Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-01-25
Radical Schemes i'm the South
Ben Butler and Georgia
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The Income and Tobacco Tax
Negro Ku-kIuX i'm Kentucky
WASHINGTON.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Income Tax.

ton to abolish the income tax is the
special order of the Senate TO-DAY. and
those who have csnvassed that body as
sert it is sure to pass through. Some
time may be spent in debate on ii. The
question is also sure to come up in the
House before the close of the session. AZ
resolution, presented by Mr.. kellogg
early this month, and passed, requires the
Ways and Means Committee to investigate
the matter and report bill in pursuance
of this resolution. Mr.. PIeasanton. be-
fore the committee last week, seems TO
nave settled that this tax will be disposed
of this session.
The Committee on Ways and Means
held long session this morning on the
subject of income tax. Gen. Pleasantou
submitted letter for its abandonment
without any specific means The com
mittee retained the letter requesting him
10 enter more fully into the matter to
show what reduction would be effected
in income and what expenses might be
saved if the entire income tax was aban-
doned. A rumor says that there is no
immediate prospect for the abandonment
of the tax. -
EIVO Reconstruct West Point.
The sub Military Committee have been
directed to proceed 70 West Point to in
vestigste the facts connected with the
lynch law proceeding of certain persons
of the first class who al midnight took
three young cadets from their beds and
forced them to fly from the academy.
Another Land Grab = IS.OOO.OOO
Acres.
Notwithstanding the approaching ses-
sion, and the evident hostility of the
House TO such measures, there is no abate-
ment in the steady flow of laud grant and
subsidy schemes. Among the usual Mon
day morning batch of bills introduced
yesterday, were five land grant measures.
One proposes to make larger grab than !
any bill presented during the present Con-
gress. This is the bill introduced by Mr. |
Price, of Georgia, to give 10000, 900
acres in aid of the construction of an |
Atlantic and Great Western Canal, to con-
meet the waters of the Tennessee river |
with the CoOsa river, and give water |
transportation to the Gulf of Mexico by |
way of that river and the Alabama and |
Slso TO connect the Tennessee with the |
Chattahoochie and Ocmulgee rivers, and |
open communication with the Atlantic |
seaboard. The bill is deliberately drawn, |
and its authors no doubt expect its pass |
age promptly.
Another bill by Mr.. Williams, of Indi- |
ana, proposes 10 give a Commercial and |
Manufacturing Association of Stielacom, |
Washington Territory, 1000, 600 acres of |
land to enable them to establish wharf |
and ship yard for the benefit of commerce
in general and the association in partic- |
ular.
Mr.. Csvanaugh, of Montana, presented |
bill TO give the usual land grant of |
twenty sections per mile to a railroad |
from Cheyenne to Helena, Montana.
Bills were also presented to grant l. |
900, 900 acres of land in North Carolina,
and $50, 900 acres in Virginia for educa-
tiOnal purposes. If all the land bills in |
troduced yesterday pass, about Is, 900, 900 /
acres will be taken from the public do /
main, or more tdan enough for hundred /
thousand hOmesteads of one hundred and |
sixty acres each.
Tobacco Duties.
Commissioner Pleasanton has recon-
mended to Congress the passage of bill
extending the tD5acco warehouse receiv-
ing syste II, so qs to give dealers in the
South equal facilities with the seaboard
cities. A large delegation of dealers from
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Virginia, leading dealers of the country,
approved the recommendation. The law
at present in force discriminates very
largely in favor of ports of entry. The
Commissioner assured the delegation that
the renewed changes in the regulations
requiring the afixing of an export stamp
on packages of tobacco entered for export
should not be enforced at present.
The Next House.
There are no developments regarding
the organization of the next House. No
candidates for Speaker OF Clerk have been
announced in opposition to the present in
cumbent Gen. Paine, of Wisconsin,
who lie now a member, will go before the /
Republican caucus for the Office of Sell
gesnt-at Arms, while L strife over the !
position of Postmaster is already evident. /
There is no doubt that the +2d Congress
will meet March "A
Programme for Carrying the south
ern states for the Radicals.
The special Senate Committee on the |
South have summoned the Governors of |
North Carolina and South Carolina. 1t |
is proposed to investigate these two |
States to commence with. The Con- |
servative men of North Carolina intend |
TO be heard before this committee, and |
will be able TO show from indubitable |
proof that many late Outrages in that |
State have been committed by cOlored |
and white members of the Republican |
leagues organized into pillaging and barn |
burning parties. They will not deny that |
there are Outrsges committed on both |
E&es, but they attribute them almost |
wholly to secret political organizations.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial
The committee appointed under the |
provisions Of Senator Morton's resolution |
TO investigate the truth of the alleged out |
RACES and disturbances in the South, will |
make report in due time, which will be |
made the basis of legislative action in |
tended to relieve the condition and answer |
the complaints of the sO-called Southern |
loyalists now here, who declare that with |
out the interference of Congress, they |
can not live in safety in the South, and |
that the future of the Republican party |
in that section will be doubtful indeed. |
They say, in short, that unless Congress ]
does something for their protection, they |
can not maintain even the semblance of |
an organization in some localities, while |
in others their efforts to overcome the ex- |
ertions Of the late Rebel element will be |
useless. Some of them openly urge that
North Carolina and Georgia be deprived |
of the privilege of voting for President |
in 1872 but the majority of them having |
listened to the advice of Senator Morton
and others of his ilk, who think that
such a course would ruin tie Republican
party in the North, have agreed to abide
by milder measures, which, however,
will find an excuse for the enactment in
the report of the above mentioned COM
mittee.
The proposition which now finds the
most favor with them is modification of
Mir. Churchill's bill, now pending before
the House Judiciary Committee, which is
virtually an am n3mcut to the enforce
ment act, 50 tia. d, r visions shall be
applicable rot only to cities and pOpulous
preCinC's, but TO the whole South, no
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