Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03
WASHINGTON.
Report Of Commissioner OF Internal
Revenue.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-The report of
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Estates that the aggregate receipts from all
sources, exclusive of the direct tax onbonds
and the duty on the circulation and deposits
of the national banks, were, for the fiscal
year of 1871, $144,011,176. This sum in
cludes amounts refunded and all owed on
/ drawbacks, amounting to S640, 0,468.
1 The Commissioners estimate of
receipts for the current fiscal year under the
present law is Sl25, 100000. The receipts
from spirits for the fiscal year were 46,28l,-
S4S. Amount of tax received on fermented
liquors, S7,159,740. Total receipts from
tobacco for the year, $S3,57S,097, an in
crease Of two and a quarter million over
last year. The total amount of manufac-
tured tobacco as represented by the amount
of collections is los, ,828, 1868 pounds, total
number Of cigars, cheroots, etc, on which
tax was collected, 1882, ,S44,357. The in
crease is due to a recent change in the law
changing the mode of collecting on these
articles.
The Commissioner favors consolidating
| the tobacco tax at the rate of "a cents, if it
| can be done without loss to the Govern
ment, and expresses the opinion that the
present system of export bonded ware
houses can be entirely abolished, to the in
! terest of both the Government and manu-
! facturer. uwe -.
He recommends that Congress provide |
that evidence of loss of tobacco at sea salts |
/ factory to the Commissioner of Internal |
I Revenue shall have all the force ofa landing |
certificate for the purpose Of drawback. |
! The want of authority to furnish stamps |
! for condemned tobacco which is constantly |
accumulating on the hands of Government |
! officers has caused much embarrassment, |
and the Commissioner recommends that |
] Congress authorize him upon the requisi- |
! ton Of officers having custody and control |
| Of such tobacco to furnish suitable revenue !
| stamps to be attached and cancelled before |
the same is offered for sale.
| As it frequently happens that the tax is |
/ paid and stamps are lost from packages of |
| spirits by unavoidable accident without |
fault on the part of persons interested, the
| spirits being thus exposed TO seizure and |
! detention, authority is asked for TO protect |
such spirits by restamping.
Owing to Congressional omission TO !
authorize the remission of taxes on ship |
builders, he has ordered the tax to be col
lected.
He recommends that the Commissioner |
be prohibited from considering or allowing |
any claim not presented within two years |
from the time tax was paid, and that all |
claims be barred in the courts after six
years from date Of payment of tax.
$50 DefauIters.
The report concludes by stating that go |
accounts of ex-CollectorS are still open, lis
of which have been placed in the hands of |
the Attorneys 70 suits against bondsmen Of |
the delinquents.
The total amount received from comprO-
missed revenue cases for the year were /
S675, ,497. Total value of seizures, S915,- |
240.
The Horton.
The Secretary of the Treasury has au-
thorized the issue of papers to the schooner |
Horton, recently seized at Gloucester by |
the Collector of Customs, full inyestiga-
ton of the facts showing there is no reason
to deprive the owner of his necessary sailing !
papers.
Special to the Louisville Ledger.
Committees of the House.
There does not seem to be any particu-
lar excitement over the new House COM
mitteeS. 1t regarded as already settled that
Garfield will be the Chairman of the most
important-the Committee on Ways and
Means There has been rumOr lately re-
viyed that Wheeler, of New York, would
be given this position as a sort of political
reward for the late Endorsement of the ad-
ministration on the part of his State. The
eight other committees will be headed by
members of the dominant party. The only
Republican member who appears to be on
the anxious seat is the redOubtable Butler,
who is afraid that his old enemy, Blaine,
will DESTROY what little influence be has left |
in the House by putting him either at the
tail end of leading committee or else put
him off with some such obscure and insig- |
nificant position as the Craftsmanship of the
Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.
Reinstatement of Sumner.
Another conciliatory dodge on the part of
the administration this winter will be to re- |
store Senator Sumner to his old place at the
head of the Foreign Relation Committee.
1t is hoped that this movement, even though
it do not make Sumner a friend to Grant,
will at least pacify some of those disaffected !
New England districts, whose indignation
was aroused at the shabby treatment of
their fayorite Senator. Sumner is now here,
and expresses himself not ayerse to the .
thing designed as above iadicated. In .
conversation to-day he also avowed his en-
tire ignorance of the new party movement. |
He was very anxious to learn what was |
being done, and said in this connection at |
this point that he was careful not to commit |
himself either for or against it.
How to Obtain Cheap Servants.
Under the present administration a sys- !
tenn has grown up among the department |
officials of entering negro employees upon |
the payroll as laborers, and then assigning !
them to domestic service as coachmen, /
cooks, walters, and the like. When S. S.
Fisher, of Cincinnati, was Commissioner Of !
/ Patents, he used a Government employe as
coachman, and then refused to pay him
remuneration on account of these extra SER |
vices. The employe brought suit against
Fisher, and to-day obtained verdict for
$50 against the ex-Commissioner. 1t is
understood that this is a test case, and un-
! less the verdict is reversed, other suits of
similar character will be brought.
Special to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Political Disabilities.
/ Leading Conservative Republicans in and
! out of Congress and from all sections Of the
! country have urged the President in the last
! two weeks to recommend Congress to pass |
a general act removing all political disabili-
| ties imposed by the Fifteenth amendment.
! He will take adverse grounds however in |
! his message, and so far from favOring gen
! eral amnesty, will ask Congress to extend
| that feature of the Ku-KluX act, which pro
yides for the suspension of the writ of ha
! beas corpus in the South beyond the end Of
! the coming session to which it is now limited.
| II is intended to hold the martial law
! programme over the South beyond the Presi-
! Dental election. Radical members of Con-
,rroes ,rbO favor this DOli1V cav that in order