The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-04-24
Things Are Not What They Seem.

According to the Washington cores
pondent Of the New York Tribune the
new Revenue act, which goes into effect
on the 10th OF next month, will not make
such a sweeping reduction Of the expen-
ses of the service as was at first believed
The offices of Assessors and Assistant AS
SCISSORS are abolished, and the duties of
these officers are transferred to Collectors
but the Collectors, who are fully occupied
with their own duties, can perform only
those heretofore performed by Assessors
by obtaining additional assistance This
is provided for by the clause allowing
Deputy Collectors to be appointed and
paid out of the commissions of the office
but where this does not prove to be suffi-
cient, it is within the power of the Sccre-
tary to give especial allowances with
out the revision of his acts, in this respect
by any one. These especial allowances"
have been bestowed with an extravagant
hand, and if the same recklessness is con-
tinued, il is believed that no saving what
ever will result from the new law It
will lead to q large increase of clerical
service and a corresponding expense in
the Collectors Office A swarm Of Depu-
ties will, therefore, have to be appointed,
for there is nobody else to see that the
stamps are nsed and that no frauds occur
in the administration of the law, particu-
larly in regard to whisky and tobacco. In
one district alone, in one of the Southern
States, there are $40 fruit listileries.
which must be looked after bv some Off
Ger. The number OF Supervisors of In
ternal Revenue is now reduced to 10, and
one Of the highest officers of the Treasury
Department is authority for saying that out
of the number there are only four or five
who are serviceable to the Bureau The
rest are merely politicians who have rem
dered their party some service. So far ~
the "eXtra allowances" are concerned, il
is likely that the whole facts will be made
public Representative Eldridge, during
the past session Of Congress, introduced
a resolution requiring the Secretary Of the
Treasury to furnish the House of Repre-
sentatives with detailed statement show
ing the amount of especial allowances"
already granted, to whom they were
granted, and for what reason. This re-
port was not furnished, but the Demo-
Gratis, at the next session will demand the
information and ii cannot be much longer
withheld. 1t is reported and believed bv
those familiar with the Treasury office
that the statement was begun, but that it
was soon found that the facts would pro-
to the House was abandoned after Iowa
or Illinois had been reached. The adjourn
ment was SO near at hand that no further
attention was paid to the matter by the
House.
INSPECTORS OF BURNING OILS. We
quote from chap. 80 r. s. 1871, the title
of said chapter being "Inspection and
sale of Manufactured Articles"
SECT. 90. In towns containing two thousand
inhabitants or more, the Municipal officers
shall, on or before the first day of May annual
ly, appoint one or more persons, and fix their
compensation. to be inspectors of petroleum,
coal oil, and burning iuid, who sha be duly
sworn and shall, when requested, inspect such
oils and burning fluid, by applying test with G.
Tagliabue's pyrometre or some other accurate
instrument, to ascertain the igniting or explo.
sve point thereof in degrees of Falrenheit's
thermometre; and they shall cause every vessel
Or cask thereof by them so inspected to be
plainly marked by the name of such inspectors.
the date of inspection, and the ignting or ex-
plosive point of the contents thereof.
The woods are full of candidates for Gov
crnor this year. Honlton Times.
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