New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-14
WASHINGTON.

mittee Disagree--C0nference Commit-
tee Reports ON Tax and Tariff Bills
AdOpfed--Discussions Developing the
Character of the Tax Bill.-Bill
Passed to Aid New Orleans, Baton
Rouge and vicksburg Railroad.
Indian Chiefs Peacefully Disposed.
Combinations by the Senate.
WASHINGTON, July 13.-Internal revenue
receipts to-day, $780, 900.
The steamer Plymouth after adjusting her
compass will sail for Lisbon.
The new federal officers at New York will
qualify early next week.
The amount Of Assistant Treasurer Hill
houses bond is 100000.
Captain L. H. Patterson is temporarily in
command OF the navy yard. It is thought
Admiral Smith will succeed Admiral Dahl
green.
Messrs. Jewell, of Mississippi, and John
son, of Texas, were nominated to-day for
cOnsulates. and Joseph W.. HUMPHREYS, as
collector Of customs at Richmond, Virginia
The Georgia committee can not agree;
Messrs. FarnswOrth, Hamlin and Thurman
insisting upon making an election this fall
valenadatry, upon which Messrs. Butler,
Paine and Howard take stubborn ISSUE
HOuse.-A conference committee has been
ordered on the army and civil appropriation
bills.
tax and tariff bills were adopted, and goes
to the President for his approval.
The following calls indicate its char
acter. Mr.. Sehenck said: "The Senate
having accepted the report of the con-
ference committee, it now rested with
the House whether the bill was to become
law. He said, that by calculation based
upon the receipts Of last year, the bill as it
now stood would effect reduction in the
fa of fINn fry Ho o1 hot
the House. by cOncurring in the first amend
ment of the Senate, which struck out one
half of the bill, had put it out of the power
of the committee to do anything in relation
to large class of taxes.
By adopting that amendment the House
have released the bankers and brokers from
special taxes, and Wall street, from which
millions of revenue could have been col
lected without injury to the material inter-
ests Of the country, were by that action
made free of tax. The lotteries and the
atres were also made free by another pOr-
ton of the bill, which had been stricken
out.
The conference committee were pre-
vented from providing for any security in
the printing and issuing of revenue stamps,
which amounts to 100000, 900 annually,
and for the embezzlement Of which there
was no responsibility. He felt that the
in accepting that amendment.
Mr.. Brooks, OF New York, addressed the
House: claiming that while there has been
reduction Of the duty on tea, sugar, coffee,
spices and some other articles, the duty had
been increased on large number of
articles, and was proceeding to enumerate
some of them, when he was interrupted by
Mr.. Benjamin, of Missouri, who reminded
him that the duty on hemp, an important
mr. nf had
thirty per cent.
Mr.. Brooks: Oh, well, hair pins are re-
tanned. t
Mr.. Benjamin: Yes, but hair pins do not |
grow in the soil of Wisconsin.
Mr. Brooks reviewed the bill by items,
and claimed that it had been framed in the
interest of the manufacturers, at the ex-
pense of the labOring classes. He gave no
tice that the people would not submit to the
BILL and that its speedy revision would be
demanded. Even the colOred people of the
South would soon be sufficiently educated
to understand that they are taxed on their
shOvels, their hoes, and even on their spool
of cotton.
A motion to suspend the rules, to take up
the Texas and Pacific Railroad bill, failed
by yeas IS, nays 103.
A similar motion for the Federal amnesty
bill. by vote Of 1Ol to "a.
The following is the tax bill as passed
Tax on copper of all kinds, 3 cents per
pound teas of all kinds, Is cents mOlas-
ses, 5 cents per gallon; ON tank bottom,
syrup of sugar cane juice, melada, cOncen-
trated melada and concentrated mOlasses,
1ls cents per pound on all raw or muscO-
vadO sugar not above No. Dutch standard
in color, and on syrup of sugar cane, melada
or concentrated melada and concentrated
mOlasses, la cents per pound; ON all raw or
sugar above No. Dutch
in color, and not above No.
dutch standard in color, 2 cents per pound;
on all other sugar above No. 10 dutch stand |
ard in color, and not above No. 13 dutch
in color, pa cents per pound; on all
other sugars above No. 13 dutch standard
in color and not above No. l6 dutch stand
ard in color, 23i cents per pound; on all
sugar above No 16 dutch standard in color.
and not above No 20 dutch standard i'm
color, 34 cents per pound; on all sugar
above No. 20 dutch standard in color. and
ON all refined loaf, lump, crushed, powdered
and granulated sugar, 4 cents per pound.
The bill provides that the Secretary of
the Treasury shall, by the regulations, pre-
scribe and require that samples shall be
taken by the inspectors from hogshead, box
or other package in such a manner as to
true average of the contents of |
the package, and from a sufficient number |
OF packages OF the same mark in each and |
every invoice, so that the samples on which |
the classification is made shall be fair |
average in quality of the sugar imported |
under that mark, the classification to be |
adjudged on the entire mark accordingly.
The weights of sugar imported in casks
Or boxes shall be marked distinctly by the
CustOmhOuse weighers. by scoring the
figures indelibly on each package.
Professor Roessler, of the General Land
Office, who was sent to make a geological
survey of Texas, reports on his return here
that the copper deposits in Texas are very
rich, showing sixty-two per cent OF pure
copper.
A joint resolution suspending the use OF
meters at whisky distilleries passed;
Se,,ate-Twenty thousand additional
copies of the fifteenth amendment enforce
ment bill have been ordered printed.
The report of the conference committee
on the tax and tariff bill was adopted.
A bill was introduced restoring Major
James Belger to his rank in the army.
The bill aiding the New Orleans, Baton
Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad passed.
The Senate has gone into an executive
session. |
The indications are strong that special
LEGISLATION ia over for this session