The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-07-11
WASHINGTON.
The Tax on Railroad Dividends.
WASHINGTON. July TO-

last five months of 1870, acting Commits
siOner Douglass, decided that under the
law ii should, and orders were given to the
Assessors accordingly. After General
PleasantOn succeeded him to office, he re-
served the decision, but the matter having
been brought TO the attention of Secretary
Boutwell,, he referred il to the Attorney
General, who set aside the last decision,
and ordered the Commissioner To assess
and collect the tax These Instructions
were Immediately communicated 10 the
local revenue officers, but numerous appli.
cations and appeals have been recently
made by railroad companies ard bankers,
that the tax be remitted or suspended on
account Of the severity Of enforcing its col
| lection at this time, Commissioner Pleas,
anton, in view Of Secretary Boutwells in.
struCtions, does not think II proper to al.
low any delay, II is ascertained, how
ever that an exception has been made to
this ruling in the case of the New York
Central e Hudson River Railroad An
order from the Secretary of the Treasury,
or the President, having been filed IN the
Internal Revenue office, suspending the
collection of this tax against this railroad.
BOUTWELL, TO VISIT THE PRESIDENT,
tits stated that Secretary Boutwell, will
visit President Grant at Long Branch, to.
morrow.
GROWING CONSUMPTION OF LAGER,
The books of the Internal Revenue
office, show that the orders for lager beer
stamps, now average forty thousand per
day, nearly four timesAs great as the or.
ders received for the corresponding time
last year.
CIyII, SERVICE COMMISSION,
The Civil Service Commission Conlem.
plate adjourning this week until fall, In
order that theymay In the meantime give
full consideration to the business with
which they are entrusted.
An unauthentiCaled report prevails that
Richard II. Dana, will be rendered the
position Of U. s. Arbitrator, to meet with
the others at Geneva, under the treaty Of
Washington. II ls certain that his name
has been iavorably mentioned in that
connection, and that the President will
soon formally make n selection.
The President has appointed ThOs.
Neville, as United States Attorney for
Nebraska.
Gen. Sherman left Washington to-day.
lie will be In New York for several days, |
and will not return to Washington during |
the summer unless business requires his |
presence here.
The Secretary Ofthe Interior decides In |
the matter Of the application Of the Pro.
bate Judge Of Jefferson county, Montana,
to enter certain lands as town site for
Springville, that n town with less popula.
tlOn than 100 constitute public lands under
the act OF March 2, 1867, thus reversing |
theInling of the late Commissioner 0rthe |
General Land Office In this and similar
cases.
The report that the new government
loan hns been withdrawn from the market
is credited here in well.informed quarters
from the fact that il Is believed the pro.
position Is about being Consummated
looking TO the absorption Of the whole of
the five hundred millions Of the 5.2O loan
of 1862.
The game between the Mutuals and the
OlympiCs was witnessed by. about 1000
people. The weather was Intensely hot
but the game was played with much
carnCstness and lasted two hours and
twenty-five minutes. The game resulted
in favor of the OlymplcS by score Of
10 tOl3.
The Board of Public Works have al
ready commenced the preliminary work
under the lour million improvement bill,
passed last Saturday by the Legislature,
and approved to-day by the Governor.
1t has appointed an advisory commission
and eminent engineers to aid In preparing
the detailed plans proposed for the i'm.
prOvementS and prosecution Of the work.
The Advisory Board consists of Gen. A.
A. Humphreys. in charge OF tho Engineer
Corps of the United States Army; M. G.
Meigs, Quartermaster General Of the
United States Army; Gen. o. L. Babcock,
Of the Engineer Corps ofthe United States
Army and Commissioner Of Public Build.
ings, and r. B. Olmstead OF New York,
Engineer In charge Of Central Park. The
action Of the Board, in this respect, meets
with the approval Of oil parties here, as
some Of the features Of tho bill have been
modified. Before It's final passage many
property holders, who were opposed to Il,
now favor II, and the prospect for obtain.
ing the money Is favorable.
The following Internal Revenue ap.
pointments have been made: Assistant
Assessors, Geo. W. Fitzzy Of the first dis.
triCt of Indiana; Geo. Il. BullOCh, of the
third district Of Indiana; s. D. Thorp,
storekeeper, first district Of Missouri.
Witnesses from Georgia were exam.
ined by the Ku.Klux Committee to-
day. The first was @. D. Forsyth, SolCi.
tor from the Rome Judicial Circuit lie
testified that he had convicted three men,
who in disguise had robbed persons in the
highway. 1t was sometimes with Difficult.
ty that he could convict such offenders.
He believed their was Ku.Klux or.
ganizations but could not tell their
designs and purposes, further than had
been shown by their acts One man
whom he had convicted confessed that he
was member Of an association having
signs and passwords, and that he was Tin.
der obligations to obey orders.
p. NJ. shubley, postmaster at Rome,
Ga, native of Pennsylvania, and resident
of the South % years, testified that he
knew of two individual cases, In each of
which lie had been assured negroes had
been whipped by men In disguise; and
that 20 or more at the dead Of night, on
or about the same time, had entered
Rome, but retired without committing
offences. He also referred TO other cases
in which Colored persons had been
whipped by the Ku.Klux The Demo
Gratis there were so opposed TO reconstruc.
tion measures Of Congress that they threw
all possible obstacles in the way Of the
negroes to the enjoyment of civil and po-
litical rights. The object Of the Union
League as organized in 1897, in Georgia,
was to endear the people to the Govern.