Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-03-07


mise of these cases. The best men of Sur
ry county are involved, and the Commission
or has assented to lenient course with them,
as he states, upon the belief and with the hope
that it will produce good effect in that Sec
tion of the country, and secure in the future
proper regard for and more general en-
forcement of the Internal Revenue laws. 1t
is also intimated that unless such be the
result offenders from North Carolina will be
severely dealt with hereafter.
The Next State Tax.
- The Columbia correspondent of the
Charleston Ne,os and Courier gives the fol-
lowing synopsis of the supply bill, which is
now ready:
1t provides for the current expenses of the
fiscal year, general State tax of five and
one.half mills exclusive of the two mill school
tax. County taxes will be not over three
mills, in addition to which there will be in
several counties a special tax, ranging from
one and half to two mills, to pay the past
indebtedness. The poll tax is limited TO per-
sons from 81 to so years of age. Gold and
silver coin and National bank notes only are
receivable in payment. The taxes are made
due and payable in two equal instalments,
from the first of May to the first of June, and
from the first of October to the first of Novem.
Der. 1t is left optional, however, to pay the
whole amount at the time of the second in
stament, with penalty of six per cent. on the
first instalment and when the tax and pen
atty are not paid on or before the first of
November, an additional penalty of fifteen
per cent. is added, and county treasurers
shall collect by distress or otherwise. fsuch
delinquent taxes and penalties be not then
paid by the fifteenth of November, they
shall be collected by sale. Section II levies
two mills for the public schools. ST..
The committe estimate that $6l6, 1924 81, ex-
elusive of the cash in che treasury and the
probable receipts from phosphate royalty, will
be required to meet the appropriations and
interest due on the public debt. One mill in
1S76-'77 yielded $ll9,1l4. Five and one
half mills should, therefore, a little more than
raise the above amount. ....
Veto of the Silver Bill. ...r....
- The message of President Hayes, veto
ing the silver bill, was received in the House
of Representatives at half past one o'clock
last Thursday afternoon. The message was
announced while roll call was pending, and
after Speaker Randall opened the package,
the fact that it was a veto was generally
known before the paper was read. 1t crea.
ted good deal of excitement, aud members
we're exceedingly restless until its contents
were known. The proceedings subsequent to
the reading of the message are thus reported
by the Washington Star:
Att: As o'clock Speaker Randall laid the
message before the House. The President, in
withholding his signature from the bill, says
that after careful consideration of the sub
iect, he is compelled to return the bill with
out his signature. His objections are that
the silver dollar is worth eight or ten cents
less than the gold dollar. He contends that
the coinage Of the silver dollar would pre-
vent revenue from imports that compel the
payment oftoo much of the debt in silver. He
holds that our bonds were paid for in gold
when silver had deprecated, and then no one
would have bou ght them had it been antici-
pated that they were to have been paid in
silver. The United States, he says, received
the benefits of these sales, and when doubts
we're expressed as to the coin in which they
were to be paid, the announcement was made
that they were to be paid in gold, and good
faith requires that they should be. One de.
feet he urges against the bill is that it makes
no provision for the payment of the pre.exist-
ing debts of the government, which were con.
tracted in gold, and when it was the sole legal
tender. He says that national honor should
be guarded with unfinching fidelity, because
there is no power TO compel nation to pay
its debts, and he cannot approve of bill
which will violate the national honor; that if
the silver dollars are to be made legal ten
der, they must be made equal in value to the
gold dollars.
After the reading, quite number OF the
silver men crowded around Representa-
tive A. H. Stephens to know what he pro-
posed to do with the bill. Speaker Randall,
under the law, required the Clerk to read
the bill as it passed both houses. Upon its
conclusion, Mr.. Stephens moved that the bill
be passed, the Presidents veto to the contrary
The main question was or.
dered without a dissenting vote. Mr.. Ste
phens moved that all who wanted to print
their remarks in the Record have the privi.
lege. There were several objections. Mr..
Cox said that the veto need not be further
discussed. 1t "was charge Of fraud by
a fraud" Mr.. McCook, of New York de-
mauded that the words be taken down. Then
quite a scene of confusion ensued Finally
it was quietcd by the statement made by the
Speaker that Mr.. Cox had no right to make
the remark when he did, as the first name on
the roll had been called, and that the words
uttered would not 90 into the Record Mr..
McCook then said that if the words were not
to 20 into the Record he was satisfied. The
vote was then proceeded with.
The roll-call on the vote to pass the bill
over the veto was finished at twenty minutes
of three o'clock. The bill was passed, not
withstanding the Presidents objections, by
yeas 1876 to nays 73 The announcement of
the vote was received with applause on the
floor and in the galleries.
Martin j. Townsend, of New York, voted
to pass the bill over the Presidents veto,
though heretofore he has invariably voted
against the bill in every stage. Messrs.
Bragg, of Wis. Kelly, of Pa, and Cook, of
Ga, left their sick beds to come to the House
and vote to pass the bill over the Presidents
veto.
MERE.MENTION.
Al