The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-27
SOUTH AMERICA.
FAULKNER. Chairman.

BRAZILIAN ESTIMATES OF REVENUE FOR THE
CURRENT FINANCIAL YEAR-MERCHANT SHIP
PING IN THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.
RIO JANEIRo, Oct. 4. 1872
On the I'd inst the Senate passed the estimates of
revenue for the current financial year. in second
reading an arrangement being entered into by the
Minister Of Finance and the chairman of the com
mittee that the Minister'S objections to the Senate
amendments should be considered before the third
reading, and. if possible. compromise arrived
at. In fact, the committee amendments
have made grave alterations in the Depu-
ties votes. and deprive the governments Of seven
millions Of revenue. The increase Of the
custom house storage is accepted to range from "a
per cent to per cent. according to stay. The Rio
dock due on vessels and bargcs and the wharf rate
on goods adopted, but the Senate has rejected
the anchorage due. restoring instead the lighthouse
dues and doubling their present rate. Imported
tobacco no viewer, is to be saved from double duty
and taxed only 10 per cent plus the so cent
tax which will make the actual duty GO per cent. and
the proposed 20 per cent on the sales Of dealers
in tobacco has been eliminated. The in
creased stamp duties have been in part
cepted. also the doubled tax non-carming
slaves, the 1000 milreis slave dealers. the in
creased lotteries the taxes foreign titles.
sc. The tux of 20 refs to / milreI Il cent
gers by government railways and by steamship lines
subsidized by the State. and the 20 reis per
passenger on tramroads is limited to the Rio tram
roads. The import duty of 30 res per kilo-
gramme lsl9 toni on ice is rf1rstoa ~ also the
ss a psr TO on the II per cent dV
dend tax to per cent. and has rejected the
per cent income tax on mnofh ;,alnd, IN,
pay Of Legislators the Senate grants only per cent
on incomes of 1000 milreis and upward. although
the Deputies voted 20 per cent on legislative
incomes and s per cent on other official incomes.
The Senate has likewise refused consent to the
port taxes in gold These changes gravely affect the
government calculations OF revenue but the Senate,
by increasing the calculations OF yield ana by rednc
ing the votes of expenditure. shows surplus
of $4,000 milreis. the estimate being Revenue.
1l4sOS.oOO mireis; expenditure. 96S milreis.
FUSION THE HOUSES.
The government has declared that many of the
Senate reductions of appropriations aud elimina-
tions OF new unacceptable. and it is ex-
pected that the Deputies will support the govern
ent will have to be made to the extraordinary
expcdient of fusion OF both houses. by which the
nulled by the government majority in the Deputies
Meantime the government has made third pro-
lonCatlon of the session TO the 18th; but rs the
Deputies are not drawing their $3.50 month, they
have met only twice during the last ten days. and
of the parrots they unexpectedly called.
in allusion to their powers OF empty talk. would
have this winged their Hight from Lilo.
MARQUEE do Herval. Minister Of War, has been
very i'll q week from attack of acute
pneumonia. Yesterday lie had relapse ana to-day
he in u very critical state and 1t is feared that the
gallant old soldier will never mount horse again.
Should he die it is likely that Sehor Sinimbu will
take the opportunity to resign direction of public
affairs which has become virtually inpracticable,
owing the resolve OF the conservative Senate ma
jor ty to conccde him nothing aud To the tAint sup
port open hostility of most of the HbS0Al Sena-
tors.
A Brazilian coasting steamer. named the Clara
Anna, burst her boilers last week when entering
Espirto Santo port, and killed tho commander.
mate, two engineers, seaman and planter, be-
sides scalding wounding almost all on board.
The government has decided that the Roach
packets call at the port of Maranham. and has
to-day promu gated the act granting the subsidy OF
200. 900 milreis per annum to the line with the
stipulation OF tho inclusion of the Maranham call
and allowing additional day for the round trip.
The City of Para will take Al. 900 bags of coffee
MEASURES THE ARGENTINE RkPUDLIc.
The following measures passed by Congress in the
Argentine Republic affect foreign merchant ship
ping sanitary tax of two cents per ton. II FROM an
infected port II without clean bill OF health the
rate will be four Light due of six cents per
register ton GU ali vessels from outside the capes.
Vessels ballast win pay half rates, and vessels put
in through stress OF weather, and neither loading
nor unloading cargo. will be exempt. A decree
issued OH the 23l of September exempts
packets from the obligation to give free passages.
but requires them to pay the hight and other dues,
and IN default deprvcs them OF packet privileges
revolution has broken out again in JuJuy.
CHILEAN MOVEMENTS.
The last kilograms from Valparaiso report the sail
ing on the 2lst of September OF eight steam trans
ports carrying 1000 troops. to reinforce the Chilean
army in the Desert of Atacama. which. by Bolivian
kilograms, was reported to be hard pressed by the
allied Bolivian and Peruvian army that had advanced
fhrau he Iese IL.