Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-01
WASHINGTON.
Ku -Klux Committee AjOurn till
September 20.
subcommittee Still In Session:
Official Investigation of the
New York Catastrophe.
Canadian Smuggiers.

b practices have been going on along the
n Canadian frontier by persons engaged in
shipping goods on foreign vessels to for
elgn ports to be re-shlpped to ports in the
: United States, on The frontier. This Gus
tom is a violation of the law, and subjects
e vessels engaged in it to forfeiture of their
j, cargo, snd 10 the payment Of tonnage
e duty of fifty cents per ton on their meas
urement.
Collectors, however, are in doubt re-
/ speeding the penalty, and in many cases,
s In order to collect tonnage duty, have
: refused to admit goods, holding the con-
sigrees of ssl goods for payment of the
tonnage duty.
Secretary Boutwell, has, therefore, is-
sued instructions that special tonnage i'm
posed ON vessels is not charge on goods
apparently liable TO forfeiture in so far
as to require prepayment of that tax be.
fore entry of the goods.
Orders were issued to day by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to collectors of Gus
toms on the Canadian frontier and United
States consular officers in Canada to sus-
pend action under any orders heretofore
issued applying American seal locks to
cars passing the frontier line with dutiable
goods without appraIsement, but that
parties who have bonded under the act of
July IA, 1870, and now using said locks
viii be required to continue their use
This order of the Secretary is made with
view TO re examine, by new commit
tee, into the practical utility and price of
the lock referred to as regards its adoption
for railroad purposes and protection of
the interest of the government.
| Throat Cut by Negro Ku-kIux.
Andrew Curtain, white man, while
proceeding quietly home Saturday night,
was assaulted by three negro men, who
cut his throat with q razor, infic.ing a
fatal wound.
Patents
| During July the number of applica
| tons at the Patent Office were ISL, 221
more than in the corresponding month
last gear, and of that number 1, 131 pat
ents and trade marks were issued.
Ku KIux-AdjOurned tiII Sept. 20,
Ku-Klux Committee adjourned to-day |
until the 10th September, leaving here as a |
| sub committee Senators Poole and Blaire |
and Representative Buckley to examine |
| the few witnesses now here and several |
| others on the way hither. 1t is supposed |
the examination will be concluded this |
| week. At the meeting in September re-
ports will be made on the reconstruction
acts and the condition of finances in the
late insurrectionary States BY the sub
committees having the subject in charge.
The New York Massacre.
The Secretary of Treasury has called on
the Board of Supervising Inspectors OF
steamboats, for thorough investigation
into the causes of explosion of the boiler
on the ferry boat Wes'feld, in New York
of Sunday afternoon, together with a
detailed account of her last inspection by
the Board. The Supervisors are instruct
ed TO make rigid inquiry into every fact
connected with the accident and report
as soon as the investigation is concluded
WHITTIER her last inspection was such as
is required of Inspectors under the law.
The Naughty KIowas.
A letter from Agent Darlington dated
Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency, July
Is, says the Indians are quiet. / know
of no depredstions committed this season |
yet. The Kiowas have earnestly en-
deayOring to draw the Cheyennes into
general war. l have some hope that the
most tempting crisis has passed, but the
present is no tune in my opinion to slack
our vigils1ce
Our Taxes.
The Internal Revenue receipts to day
are 1852, 1856 Ga The total receipts for
July were $l4, 226, 057.09.
CHRISTIAN bore.
The President has recognized Christian
Bore as Consul of Norway and Sweden
at New York.
Contracts for the New state Depart
meDt. |
The Secretary of State has ordered the |
contract for granite for the exterior walls |
and STEPS of cellar and basement stories,
and walls Of court-yards, facing nd cop
ing of walls of the new State BUILDING, 10 |
the Bidwell Granite Co., of Fox Island
They will be paid 60 cents per cubic foot
for stones, the dimensions of which do not |
exceed forty cubic feet, with an ipcreaae |
of one cent per cubic foot for each addi-
tional cubic foot in the stones which ex-
coed forty cubic feet.
The contract for granite for the SUPER
structure has been awarded TO Albert ,
Ordway, of Richmodd, Va The prices
to be paid are fifty-nine cents per cubic
foot for stones which do not exceed twenty ,
cubic feet, with an increase in pric. of
8 10 per cent. per cubic foot for each ad- ,
ditional cubic foot for stones, the dinen-
sions of which exceed twenty cubic feet. |
The granite is TO be cut at the quarries | i
and delivered here ready for use. The
contractors are also required to agree to !
furnish all granite which may be required s
for the entire building for the of the
State, War and Navy departments, when |
the construction of the ether portion of I
the building shall be authorized at the |
came rates aud upon the same terms as I
the present contracts.
Taxing Borrowed Capital {
The reversal by Commissioner Pleas |
ontOu of the decision by which the tax ,
on bankers and brokers of one twenty :
fourth of one per cent. a month on bor- :
rowed capital has been collected, will, | /
according to the estimates al the treasury /
decrease the revenue several millions. :
Under Secretary Delano the first year it .
was enforced he increased the revenue r
81, 100, 000 from this eource Suits for | q
the return of taxes paid under former | r
decisions are now expected to test its o
legality. .
state Tax on Bank Capital.
Hon. E G. Bsnfield, Solicitor of the
TIT asury, having had referred to him the
case of Philadelphia bank that claimed q
exemption from tax imposed on their Z
capital by the State of Pennsylvania, on :
the ground that ssid capital was repre- I
scented by the bonds Of the new funded :
loan, has rendered sn opinion in the mat {
ter, deciding that the government had no =
power in the premises, and that it is
question in which the State has sole judi
csture, and that the case can be settled
only upon appeal to the State courts.
Damages for ReJecSing a Vote. t
In the carly part of the war Frank e
Hodges, of Michigan, enlisted in the Fed C
eraI army, and there lost an arm. He '
sfterward became clerk in the Interior q
Department, AID IN DC ober, 1870, went ],
10 Michigan again to register as voter in
the town of Vergennes, but was refused v
the privilege on the plea of non residence.
Hodges thereupon entered suit for dam
ages IN two thousand dollars, and Judge
Hoyt of the Court at Grand Rapids,
MICHIGAN hos st,e% T