The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-07-31
WARRINGTON.
Internal Revenue Decisi0n j.

InucFnal Hb0Vomuo DcCHSuOus
WASHINGTON, j uly 29-Commissioner Pleas.
anton has given the opinion that the term
"Capital employed" in the revenue act of 1864
and 1866 should not be construed to impose
a tax on borrowed capital of bankers used by
them. Assessors have been instructed to give
special attention to the assessment of this tax
aud to assess the same hereafter upon the basis
of capital owned by bankers and employed by
them in the banking business, subject to the
exemption accorded in the statute.
Perfamery Decision.
The Commissioner also decides that import
ed perfumery may be sold in the original and
uHbroken package as entered at the Custom
House without being being stamped, but when
an original package is broken and small pack.
ages are taken therefrOm the bottles in small
packages must be stamped before they are sold
or offered for sale. In regard to stamping
barrel or gallon bottle Of cologne water to. re-
tail from the Commissioner says the law does
not authorize such practice but requires a
stamp to be fixed to the bottle or other encios-
ures in which the article is sold or delivered,
even though bottle or enclosure may be fur
nished by the purchaser
In relation to raspberry and other syrups,
the Commissioner says that syrups are liable
to stamp duty under Schedule U, and the
amount of tax on, single package depends
upon the weight of the package with its con-
tents. A package weighing two pounds or less
requires a one cent stamp, and an additional
cent per each additional pound or fractl0u
thereof in excess of two pounds whether the
package is large or small and whether the ves-
sci is furnished by the purchaser or not 5
Before the BOARD. .s
All the officers of the Yantic, now lying ut
Norfolk, and Lieut. Com. Charles O'Naill, of
the Severn, Major Milton Coggswell, of the
21st infantry, and Lieut.. Maurice Kraszynosky,
of tt 18th infantry. have been ordered to re-
mort for examination before the retiring board
at San Francisco. sEi
Resigned.
Lieuts, Howard Stockton, Of the Ordnance
Department. and Jose A. Robinson, of the
oath infantry, have resigned.
And yet there IL Roem.
George v. Hall, Secretary Of the Young
Mems Christian Association has sent to Secre-
tary Boutwell, $500 conscience money for
warded by o recently converted man.
Award Of Contrac.s g
The contract for the base work of the new
State Department building has been awarded
to Messrs. Bodwsll & Co.. of Me-, and the con-
tract for granite for the superstructure 10
Messrs, Ordway & Co., of Virginia.
Sub KIN Klux Commitiee.
The sub Ku Klux Committee, consisting Of
Senator Scott and Representatives Stevenson
and Van Trump, reached Warrington to-day
returning from sOjOurn of four weeks in va
rious parts of South Carolina, where they have
been investigating Ku Klux outrages in the
spots where they occurred. They first visited
the Capitol, Columbia More than q hundred
refugees who had fled from violence in various
counties were there, but after examining wit
nesses for two days the committee determined
to approach more closely to the scene of the
alleged violence, aud went to Spartansburg.
They expected to remain there three or four
days but continued eleven. When the news Of
their presence got abroad through Spartans
burg county the white and colored victims Of
violence came in scores every day and from all
dnpA h incl
Ku Klux bands had SO terrified them in many
neigbbOrhoods that n"arly every negro man
and Republican white man had slept at night
in the woods for months.