The Portland daily press., 1874-05-26
WASHINGTON,
The Utah Delegate Investigated.


WASHINGTON, May 25.-The House Commit
tee on Elections to-day examined Belle Kim
| ball. daughter of Elder Kimball of the Nor
mon church. She testified that Cannon, the
| delegate in Congress, married his fourth wife
| in 1865. Cannon at the set out on combined
wedding and preaching trip accompanied by
| his wife number one and wife number four, but
| to the latter he devoted the most attention
The witness did not know whether other wives
were living or not The object of the investi-
cation is to establish the fact of polygamy on
the part of Cannon, the charge having been
preferred as rendering him ineligible under the
anti-polygamy law to a seat in the House as a
delegate from Utah.
Internal Revenue Amendments.
Among the amendments to the internal rev.
enue laws appended to the tariff bill reported
to-day, are the following:
Each collector is to appoint as many deputies
as he may think proper under certain regula-
tions The provision is for the redemption of
the revenue documentary stamps, the use of
which We're rendered necessary by the repeal of
the tax for the payment of which such stamps
were provided. They are to be redeemed be-
fore the first of October next
Schedule Z. Is amended to read as follows:
| Bank checks, drafts, and vouchers for the pay
| ment OF any sum or money whatever, drawn
upon any banker, bank or trust company to
pay tax of ten cents.
Amendments are made by which brewers are
called wholesale and retail dealers in malt
liquors, instead of being classed as di- tllers
Heavy penalties are prescribed for affixing to
barrels, casks or kegs any label bearing the
similtude of an official stamp. No mash shall
be fermented elsewhere than in distillery
Match manufacturers are required to keep
thelr books open for Inspection and to mark
Oh the box or package the number of matches
contained therein, the neglect to do so subject
ing them to penalties.
State banks are to pay tax of 10 per cent.
on their circulating notes; also any person,
hrm or association who issues notes other than
those of national banks to pay the same rate
of tax.
The bill abolishes proprietary stamps upon
all medicines prepared in accordance with the
stand, I'd formula or physicians prescriptions
Any farmer or planter may sell at the place
of production, tobacco of his own growth at
retail directly to consumers, to an amount not
exceeding 800 annually.
A Dishonest Postal Clerk.
Edward Taylor, postal clerk between Wash
ington and Lynchburg. is held in $4,000 for trial
for robbing the mails.
Treasury Balances.
The following are the Treasury balances to-
day :-Currency, 1891, 999; special deposit of
legal tenders for redemption of certificates of
deposit S57 300 900; coin, $50, 295, 1871, including
coin certificates $35056 100; outstanding legal
The Currency Question.
cial says that the new currency bill will be up
in the House to-day or tomorrow, when Mr..
Maynard, obeying the instructions of the COM
mittee, will move the previous question of cut
ting all the amendments but one, viz To make
the percentage of greenbacks to be retired SO
instead of 40. 1t is believed that the bill thus
amended will be accepted by the majority as
the best practicable disposition of the question
The committee express the belief that the
President will sign the bill.
Various Matters.
The President sent to the Senate to-day The
name of Richard l.. House, as a member of
the Board of Public Works for the District of
Columbia, vice Adolph Cluss removed; also
nominations of 40 mdshipmen to be ensigns
in the navy.
The Internal revenue receipts to-day were
$607, 142.
The War department has news that 300
Pawnees and Wichitas are on the war path in
Western Texas, it is believed for the purpose of
stealing horses.