Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-27

ments Of both 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 duly books in the English language
which shall have been printed and manufac
tured more than twenty years at the date of i'm
portation; books and maps for the COMPRESSION
al library; books, maps and charts especially
imported for literary societies and institutions
OF art and learning, not more than two copies
each in one invoice; professional books of immi-
grants books, household effects, or libraries in
use of families or persons from foreign countries
il used abroad by them not less than one wear
if intended for private use. The revised free
list also includes all horse, cattle and hog hair
unmanuiactured, hair of hogs Curled for beds
and mattresses, hide cuttings, hide rope ango-
IA, goat skins manufactured, asses skins
hides of cattle, raw or uncured, except sheep
skins with wool on; all mineral waters not ar
tihcial paper stock, crude of every description
including all grasses, hbres, rags other than
wool waste, shavngs, clippings, old paper, rope
ends waste rope, waste bagging, 9unny bags
and gunny cloth, old or refuse to be used in
making and fit only TO be converted into paper,
and unfit for any other manufacture, and cot
ton waste, whether for paper stock or other pur-
poses.
A new section is inserted, providing that where
firearms, ShOvelS, spades, hatchets, axes, ham
mers, poughs, cultiyatorS, moving machines
and reapers, manufactured with stocks or han
dies made Of wood grown in the United States,
are exported for the benefit of the drawback,
under the fourth section of the law of August
., 1861, such articles shall be entitled to draw
back in all cases where the imported material
exceeds one-half OF the value of the material
used.
The section providing for the free admission
OF material used in shipbuilding and equipment
is altered so as TO apply not only to wooden
sailing vessels but to all vessels, and the vessels
referred 10 are allowed to engage in coasting
three months in year, instead of two.
section is inserted amending the fourth Sec
ton of the act of July %, 1866 so as TO make it
provide that from and alter the passage of this
act imported salt in bond may be used in curing
fish when taken by vessels licensed TO engage in
the fisheries under such regulations as the Sec
eetary of the treasury shall prescribe, and
upon proof that said salt has been used in curing
fish the duties on the same shall be RENTED.
The committee while fixing the consolidated
tax on spirits at seventy cents, recommend that
section twenty-eight of the existing law be so
amended that the tax therein 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 the lax of four
dollars per barrel imposed by section 50 Of the
internal revenue act, but also for the repeal of
the tax on the sales Of wholesale and retail
dealers, and the tax on rectifeTs Of fifty cents
on each barrel produced in excess of two hun
bred barrels.
The tobacco section imposing a uniform tax
of twenty-four cents per pound goes into effect
on the first day OF July next.
The senate committee strike out the house
provision repeating certain stamp taxes, and
substitute therefor q section repcaling all the
stamp taxes imposed under and by virtue OF
schedules b and of the internal revenue act OF
June 30, 1864, and all acts amendatory thereof
The senate committee insert proYSO dcclar.
ing that the words capital employed" in the
section of the existing law imposing a tax on
banks and bankers shall not include money Dor
rowed or received in the usual course OF bust
ness from any person not partner of OF inter
eSted in any bank association or firm.
A section is inserted abOlishing mOitieS to in
ternal revenue relormers; but the secretary of
the treasury is authorized to employ and pay de-
tectlves out Of an appropriation hereby made OF
100000
The tax on the sales of vessels is repealed, and
all such taxes now assessed but unsolicited are
RENTED.
The president is directed to reduce the mum.
Der of internal revenue districts to sixty prior
to next January.
All provisions of the bill not otherwise dCsig-
mated are to take fleet on the list of next July.
THE SUPPLEMENTAL ARTICLE.
1t is known from official and private adyiccs
that Great Britain was determined 20 withdraw
from the Geneva arbitration should the United
States persist in the presentation of claims for
indirect damages, and il is further known that
the United States was for some time, under these
circumstances, disposed to throw the RESPONSE
bity of the threatened failure Of the treaty upon
Great Britain, our government insisting that it
had a right to present these claims with the
Others before the tribunal, in order that the
principle involved might he settled, though moi
expecting to receive moneYed consideration
Great Britain, with its view of the case, was dis
posed to throw the responsibility of the failure
vote taken last night in the senate is regarded
as Gn expression of the views of a large major
ity of the senate against the claims for indirect
damages, in view OF a like admission ON the
part of Great Britain against the United States
in future contingency and under circumstan-
ces similar to those on which the Objectionable
class of claims originated.
The president, as thus advised, has already
by the secretary of state taken measures through
the Atlantic cable to procure the assent of the
British government to the article as amended
by the senate, with view of putting in treaty
form declaration against indirect damages,
which the United States have now abandoned,
and which Great Britain asserts she never
claimed for herself as against other powers.
During the consideration of the subject in ex-
ecutiye session, it was thought at times that the
article would fail of receiving the requisite vote
OF two-thirds, owing to contrarity of views pre-
scented. Not less than six amendments were
offered TO effect the desired end. 1t is believed
that Great Britain will assent to the moditica-
ton OF the article as she is now with the Unit
ed States) anxious that the tribunal of arbitTa-
ton should proceed without further hndrance.
According to the report, the debate on the
subject before the senate was earnest throughout,
the majority of those who participated in it be-
ing influenced by desire to remove obstruc-
tions in the way which would preserve the ma
tional dignity, while few Others were inaexibe
in their opposition, as if it were an assent to
the waving of the claims. Conflicting reports
prevail as to the vote advising and consenting to
the presidents negotiating a treaty on the pro-
posed basis, but forty against nine seems to be
the most reliable statement. The article as en-
dorsed is unchanged in phraseOlogy from the
original, though preserving the principle sought
TO be established by the government with regard
to consequential damages. The precise language
of the article will not be officially made known
until it has been ratified
The subject will next come before the senate
in the ratification of the article. 1t is stated
that one principal amendment is a change of
the language covering the agreement with refer
ence to indirect claims for the future so as to
include all indirect and incidental claims In
the rule, as proposed by Great Britain the
words 'sucb claims were used. strict inter
probation would have confined the agreement of
the parties to such indirect claims only as are
subject Of the present controversy Therefore,
it is provided that the rule shall cover, in broader
terms, that no indirect or incidental claims shall
be presented by the one nation against the other
for failure TO observe neutrality. The vote was
strictly nOn-partisan. The democrats divided
about evenly, Thurman declining to vote.
Schun voted aye; Sumner and Edmunds voted
no; Howe aud Carpenter, who were absent,
would have voted against it; Trumbull did not
vote at ALL
AGRICULTURAL
The United States agricultural society has or
gained by the election OF VIM. G. Beckwlh of
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