New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-05-20
WASHINGTON.
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AWARD OF ENVELOPE CONTRACTS.
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AGE-POsTAL TREATY WITH ECUADOR
AWARD OF ENVELOPE CONTRACTS.
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WASHINGTON, Friday, May ~, lo'i'
Thu sena,a Judiciary Committee investigating
bether the law and precedents will allow them 10 Cd
tain mileage for the present Executive Session. Ion
troer Broadhead refuses to allow any such account Oh
the ground that tho law passed when Congress sareS
were raised to 5000 per annum provides tnat inc h
age shall be the rate Of 20 cents per me
year. Senator Trumbul Is busily occupied In hunting
precedents to overthrow this. preceding iaw' SUI. u
repealed makes the Vice Presidents decision nnai anu
tits claimed that this Is not superseded by theater
law which is designed only to apply to regular sessions
The Last mileage account OF the senatewas nearly so
This includes payments maden the Georgia contesteu
cases. The amount now required would DO about *oo"
Negotiations q postal treaty with Ecuador have
lust been concluded far Government Is con-
cerned. Senior Flores the Eouadorian Minister resident
has signed the draft and forwarded the same TO his Gov
eminent for approval. Tho rate for leterpostage Is
fixed at 20 cents.
Senators Edmunds and Ramsey and Joseph II. Black
FAM Superintendent Of Foreign Mails, who were ap-
ponted Board OF Examiners TO consider the bids for
furnishing the PostOice Department. with envelopes
submitted their report the to-day,
and recommended that contracts be awarded to the fol-
lowing gentleman: Morgan Elwell & Co., Springfield,
Mass for furnishing regiseredpackage envelopes, Tor
two years. from July 1871 at t125 per 1000; Joseph
Nesbitt Of NewYor, for envelopes for OFFICIAL use Oh
Postmasters at 81 a. s. 80 $500, and ~ IS per 1000
Mr. Sherman says the Senate Committee on Finance
will be called together about Nov l, and VIII proDapiy
remain in session till the meeting of Congress- 1t Ia un
certain whether they will undertake TO revise and
codify all the revenue laws, merely suggest such
changes as they think proper. The Committee Will meet
in this city.
General Alderman, to-day heard Judge Hoar
and ex-senator Williams in relation to the claim OF the
Union Pacific for certain lands which the Central Pacific
also claim Mr. Appeared as counsel for the Union
| Pacific Secretary Boutwell, was present during the
hearing No opinion was rendered by Mr.. Alderman.
An appeal made to the Commissioner OF Internal
Revenue to-day have him reverse the decision OF the
Bureau relative 10 the question to what constitutes
an" orig nal package" The Department holds that an
importer receiving invoice Of goods not liable 10
tax ON such goods while they remain in the package In
which they are received. Upon opening package
within the Original package, the goods therein contained
are liable to q tax, which falls on the dealer. Gen.
Peasonton adheres to the ruling Of his Bureau, but Is
disposed in order accommodate the trade, to accede
TO any practical suggestions which come within the
scope OF his ruling them from the hardshps OF
which they complain.
The Commissioner OF Patents has granted TO messrs
Charming and Farmer extension Of their patent for the
ELECTROMAGNETIC re-aarm telegraph The application
for the extension opposed by all the leading cities
| the United States