The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-06-04
Reduction Of Income Tax passed
the House--Minister to Turkey
--Fanding the Debt--How-
ard Investigation - The
Georgia Bill--Schenck
and Tariff.-Immi-
grants.
YACHT RACE
Apprehe ension Of Fenians In Eng
land.
II II w YOR X.
Persecution Of Lottery Swindlers.
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Persecution Of Lottery Swindlers
Market Reports.

WASHINGTON, June 4-The House, by .
large vote, has agreed to exempt two thous-
and dollars of all incomes from taxation,
cent. 1t is thought the Senate will concur
in this.
On motion to strike out all the section OF
the tax bill, relative to the tax on incomes
the yeas we're SO, and noes 1913, so that the
tax as agreed upon this morning remains.
The President has nominated Wayne Nc.
Weigh, of Pennsylvsnis, to be Minister
resident at Constantinople, Turkey, in place
of E. J. Morris
Mr.. Van Dyck, of New York, was before
the Banking and Currency Committee to
day, with plan for funding the debt. He
proposes that long per cent bond be
issued, and that all parties depositing this
bond with the treasurer will be entitled to
have issued to them 90 per cent. of its face
In currency, for banking purposes. This
Is an old scheme, proposed some time ago
by Gen. Butler.
The agent of the American Tract Society
of New York WAS before the Howard " ood
freedmen s-bureau Investigation Committee
to-day, snd it is said he testified to large
amounts of money having been paid by
General Howard out of Freedmens Bure 81
funds TO the Tract Society.
delegation of lawyers was before the
Appropriation Committee, to day, asking
thst clause in the Legislative Appropris
ton bill, which prohibits ex rebels from
prosecuting suits in the Court of Claims
against the government, be stricken ou,
The clause IN question provides that no
person except such q. can take the nclad
oath shall be allowed to prosecute Q claim
IN this court against the government. The
committee declined to strike it out.
The Reconstruction Committee has in
structed General Butler to report the Geor.
gis bill Immediately, with q new smendm en-,
providing that the election shall be held in
Georgia this fall. 1t is thought that this
will disarm all opposition to it on the part
of Republicans in both Houses
Schenck's tariff amendment to the tax
bill, in addition to the free list OF the origin
O. tariff bill, provides for tax of 81 per ton
on pig iron, and one half cent per pound on
steel rails, including Bessamer rails. All
articles included in the amendment are
taxed at the same rate as in the Tariff bill
originally reported by the Ways and Means
Committee.
The House, by vote of les to AZ, has
refused TO adopt the amendment taxing
government bonds.
New YORK, June ga brigade Of the
National Guard of New Y York, State militia,
consisting OF the 18th, 9th, Colonel Fisk. }
31th and 18th regiments, psrRded at the
Parade ground yesterday, and in the after
noon paraded through the streets of Brook
lyn and New York, exciting general atten-
ton and commsndRtion.
There were no steamers discharglng
passengers at Castle Garden yesterday
except the France, which was reported on
Wednesday. There have been l0,5
immigrants landed at the depot within the
pas. four days, and the number is almost
unprecedented in the average of that depot
On Wednesday, the baggage of l,O20 was
weighed and checked. There are 700
Scandinavians on the France, and this class
of immigrants has become quite numerous
The sufferers by the dreadful railroad
calauity of Tuesday, at Patterson, n. j.,
remain in about the same condition as or
Wednesday Those who have no families
have been removed to their own homes
Horung and Blskeney are almost mo-
mentarily expected to die from their in
juries.
Commissioner Delsno decides that the
managers of lotteries are liable to . tax o
) per cent. Oh sales of tickets and policie.
| to dealers who have not paid the special tax
and for whom bonds have not been given
| de also decides that the dealers are tn,
agents of managers. Among the lottery
dealers arreited yesterday on charge o
doing business without license, Wer'
Alderman Chas McBriep, Wm. Parsons
! David Limo, John Mcintire and Richar'
Marshall. The accused we're held to bal
| before Commissioner Shields. 1t appear
to be the determination of the govern men
| officers to kill the trade by arresting Gil o
whom they can lay their hands.
The steamship Columbus, from Hsvani
via Nassau, has arrived.
LIVERPOOL, June 4.-Twenty one thou'
and emigrants, mainly Irish, left this city fo
America during May. Nine teushs went
New York.
! DUBLIN, June 4.-The final passage OF tn
land bill il regarded favorably BY the Iris
press generally. Some papers are Juoiiar
over the success Of the measure.
LoxDoN, June 4.-The New York yacht
and those of the Royal Thames yacht elu
will compete on the 18Th of this month fe
the Dakerton cup. The course viii be fro'
Dover, England, to Boulogne, France, an
back. :,
There Is apprehension in regard to th
movements of the Fenisns in England. A
: consequence, orders have been issued
double the guards at ell the dock yards
the naval stations in Great Britain, to kee
fires banked in all the steamers, and oths
J precautions calculated to facilitate the su
preston of any revolt.