The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-05-24
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, May 23-The Commit.
tee on Ways and Means, has postponed
until the next session OF Congress any
action on the bill to refund to railroad and
other corporations, the amount collected
from them under the income tax law.
About $4,000. 900 are said to be involved
in the question. .-.
The President has approved the act
amendatory of the election law. It pro.
vides that all votes for Representatives in
Congress, shall hereafter be by written or
printed ballot, any law of any Slate, to
the contrary Notwithstanding. This sec.
ton is not to apply to any State voting
otherwise, whose elections for such repre-.
sentatives shall occur previous to the reg.
ular meeting Of its Legislature, next after
the approval ofthis act .1
The President, to-day, signed the naval
apportionmeut bill; also, On act delerring
and limiting the appropriation of certain
moneys for preparations of issue and
reissues of United States securities: an
act to provide for the holding Of the
United States District Court in the city of
Toledo; an act making appropriations for
the support Of the United States Military
Academy for the next fiscal year; an act
to establish the collection district Of
Duluth and create st. Paul, Minnesota, u
port Of delivery; an act giving assent Of
Congress to the subscription Of the Dis.
trict of Columbia TO the stock of the
Piedmont & Potomac Railroad Company;
an act to amend an act entitled an act 10
establish a uniform time for holding cleo
tions for electors Of President and Vice
Presidentin all the States OF the Union !:
an act to provide homes for the Potta.
watomie and Absentee Shawnee Indians
in the Indian Territory; an act to author.
izc the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Company to change their projected line
of railroad in the State ol Michigan.
Secretary Boutwell, was before the
Committee on Finance, to-day, in consult.
alton on the tariff and revenue bill.
The Senate Committee on Finance did
not complete their work on the tariff and
tax bill to-day, but will do so tomorrow.
The door OF their committee room was
beseiged all day by persons interested In
various items in the bill. Some OF them
either obtained personal interviews with
or sent notes to the members of the com,
mittee. There were also on the House
side hundreds Of persons looking after
their interests with the members and
thronging the doors and lobbies.
The Senate this afternoon held an ex-
ecutive session four hours and q half on
the additional article to the Treaty Of
Washington without coming to any con-
Clusion. 1t has been ascertained that a
comparatively few OF the Senators wish to
take part in the discussion, and therefore
it may be ended and a result reached this
week.
George II. Brooks, of CINCINNATI, in be.
half of the rectifers, has appeared before
the Senate Committee on Finance, urging
the consolidation Of the special taxes now
paid by the rectiliers with the general tax,
making the tax 70 cents, thus relieving
rectifers oil the tax Of l per cent on sales
and so cents per barrel, and reducing the
value OF the rectiflcd stamp from 25 to 10
cents. ...
Archibald Campbell has been appoint.
ed by the President commissioner TO sur.
veY and adjust the southern boundary
separating Minnesota and Dakota from the
British possessions.
The journeYmen street railroad car
builders this evening organized an associ-
alton and resolved TO strike at an early
day Tor eight hours work per day,