New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-17
WASHINGTON.

The bill to provide tor the electlOn oI
Congressman at large for Alabama passed.
WASHINGTON.
Cabinet Meeting.
WAsH1SGToN, June l6-At the Cabinet
meeting today all the members we're
present, except the Secretary OF War. Inc
session was unimpOrtant.
Combinations.
James NJ. Finds, of Alabama, consul at
Rio Janeiro; William NJ. Douglas. of Vlr-
cinia, consul at Bradford, England; John
L. Cadwallader, of New York, assistant
secretary Of State.
District Affairs.
The formal report of the Senate Commit.
rec asserts all the rascalities in the District
government foreshadowed in these dis.
paches. The debt is $2l ,000, 600.
No Action.
The Judiciary Committee, at meeting
this morning, took no action on the case OF
Busteed or Judge Durell. Judge Story has
resigned.
The Moiety Bill.
The conference report on the molety bill
makes the following arrangement OF the
points Of disagreement between the House
and Senate: The repeal of moieties Is con-
fined to those arising under the customs
and revenue laws, as provided by the
Senate: section FIVE, of House bill, as passed
hy the Senate, authorizing the production
| OF books, any book or paper, in court, on
| morton of the district attorney, with the
proviso that the owner or agent should De
present and retain their custody during the
| examination which must be confined to the
specific point at issue, ls recommended Aof
I retention.
| TIE defendants are to be allowed to ap-
| pear and testify in their own behalf.
In order TO secure uniformity in this re-
| spec; IN all the States, judges are allowed
| ro decree imprisonment not exceeding two
Years III addition to other penalties pro-
| vided for py the bill for making false en-
tries with the intention to defraud the
| revenue.
| The Senate amendment, extending for.
| feiture 10 the entire package containing the
! articles tainted with fraud, but forbidding
| the forfeiture OF the entire invoice on this
| account, as -eq uired by the existing law, is
| retained by the conference committee.
Tne committee restore the provision OF
the original House bill allowing any owner
| or claimant TO obtain the release OF mer
cbandise seized by giving bonds satisfac
tory TO the collector after all accrued duties
| shall have been paid.
The committee also restore the section
originally offered by the Finance COMMITTEE
requiring the Judge on his own motion, o,
Oh the motion of another party to the suit
70 submit to the jury as distinct and sepa
rate proposition the question whether an
actual intent to detraud the revenue has
| been shown.
The conference committee also restores
section seventeen of the original House bill
tortidding United States officers from max
| ing any compromise, or to settle any claim;
of the United States arising under the Gus
| toms laws, but amended this section, so a;
to allow the Secretary Of the Treasury tt
remit fines or penalties, as provided by
| existing laws.
The conference committee recommends
| the fixing of one year instead of three a:
the time in which no claim shall be made
bv the United States for duties on imported
| goods unless frauds are discovered, or
protest has been filed by the owner. Tney
also tx two years instead Of three as th'
time alter which no suit shall be commenced
for tire recovery OF any customs, penalty, Of
| forfeiture.
| The conference committee report in favo,
of fixing the salaries of customs officers a
New York, Boston, Baltimore, San Fran
| cisco, New Orleans and Portland, as pro
posed by the Senate Finance Committee
and heretofore published, and recommend
that the salaries of all other customs officer!
snail remain as fixed by existing laws.
The conference committee recommend
that the last section of the bill as passed by
the Senate shall be amended, as follows
| That all acts and parts Of acts inconsistent
with the provisions of this act are hereb.
repealed; that nothing herein contained
shall effect existing laws of the United
States, and in all cases in which prosecu
tons have been actually commenced fol
forfeitures incurred, the Secretary of the
Treasury shall have power to make com
pensation, as provided in the fourth section
of this act, 20 the persons who would under
former laws have been entitled to share 10
the disposition of such forfeit. The report il
signed on the part of the Senate by Messrs
Scott and B B4yard, and en- the part of the
House 0y Roberts, Sheldon and Wood
The signature Of Senator Howe, the re-
naming conferee. is not appended.
| Personal.
| Governor Kellogg, Marshal Packard, Dr
Smythe and Senator Anderson are here.
Associate Justice Bradley is here.
| The Impeachment Cases.
The Judiciary Committee meets to-mol
row again, when they threaten to TAX
some action IN the Impeachment cases.
The Canal Bill.
The friends Of the st. Philip Canal nav
neither abandoned hope nor action IN tavo
of the canal this session. 1t will ride se'
era) important appropriation bills.
The Vice President Thinks the Govern
men, should Take the Levees
Hand.
2. J.~Kennedy had an hours intervie'
with Vice President Wilson, who expresse
himself in full sympathy with the ioode
people of the Southwest. Mr.. Wilson wi
use his influence in behalf of the pendin
bill for g 2,G00, 900 for levee purposes. b
thinks the federal government should tax
the levees IN hand.