Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-05

American shirtings are rapidly making their l way, as is well evidenced by the fact that
 Italian manufacturers are using fictitious American trade marks
 The China Merchants Steam Navigation Company propose running line of steamers
 to San Francisco via the Sandwich Islands. A Chinese mandarin has established a farm
 of !, ,o0o acres about eighty miles north of Ilen-tsin, which he proposes to have con ducted after Western principles Stock rais- ing will be an important feature
 l Reports at the State department indicate I that the emigration from Norway to this country was unusually heavy during the
 month of May. It is thought the emigration l during the present year will reach Is, ,0OO. | Frauds i'm the Revenue Service. WASHINGTON, July At is stated at the Internal Revenue bureau that the deficiency l in the accounts of the late collector of the First district of Ney York was caused by Deputy Collector Boone furnishing the in voice officer with false returns of stamps in | transitu- He would make up schedule to show the revenue agent. This schedule he would copy in his copy book, and when the revenue agent left the office Boone would send different statement to Washington, but the amount would agree with that he showed the agent. In order to remedy this and prevent further trouble of the same char acter, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue has issued an order directing collectors to fur n1sh revenue agents with schedule of all stamps in transitu and that schedule is sent to Washington with the agents report, to be verified. The agent will also send with the report a. serial number and letter of each book and number of stamps contained in each. This order, it is believed, will cover the last leak in the service, and hereafter rev enue officials who rob the Government will have to take the money outright and make of with it.
 Soldiers Back Pay and BOunty-NO
 Money for Arrears Of Pay and Bounty
 Old Soldiers Must Wait Until Next
 March.
 WASHINGTON, July 4-The failure of Con- gress to make an appropriation for the prompt payment of arrears of pay and bounty due soldiers of the war of the re- bellion has caused much dissatisfaction and complaint Even members of Congress are grumbling because the claims of their martial constituents, who will have an opportunity of voting this fall, cannot be iquidated. The facts in relation to this matter, in which thousands of old soldiers and their families are interested, are briefly as follows:
 Two months ago the House of Represen- tatives adopted resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury to report why he permits claims for back pay and bounty to remain unpaid from six to twelve months be- fore asking for an appropriation. The Secre- tary replied in effect, that the back pay and bounty appropria- tions were carried to the surplus fund under the act of 1S14 that existing laws require him to submit to Congress, at the commencement of each session only an estimate of amounts required to pay balances certified by the accounting officers; that such estimates were duly submitted, and that hay ing complied with the laws he might, with propriety, have gone no further. Anticipat- ing, however, just such complaints as have arisen, he caused additional estimates to be prepared which were reported to Congress as follows: On May 10, 1S7S for $42O, GOO to pay claims to be certified up to June 3O 1879; on April 21, 1879, for $225, ,O00 to pay claims to be certified up to June 30, 1880, and April l, 1880, for $265, ,000 to pay claims to be certified up to June 30, 1881. Beyond referring these supplemental estimates to appropriate committees neither house took any action in the premises. Notwithstanding it's own resolu- tion and the information thereby elicited the House made no provision for any back pay and bounty claims except those certified prior to January l, 1880, which were embraced in the deficiency bill. But the Senate Appropri- ation Committee was induced to insert an amendment in the sundry civil bill appropri- ating $100,O00 s'to pay claims of white and colored soldiers for arrears of pay and boun- ty certified since January l, 1880, and to be certified up to June 30, 1891."
 When the sundry civil bill went to confer ence the Senate receded from it's amendment because the House conferees, Messrs. B1ount, Clymer and Hiscock, insisted that the claims 1 were provided for in the deficiency bill. But | there is no such provision in the deficiency or any other bill as might very easily have been ascertained It will be observed that while the Treasury authorities the only people who could possibly form Q correct judgment on the ubject-estimated that $265, ,OOO would be required to pay bounties, &c., the Senate was willing to give $1OO,O ,OOO only, and that even this modicum was strick- en out because the House conferees were ig- norant of the provisions of the law they had helped to pass a few hours previously. The is that all old soldiers whose claims have been allowed since December 31, 1879, will have to wait for their dues until March, 1881. The outstanding claims left for include not only those of vol unteers which accrued from fifteen to nine teen years ago, but also those of regulars