Connecticut western news., 1875-03-05
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 UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
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 Q credentials of A. s. Paddock, Senator-elec o from the State of Nebraska, for period of si Z years from March A. 1875. Read and placed ol IS file. -ss D a
 The House bill for the equalization of boun : | ties was read twice. and referred to the com I mittee on military affairs.
 t The Speaker presented letter from tho h Clerk in reference to the resignation of Mir z Purman, of Florida. and directed the name o Mir. Purman to be stricken from the roll o n members. s1 e1s sss < e MT. Howe, of Wisconsin called up his mo
 tion to reconsider the vote by which the bill tc grant site for the Peabody school in St. Au gustine, Fla, was passed.
 d MT. Boutwell,, of Massachusetts, said he was opposed to the bill as it now stood, because ii :, excluded colored chl ldrens from the sehoo1.s <
 The motion to reconsider was agreed to- yeas, 31; nays, 25-Messrs. Boreman Gilbert Lewis, Morrill,, of Vermont, Sargent, Sherman, |, Sprague and Tipton voting with the Democrats against the reconsideration.
 The resolution to admit MT. Pinchback of Louisiana, to seat in the Senate was laid on , the table by vote of 39 to 22-ffteen Republi-
 cans voting with the Democrats to effect the : object. This action practically kills the reso- lution, and is looked upon as great victory by ) the opponents of the President.
 The Senate considered the Indian Appropria-
 ton bill The amendment of the Senate com mittee on appropriations, increasing the amount , to subsist and care for the Apache Indians, in Arizona from $500 900 to $375, ,000, and for | | 900, was agreed in. 2 $ -...fh 2 ) During the discussion Mr. Sherman, of Ohio said these Indians'should be made to work and
 earn their living like other people. The policy
 of giving them food and clothing would not re- suit in good.
 Mir. Windom, of Minnesota, said the expense
 of feeding the Indians might be great, but the
 expense of fighting them was greater. ..
 The amendment authorizing the payment of $15O, 900 from the money in the treasury be- longing to the Seminole Indians, for land on the north fork of the Canadian river, was thrown out by the committee.
 The Senate agreed to the amendment appro- priation $30, 900 to liquidate such claims on the Round Valley Indian reservation, California, as are valid by virtue of pre-emption or home- stead entry. A / 'S - \ 7 :
 The credentials of Messrs. Angus Cameron, | Of Wisconsin, and Joseph b. McDonald of | Indiana, to represent those States for six years file. ' A'''''i :. '.'FT VT
 -. The following bills were then read the third time and passed: The Indian Appropriation, the Military Academy, and the Pension Appro- | priatiori. T '; i' = - .'' s1f IT i7- While the Post-office Appropriation bill was under discussion, Mir. Thurman offered an amendment, which was agreed to, providing 1 that the Congressional Record shall be carried | in the mails free of postage, which was still | further amended by providing that all public documents already printed by either House of Congress, may pass through the mails free,
  until December l, 1875. .''' st' ..f'ti III , An amendment, reinstatipg the franking privilege it formerly existed, was voted down by 32 yeas to 25 nays.
 The following bills wei passed For the re- publication of the Patest Office Gazette, to print theereport of Major Howell, and to print 5 500 more copies of the memorial services on the death of Prof. s. F, B. Morse.
 An amendment to the Military Academy bill, providing that hereafter only half the number of cadets be appointed, was laid on the table. | MT. Morton, in discussing the question, stated that our theory of government was not in- tended to keep standing army. Our theory | was to be prepared for war by having large | number of properly educated officers, and the | people could be relied upon to make up the army. ;
 j sThe House took up as 8 special order the bill reported from the committee on civil service reform by Mir. Kellogg, of Connecticut, for the | reorganization of the Treasury department.
 NIT. Young, of Georgia offered an amend ment requiring the appointments of the de- partment to be distributed among the States and Territories in proportion to the population. Agreed to. '. t- .
 The bill was then passed-yeas, 128; nays. 30. Of the principal officers it fixes the salaries follows Secretary, $s GOO two assistant secretaries $4, 300 each chief clerk, $3, GOO !; supervising architect, $4, ,ooo first comptroller, S5,o00; second comptroller, $5,000; comnis- sioner of customs S4, soc; first, second third, fourth and fifth auditors, $4, ,000 each auditor for the Post-offce department, $4, GOO regis ter S4 coo; treasurer, SC, 500 comptr oller of the currency, $5, 900 {; commissioner of internal revenue, $6, 900.
 MT. Myers, of Pennsylvania, introduced . bill to return to the government of Japan one half of the indemnity fund paid by that gov ernmept to the United States under the con- yention of October 22, 1864, and to dispose of the balance of said fund. Referred to the | committee on foreign affairs. '"
 Section one of the bill directs the return to Japan of $375, 900, with interest, being the re- malnlng half of the Japan indemnity fund paid ! by Japan. Section two directs payment to the | officers and crews of the Wyoming and Kiang, of S125, GOO out of this fund for their services in the, battles Tt the Straits of Simonoseki, which resulted in the treaty. Section three directs that $500, 900 of the registered bonds. in which half of this fund is invested, shall re- main under the control of the Secretary of | State, the interest to be paid by him for the education of limited number of American and Japanese youths in the languages of either country, to serve as interpreters and assistants to the legations and consuls of the United States. Section four transfers the balance of the Japanese indemnity fund to the treasury of | the United States
 The House in Committee of the Whole con- sidered the Tariff bill
 MT. Burchard of Illinois, said he had no ob- jection to see the tax on tea and coffee reinn- posed as it was equally distributed, and every dollar collected went into the treasury. He also did not object to the increased tax on whisky and tobacco; and estimated that it would yield ,$30, ,oOO,0o0. He did, however, ob- Ject to the restoration of the ten per cent. on certain manufactured goods, and argued that it would disturb all the interes! of the country while 1t would only produce 5000, ,o00. E i
 MT. Banning, of Ohio, opposed the bill, and particularly the proposed increased tax on WHISKY, which he thought would have tho ef- feet of increasing smug ggllng and illicit distill- ng, and 50 reduce the revenue. , He stated that the revenue WAS greater when the tax was seventy cents gallon, than when it was S2 %.
 NIT. Chlttenden, of New York, considered the bill erroneous, and characterized the fifth sec ton as bold and glaring fraud like the Head statue" business
 Mir. Cox, of New York, in his speech in oppo- sltlon to the bill, stated that the people of the country had paid iS7, O00 OOO 900 in taxes in the past two years, which amounted to about five per cent per annum on our whole taxable valu- ation. He quoted Gov. Tlden, of New York, as ms authority for saying that every twenty years tnere IS assessed for taxes sum equal to the entire assessed wealth of the country. g
 In 1864 spirits were taxed twenty cents per [ gallon, and the receipts were $28, ,431, ,0OO; and when year later the tax was increased to $l:5O, the receipts fell off to SIC. O0O GOO. In 1866 the tax was raised to $2.0O, and the re- ceipts ran up to $29, GOO, ,o00 and in 1867. under che same tax, dropped to $28 GOO OaO, and in 1868 went down to $13, 419, GOO. Then the folly of high taxation was seen and the tax re- duced to fifty cents, and that year the receipts 1 wee doubled, amounting to S3S, 2S5 coo. In 1870 the same tax gave $3S, coo, 00p; but rise to seventy cents in 1871 gave but $50, GOO, GOO.
 Mr. Niblack, of Indiana, had thought for years that the tariff should bs revised but op- posed this bill now, as he could not see the need ot increased taxation at this time. g..
 Mir: Beck, of Kentucky, thought that addi- tional revenue was required, but argued against the increased tax on whisky and tobacco, and denounced the whole bill as failure.
 MT. Ward, of Illinois, thought the increase of tax on whisky would be an injury to legiti- mate distillers, inasmuch as it would encourage illicit distillng. -.i =. E 70
 Mr. Garfield wanted to ta V 1uI,isLy n; oh+r eu..[