The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-05-17
WASHINGTON.
4 C01oRED CADET FOR VEST
POINT.

lFRox THE ASSOCIATED PREss.l
WASHINGTON, May l6
Congressman Perce, from the Fifth Missis-
sippi Congressional District, has nominated a
colored boy to West Point.
The revenue is one million and a quarter.
The new San Domingo treaty was not sent
to the Senate to-day.
There was special meeting Of the Cabinet
this afternoon; the object did not transpire.
II is stated that the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs favor subsidizing the California
and China cable half million per year for
twenty years.
The President has nominated Philip Jacob
soaattorney for the Southern District Of Mis-.
sissippi; B. Hawkins, postmaster at Bowling
Green, Kentucky.
The Secretary of State requests the Cover
nor of michigan to prevent armed expeditions
passing the Sault st. Marie Canal towards the
Red River country, without express permis-
sion from Washington.
The Freedmen's Bureau Howard-corruption
investigation is still in progress. Nothing
tangible has transpired.
The new Internal Revenue bill was reported
to-day. 1t takes taxes off nearly everything
except fermented liquors, distilled spirits, to-
bacco, cigars, stamps and incomes. The tax
on sales, except on liquor dealers, is abolish
ed; also the tax on legacies and SUGGESTIONS,
gross receipts from railroad corporations, &C.,
though the tax on receipts Of theatres and lot
teries is retained.
The income tax is fixed at five per cent,
Y with exemption Of fifteen hundred dollars, but
all nquisitorial features Of the tax are abolish
ed. The tax Oh gas, pianos. carriages, watches,
&C., Is done away with. A tax Of three per
cent. per annum is levied on all public monies
deposited in banks. The amount OF the reduc-
ton is about $ss, 100000.
The report Of the Commissioner Of Agricul-
ture considers the season 30 far favorable.
The Congressional caucus did nothing be-
yond making arrangements for appointing
Congressional committees.
SENATE.
In the Senate, a bill granting public lands in
.Alabama to the Decatur and Aberdeen Railroad
passed.
A bill to repeal all laws authorizing trans
portation and exploration Of goods, wares,
and merchandise in bond to Mexico overland,
was reported from the committee without
amendment.
It Is proposed to enforce proceedings by the
United States District Attorney in several dis
tricts, against persons holding Office who are
Ineligible under the Fourteenth amendment,
imposing, upon conviction. fine and imprison-
ment, and disqualification for Office thereafter,
also re-enacting the Civil Rights act. Dis
cussion ensued. Terry expressed the opinion
that all political disabilities Of the Southern
people would be removed in the course of two
years. Morton declared the policy favor,
and hoped the Senate bill to repeal the test
oath, might be defeated in the House.
HOUSE.
In the House The following bills were intro
duced: Granting lands to New York and Nor
felix Railroad; for Improvement Of Tombigbee
River; not to exclude women from census
marshalship; constructing a bridge across the
Ohio at Metropolis, Illinois; granting lands for
q railroad from the Mississippi to Arkansas
River, along the 35th parallel.
The House refused to order the Reconstruc-
tlon Committee to report bill for general am
nesty by vote Of 81 to 7S.
The proceedings to day were the postpone
ment of the Tariff bill until after the passage Of
all the appropriation bills, which is equivalent
to an indefinite postponement.
hbill reported from the Judiciary Commit
tee to protect the colored population in the
exercise of suffrage, and providing pains and
penalties against any State ondcers or indi-
vidual citizens who attempt to prevent the
exercise OF that right, was passed. The usual
large number Of billB were reported and re-
ferred.
The Internal Tax bill will come IN for action
early next week, and reduces taxation by
thirty-three millions.
DEATH OF an EI-PRESIDENT OF