Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-02-08
AFFAIRSAT WASHINGTON
AMENDMENT TO INTERNAL REVENUE
LAWS. "
Pay Of Letter Carriers Potter Committee
Nominations by the President
Pension Arean-Agri,
cultural Report.
Proposed Amendments TO Internal
Revenue Laws.

Proposed Amendments TO Intsrna
Revenue Laws.
WASHINGTON, February THE Sen
ate Finance Committee orders reported
to the Senate and House q bill amend
ing the internal revenue laws. The
committee, by vote OF hve to fonr
recommend concurrence In the House
provisions reducing the tax on manu-
factured tobacco to sixteen cents per
pound. The vote in detail was: Ayes
Messrs. Jones New, Bayard, Nernan,
Wallace, Voorhees, s. Nays-Messrs.
Morrill,, Dawes, Ferry, Allison--I.
The committee fixed the tax on snuff
at twenty-four cents, and struck out all
provisions relative to the tax on cigars,
cheroots and cigarettes, thus leaving
them subject TO taxation st the existing
rates, also the provision repealing the
tax on matches and tobacco under
bonded warehouse clauses. The bill IL
further amended by AN addition Of q
section to remit all taxes on insolvenl
savings banks, aud 10 exempt from tax
alton -, 600 oi each deposit made by one
person or association In any savings in
stitution.
Letter Carriers and their Pay.
WASHINGTON, February 1.-The Zen.
ate Committee on Appropriations will
add Ia the postoilice appropriation hil
a sectisn increasing the pay of letter
carriers, 81 that they shall receive, In
cities containing population oi lOO, ONO
or more, 500 ior the first year y service
and 300 per year thereafter, aud III
cities having less than 100000. 500 Ion
the first year, aud SoO0 per year there
after.
Auxiliary carriers are allowed at sal
aries not h exceed 800, and ironl
among their number all vacancies
among the regular crrriers shall be filled
Substitute carriers will be allowed, ni
a nominal salary ol one dollar per an
mum, who shall receive while in service
the pay Oi the carrier whose route they
are required Ia serve, and ie promoted
Ia fill vacancies In the ranks ot auNill'
AIRY carriers.
Potter Committee.
WAsIIINGToV, Feb. u Before th,
Potter Committee Cleo. w. Carter, oj
New Orleans, denied the assertion made
in II. Martins affidavit to the effect that
he Carter had given or Offered Weber
money, to influence his testim1ly ll,
said he did not believe Webcr had II.
cciyed any noney ior testilying.
Pension Arrears.
WASHINGTON, February 7.--,,,ncra
Rice, Chairman of the Committee on
Pensions, has had several interview
with Commissioner Bentley as h. th,
necessary legislation To- curry out all th,
provisions Oi the arrears al pensions
act. OF course time will bc IoqulTSi u
examine the claims presented, AMI viii
the facilities at his disposal, the Cnm
missioner thinks that no more than
SlO,OD,OW will br required iW Tho
claims Ia bc adjusted during thu COMING
wear. The Committee has inf0rnall,
considered, aud will probably report .
hill apIiopfiaiing that amount bit tb,
purpose. Should the claims be NOR,
rapidly adjusted, provision iUr theII
payment can be- made at the meeting O
Congress in December.
Nominations by tho President.
WAsmINdroN, February THE lrcJ
dent nominated Ephraim McNurtirc
Collector ui Customs pf the district oI
Mlnnosts; John +. llartranit, PoStnms
ter of Philadelphia; Jan,s Poll"k
Naval Officer of Philadelphia; a. Low
den SnoSdcn, Superintendent OF The
Philadelphia Mint; Martin Parry Ncr
ward, Assistant Treasurer of the United
States nj Boston and Robert Stevenson
Collector III the Fifteenth district oI
New York. .s
Agricultural Repo9.
WAsnINGroN, February The aari
cultural report just issued gives tbs
average prize oi the cotton crop f"r the
whole country at 81 rents n pound
value Of crop lor 1873, SlDi, 200. .OJO; aAer
age price of tobacco 6.i0; t0tOtal croI
Tor is7s estimated at }03 ,O0, 600 pounds
worth S23,OOO,O0O. Horses increased
per cent, but prices very materially de
creased. Cows show AN increase ~
nearly all the states, and sheep Increased
about per cent. The prices for hog'
are ruinously low, while the increare u
about ; per cent. Mules increased abou,
ugT cent