Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-04-21

$4,000 and under exempt from
taxation instead of $1,000 as at
present but failed. Senator
Sherman stands forth in the Sen
ate as the auvocate of the unjust
unequal and in4uisitorial income
tax. Yet this is not surprising;
John Sherman is not gifted with
a mind capable of broad expan~
sive views, it is like his figure
marrow and contracted. That
he is not of sufficient mental cal
iber for the position he occupies,
chairman of the committee on
Finance, ia plainly evident from
the little weight he has with his
own party on his pet measures.
70 keep pace with his progress
i've friends he is handicapped
and entered on the race. 1 tear
there is too much shilly shally in
him to keep up with the reckless
demagogue Morton, the fanatic
Sumner, the assinine Thayer or
the brutal Drake. Messrs. Sum
ner, Scott, Conkling and Saw
yer, all Radicals, opposed him
tyreeerAar-Seaa+o GasserlY has
had high rank conceded to him.
He made his mark in the debate
on the Funding bill showing an
intimate knowledge on the sub
lject of. finance. His ability and
scholarly attachments have since
been displayed on other ques>
tions. His defence of the peo-
pies rights against the land
grabbing scheme of the Rail-
roads and his able speech, deliv-
cred in Executive Session, in OPP
position to the San Domingo job,
said to be the speech of the de-
bate, have begun to show the
Senate and the + country the
worth of the new Senator from
California. A few years expe-.
rience ia the Senate,awhich Lhe
Eablest require, and we shall point
with pride to the giant States
man sent as from the Golden
State. Mr.. Presser, M. @. from
Tennessee, has appointed a5ne-
gro as cadet to West Point, who
he says is thoroughly qualified
and will pass an examination
Not sc fast Mr.. Prosser, if there
is no other reason they will OBJ
jecton account of size ofhis feet,
taking for granted thath he has
true negro pedals. Among the
many cases of tyranny, on the
part ofthe Revenue Bureau, that
are daily coming to light is that
of Elias @, Boudinot, a citizen of
the Cherokee Nation, who estab-
iished a tobacco mandatory in
the Cherokee country, In 1868
after the passage of an act relat-
to liquors, tobacco, &C., Mr..
referred the question
of his right to manufacture and
sell his manufactured products
within the Indian Territory
paying tax thereon, to
Mr.. Rollins, at that time Conn
of Internal Revenue,
and Mr.. Rollins decided that the
tax could not be collected upon
tobacco manufactured in the In
dian country so long as it. re-
SIM said country. This
decision was based on the treaty
1856 with the Cherokee Ma
ton. When Mr.. Delano succees
ded Mr.. Rollins, Mr. Boudinot
him the same question and
he said that o0ithont reference to
existing treaties 1t lOas apparent
on the face of the statute itsef that
Congress did not Intend to apply
the reUeuue laos to the Indian
country itself, but to the articles
manufactured there and could
only apply when these m~anufac-
lures were taken out of the CheS
country. This was. in an
official letter to Boudinot and
yet after the date of the decision
Delano authorized the seizure of
his factory.S Mr.. Boudinot has
been here some time trying to
get a decision from the Attorney
General, but has been thwarted
1t every turn and after exhaust.
ng every means of getting re-
lress has put his case before !
Mr.. Delano has fail
ID on two occasions to be present
the Judiciary Committee,
notified, but with his u 5
'ual sneaking malice has tried
o prejudice the case by making
statement entirely foreign to !!
he case, snch as Mr.. Boudinot l
vas a Rebel, a member of the
Legislature and. a G
member of the Rebel Congress, 3
md other charges of like import. /,
Mr. Boudinot courts. the fullest !
INQUIRY This is a most high> !
outrage without the least .
Justification. It is near-time that
was done to arrest j
hese arbitrary acts of CoHmise
DeIano. When his tools f
ay hands on any one, no matter +
low innocent. there is no redress