The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-07-29

The rule adopted by the State Committee
is "tbat each township of county anu
ward of a city SHAH be entitled to one dele-
gate for each one hundred Conservative
Voters and one for every fraction over fifty"
and il is recommended that the Conserra-
tive vote for each county and city cast at the
late'eubernatorial election should be accepted
as the basis of representation" Taking the
vote for Kemper. Marshall Ward will have
9. Jefferson Ward 10, Madison Ward ID,
Monroe Ward 10, Clay Ward 10, jackson
total, 50.
Chesterfield will have 81; Caroline, IA;
Hanover, II; Henrico, 16; Louisa, 1l-total,
73. This is based upon the vote by counties,
! the vote by townships not being accessible.
Under the primary election plan ADOPTED
by the City Committee the friends OF the per-
SON receiving the highest number OF votes in
each ward are to nominate to the City Com
mittee delegates for that ward. Governor
Walkers friends will therefore name all OF
Richmond's delegates, and of course they
will be expected to cast their votes for him
in the Convention. The Convention will be
held at the Exchange Hotel on the 26th OF
| August.
After the vote had been announced Col
oue John II. Guy came into the committee
| room, and being called upon for speech ana
| enthusiastically cheered, briefly addressed
| the crowd which had assembled to hear the
result of the election. He made most stir"
ring address, and declared his intention TO
stand by the nomination Of the Conservative
party. and, rs he had always done on former
occasions, use bis best efforts to secure the
success of the party. His remarks were re.
ceiyed with loud applause.
At subsequent meeting OF the committee
Colonel Guy was unanimously II elected tc
serve on the committee from Madison Ward,
he having previously resigned that position.
TIE MERCHANTS LIcESSs-TiX-A TEST
CASE BEFORE THE COURTS.-Me>srs. A. I.
stokes tS Co., who have been assessed with
Il lcrnsc-taX of S513.19 upon their business
as merchants, have. through the counsel en-
lloycd by the merchants of Richmond, made
application to Judge Beverley Il. Wexford,
of the Circuit Court, for an injunction to re-
strain the collector OF State taxes from SELL
ing certain goods levied on by him on ac-
count Of their refusal TO pay the tax. The
motion for an Injunction was argued Yester-
day on behalf of the merchants by Judge
Ould and Mr.. Charles Z. Williams, and OIL
behalf of the Commonwealth by Mr.. r. Il.
Daniel, Attorney General. Judge Wexford
took time for consideration of the case.
Messrs. 4. Y. Stokes Il Co. in their bill
urge as objections to the tax in question that
il IS in conflict with the State and Federal
Constitutions, for the following reasons:
1st. That large portion of the purchases
of the firm are of imported foreign goods,
upon which an import duty has been paid
TO the Government OF the United States, and
to the extent of such purchases made, as
they charge, in unbroken packages, the as
sessment under the guise Of q license-taX is
an Indirect duty imposed by the State upon
| imports.
Cd. That large portion Of their purchases
are made of goods beyend the limits of Vir-
pinia. and within the confines Of other States
of the Union, and to the extent OF those
purchases they charge the assessment to be
an indirect imposition OF tax upon Inter
| State commerce, and as such in conflict with
the provision of the Constitution OF the
United States which gives to Congress the
! exclusive right TO regulate commerce De-
tween the States.
| Sd. That the assessment is not upon their
capital. but is q tax upon the privilege OF
doing business as merchants, and they
charge that under the Constitution of Vir-
| sinia the General Assembly cannot require
of them license tax, but can only impose
an equal, uniform, al ralorena tax upon the
capital employed by them, and they aver
| that they do not contemplate the purchase OF
| goods to the same amount for the current
year as they purchased for the year ending
| April 80, 1874, and they claim that the
assessment made upon tue purchases for the
preceding year as indicative Of what are to
| be their purchases, is not only arbitrary, but
| incorrect; they claim that if they are COM
| PEELED to pay upon that basis, the
| same tax will he eX&cted of them
as is imposed upon persons whose purchases
| will reach the aggregate of the purchases
| made by them for the preceding year. They
| alege that if the collector be allowed to ad-
yertise and sell the goods levied on by him
| irreparabk mischief will be done their busl-
ness, and for that reason they pray the IN
junction, as we'll as to avoid a multiplicity OF
suits.
Twas stated iu argument that the counsel
for the merchants have resorted to the rcme-
dy by Injunction in order to present the case
| In, several different aspects.
But their main effort to reach an adiudica-
ton of the question at issue will be by the
defence Of some one who is to be indicted
for doing business without license.
IsTEMpERAScE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
Yesterday morning the policeman in charge
of the Second StatiOn-house, upon visiting
the cell in which one Philip Krautz was con-
fined upon charge Of drunkenness, found
the prisoner hanging from his cell window
by cord passed around his neck and tied to
the grating. Krautz, who is BaYarlan im-