The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-01-24
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LATEST FROM WASHINGTON.
Congressional.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-Senate.-The Ju-
dietary Committee reported In favor OF the
admission of HILL Senator from Georgia.
and minority (Messrs. Stewart and Rlce)
report in favor of Farrow and Whitley was
presented.
Mr.. Stearns was seated as Senator from
| Minnesota.
MIR. Sumner presented the resolutions OF
the Indiana Legislature adverse to annex
| ing Dominica.
Mr.. Jewett presented the resolutions OF
| the st. Louis Board of Trade in favor OF
| widening and deepening the channel at the
| mouth of the Mississippi.
Mr. Trumbull gave notice that he would
| call up the Georgia Senators question as
soon as the reports of the committee could
be printed.
The Committee on Southern Outrages''
was authorized to sit during the sessions of
the Senate, and to report at any time.
A bill increasing the pensions of disabled
sailors and soldiers was passed.
The bill for protecting members of Con-
greSs from the opportunities of office seek
ers was discussed until adjournment.
| H0use.-Among the bills introduced I'M
der the regular Mondays call were the fol-
lowing:
| For a commission to determine the
claims for depredations committed by the
Confederate cruisers; tor granting lands to
the Atlantic and Great Western canal to
| bridge the Mississippi at Bonneville, and
for reducing the cost Of correspondence,
l on1 1,ocfol on1 falaura nj
vice.
The bill for military and postal road
from Wash ington to New York was re-
sumed, but was fllibustered over the morn
ing hour.
w. w. Payne, the member from Georgia,
was seated.
A bill regulating rank in the navy was
reported and passed. 1t places paymasters
and surgeons on the active list, and gives
them positive rank, besides making other
alterations in the service.
A motion to suspend the rules to intro
duce bill to extend to all the States lately
March 4th, 1864, failed by ayes 125, nays
67-not a two-thirds majority. The bill
gives equal rights to loyal claimants in all
the States.
Adjourned.
1VOdCCo EIApVTG DS-ETOa
Hon. James HI. Plat.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-The following
letter has been written to Revenue Com
missioner Pleasanton
WASHINGTON, Jan. 81.
"Hon. Alfred PIeasanton, Commissioner Of
Internal ReUenue:
"Sir,-l have the honor to call your at
tention to an order which ] am informed is
about to emanate from your office, the
practical effect of which will be to add q
considerable item to the burden now borne
by the manufacturers Of tobacco in Virginia.
The orderreterred to is in relation to stamp
ing with export stamps all original packages
of tobacco for Shipment in bond. Such an
order will result in heavy additional tax
upon large majority Of the tobacco manu-
tacturers in Virginia, and can see no pos
slble benefit to accrue to any one from such
an order except the tobacco manufacturers
Of Brooklyn and New York, whose fac
tories are virtually bonded warehouses, and
who will practically, under its operations,
be given almost entire control of the home
market. l feel it my duty, as the repre-
sentative Of a district largely interested in
the manufacture Of tobacco, 10 earnestly
protest against this order, and to urge you
to reconsider it for the following, among
other reasonS-viZ.:
81. Though the law may unqueStionably
be construed to require stamps on all orig
inal packages, yet that it is capable of diff
ferent construction is proven by the action
of your predecessors, who, after mature
and careful consideration Of the subject,
have required that only the case or exterior
package be stamped.
90. 1t is evident that this is amply suffi-
cient because it is done after the inner
packages have been branded, weighed, and
counted by the revenue inspector, who
sees them put in the cases, which are
nailed and strapped. and thus shipped un-
der the control of the collector, and it is
impossible for any one to tell without
breaking open the cases when il transit
whether the interior packages have been
stamped or not, and the affiXing of stamps
can be no protection to the Government,
which is already fully protected, for the
separation and offering for sale Of such
packages without the proper tax. paid
stamps, would at once make them liable to
seizure.
"3. Export stamps on small packages of
snuff and tobacco of from one to twenty
pounds each would increase the tax there
on from one to twenty cents per pound,
amount to prohibition, and reduce the
revenue, rather than increase it by closing
many small factories in Virginia which
contribute SO largely in aggregating the
immense tax now collected from our pro.
ducts.
Gin conclusion, in behalf of the tobacco
manufacturers of Virginia who are earnest.
ly striving to conduct a legitimate business
under existing laws and regulations, and
who have contributed over SIC, 0G0, 900 in
the past eighteen months to the revenues
of the country; in behalf Of thousands of
and ohi1Jra,, nh 10
rive support from this heavily taxed in
dustry; and in behalf of the whole State OF
Virginia, so deeply interested in the tobac-
co trade, 1 must earnestly urge that you
will reconsider your determination, and al
low the regulations in regard to stamping
tobacco for transmission in bond to remain
as at present established.
81 am, very respectfully,
"Your obedient servant,
"JAs. 81. PLAT, JR."
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