The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-13

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PLE-sURRENDER OF MORE INSURGENTS
IN CUBA-FAVoRABLE REPORT ON THE
AUSTRIAN VOTE OF CREDIT-HITCH IN
THE FORMATION OF The NEW ITALIAN
MINISTRY, &C., &c.
Washington.
TEE POSTAL sAvINGs-BOND BILL-THE EST
MATES FOR VIRGINIA RIVERS; AND HAKBoRs-
PENSIONERS TO BE FURNISHED WITH
| s-sURGEOE-GENERAL HAMMOND-
FREE sHIPs-soUTHERNPA PACIFIC RAILROADS.
THE TAX ON INCoMEs-THE CONSULAR AND
DIPLOMATIC BILL-CeLoNEL PoLK's TRoU-
| BLEs, ETC.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE Ways and
Means Committee to-day voted to report
what may be termed postal savings-b6nd
biil. 1t is modification OF that introduced
by Mr.. Burchard, Of Illinois, and provides
that anybody may send 81 or larger sum
By postal order to the United States Trea-
sury, and when the deposit so made reaches
$40 may obtain certificate bearing 3.65 per
cent. interest per annum, and when it
amounts to $50 bond bearing per cent.
Upon deposits without certificate per
cent is to be allowed. Where the deposits
amount to $1,000 the Secretary Of the Trea-
sury may compel the depositor to take a
4-per-cent. bond. Up to the time the de-
post is invested in bond, however,
the party may withdraw it, and hence
1t partakes, it is claimed, Of the ma
ture of call loan. 1t is estimated
that not more than 10 per cent. will
be SO withdrawn, and that the remain
ing 90 per cent. may be used by the Gov
eminent in refunding G-per-cent. bonds
in 4-per-cent. bonds. The Wallace Senate
bill now before the same committee differs
from this in having no deposit feature.
The committee were divided in regard to
the deposit provision, and members are left
free to oppose this in the House. The OBJ
lection to it is that it makes the Government
a competitor OF savings institutions.
VIRGINIA RIVERS AND HARBoRs.
Mr.. Goode went before the House Com
mittee OF Commerce to-day and made an ar
gument in favor of increasing the pIelimi-
nary estimates for Norfolk harbor and Eliz-
abeth and Nansemond rivers; and mem
Der OF the committee informs your CORE
spondent that the estimate OF $4,000 for
Norfolk harbor will be increasedto $4,000,
the engineers estimate, and Mr.. Goode
thinks that Elizabeth river will get $4,000
and Nansemond $4,000. he also urged the
necessity OF appropriations for improving
the navigation OF Hampton river, Black
water, Pagan creek, and ChickahominY
river.
THE INCOME TAX.
The proposed scheme Of the income tax
gives an exemption OF all incomes not ex-
ceeding $4,000; also Of the rental value OF
the homestead occupied by any person or
his family, or the amount paid for rent for
house or premises occupied; and also all
national, State, county, and municipal taxes
paid during the year. After making these
allowances, the income up to $4,000 is taxed
two per cent; the income between $4,000
and $4,000 is taxed three per cent, and
that above $4,000 four per cent.
PENSIONS.
Senator Withers is in daily receipt OF let
tiers asking him to recommend suitable
Washington lawyers aud pension agents to
persons interested in the bill just signed by
the President. he requests your CORE
spondent to state that all pensioners have to
do is to write to the Pension Bureau here
for blanks, which will be furnished as soon
as they can be prepared. Then, when filled
ND, the party has only to swear to them be-
fore a notary and forward them direct to
the Pension Bureau. II the testimony
furnished is inadequate, they will be in
formed OF the fact by the pension officers.
WENT ALONE.
The Senate o-day passed the bill giving
the President the power to review the tes-
timony in the case Of Surgeon-General Ham
mond, dismissed by the finding Of court
martial during the war. Mr.. Plumb, OF
Kansas, made a lengthy speech against it,
and when the roll was called he alone voted
in the negative.
FREE SHIPS.
Captain John Goldman, OF New York, adj
dressed the Ways and Means Committee in
favor of free ships, and contended that the
present policy, which will not permit ar
American to purchase q foreign ship, com
pels us to pay S13O,OO0,O00 annually to for
eign ships for freights, which they could
have given American ship-owners. sailors
SC. This monopoly had its origin, the Cap
tain says, in compromise between slavery
and ship-building.
APPEALS IN CRIMINAL CASES.
The House Judiciary Committee to-day
unanimously voted to report the bill o.
Judge Harris, OF Virginia, granting thu
right of appeal in criminal cases from dis
trict courts OF the United States to circuit
courts of the United States. The bill viii
meet with no serious opposition in Con
gress.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROADS.
The House Judiciary Committee also to
day reported in favor OF annulling the ac
Of the Arizona Legislature which granted
Mr.. Huntington's Southern Pacific road tht
right of way over the route granted to Col
onel Tom SCOTS Texas Pacific in that Ter
ritory.
THE CONSULAR AND DIPLOMATIC BILL.
The House at an early hour went int
Committee Of the Whole to-day on the con
sular and diplomatic bill, when MIR. Hale, o
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