Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-23

. SENATE. 9
| WASHINGTON, June 22.-Mr. Sum
ner, from the Committee OF
Foreign Relations, reported favor
ably upon the bill to facilitate tele
graphic communication between the
United States and the Bermudas
Islands. Also, bill authorizing &
direct submarine cable from the Uni
ted States TO Belgium.
Mr.. Williams reported, with amend.
ment, bill relative to the unlawful
certifcation of checks by officers oi
banks.
Mr.. Nye called up the bill amend
ing the act granting lands in aid ofthe
construction of a railroad and tele-
graph line from the States of Missou-
| ri and Arkansas to the Pacific coast by
the Southern route. The bsll is Known
as e6Ae Atlantic and Pacific railroad
bill, and extends the time for the con-
structiOn of the road so as to obtain
the right of way through the Indian
Territory. The bill was discussed
and laid over. 1871 &#H
Mr.. Sherman called up the bill to
reduce internal taxes, etc.
Amendments of the Senate Finance
Committee were read, and the propo-
sitiOn of the committee to strike out
the first thiFty-four sections, imposing
special taxes, was agreed to. -
Mr.. Sherman explained that the
House has provided for keeping up a
portion of the special taxes, while the
Senate Committee proposes to repeal
all Of them, except on spirits, tobacco
and beer.
The next three sections of the bill
inserted by the Committee in lieu of
the part stricken out, were read.
They provide for the repeal, after May
l, 1871, of all special taxes except
those upon brewers, distilled spirits
and tobacco. Also that the several
taxes on sales be repealed, except such
as are now by law paid by stamps.
Also repeating the tax on sales of leaf
and manufactured tobacco, snuff,
cigars, and foreign and domestic dis
titled spirits. Also repeating the
tax on articles in schedule A,
and a special tax on boats, barges and
flats, on legacies and SUGGESTIONS, on
passports and on gross receipts. The
lllICO 6CCNAOllo W lCpCtillllS dl-
ter October 1st, 1870, the stamp tax
imposed in schedule B on promissory
notes for less sum than one hundred
dollars, on receipts for any sum of
money or in payment of any debt;
and also stamp tax imposed on sched-
ule G on canned and preserved
fish. Further, that no stamp
shall lye required upon transfer
or assignment of a mortgage except
made upon a sale thereof, or when
transferred as collateral security; also,
that commissions shall be allowed in
the purchase Of proprietary stamps. 1t
also allows the removal of lucifier
or friction matches, cigar lights and
wax tapers from the place of manufac-
ture for foreign expectation without
payment of tax or afixing stamp,
subject to the regulations of the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue.
Mr.. Sherman offered a new section
which, as amended by Mr.. Sawyer,
was adopted, extending the time
within which stamps may be affixed
to instruments in writing, requiring
stamps and executed in the late re-
belliOus States, until June lst, 1872,
and making the penalty double the
amount of tax, and in no case less
than five dollars. The income tax sec
tiOns were then discussed.
HOUSE.
The bill authorizing the cOnstruc-
ton of a bridge across the Missouri
river, at Omaha and Council Bluffs,
passed, with an amendment requiring
the construction spans to be thirty
feet in width.
Mr.. Wilson, of Minnesota, from
the Committee on Public Lands,
a bill authorizing the claim
of the State OF Minnesota for lands for
the support of the State University.
1t was passed by vote SO to Td.
Mr.. Schenck, from the Committee
on Ways and Means, reported a bill
to organize the department of inter-
nal revenue, and regulate the .collec-
tion of taxes, and moved that it be
printed and made the special order
for Wednesday next.
The bill changes the Bureau of In
ternaI Revenue into a Department, a
to be at its head at
$1,000 per annum; also to be an assist
ant commissioner, with a salary of
$500; five heads of divisions, with
of $4,000; ninety-five male and
fifty female clerks-twenty-fiV .su-
pervisors, with salaries of $1,000, and
supervisors not exceeding
twenty-five, at not over eight dollars
per day.
The bill also provides for revenue
gaugers, assessors and collectors. The
number of assistant assessors en-
ployed shall be permanently reduced
by discharge, also all officers assigned
specially to the assessment of any
taxes which have been abolished by
law. The Commissioner iP further
required to reduce the number of
assessors in proportion
to any reduction of service or. of as
sessmenis which have been made or
may hereafter be made, by the vepeal
of any portion of the internal tax
bill; it reduces the employees about
one third and repudiates entirely the
system Of infOrmers, spies, moities,
ETC., etc.
Mr.. Schenck's motion to agree to
the bill to pay the European and
North American Company $67S, 1862,
interest due to Massachusetts and
Maine, on money expended in the
war of 1872, was discussed and passed
by vote of 10l to 81.
Mr.. Van Horn introduced a bill to
aid the construction of q narrow
gauge mountain line railroad from a
point on the Union Pacific Railroad,
near Echo, to the mouth of Cotton
wood Canyon, in Utah. Relerred.
Mr.. Poland, from the select COM
mittee on the resolution for the expul-
sion from the reporters gallery of w.
Scott Smith, correspondent OF the
New York EUeniRg Post, made a re-
port, and asked that il be printed and
resolution laid on the table; so
ordered.
The House, on motion of Mr..
proceeded with the business
on the Speakers table, and disposed
thereof as follows: Et%T Ts*1
A message from the Senate request
ing a conference committee on the
currency bill, was agreed to.
The veto of the President of the bill
for the renewal of patent to Rollin
White for an Improvement in pistols
was presented. The discussion which
took place on the veto was partici-
pated in by Messrs. Wood, Latin,
Hoar and Kellog in support of the