Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-28

postponed on motion of EIr Hamilton
OF Maryland. The Invalid Pension
Appropria ion bill was passed, after the
clause providing that the Navy Pension
fund should be paid into the Treasury
had been stricken out. The bill to pre-
vent the collection of an illegal tax, pas
sengers (Which is intended to relieve
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from
the suit ordered by the recent Legisla-
ture of Maryland) was taken up and
postponed on account of the absence of
Mr.. Vickers, and the Senate adjourned
until Monday.
HOUsE.-The session was occupied in
the consideration OF the Tariff bill. Mr..
Buffers amendment to the paragraph
relating to scrap iron, to make the
proviso read "that nothing shall be
deemed scrap iron except waste or refuse
iron that has been in actual use, or tt
only to beimanufactured," was rejected,
as also a proposition of Mr.. Cake, of
Pennsylvania, to impose an additional
duty of ten per cent, ad valorem on all
kinds of manufactured scrap iron. On
motion of MIR. Brooks, the duty of one
cent per pound on ends, clippings and
punchings of new iron, was stricken out.
An amendment proposed by Mr.. Allison
of Iowa, fixing the duty on iron in slabs,
blooms, etc., at SIS per ton, instead of
one cent per pound, as proposed by the
Committee of Ways and Means, was
agreed to. Mr. Butler then offered
amendment providing that on all ends,
clippings, punchings, bronZes and
moulds of new iron, to be used only for
the manufacture of ingots and bars, a
duty shall be imposed of S1l per ton. A
recess was taken until Z 2. NJ, but a
quorum was not present, and the House
adjourned.
SENATE, Saturday, April 23.-The
Senate was not in session.
HoUSE.-E. ID. Peck was sworn in as
member from the Tenth Ohio District.
Indefinite leaves of absence were de-
clared to expire on May I'd. Mr.. Schenck
reported back the Senate amendment
to the income tax bill, recommending
non-concurrence, and the House refused
to concur. Mr.. Schenck, during the
discussion, opposed abolishing the tax,
but favored a reduction with increased
exemptions. The total number of per
SONS who paid income tax was 272, $40;
of this number over 107 900 paid $40 or
less, and if the exemption were raised to
s., 600, that class would be cut off. The
second class that paid betweerf $50 and
$50, numbers 6S, 1S4; the third class that
paid between 50and 500, number Al
1876; the fourth class that paid between
500 and $500, numbered over 1900,
and those who paid over $500 numbered
7,464. Messrs. Voorhees,, Corbun, ,J udd ,
Me Crary, and Farnsworth opposed the
abolition of the tax. Adjourned.
SENATE, Monday, April 2o--Mr.
Sherman presented petition of the
Common Council of Cincinnati for the
completion and enlargement of the
Louisville Canal. A bill was reported
for tire enforcement of the 18th Amend
ment. The Senate insisted on its amend
ments TO the Income bill, and appoint
ed conference committees on it and the
Census bill. Bills were passed allowing
three years the time for consolidating
the statistics of the United States, being
a substitute for the House bill; giving
priority in the Courts of the United
States to case to which State is party,
or where the execution of the revenue
laws of aState may be stayed by judicial
process; specifying the regulations for
the foregn and coasting trade on the
Northern, Northeastern aud North
western frontiers. A large number of
private bills were also passed and the
Senate adjourned.
HOUSEHOLDS were luGTOuuceu W
charter the American G Holland Ocean
Cable Company; for the relief of the
people of tie United States by reducing
taxation, providing that on the 3nth of
June next there shall be a reduction OF
Is per cent, on internal taxes, and ten
per cent on import duties, except on
spirits, tobacco and cigars; that no in
come after december 81, 1869, shall be
taxable, and abolishing all special
licenses, except on distillers, brewers
and manufactures of snuff and cigars; a
resolution instructing the Pension Com
mittee to allow for soldiers of the war of
1872, was passed; the members absent
without leave, Friday night, were fined
$40 each; petitition of business men
of Cleveland against the passage of the
funding bill, was presented; a joint
resolution passed to appoint COM
mission to buy, at the expense of the
Government, suitable burial place and
monument for General Rawlins; a resc-
luton was passed giving four pieces of
cannon to the Ladies' Monumental
Association, of Peoria, ILL.,; The Elec-
ton Committee reported that Michael
Ryal is not entitled to seat from the
Fourth Louisiana District, and J. p.
Newsham is; a resolution of inquiry was
adopted as to the amounts expended in
the improvement cf Boston and New
York harbors, the Delaware break
water and the mouth of the Mississippi
river. The House spent short time in
Committee discussing the tariff bill, but
nothing was done.