The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-05-27
WASHINGTON.
The Supplemental Article Ratl Ged
by the Senate.

without placing the United states In an
attitude ofreceding from their position, as
II In compliance with the requirements OF
the British Government. The action oi
the Senate tonight Is kept more than or.
dinarily confidential, as II the Senators
had been placed under additional obliga.
tions Of secresy, but there Is no reason to
doubt the truth Of the foregoing state
ment.
The President and Secretary Fish were
tonight officially advised Of the action Of
the Senate, and q telegram was sent by
the latter to Minister Schenck, acquaint.
ing him with the facts for the information
OF the British Government. It Is expected
that on Monday response will be re.
ceived from London, when the Senate will
ratify the additional article 70 the Treaty.
COMBINATIONS BY TIE SENATE.
WASHINGTON, May 25-The Senate has
confirmed the following nominations:
Benjamin F. Smith, register Of land office
at Redwood Falls, Minnesota; VIM. Il.
Kelly, receiver Of public moneys at same
place; Frank Walcott, U. s. Marshal for
Wyoming Territory; Isaac L, Peck, post
master at 0Wasso, Michigan. The Presi.
dent has nominated to the Senate Robert
e. MilroY. OF Indiana, superintendent Of
Indian Affairs for Washington Territory.
THE TARIFF AND TAX BILL.
The tariff and tax bill has been reported
to the Senate. The Committee on FL
nance propose that the act shall take ef-
feet on the first Of July next, instead Of
January, 1878. They add on 1t all slack
coal or culm, or such as will pass through
five.eights inch scream, 40 cents per ton
Of 29 bushels, 80 pounds to the bushel.
The committee add the Senate clause on
lumber, and provide on cabinet ware and
house furniture finished 35 per cent ad va.
loren; fruit, shade, lawn or ornamental
trees, shrubs, plants and flower seeds, not
otherwise provided for, 20 per cent ad va
loren; on garden seeds, copper cent ad va
loren; on lead bars or pigs, cent per
pound; on cocoanut, Q cents per pound.
The committee struck from the section
reducing the duties 10 per cent from the
present tariff on iron and all manufactures
Of iron, OF which iron Is a component
part and Of the chief value, and insert
in lieu thereof the following: On all
iron and steel and on all manufactures Of
iron and steel Of which such metals, or
either Of them, shall be component part
Of chief value, excepting cotton machine
ry. The committee place all paper,
manufactures Of paper, including books
and other printed matter not specially
provided for, under the ten per cent re.
ductions, striking out what the House
provides on the subject. They include in
the same section earthenware, glass and
glassware, and unwrought pipe clay, kao-
line and fullers' earth. The Senate com.
mittee provide that there shall be here.
after collected and paid on merchandise
the growth and produce Of country east
OF the Cape Of Good Hope, except raw
cotton and raw silk when imported from
places west Of the Cape Of Good Hope, a
duty ot ten per cent advalorem in addi-
tion to the duties imposed on any such
articles when imported directly from
places of their growth. The House free
list is stricken out and new free list in.
serted, containing the principal elements
of both the House and Senate free
lists, and adding thereto the book
paragraph Of the House. The free
lists are altered so as to admit
free of duty on books in the English Ian.
guage which shall have been printed and
manufactured Of not more than twenty
years at the date OF importation, and
books and maps for the Congressional
Library, and books, maps and charts
especially imported for literary societies
and Institutions of art and learning Of not
more that two copies each in one invoice,
and professional books OF immigrants
libraries, in the useoi families and persons
from foreign countries, II used abroad by
them, of not less than two years, If In
tended for private use. The revised free
list also includes all horses and cattle.
A new section is inserted providing that
where arms, Shovels, spades, hatchets,
axes, hammers, plows, cultivators, NOW.
ing machines and reapers manufactured
with stocks or handles made OF wood
grown in the United States are exported
for the benefit Of drawback under the
fourth section oi the law Of the 9th of
August, 1861 Such articles shall be
entitled drawback in all cases where i'm
ported material exceeds one half OF the
value of the material used in the section
providing for the free admission of the
material used in ship building and
equipment is altered so as to ap-
ply not only to wooden vessels,
but all vessels; and the vessels re-
ierred to are allowed to engage in coast
ing three months in the year, instead OF
two months. A section Is inserted
amending the fourth section Of the act Of
July %, 1886, SO as to make 1t provide
that from and otter the passage Of this
act imported salt, in bond, may be used
In curing fish, when taken by vessels IL
ccnsed to engage in the fisheries, under
such regulations as the Secretary Of
the Treasury may prescribe; and on proof
that said salt has been used In curing fish,
the duties on the same shall be remitted.
The Committee, while fixing the consoli.
dated tax on spirits at twenty cents, rec
commended that the tax thereon provided
for stamps shall be ten instead Of twenty
five cents. The bill, as now reported,
provides not only for the repeal Of the
special tax and tho tax of four dollars a
barrel imposed by section so Of the inter.
uul TeNehue uCI, puL alhO lLOE tuo IT,
peal oil the tax on sales Of wholesale, and
retail dealers and tax on rectifers, fifty
cents on each barrel produced in excess
OF two hundred barrels. The tobacco
section, imposing uniform tax Of twenty.
four cents per pound, goes into effect on
the first day oil July next. The Senate
committee strike out the House provision
repeating certain stamp taxes and substt.
tute a section repeating all stamp taxes
imposed under and by virtue Of schedules
B and @ Of the internal revenue act, June
80, 1864, and all acts amendatory thereof
The Senate committee insert proyiso
declaring that the words capital en-
, ployed" In the section Of the existing law
imposing q tax on banks and bankers
shall not include money borrowed or re-
nnirnd In tho i1nt1hl nnnHaA Of hnainaal