The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-01-11

TOBACCO SUIT ED-CoMMERcIAI.
TRouBLEs-THE PROPOSED RUsso-TURK.
ISL ARMfsTIcE. &c, &C.
! Washington.
THE TOBACCO AND wIffsKEY-TAx-wHAT THE
! FRIENDS OF THE PROPOSED REDUCTION
| THINK OP 1.-THE CHARGES MADE AGAINST
UNITED STATES DEPUTY AARSHALs--A yIR.
| GINA CASE IN THE SUPREME C0URT-C0N.
GREss, &C., &C.. =
/ From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, January 10.-The Virgin.
ian advocates OF reduction OF the tax en-
tobacco and whiskey have been very active
to-day. While it seems to be evident that
the House Committee OF Ways and Means
viii report in favor of reduction on to.
bacco to Is cents per pound and on whis-
KEY to so cents per gallon, members OF Con-
gress from the tobacco and whiskey sections
are urging much greater reduction. For
instance, Judge Buckner, Of Missouri, q
native Virginian, says that he is in favor
Of reduction OF the tobacco tux
to s cents, and that then it will give
a revenue OF S15,o00,0O0; while Colonel
Franklin, OF Missouri, favors, reduction
OF the whiskey tax to twenty-five cents per
gallon. In the interviews held to-day in
regard to tobacco it has been shown that ac-
cordng to the report OF the Commissioner OF
Internal Revenue, under the present tax,
621 persons engaged in the leaf trade, and
4,306 who have been manufacturers, have
been driven from the tobacco business. It
is furthermore stated that all the Republi-
cans asked few years ago was that the
tax on tobacco should realize S25,00O,000,
and that now it reaches S41 100000. and
that with tax OF twelve cents per pound
$50, 100000 can be raised. The whiskey
men are contending that with a tax OF fifty
cents per gallon $50,000,000 can be raised.
This will.cause tobacco and whiskeAto con-
tribute $4,000, 900 of the Sl20,0O0, 600 raised
under the internal revenue system. The
| tobacco committees from Louisville and
other important points telegraph that they
will be here by Saturday, so that then they
may go before the Committee of Ways and
Nleans and present their views.
AN UNEQUAL DIVISION.
A western member OF Congress, who is
on the Committee on Public Buildings, says
that Maine has eleven public buildings,
Vermont and other New England States q
like proportion, all erected ut the expense
Of the Federal Government, while Missouri
has but one, and that other western States
are equally badly treated.
TIE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CHEATED.
Dir. Jorgensen, NJ. C.. from the Peters.
burg district, says that the special agent Of
the Government sent to Virginia to look
into the charges made by the collector OF
internal revenue against certain deputy
marshals, &C., in the Western district Of
Virginia, reported to the Department of
Justice to-day. He has ascertained that
Of sixty-one persons alleged TO have been ar
rested for q violation CT the revenue laws
only three were indicted; that charges for
arrests, mileage, board, witnesses, &C.,
amounting in each case from $40 to $50,
have been made where there was no arrest.
In word, that the Governments officials
have manufactured cases to increase their
fees. Colonel Gray, of Rockingham, is the
marshal; and according to the report fur
nished the Dispatch's correspondent he
denies all knowledge or participation in the
alleged irregularities.
FREDERICKSBURG CASE DECIDED.
In the case Of the United States against
McCracken, decided at Alexandria to-day,
| Judge Hughes held that the detention Of
the horses Of the mail-carrier, under the
circumstances, was legal, and that it did
not come within the statute making SINH
| lar offence misdemeanor.
| woMEN's RIGHTS.
In the Senate and House to-day there
were vigorous efforts in behalf Of women's
rights. In the House Mr. Kelly, Of Penn
sylvania moved to fix Saturday for hearing
the strong-minded in favor of SO amending
the Constitution as to give suffrage without
regard to sex.
| Mr.. Crittenden, OF Missouri, son Of
John j. Crittenden, objected TO the con-
sideration of the resolution and it went
over. 1t was q bold act, and one OF the
lobby said audibly, "Good.bye Crit"
Mr.. Kelly, the mover Of the resolution,
by the way, says the trouble in Virginia is
that the people do not know the value Of
time, and adds that he once knew the train
to be stopped ut Fredericksburg in order
that the passengers might see a negro dance
| on the platform.
| VARIOUS ITEMS.
Messrs. Goode, Hunton, Cabell, Tucker,
and Jorgensen, Of Virginia, were in their
seats to-day.
Mr.. Sargent, Of California, is endeayor-
ing to make capital for the Radicals out Of
the Chinese question.
Silver resolutions pour into the Senate
| from organizations South, West, and else
where.
DR.. Mary Walker, who was In Castle
Thunder during the war, says all the color
ed women in the South, under the tbir-
tenth and fourteenth amendments, will
vote at the next presidential election.
Colonel w. 2. Burwell is working very
theoretically in behalf of the tobacco inter-
ests OF Richmond,
The Doorkeeper Of the House to-day dis
L =