The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-26
HOUSE.

Mr.. Banks, on behalf of Mr.. Shella
barger, introduced bill to provide toi
| the removal of the remains of Nr. Cog.
geshall, late Minister Of the United
States. Referred to the House commit
tee on Foreign Affairs.
Mr.. Ingersoll asked leave to offer
resolution reciting that the scarcity OF
notes of small denomination, aud re-
questing the Secretary of the Treasury
to issue United States notes OF the de
nominations of one and two, sufficient
to supply the deficiency.
Objection being made, Mr.. lngersoll
withdrew the resolution saying that he
would offer the same when his State was
called for resolutions.
The House proceeded to consider the
Senate amendments to the House bill to
exempt certain manufactures from in
ternal tax.
The report of the committee on Ways
and Means was read and its recon-
mendations explained by Mr.. Schenck.
He closed by moving the previous ques-
ton, promising that the honr which
would be left him to closethe discussion
he would yield to gentlemen who de-
sired to speak.
The previous question vas seconded
and the hour to which Mr.. Schenck was
entitled to close the discussion
he parcelled out to all members who
desired to speak on the amendment.
Mr.. Schofield appealed to the House
to concur with the Senate in the first
amendment, reducing the tax on petrO-
leum. He would as soon vote for tax
ing spelling books as for taxing the
light by which the poor boy studied
his spelling book at night.
The subject was discussed in sim
liar sense by Messrs. Spalding, Hubbard,
of West Virginia, Banks, Moorehead,
Judd, Ingersoll and others.
Messrs. Niblack and Pike spoke on
opposite sides relative to the Senate
amendment concerning the tax on ma
chinery under contracts with the Gov
eminent.
Mr.. Ingersoll favored the removal of
the tax from coal oil and putting it on
benzine and naptha, which are the ex-
plosive ingredients in the poor mans
light and which make it really the poor
mans murderer.
MI. SCnCnCh bhOSN NA
plosive materials ought 20 be taxed out
of existence, and the general bill would
take care of them, but the Senate's
amendment did not touch that difficulty
and therefore the greater reason for re-
iecting it and leaving tho whole matter
open.
Mr.. Garfield spoke in references to the
provision for tax on sale. He preferred
an amendment of the Senate to that
proposed by the committee on Ways
and Means to the various objections
made to the bill. He defended the
proposition of the committee, saying
that the committee proposed in its gem
eral bill to tax all manufacturers on
their sales. Mr.. Garfield thought that
was the reason why the whole matter
should be RENTED to the general bill.
After short speeches from MesSrs.
Allison, Kelley, Dawes and Maynard,
Mr.. Allison yielded the floor aud the
discussion was closed by Mr.. Schenck,
who declared that the committee on
Ways and Means had made its recon-
mendations after full, thorough and
earnest consideration.
The House concurred with the Senate
in the amendment reducing the tax on
coal oil onchalf.
1t now cOncuued in the Senate's
amendment as TO tax on machinery con-
tracted for 10y the Government. 1t
agreed to the proposition of the COM
mittee on Ways aud Means in reference
to tax on sales. The amendment re-
ported by the committee on Ways and
additional Sn.tinn rnf-
erence to whisky frauds. Agreed. The
bill then pass d.
Adjourned.