New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-14


Revenue EeceIpls-Customs and k.e v
enue Receipts Aaat Fxpendi-
tures During tbnG Period-Twelve
Months Pay 60 Widows and Orphans
of the Oneida uIsaster-The Tar III
hill up-W. LIE Frsnc's Ramie Plrnt
Invention-Ke-esia .lshlng New Or
leans Isranca Miat-PrOceedings On
the Tariff E'ii.
WASHINGTON, May 13.-Internal revenue
receipts to-day $500, 600.
In the Senate Mr.. Sumner presented a
bill appropriating $4,000 tor the relief OF
the poor OF this city.
Receipts for the quarter ending March
thirty-frst: For customs SIS, 900 600; rev
enue S3S, 600 900; miscellaneous 81, 600 600;
public lands S637 600; expenditures, civil
and miscellaneous $l3 $50 600; war SIS, SEQ,
coo: navy So 500 600; Indians and pensions
sl2, 500 600; interest $50, 600 600; bonds pur'
chased $4,000 600; redemption OF the public
debt So, 500 600.
The Senate has Instructed the Committee
on the Affairs of the District of Colum bia, to
inquire into its solvency, with view of pro.
tecting the government and citizens prop
erty.
The House bill allowing twelve months
pay to the widows aud orphans OF officers,
sailors and marines of the United States
steamship Oneida, passed.
The bill to retire Captain Dominick Lynch
to the active list OF the navy, passed; also TO
reappoint Joshua Bishop, late lieutenant
commander in the navy, to the place from
which he was dismissed.
The tariff bill was taken up, and several
paragraphs disposed of.
A bill was introduced, supplementary to
the civil rights act, to secure equal rights on
railroads, steamboats,, public conveyance g.,
hotels, licerssd theatres, houses OF public
entertainment, common schools, church in
stitutions and cemetery associations, incor-
porated by rational Or State authority also
on lures and in courts, national and State.
A bill passed to appropriate S225, goo to
construct pier at the Delaware break water.
The appropriation bill was considered
without final action.
Adjourned to Monday.
The President has revoked the Exequatur,
heretofore issued to Joaquin De Palma. re
cogniZing him as Vice Consul OF Portugal
at Savannah, Georgia.
WASHINGTON, May 13.-M. LeFranc, OF
New Orleans, is here with working model
and getting patent for his new machine.
with which it is claimed he extracts the fibre
from the green ramie plant. The machine
attracts much attention.
Mr.. kellogg, from the Committee on Com.
merce, introduced a bill III ging the govern
ment to re-establish the branch mint at
NEW OTieaL6, VI 6uIICAUCA CAC nAO
grounds to the city.
The following House proceedings are tele-
yraphed somewhat in full, not only because
they seriously affect Southern commerce,
but as an illustration OF the frivolity char
acterizing the discussions Of the tariff bill in
the House:
House-The Committee of the Whole re-
sumed its session on the tariff bill at halt
past seven, the pending paragraph being on
o,,A nn han
p!antains, shad docks, mangoes, pineapples,
grapes and coce anuts, ten per cent dd
UdlOrem, provided that no allowance shall
be made for loss by decay on the average
loss; said loss shall exceed fifty per cent Of
quantity. On motion of Mr.. Schenck the
fifty per cent loss was reduced to twenty
five per cent, and the following words were
added to the proyiso: And the allowance
thus made shall be only for the amount of
loss in excess of twenty-five per cent of the
whole quantity.' Mr.. Buckley moved to
incre .se the duty to fifteen per cent, with
special view tc the protection of the orange
groves Of the South
Mr.. Cox moved to strike out the para
graph, leaving the duty as at present, twenty
per cent, and made facetious speech in the
interest of the great body of peanut con-
sumers Of the Bowery, who had now to pay
one hundred per cent on their fayorite
fruit.
Mr. Schenck complimented Mr.. Cox on
his speech in favor Of the rising
generation, though he was not aware
that the gentleman did much himself
in that line. The only thing that
took from the speech was the fact that
there Was nothing about peanuts in the
bill. put as the speech had to be got off, the
gentleman found himself obliged TO explode
his peanut speech on oranges. (Laughter.)
IL ao1 ha% <ha oc NJ
Buckley be modified so as to make it
read, ION oranges. lemons, pineapples,
aud grapes twenty-five per cent. ad val9-
rem, and on lines, bananas, planialns,
shaddocks, mapgoes and coCoanuts ten per
cent. ad valorem.
MIR. Buckley suggested notifications.
Mr.. Cox suggested the insertion of ALI
gators, which were native production.
Mr.. Butler. of Massachuse It's, suggested
the insertion of "huckleberries.
Mr.. Schepck remarked that gentlemen
might make merry about this matter, but a
revenue of half million dollars was derived
from these fruits.
Mr.. Stevenson regretted to see the serious
Chairman of the Committee on Ways and
Means indulge in joking on this matter, and
he regretted TO see the leader of the free
trade party (Cox) desert The party and go
off down the Bowery, making jokes about
3,
was essential to the health and life of the
people. II should be put on the free lists.
Mr.. Buckley's amendment, as modified,
was agreed to; 81 to 80.
Mr.. Cox withdrew the motion to stlke out
the paragraph.
The next paragraph was on dates.
green or ripe, two cents per pound;
on Zante or other currants and prunes
and plums, two and one half cents
per pound; on raisins, figs. dried sp-
ples, dried peaches and other dried fruits,
three cents per pound. Amendments to this
paragraph were offered and rejected.
: No amendment was offered to the next
paragraph in reference to fruit juice or pre-
served fruits.
Mr.. Peters moved to increase the duty to
twenty five cents per bushel, the present
rate, and regretted that the Committee on
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