Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-03-12
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millions.
CHICAGO, March lO.-Washington spe-
cials say Van Wycks will report to-mor-
row from Committee on Retrenchment,
suggesting q remedy for the frauds in
the non-paymcnt of taxes on whisky.
First, by the simpliication of the tax
system and the adjustment of the
bonded warehouse order, that great and
rapacious army officials may DO rooted
out. Secondly, that tho tax should BIO
materially reduced and collected ut tho
still by estimating its capacity. The
Tux should be fifty cents q gallon, and
by this reduction double the present
amount Of revenue would be received.
CuIcAoo, March lO.-Thc business for
the consideration of which the Senate
went into Executive session was tho
treaty negotiated with Prussia, relative
to the rights of n~aturalizcd citizens.
The House Reconstruction Committee,
on introducing the resolution for the
restoration of Alabama to representa-
ton, makes IL long report setting forth
the threats, %intimidations and other
obstacles against tho expression of n
free and full opinion, say they have no
doubt that q large majority Of the reg
istcred voters favor the adoption of tho
new Constitution.
WASHINGTON, March ll.-Gen. Spin
ner emphatically asserts that the Gov
crnment has not lost q dollar by the
transaction referred to by Logan. He
SAYS tho destroyed sheets wero blank
paper which had been laid out for print
ing rs bonds, but wero not printed.
Much interest has been manifested in
regard to the forthcoming report of the
! Committee on Retrenchment. The Com
mittee have been engaged in the exam.
ina,ion Of the frauds in the payment of
taxes on whisky and tobacco. The ro-
port says tho President has had album
dant evidence in numerous cases show
ing conclusively tho un~faithfulncss OF
many officers, yet they remain undis-
turbcd. Gases has been reported where
individuals have amassed princely for
tunes, yet not n single criminal has
been made to disgorgo the fruits Of his
| crime, and not one victim made to suf-
fer tho penalty Of violated law. Tho
repor goes on to say that with honest
payment Of the whisky tax two hundred
| millions could have been realized where
only twenty millions have been secured.
| The Committee think that, did not the
President stand like adamant to protect
his friends in Office, Mccullough and
| Commissioner Rollins could have pre-
vented much fraud. The Committee
describe tho manner Of perpetratiug
frauds, aud say that some of the worst
men have secured appointments MS In
spectors and Agents. Some Of tho men
were lately graduated from State Pris-
ons. They think the tax should be
fifty cents u gallon.
New YORK, March ia World AL
bany special says Governor Seymour
will make q great speech at the Demo-
cratic Convention to-day.
A Times special says the bill admit
ting Alabama will not pass the Senate
till after tho conclusion of the impcach-
ment trial. 1t is coutendcd that it will
be impossible to protect the loyal peo-
pie if the military support DO taken
away, unless there is q change in the
Executive. Arkansas is looked upon
rs u safer State to try the experiment
with.
Conversational.
CHICAGO, March l0.-Senate. - The
Senate spent the concluding portion of
the session yesterday in considering the
Diplomatic Appropriation bill. The
amendment striking out the provision
for II Consul ut Ecuador was agreed to,
and also nm amendment striking out nm
appropriation Of So, 900 for the expenses
Of intercourse with the Barbary States.
The Senate adjourned without final ac-
ton on the bill.
WASHINGTON, March l0.-Trumbull
presented n memorial from the Execu-
tive Committee of the Colonization So
| ciety, stating that three thousand per-
sons, mostly from North Carolina: desire
to emigrate to Liberia and asking for an
appropriation Of SlO0, 900 annually for
tho establishment of line of steamers.
Howard, from a select Committee, re-
ported q resolution relative to the ad-
mission of spectators to the galleries
during the impeachment trial, the num-
Der of tickets to be used to be fixed at
900. The resolution was adopted.
After the Executive session the Diplo-
matte Appropriation bill passed. The
mission to Portugal was allowed to re-
main in tho bill and also an appropria-
ton was inserted providing for Consuls
at Osaca and Yeddo with q salary Of
So, 900 to each. The mission to BOLIVIA
and Ecuador were allowed to remain.
WASHINGTON, March l0-House.-In
the House, Logan alluded to q fact
which created considerable stir. He
said that recently tho Superintendent Of
the Treasury Printing Bureau, Clark,
had obtained tho certificate Of three
other officials of the Treasury to the
destruction in their presence Of cancelled
bonds to the amount of Sl8,G40, 900,
while in fact no such bonds wero de-
stroyed, and what were supposed to be
such bonds were nothing moro than
blank paper. This he had been told by
Clark himself. He had not believed the
statement, and had gone to sec General
Spinner, tho Treasurer. General Spin
ner told him that it was all wrong +; that
there ought to DO some explanation Of
it. He General Spinnsr) did not know
how it was, but supposed it must have
been done satisfactorily. He said IL ho
had known the fact at the timo he would
not have allowed it to be done.
Price said this was IN alarming de-
claration, and he wished to have some
moro particulars. He wished the gcn-
tlemen from Illinois to stato whether the
certificates showed tho numbers and
dates and the denominations Of the bonds
represented as destroyed.
Logan replied that tho certificates in
question showed precisely the same
character Of facts and figures as nll
other similar certificates in the Treasury.
Raum inquired what became of the
bonds.
Logan said he did not know and did
not pretend to be able to explain 1t. Hc
also stated that he had information that
rebel officers had been appointed in the
State Of Georgia in connection with the
Internal Revenue, and were drawing
pay, and from whose official oaths the
material part had been scratched out
with a pen.