Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-02-10
WASHINGTON.
More Taxes to Pay and More
Millions to Squander.
Butler Engineering the Postal
Telegraph Bill
What is Thought About Grants
Arkansas Message.
A Plot Pregnant with Per- 60
the South
More TaHe1 fOr the People-MOAe cash
fo stsuautfes.

tO squander
WAS IINGTOSy, Feb. p.,-ilhe Committee
0I 7" avs and Means today agreed upon the
u aft Of a tariff and tax bill. It proposes
to raise about S30,00O,O00 should no mOdi-
hcstion Of il take place before it is reported.
ihe ten per cent taken from the duties un-
DER the second section of the act Of June,
1872, win be restored. The articles thus
to be aaeaed are manufactured cotton,
wool iron and steel, paper, books, India
r05Oer, gutta percha, glass, leather, etc.
lea and coffee are to remain free Of duty,
out sugars Of all kinds are to bear an addi-
tlOnal duty. The tax on whisky and TO
baccO will also be increased. The COM
miitee will hold another meeting to perfect
toe bill.
The majority of the cOmmiflee decided
that sugar and molaSses can bear an addi-
tional duty of - per cent, and tobacco an
increase Of four cents per pound; that
matches should be relieved from tax, and
that the tax on spirits should be increased
fifteen cents a gallon, operating upon all
now on hand, but that 80 per cent. should
be iIHpOsed on all spirits manufactured after
the passage Of the bill; and stamps on
bank checks 10 cease at the end Of this
year. These changes will be incorporated
in the bill.
There is reason 70 believe that the Presi-
dent will, in a short time, nominate Goe.
j. A. Campbell, Of Wyoming to be Third
Assistant Secretary Of State.
The Postal Telegraph Job.
Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Senator Dorsey, from the Senate Com
mittee on Postal Affairs, reported the bill
IL Al
and prescribing the rates which they shall
charge for news and other matter.
A similar bill has been agreed I'D
on by the Judiciary Committee Of
the House, which viii report Il as
soon as called. A large number of Sena-
tors and Representative, the latter led by
Gen. Butler, are quietly working to secure
the passage Of this measure. They believe
that 1t will have The effect Of breaking up
the Associated Press and making the lead
ing papers Of the country Obedient to the
dictates Of tie caucus. Gen. Butler, it is
announced, will champion it in the House
in strong speech.
The Arkansas Message.
s. No act of Grants administration has
produced . more startling sensation than
his special message upon Arkansas. Even
his own friends are surprised. Attorney
General Williams stated only the other day
that he had no reason to believe that the
President had changed the views which
led him last spring to recognize the Bax
ter government as the lawful State GOV
erumenJ of Arkansas. There have been
no Cabinet meetings held lately upon
the subject, but for weeks past
Senators Clayton and Dorsey have been
quietly operating upon Grant. BOthsfthese
men know that if the people Of Arkansas
are allowed selfgOvernment, they are
doomed 70 political death when their Sena-
tOrial terms shall expire. In addition to
this, there is huge railroad Job, involving
over five millions Of dollars, TO BE- effected
in this mode, by which the CLAYTON
and Dorsey ung expect to grow
rich at the expense of the people.
1t will be remembered that Grant susl aimed
Gov. Baxter in 1S72-73, and again also in
BaxteT's contest last spring with Brooks.
MiT. Williams delivered an elabOraf~- .,;.,
ion upon the subject, VIII go T.,
supposed, closed all of Federal inter
ference. The report obtains Gi IS til that the
80 lS'i''1 %. came up lately to the capitol,
-. there sent for Messrs. PO'and, Scud-
I der and Ward. the three Republican men,
bers of the special committee on Ar
kansas affairs, and endeavO7ed TO
induce them TO frame such a report as
would justify the overthrow by military
force of the present State government.
Two of these gentlemen, MessTs. Poland
and Scudder. refused to surrender their
honest and independent judgment in the
matter; and the result is a report drawn
by Poland, and signed by four out Of the
five members Of the committee, declaring
that the Constitution Of Arkansas was
lawfully adopted and ratified by a large
majority Of the legal voters, and that
there is no authority in any branch Of the
General Government 20 overthrow it or the
State government, Of which Gov. Garland
is the head. The message is undoubtedly
meant as an endeavOr by the President 10
induce Congress TO repudiate the Poland
report, though made by an extreme Re
publican partisan, and to prepare the pub
lie mind for action after Congress ad-
iOurns, similar TO that of Sheridan at New
Orleans.
Some Of the most prominent Southerners
are really doubtful whether this or any
other act of usurpatiOn will arouse the
Northern people in time to arrest the sue
cess of the third term plot.
In the House Of Representatives there is
a strong hope on the part Of prominent
Democrats that many Of the Republican
members will stand up to the Poland re-
port, and repudiate the message. Much de-
pends on the manner in which Poland will
stand up to his own report. He has de-
clared to-day, since the message was read,
that he will not surrender or modify his
position. The subject is not ex-
pected to come up in the House fora week.
If the House shall, by an emphatic vote,
declare that there is no authority for the
Federal Government 20 interfere with the
State Government of Arkansas, and public
opinion shall be manifested with equal de-
ciSiOn, it is possible that the President may
hesitate to pursue the revolutionary aud
bloody programme be has marked out for
himself as his road to absolute power.