Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-23
General News Summary.
Washington News.

Announcement Is made Of the acceptance OF
the resignation Of B. q. Jayne, Special United
States Treasury Agent at New York.
sanbom testified before the Ways and
Means Committee on the 9th that his collec-
tions amounted TO e427, G3s, OF which onc-haif
went to the Government His total expenses
were si56, 483. The expenses attendant upon
his late trial In Brooklyn and in coming TO
Washington are not included In this amount.
Official proclamation has been made by
President Grant OF the ratification OF the
treaty between the United States and San
Salvador for the surrender Of criminals. IL In
expressly provided that e1trsdiiion shall not
apply to any crime or ofTense OF political
character. The treaty Is to continue for ten
years.
In the Sanborn inquiry on the 10th an ex-
pert testified that there were millions Of with.
held taxes which could only be collected by
some such fundamentally as the sanborn law.
He, himself, had information Of $780,
100000 OF withheld whisky taxes. Mr..
Nudge, the Chief OF the special agents In
the Treasury Department, stated San
born's connection with the department and his
duties an a special agent. Those duties were,
in his capacity as an employee Of the Adams
Express Company, TO detect and give informa-
ton Of the cases Of smuggling that we're con-
stantly going on between Canada and Boston.
Mr.. Nudge admitted that he had allowed s2,-
600 paid To Wallet Martin, whisky detective,
and formerly In the employ OF sanborn, but
he was unable 10 satisfy the committee OF the
legality Of paying out Of the customs fund the
expenses OF private contractor TO en-
gage for his own benefit In detecting
frauds In the internal revenue. The only
explanation Of II was that he did not know
until December last that Sanborn had any such
contract. The witness had appointed, as a
special agent 10 Europe, A. g. Fay, Of New
York, mentioned 10 the case as Sanborn's at
torney, or as sanborn's friend, and had al
lowed his expenses to the amount OF about
5000. He stated that some $4,000 had
been recovered TO the Treasury through In
formation derived from Fay, and that there
were suits pending for some 100000. This
was principally on account OF differentiation
OF imports. He admitted that Sanborn had
an interest IN these cases, ia the shape Of
moicties.
The President has pardoncd Albert Lemon,
convicted Of forgery in November last in the
United States Circuit Court of Indiana; also
Of being Ku-Klux.
A Washington Associated Press dispatch OF
the 18th says: President Grant, In CONVEX
sation to-day ON the subject OF finances, said
he had ne hesitation In asserting that he was
opposed TO imitation In the general acceptation
Of the term; that IL, 10 an increase OF the cur
rency beyond the actual business necessities
OF the country; but at the same time he had
given no opinion concerning the measure be.
fore Congress, nor had he indicated what his
action would be relative 10 any bill that might
be passed"
The first decision of the new Chief-Justicc
OF the United States Supreme Court was de-
liyered on the 18th on 0 care appealed freHH
Chicago, affecting the right Of the State to tax
the shares Of National Bank stock held by
nonresident owners Judge Drummond de-
cided that the State had not that right, but
Chief-J ustice Waite reyerses this decision and
declares that such shares are taxable by local
authorities. The question involves the valid
lily of taxes levied by municipal as well as
State authorities.
The Secretary of the Treasury, In compliance
with the resolution OF the House, reports the
cost OF refunding the national debt into per
cent bonds, authorized by acts OF Congress Of
July IA, 1870, and Jan. 30, 1871, etc. The
whole amount Of bonds refunded was t3l4,-
4i6,l50, as follows: Bonds bearing per cent.
interest 10 bonds bearing 8 per cent. interest,
$500, 461 ,ib0; bonds bearing D per cent, loan
1883, to bonds bearing per cent, funded loan
OF 1881, sl3,s55 600. The cost thereof has
been 81, 440,792
Assistant Secretary Sawyer voluntarily ap.
pcared In the sanborn inquiry on the 18TH,
and denied much OF Solicitor Banfeld's testi-
mony concerning himself. He stated that the
Solicitor was regarded by the department as
being something more than clerk, and that
his opinion and counsel as TO the interpreta-
ton Of any contract, or as TO the proprlety OF
any action done under IL, were sought by the
Secretary OF the Treasury. When the question
~ 10 whether contract should be made had
been decided, the making Of the contract, The
carrying on Of all correspondence In reference
10 II, and the modes OF doing business under
II, with the exception Of the receipts Of money
arising from the collections, are committed 10
the Solicitor as agent Of the Secretary for this
purpose.
EoraiUn IntelliUanca.