Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-30
IN CONGRESS.
The Tax BiII-The Workingman's Com
missiOn-Carpenter Thinks 1t
Ridiculous.
Buffers Bill to Amend the enforcement
Act StaTed or.
Sundry Bills and Amendments-A Per-
feet Rush to get Through.
SENATE.

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, May Ex-senator
! Thurman, from the Committee of Con-
ference on the supplemental apportion-
ment bill, made a report recommending
that the Senate recede from its amend
ment. The report was concurred in.
i The bill to amend the soldiers and
sailors homestead act passed.
i Senator Anthony announced that the
Committee on Printing was prepared to
report a resolution to print extra copies
of the report of the Committee on
French Arms Sales, but as the chairman
of that committee, Senator Hamlin, and
the Senator from Massachusetts, Sum-
ner, were not in their seats, he withheld
the report.
Senator Kellogg called up the House
bill to prescribe the time for electing
| Presidential electors in Louisiana at the
expiration of the morning hour. 1t
went over.
/ Senator West submitted report from
the Committee on Conference on the
army appropriation bill, which was con-
CURED in.
In regard to the appropriation for
/ buildings for Fort Leavenworth, new
Committee on Conference was ap-
pointed.
The consideration of the tariff and tax
| bill was resumed.
The motion of Senator Wright toIeaye
] the present tax On tobacco unchanged
was lost; yeas II, nays 80.
| An amendment fixing the tax on to-
bacco at twenty-fOur cents was agreed
to.
Senator COrbett offered an amend
ment providing for the continuance of
| the tobacco export bonded warehouse
| system under certain restrictions. Lost. /
Senator COnkling Offered an amend |
ment extending the time within which !
/ tobacco, etc, now stored in bonded |
warehouses may be withdrawn TO one
year from the passage of this act, which |
was agreed tO-yeas q, nays %.
The provision adopted by the House |
abOIishing the storage of tobacco in ex-
port bonded warehouses except for i'm |
mediate export, was agreed to, with an |
amendment providing that ALI tobacco !
in bonded warehouses when this act I
takes effect, shall pay new tax.
Senator Cole, from the Committee on /
Appropriations, reported the sundry civil |
service expenses appropriation bill, with |
an amendment. The principal items |
are as follows: New paragraphs are in
serted apprOpriating ninety-eight thou /
sand dollars for continuing the survey of |
the Indian reservations during the pres
ent fiscal year; one hundred and fifty I
thousand dollars to enable the Secretary 4
of the Treasury to collect captured and /
abandoned property and take testimony
as to claims against the United States;
two hundred and fifty-one thousand dol
lars for paying the Creek orphan claim /
of 1882, and one hundred and fifty-three
thousand dollars for the Montana Indian /
war claims. The committee recon-
mended striking out the appropriation
of two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars for carrying the mails in the South
ern States previous to the thirty-tirst of
May, 1861.
Senator Ferry Michiganl offered an
amendment, providing that the stamp I
tax should be taken off matches on the
first of July instead of the first of Au-
gust. Agreed to.
The amendment of the Finance Com
mittee for the repeal of stamp taxes
imposed by schedules B and c, section
seventeen, act of June 80, 1924, was
agreed to.
Senator Sherman made q motion to
retain the stamp tax on brokers, which
was rejected.
The section repeating the law author
izing the payment of moities to inform
ers was discussed until five o'clock, when
the Senate took a recess until seven
and half o'clock.
EVENING SESSION.
The Senate reassembled at half-past
seven o'clock this evening.
The tariff and tax bill was proceeded
with, and the section discontinuiug the
mOities to infoTmers was adopted.
An additional section, remitting all
taxes assessed, but not collected, from
the shipbuilders and manufacturers, un-
der section four of the internal revenue
act of October 81, 1868, was adopted.
The additional section, recommended
by the Finance Committee, directing Il
the President, on or before the first of
January, 1878, to reduce the number of
internal revenue districts TO sixty, and
requiring the Secretary of the Treasury
to reduce the internal revenue force to
as small a number as is consistent with
the performance of the reduced duties of
the service.
Senator Trumbull moved that the re-
ductiOn take place on the first of OctO- 1
Der, 1872.
After considerable debate the motion
of Senator Trumbull was lost; ayes II,
nays "a. h
The amendment of Committee on
Conference was agreed to. The other
additional sections were adopted; provi-
ding that all suits for the recovery OF
any tax on penalty of enormously cell
lected shall be commenced within two
years after the cause of action occurred.
Claims occurring prior to the passage of
this act to be commenced within one ,
year from its passage. ,
On motion of Senator Morrill, of Yer
mont, section eight was amended to [
provide that all goods in bond on the ,
day that this act takes effect, on which
duty has been paid, shall be entitled to
a refund amounting to the difference be-
tween the duties paid and the duties inn
posed by this act. ID
Senator Sawyer moved as an amend
ment to the House bill providing for the
of commission on the
subject of wages and the hours of labor
and division of profits between labor
and capital in the United States. :
Senator Carpenter characterized the
whole proposition as utterly ridiculous,
and not worthy Of a moments consider ,
alton.
Senators Sawyer and Wilson defended
the bill as wise and most proper meas
ure.
Senator Pomeroy moved to strike out
the proviso that the Commissioners shall
be appointed irrespective of political or
partisan considerations, and from civil
life. LOst-yeas Is, nays 25.
Senator Wilson moved an amend
ment providing for five Commissioners
instead of three, to hold office for two
years instead of one, and to receive a I
salary of three thousand instead of five s
thousand dollars.
Senator Scott called up House bill in
relation to the Centennial International
Exhibition, to be held in Philadelphia :
in 1876. 1t was passed.
At half-past ten o'clock, without fur !
ther action, the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
On the motion of Mr. Sawyer, the {
Senate bills authorizing the construction
Of railroad hridOaG across fha Missouri .