The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-05-17
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Mr. Morton declared the reconstruction
policy q fhiauTa, and hoped the Senate bill
TO repeal the test oath would be defeated IN
the House. 80 e s:5. IN II !ssa
Adjourned. u 81 Il: - itl,I 5S5ess2! !s
Various Ifelr2s. ates
W AsHINGroE, May 16.-Revenue receipts
to-day one million and q quarter.
The new San Domingo treaty was not
sent i'd to the Senate to-day.
Aspecial meeting Of the Cabinet was held
this afternoon, the object Of which Is not
stated.
Il is stated that the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs favor the substituting of the
California and China Cable Company at
half million per year for twenty years. ~.
The President has nominated Philip ia
cobson United States attorney for the
southern district Of Mississippi, and P. 3.
Hawkins postmaster at Bowling Green, KY.
| The Secretary ofState requests the Cover
nor Of Michigan to prevent the passage of
any, armed body of troops through the
sault Ste. Marie canal toward the Red river
country without express permission from
Washington.
The Investigation into the Freedmen's
Bureau Howard corruption case is still
progressing. Nothing tangible has trans
pired as yet. i'll. :
A new internal revenue bill was reported
to-day. It takes the taxes off of nearly
everything except fermented liquors, dis
titled spirits, cigars, and stamps, and tn-
comes. The tax on sales, except those of
liquor dealers, is abolished also, the tax
on legacies and successionsj gross receipts
from railroad corporations, etc., though
the tax on theatres and lotteries is retained.
The income tax is fixed at five per cent,
with an exemption Of 81 300, but all inqui-
sitorial features Of the tax law are abolished.
The tax on gas, pianos, carriages, watches,
&C., is done away with, and tax Of three
per cent. per annum is LEVIED on all public
moneys deposited In banks. a reduction
in the amount of revenue by the new bill
is about $33, 800, 900. :.
culture considers the season so far as favor
able to large crop of winter wheat.
The Grand Army of the Republic have
designated their officers to superintend the
decoration of graves of Union soldiers at
Andcrsonville, Ga, on the Both instant.
The congressional caucus did nothing be.
yond making arrangements for appointing
the congressional committees.
Major-Generals e. o. C. Ord and Philip
st. G.. Cooke have been ordered to duty by
the President according to their breyet
rank. .s
There are various stories afoat concert.
ing the Cabinet meeting to-day. One re-
port is that the San Domingo treaty was
under consideration; another makes it tia,
the Indian policy was discussed; while
others assign the discussion to the matter o.
the New York and New Orleans custom
houses. The authority of q prominent Off
cial is had for asserting that no question
| was discussed which should agitate unduly
the public mind.
General Smith left here tonight to meet
Red Cloud at Fort Fetterman, where the
latter arrived on Sunday. The party is ex
pected here In about a week. Red Leaf
| who accompanies Red Cloud, Is not thu
sanguinary chief of the brute Sioux, as ha:
been represented, but belongs to the Ogal
laks; the other is dead.
| The President, General Sherman, severa
| Cabinet officers, Mayor Bowen, Baror
| Gerolt, senator's, and representatives, at
tended celebration here to-day for laying
the cornerstone of the Stanton monument
which was done with Masonic ceremonies
Carl Schurz and Defenner, Of Texas, made
speeches. ..
The special agent list Of the Treasury
department has been re0rganized In &c
cordance with the law just approved by TIT
President. A new district is to be estab
lished on the Rio Grande, and the Depart
ment is confident of being able to proven
further infractions of the laws in that 10
cality.
| Several important seizures were reported
| to Commissioner Delano of establishment
violating the revenue laws among then
are the rcctfying house and distillery a
Charlotte, N. e., and match factory a
San Francisco.
The Senate Military Committee hay
agreed 10 report bill paying $50, 900 to tn
| company of Tennessee scouts attached t
the army of the Cumberland.
Mr.. Aver, OF Virginia, introduced in tn
| House to-day bill TO incorporate the New
York and Norfolk Airline railroad, ant
| granting lands in aid of its construction
! The bill provides that the said road shal
commence at Point Comfort, at Rarital
Bay, in New Jersey, directly opposite Ner
York, passing through the counties o
Monmouth. Ocean, Burlington, Atlantic
and Cape May, to Delaware bay; over tn
peninsula from Leeds on the southern shor
ofthe bay, extending through Sussex county
Del, Worcester county, Maryland, Accc
| mac and Northampton counties, in Virginia
to the shore Of the Chesapeake bay, q
Cape Charles, opposite to the city of MOI
| folk. - p 80
Eight hundred thousand acres of publ
| lands are given to this road by the blll-n
part of the grant to take effect until fort
miles of the road, commencing at the south
ern terminus, shall have been complete,
| and in active ODeratiOn. u ,- 80