Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-27
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morning, upOu luc SuOtcCb II Is To
ported, of Warmers removal from
the office of Collector, and in case he il
removed, he is to be offered the Com
missiOnership Of Indian Affairs.
NATIONAL BANK TAX.
Nearly all of the National banks
have sent in their semi-annual pay
ment Of tax of dividend circulation,
etc. By law all these taxes must be
paid by the first OF August. Cash in
crease in the Treasury from this
source will be about two million five
hundred thousand dollars.
REPORT ON THE TARIFF.
The report on tariff has just been
prepared at the Bureau of Statistics,
and contains sixty-five acts relating to
tariff. These are 80 digested that each
house has all the articles enumerated
and arranged in alphabetical order,
the progress Of legislation shown in q
series of tables, and the arrangement
of the tables will show at a glance the
tariff history and every article that
was first introduced in the law and
subsequently, amended. There were
few enumeratiens in the early tariff
law commencing in 1889, never ex-
ceeding two hundred, while the in
present law they amount to over tif-
teen hundred.
STATE AND MUNICIPAL TAX ON Ma
TIONAL BANKS.
An important question has arisen
respecting State and municipal taxes
on the capital of bank officers of the
banks in Louisiana. They have writ
ten to Secretary Boutwell,, stating that
the city authorities where the banks
are located have assessed three mills
on the dollar OF their capital. They
claim exemption from the payment of
this tax, on the ground that their cap
itaI is represented by bonds of the
funded loan and are, consequently,
exempt from taxation. The matter
has been referred to the Attorney
General, and his decision will set at
rest the numerous inquiries upon the
subject which are daily received at
the Treasury.
THE MERCHANTS DISPATCH TRANS
PoRTATIoN COMPANY.
The Secretary of the Treasury yes
terday approved the application Of
the Merchants Dispatch TranspOrta-
ton Company, and has forwarded
bonds to New York for execution.
This company is the first and only
line yet bonded under the act of July
IA, 1870, for the immediate transpor-
tation of merchandise to the West, in
bond, without appraisement or ex-
animation at the port of arrival.
NOTORIOUS BULLOCK ARRESTED.
r. II. Bullock, the notorious fOrger,
who escaped from Rockford, H., a
week ago, was arrested yesterday at
the Pension Bureau, where he ap-
peared and claimed about a years
pension due him.
KU-KLUX INVESTIGATION.
General A. R. Wright was before
the Ku-KIux Committee to-day. He
said he was a practicing lawyer and
one of the editors of the Chronicle and
in Augusta, Ga. He further
testified that the people of that State
were peaceful and IaW-abiding, and
the laws are as fully enforced as they
we're before the war. The witness
said his law practice extended to ten
counties, and from his personal obser-
walton and knowledge of the State, he
could say that the negroes enjoyed all
the privileges in courts accorded to
the whites, and in fact the juries
seemed to lean no little toward the
negro, from apprehension that they
might be suspected Of doing injustice
to them. In reply to the question
whether he knew of white men hav-
ing committed Otfenses against the ne
grOes, he said he prosecuted one for
a negro and convicted
him Of manslaughter, and he
for the full term
by law. In the same
court in the same county, white
man, charged with the murder
Of negro, was found guilty, and sem
fenced to be hanged on the first Fri
day in September. While these two
trials were in progress, twelve white
citizens of Washington county were
under the Ku-Klux law, car
RED one hundred miles, and tried by
The United States Commissioners for
assault and battery on negroes. They
we're kept in jail several days, but on
an investigation before Gen. SWayne
and a carpet-bagger named Lee,
hey were acquitted. Witness said he
mad no reason to believe there was
any organized band of Ku-Klux in
Georgia for political purposes, nor had
ne ever heard of any. He, however,
Knew of a band of marauders,
ike Murrell's gang, that eX-
ended through a part of the
counties OF the district in which
le lived, and two white men, in
Washington county, suspected as be-
onging to a band, a man named
Noes, who killed negro, were found
yuilty, but pardOned by President
Johnson. This same man, not long
lgo, killed a man, was tried, found |
,uilty and sentenced to be executed |
N the 4th of August. Governor Bull |
ock reprieved him, and his friends |
aid, in order to have him pardoned,
was necessary to make some ar
In answer TO q Question |
s to the nature of the arrangements,
witness replied that they involved the
aising a sufficient amount of money /
n furtheranee of these designs.
Having been asked what effect the
listranc chisement under the Four
eenth amendment had on the public /
mind, he replied that it was the cause
# complaint among the people against
he Government. The people MUIR
nured because men heretofore ac-
ustomed to the conduct of public
fairs were kept out Of office while
heir lOrmer slaves were now law
makers, If the disabilities of the
,eople were removed and they al
owed to select their best men for
,ublic offices there would be no cause
4 complaint against the Government. |
The relations between the white and
lack races are perfectly har-
noni2us; the negroes have been
either cheated nor sYindled,
,ut fairly treated; difficulties fre-
uently arise because the negroes
ould not tell in calculating the crops
whether one-tenth or one-third was
he most, and frequently arbitrators
we're called in to determine the ques-
ion for them. The witness having
cen asked whether he knew OF any
ersons having been whipped by dis.
uised men, said a white man named
ferguson was seized by band of ne
roes, stripped and nearly whipped
D death; negro man was prosecuted
)r living in adultery with a white wo-
nan. tried and convicted, but was
ardoned by Governor Bullock; and |
nat the frequency OF pardOns had
reduced much mischief; a little
lille after the above conviction,
,hite man was convicted for living |
] adultery with negro woman,
ut through the efforts OF Governor
iullock's prosecuting officer, the
lap was discharged on technical
eject in the proceedings. The citi-
ems whipped the white man and ne
ro woman who had been living in
name: there were no politics in these
ccurrences. The people resorted to
lch punishments because OF the mis-