The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-03-11
ATTHE CAPITAL.
GENERAL NEWS AND GOSSIP
indian Atialrs-inyestls Cation Into the Causes
! Of the Negro Exodus "A Plain Uuvar.
hished Tale ToIdb 10 coIored Ed.
Itor-Propused Revenue
Reforms-Committee
5gts- Matters, &c.

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WASHINGTON, March 10.-The Presiden
has nominated as census supervisors, job,
Henry Thomas, second district OF Ohio
Henry A. Lane, fourth district Of Ohio
Joshua ". starley, eighth district Of Ohio
Chas. P. Jadwin, fifth district Of Penn
sylyania; Francis NJ. Chrisman, secone
district Of Arkansas. ='
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
The House Committee on Indian Affair
agreed to report favorably to the House o.
Representatives Mr.. Pounds bill authoriz
ing the Secretary OF War to set aside any
vacant posts or barracks not required foi
military occupation, for use in the estab.
lishment OF normal and industrial train.
ing schools for Indian youths from no.
madic tribes having educational treaty
claims on the United States. Chairman
Scales called attention to the committee to
the reported starving condition Of certain
Utes in New Mexico, and was instructed
to prepare bill by authorizing the Secre-
tary OF the Interior to issue rations to
them.
NEGRO EXODUS INVESTIGATION.
The Senate Exodus Committee to-day
examined George T. Ruby, colored,
editor OF the New Orleans Observer. He
testified that the Louisiana exodus move.
ment originated among the plantation
laborers, and was the result OF prose Gu
tions OF the political mobs Of 1855 ;organ-
MIXING as colonization council in August
1876, it spread rapidly from parish to
parish and permeated the State, particu-
larly the sections known as the cotton
belt, where outrages had been most fire.
quent; political leaders had nothing 10 do
with it. Theimmediate inducing cause Of
the New Orleans Convention, he said, was
the outrages committed In Louisiana dur
ing the summer and autumn OF 1873. The
effect on the colored people OF the law.
lessness which, he said, had prevailed
throughout the State, was to "Incite them
to go anywhere out OF the hell in which
they lived" It Is, he said, the denial OF
his political rights rather than his physi.
cal condition, lamentable as 1t is, that eau
ses this discomfort among negroes.
He admitted that there was in New
Orleans large and increasing class among
the white Democrats, perhaps q majority,
who deplore the present condition OF
affairs, but those who entertain this feel
ing are merchants and capitalists, natu-
rally timid, and exert no influence over
the political leaders. The rabid men con-
troll the party and they are in the minor
ity, but so long as . majority are quiescent
and merely deprecate lawlessness they
cannot prevent 1t.
MIR, Ruby stated that he thought nearly
5000 negroes had emigrated from the
State, most Of whom had gone to Kansas.
In the sugar growing sections OF the State
q better feeling prevailed, but in other
parts, the feeling OF discomfort is on the
increase, and the Indications are that
many more will leave this spring.
REVENUE REFoRMs.
Internal Revenue Commissioner @ Raum
was heard before the subcommittee Of the
Ways and Means Committee this morn
ing, upon the bill prepared by the Ma
tional Distillers and Wholesale Liquor
Dealers Association, proposing certain
changes in the internal revenue regulation
affecting the liquor traffic. The Commits.
sioner assented to the reduction Of dis.
tillers' bonds, as provided in the first three
sections OF the bill, and to the right
to export in quantities as low as ten
gallons. He also agreed to other
regulation changes, with some verbal al
terations, the most important OF which 10
the allowance of the accidental loss of
spirits before warehouseing. Relief from
the charge for warehouse export, rectifers'
and wholesale dealers stamp he neither
recommended nor refused. The allow
ance for leakage on bonded goods and in.
terest now charged he leaves 10 the judg-
ment OF Congress, stating that the reve-
nues from the three items Ia now about
two and hall millions OF dollars. The
Commissioner favored the repeal OF Sec
ton OF the act Of March lst, 1879, relat.
ing to rectifiers' bonds.
He recommended that rectifers' and
wholesale dealers books be gotten up on
manifold, so that an entry will answer for
original and copies. The Commissioner
made some general observations, among
which was that the revenue upon tobacco,
cigars, whisky and beer this year will be
about one hundred and twenty millions.
He thought distillers we're making money,
and said this was millennium for the OBJ
seryance OF revenue laws. In Illicit dis
stricts he was establishing small distiller-
les which tended to crush out the moon
sinners. lawful distillers acting as so many
detectives.