSDs!-Breves MAJOR
General +. ID. Gregory, Inspector General on
the staff OF Ge8eral BROOKS, Assistant Com
missioner of the FrCedmen's Bureau foc the
Stale of Maryland has been ordered to pro-
ceed 10 Emmi,ts burg, Frederick county, Nd.
aHd thoroughly investigate the allie yed rlisap-
preparation cftunds appropriated by the Bu-
reau for erecting schOOl-hcase at thar place.
DIsNisszLs IN THE TRRAsURY.-About
twenty male and lorty female employees in the
Treasury Depar ment were dislnissed yestsr-
day afternoon on account of the reduction IN
the appropriations. The dismi> sails We're from
nearly all of tue bureaus of the Depar memt,
ans the force Will be stIu further ,educys
during do present month.
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MR. wELcH. the other Florida Senator. ap-
peared IN the Senate and teok the oath this
afternoon.
Mr. EDNTNDs introduced a bill to-day pro-
yiding that the next raeeting of Congress pe OIL
the thIrd Monday in November
NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR Thomas Davidson
Jr.- has been ordered to duty IN ts- Eureau of
Construction Of Repair.
NOTHING PROM THE Mississippi e'ecuen has
yet been heard Al army headquarters.
THs TAXATION or L.. ;. BcNDs.-The re-
port and hill reported from the Committee of
Ways and Means to-day, by Mr.. Hooper,
Mass IN relation to the taxation OF u s
Donos, are 3s follows
The Committee of Ways and Means. to
whom was referred the resolution of the House,
instr ructIng them TO report without unnecrs Sary
delay bill leyyIug a tax of a. least ten per
Centam on the interest of the bonds of the
United States, TO be collected by the Secretary
OF The Treasury nd such of his suboTdiuatss
a. Baay be charged with the duty of p9 ying the
interest the bonded debt of the United
States, nave had the same under consideration,
and oeg leave TO submit the following report
md bill.
The Committee of Ways and Means are op-
posed 10 the proposition embraced IN this re
lutloE, and report the bill only la obedisnce 10
The positive order OF the House. In The argu-
meEt N ade in thr House IN favor OF the resolu-
tIon the English lHcome Tax law Was referred
To and quoted There is a law corr spending
10 ihat English law on the statute books of this
county. imposing tax ON incomes of five per
CEN While the English isw Is less than three
per cent But your committee Lave been unable
10 End III the sta'ute books of England or any
other cIS iliZed country, law thst could be- re-
eard' d IN any way as a precedent for the bill the
House have instructed the committee 10 report,
which, AZ enacted will b., simply law proyid-
ing tor the payment of rate OF interest on the
GONeTnmrnt debt ten per cent less than was
agreed for: ten per cent less than IS stated in
The bonds. and len per cent less ihan wa
pledged 10 be paid by solemn enacrmenf OF
COngIe->, when the money was required 10
carry on war which threatened the hie OF the
nation.
The evil effects resulting 10 a nation, whether
her nation III edit IL guarded and proceed, or
" hetheT BY legislation of The character now
prcpo> Ell. Ihe confidence Of all other civilized
nations - forfeited, may not b. felt o. appr~-
CIatsd III times of peace; but the Committee de-
size 10 call attention to the consequences that
would follow the passage Of a bill of the char
actpr now submitted, case we should ever
hereafter have occasion TO use our credit
ior The purpose or providing means,
or TO defend ourselves IN any collision
with foreign Power The committee rppeat
thai In reporting tins bill they act IN obadience
TO The POSITIVE directlon OF he House, aud con-
tIaIy 70 their own best Judgment They re-
serve To themselves their rights as memt ars of
the House 70 oppose IN every possible way ,he
adoption of measure which they regard as
hostile 10 the public interest and injurious TO
the national character. The bill is as follows
A BILL TO authorize an internal lax on the in.
terest OF the bonds and other securities OF he
United States.
Be a enacted, d., That from and after tbs
passage of this act there shall be levied, COL
lected, ana paid tax of ten per centurn on the
amount of interest hereafter due and PAYABLE
on all the bonds or other securities OF the
United States To secure the collection OF SAID
lax, the amount OF interest heresfter paid on
any bonds or other securities OF the United
States bearing interest al six per centum, shall
be al the rate Of only five and fourtenths
per centUm, and bearing interest AZ
BE at The rate of only four and five-tenths Der
centum; II bearing interest AT the rate OF three
per eentum, shall be at the rate of two and
seyen-tenths per cenrum per annum Ne
higher rate Of interest than is herein prescribed
shall be paid on any bond or other security of
the United States, now outstanding or author
Ized TO oe issued, all conditions of any such
bond OF other security and all laws and parts
Of laws to the contrary notwithstanding.
ASSIGNED TO GEN HowARDis SrAPpLJ-p.
Grant has issued a special order, by direction
OF the Secretary of War, announcing Breyet
Brig. Gen. George W. Balloch captain aad
eommissary of subsistence, l.. -. V, as aide
de-eamp on the stan of Mai. Gen. Howard,
Commis slOneT of the Freedmen's Bureau
Gen. Balloch for some tIms past has been dis
charging the duties Of commissaTy upOu the
stah Of Gen. Howard.
The WASHINGTON CANAL-Mr Harlan
presented 10 the senate to-day memorial of
BENJAMIN Severson, behalf OF property
holders of the city of Washington, in relation
20 the washington Canal, in answer 10 the r..
port on behalf OF the Executive Committee of
the Smit hsonian Institution, introduced in tie
Senate on the 10Th Of June. The memorial
(Which IS very long one) assumes that the
SmIthsonian co mmittee's report is out an in
diyIdual production. The plan OF the CON-
mittee is to have closed culvert running
eastward and westward on the present line OF
the canal for carrying of the Hood wafer of
The Iiper, and tor such surface drainage of the
low grounds as eannot be drained, il is pur.
posed TO have elevated sewers running north
and south, and Of course over the culyert.
This plan, Mr.. SeVersou says, would necessa.
My involve the raising of Pennsylvania ave-
nue., from near l2Jh street TO the Capitol crumbs
at least - feet; and the lower ground further
south 10 a corresponding level, making the
flling at the canal full fourteen aud a halt feet
above mean high water. This plan. the memo
rialist thinks Is impossible OF execution. except
at such ruinous cost as forbids its attempt. He
says At Is utterly out of the question: as there
total want of provision for cleaning cut the
covered canal cuiyert of near three miles in
length, and all the way necessarily on a dead
dead level, into which the floods OF the Tiber
and a large extent OF surface drainage must
enter. The meTnorialist then recapitnlates the
provisions OF the city plan, and advocates the
sITaIE IEh;ening OF the canal from 7th street west
10 Maryland avenue, claiming that by this
means the public reservations Will be- greatly
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