The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-01-16

Tho. Senate in Executive session to. day
confirmed the following nominations :
Collectors Of Internal Reyenue-IIoracc
Weeks, Sixth District Of Illinois; Clark
Center, Ninth District Of Ohio, Register
Land Offlcc-A. Waits, Carson City, Ne.
braska; N. Baldwin, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
The Committee Of Ways and Means
will hear, on Thursday next, al persons
who desire 10 express their views on the
subject Of the tax on tobacco. sE
The Commissioner OF Internal Revenue
was in consultation with the Civil Service
Advisory Board nearly two hours to. day
with reference to arranging for the ex-
animation Of the revenue officers through
out the country, in accordance with the
rules Of the Civil Service Commissioners.
A little opposition is beginning To be
developed to the twenty.eighth and thir.
teenth articles Of the treaty at Wash
ington.
Representatives OF the commercial in
terests of the great lakes are in Washing
ton contending that these provisions will
have the effect, il ratified and carried into
effect, to transfer to British owners a mo.
nopoly OF carrying trade and ownership Of
lake tonnage 10 British hands, inasmuch
as British vessel can be built and sailed
at from 80 to 40 per cent less cost in the
present condition OF the currency and
excise taxation than American vessels
can be built and sailed. In that view of
this fact the United States will gain moth.
ing while giving up their commerce for
the mere privilege of entering, with Amer
ican vessels, into Canadian ports. It is
S:'d,-thN 49,. mercantile interests of New
York, Boston and rurnana--- SEQ
also beginning to be moved by the same
considerations. The probability is that
the commercial interests thus affected
will combine with the fishing interest ior
their common protection, by endeavor.
ing TO deter action upon the subject until
It can be more thoroughly investigated
or perhaps reopened for diplomatic nego.
tiation. 5s ~. at.r $50
Distillets and wholesale liquor dealers
throughout the country are circulating
memorials for signature, to be presented
TO Congress, asking that all direct and in-
direct taxes be consolidated into tax
and be collected on spirits before they are
removed from the distillcry to the bonded
warehouse, and that after they have
been thus removed all surveillance
over them shall cease, and the goods be
free, and have the same status as any
other description OF merchandise. They
suggest direct tax Of seventy-five cents
per proof gallon and graduate scale
licenses according 10 the different kinds
Of manufactures and the extent Of bust.
ness. Tho Committee have agreed TO re.
port Representative Burcharls bill pro.
viding that goods, wares and merchan.
disc which have been sent from places
without tho limits of the United States
as gratuitous contributions for the relief
OF sufferers by the fire in Chicago, i'm.
ported at the port Of Chicago and con.
signed to the proper authorities shall be
free Of duty, and that there shall be al.
lowed and paid, under such legislation as
the Secretary Of the Treasury shall pre-
scribe, on all material actual used in
said buildings erected on the ground which
was burned over by the said fires, in the
repair or construction thereof, n drawback
of the import duties paid on the same
provided said materials shall have been
imported at the port Of Chicago during
the term Of one year from and after the
10th of October, 1871.