The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-16
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES.
From Washington.

MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES.
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, June 13, P. M-HoUsE.-A
Bill relieving Samuel Carter, of Texas, as q
Bureau functionary, passed.
Logan gave notice that he would, on Monday,
move Committee to locate the Capitol else
. where, in consequence of the disloyal feeling
among the people of Washington
Julian introduced Bill, relative to lands in
the "rebel" States, sold nor Federal taxes
Referred to the Committee on Public Lands.
The Tax Bill was resumed. An amendment,
taxing Bank circulation one per cent. per annum,
passed. Also one-fourth of one per cent per
! month on Government deposits in Banks. An
amendment exempting Sayings Banks was strick-
en- out. An amendment taxing United States
bonds, held by Banks, two per cent, was lost
25 to rs.
The Insurance tax was extended to Life Insu-
rance.
Telegraphs are taxed three per cent on gross
receipts. Express Companies two and half per
cent.
SENATE One hundred and twenty-six citizens
of Colorado protest against admission-the pop
ulation being too sparse and the persons claiming
Senatorship not being the choice of the people.
A bill amending the act of 1904 declaring
crimes mentioned in that act not punishable, un
less the person indicted within five years of
the offence, passed.
The Washington election was discussed all day,
and the bill passed which,, in effect, seats Bowen
and gives the Republicans a majority on joint
ballot.
The Senate then went into Executive Session
and adjourned.
Secretary McCulloch responds to Commits
sioner Rollins, whose resignation is again re-
turned:
"This communication is partial, because it at
tributes the present deranged condition OF the
Internal Revenue service to the removals and
appointments mode by the President; while it
must be clear to the mind of the Commissioner
that this decentralization is attributable, in part
to the antagonism between the executive and
legislative branches of the government, which
has prevented harmony of action between them
in regard to appointments and to the tenure of
Office act, but mainly to the high duties upon
distilled liquors, tobacco, &C., which have
Great ed an Irresistible temptation to fraud, on
the part of revenue effcers, as we'll as on the
part of manufacturers. dealers and others.
1t is stated that the numerous recommends
| tions of the Commissioner for removals ofAsses-
sors and Collectors, even for the grossest mis-
conduct, had been almost always disregarded,
while the truth is that, in all cases in which re-
| commentators for removals were accompanied
| by evidence of incompetency or misconduct on
| the part of the officers, the recommendations
were promptly responded to by the President.
1t is unjust and disrespectful to the President,
because the records of the Bureau show, that the
falling off OF the revenues, in the Districts in
which removals were made by the President, in
1866, was not comparatively greater than in the
Districts in which no changes took place; that,
in fact, the revenues of the fiscal year, ending
June 80, 1867, during which the removals were
made, were entirely satisfactory, coming up very
closely to the liberal estimates fthe department
while the decentralization of the service and the
decline of the revenue have chiefly occurred
| during the present fiscal year, long after the
officers removed by the President had been rein
| stated or others, whose nominations had been
approved by the Senate, had taken the places of
| the appointees of the President.
1t was for these reasons, and no other, that the
| communication could not be received and was
| returned to the Commissioner. The return of it
is also justified by the fact that copies of it
| sent to the press, before it handed to the
| Secretary
1t must, therefore, have been intended for the
public, rather than for the files of the Depart
ment.
GSigned1 HUGH McCULLOCH,
Secretary Of the Treasury.
The Senate refused to sustain the Presidents
| suspension of William James, Internal Revenue
| Collector at Richmond, Virginia.
| This action reinstates James and Gusts Gen.
! Milford. Indictments are said to be pending
| against James, which the Treasury Department
| will now push.
The Mayor ad interim called the Council to-
gether, to day. Finding the chambers locked
| they met in the adjoining building, and passed
resolution, requiring the officers of the Bank
| where corporation funds are kept, to honor nc
| drafts at present.
From Florida.
TALLAHASSEE June Is, P. Mt is stated that
Harrison Reed, the Republican Governor, has
been sworn into office and delivered his inaugural
address. The Legislature attempted to meet but
had no quorum.
The military authorities insisted that the re
organizers should wait till Congress had passed
the Omnibus bill.
Gov. Reed was sworn in by Judge Boynton, Of
the United States Court.
His inaugural was brief.
The Legislature stands: Senate, Republicans
16, Democrats 8; House, Republicans 81, Demo
Gratis 15
A Federal soldier was stabbed bya colored mar
last night, and reported dead. He is still alive,
with hopes of recovery.
Markets.
NEW YORK, June 13, P. M.-Cotton a shade
lower. Sales of 500 bales at 2S15@29. Turpen
tine 46@4e11.