Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-02-16
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. IA

WAsHIKeroN, D. C. Feb. IA, II.
The bill repeating the income tax Wal
passed by the SENATE by vote of Il to
rs, despite the oft repeated speech OF
| thin John Sherman who spoke for Bout
we'll and the Treasury. The thin Sena
tor from Ohio fancies among other hal
Iucinations which possess him that there
is q great financier in the Senate, and
mis- cognomen is Sherman, and when any
other he dares give utterance to viewv
rot in accord with said Sherman a sort
ofimpatient superiority is shown which
plainly says, what do You know about
fnance7 John is tricky too. and viii!
try n delay the bill in tho Senateif
possible. During the debate on the re-
! peal of the tax, Senator Johnson, OF Va,
demonstrated the inequality of the Reeve
nue. system, showing that Virginia has a
population of 1858, COZ, of whom one
third ere negroes who pay but Ett!e
taxes, and Massachusetts has a popula'
| ton of 1,451,351. the real and person
al estate in Virginia is S343,6l2 ,34l 81,
and the real and personal estate IN Mas
sachusetus is $I,741 5l2, ga Al. With
FIVE times as much real and personal
property and a much larger population,
Massachusetts,, as estimated BY the In
lCEHAl IbCNCuu0 Lu- Shu1 PoA0 FC-tNNO
less than Virginia during the last fiscal
year. Vermont with more than one
fourth OF The population of Virginia Ii
only asked for the trife oe $S6 1910, or
one sixty-fourth part of Virginia's quota.
Is it Any wonder that the Yankees are so
deadly opposed to repeal of any portion
Of the machinery of a system OF taxation
which makes tie Southern States pay
their taxes for then? Legislation has
been, and is, so shaped that New Eng
land not only 10 protected in every man,
ner, shape and form, but is relieved OF
taxation by the means shown up by Sen
ator Johnson. TIE Yankees do not put
these heavy burdens on the South only
to benefit themselves pecuniarIly, but
aIso to chestise, chasten and redeem, II
pos sible, those who are so far removed
from the blessed light of moral Radical
ism. Senator Morrill,, of Vermont, was
very sad indeed ovsr this quasi rebuke
of the Secretary of the Treasury, and he
seemed very much acknowledgements,
as the repeal of mis- ubiquitous tax fore,
shadows that the South and west will
soon be relieved Of paying Vernfonts
share of taxes. That the bill will pass
the House there 10 no considerable de
gree of certainty. Should the bill be re-
pealed it will be another defeat OF Grant
the Administration. Boutwell,. their man
Sherman and Yankee generally.
The bill providing for the building OF
a Southern Pacific Railroad along the
line Of the 32ud parallel will be- brought
up for consideration in q few days.
| With q favorable report from the Con
mittes on Pacific Railroads and both
Houses in favor of the measure by large
majorities, as they are, the bill will be-
come . law before the end of this session.
This great enterprise which 10 demanded
by every feeling of right and Justice to
the Southern States, hss tho cordial en-
dorsement OF nearly every membe OF
both Houses ltB success is certain.
The question lately raised as to whesh-
err Schenck the new Minister to Eng
land was twins has been settled. Schenck
is only one, that is Minister to the
| Court Of st. James, and not at the same
TINA Schenck, the defeated candidate tor
Congress, contesting the seal of his sue
cessful opponent, L. d. Campbell, in
the Third Ohio District. the contest hay.
ing been Mithdrawn. Brete Harte must
have had the Radical party in his mind
eve when he spoke OF the ways that are
dark and the tricks thar are vain, for
theiI ways are not only dark, but devi-
Gus and their tricks not only vain but
Viilainous.
Tie Senate Committee to investigate
the carpet baggers and scallYwag Po!iti-
! clans Of the South preparatory to another
Southern outrage do not Dake much
keadWay-tne witnesses who have been
summoned do not RESPOND with the aIac'
| rity which WAS expected OF them. The
s~coundrel Kirk, Holden's right bo~er.
was not on band as expected yesterday.
but will be examined to-day. Tho fare
of examining the very ren "ho were
guilty of fom=nting and bringing about
the troubles in the South would be
Iaughable were it not that their evidence
is to be the basis of another turn OF the
screws to be Lut to the South.
Wild pad wicked as Congress has been
the Southern Senators aided by the i'm
fPIScablss from the North are trying to
cap the climax of it's infamy by making
out that the Legislature of North Caro-
lima was not legally elected, and by some
hocus pocus give the seat which belongs
to Gov. Vance, who was elected to the
Senate, to the present carpet bag incum-
bent, Senator Abbott.
The decision Of the court martial in
the ease OF the refractory negro cadet
Smith-at West Point is yet in the
hands of the Secretary of War and has
not been made pIblic. The appoint
ment of a committee of Congressman to
proceed to West FONT to INVESTIGATES
this case, IN connection with another,
gives rise to a runor that the decision oil
the cour martial was against the negro
and that this interference of Congress is
10 gain time, and in tho enc by some
means save the negro TO West Point and
the service of the country. The country
should be very much obliged to Congress
for their kindness, but Smith is a very
expensive luxury to be cared Tor anc
might be spared. BOAZ.