The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-02-22
HINAMCIAL IAsPEGEORs.
A Proposition to Establish New Gov
eFnment Board.

WASHINGTON, D. O., February 2l,-In
the House to-day bill was introduced by
Mr., Warner to create o Board Of Fiscal
inspectors to watch over the collections
and expenditures Of the public treasury.
1t provides for the appointment by the
President Of Beard Of Fiscal Inspectors
to consist Of three members ,lno more than
two OF whom shall be taken from the same
political party, who shall hold office dur
Ing lie, or good behavior, and while hold.
ing the office OF Fiscal Inspector shall be
ineligible to any other Office Of profit un.
der the Government. No one under forty
years OF age or over fity.fVs shall be ap.
pointed q member Of said board, and any
member shall be entitled to be retired at
the age OF seventy on full pay.
Every member shall be entitled to re-
Ceiye a salary OF -- dollars, and the
board may employ q secretary at q salary
Of $1,000 and two clerks at S., 200 each.
Section two prescribes that 1t shall be
the duty Of the Board to watch over the
collection and expenditure ot the public
treasure; and to that end, In cases where,
In the judgment Of the Board, there is
reason TO suspect Carelessness, negligence,
irregularity, malleasanCe, embezzlement
or fraud, 10 inquire into and investigate
the conduct OF the officers and agents en-
trusted with the duty Of raising and ex-
pending the public moneys or keeping
accounts thereof and said Board shall
have the power to inspect all books aud
accounts, TO send for persons and papers,
and to examine witnesses under oath. In
cases where, In the judgment Of the
Board, the officer or agent Of the Govern
ment is guilty oil misappropriating the
public money, or OF embezzIement or
malieasance Ia office, II shall have the
power 10 arrest and suspend from office
such officer or agent, and shall present
such officer or agent, with the evidence In
It's possession, to the law officers oi the
government In the district or circuit
court where the otfsnse may have been
committed for indictment and proseCu'
ton, II Is made the duty OF the Board to
report from time 10 time It's dolngs 10 the
heads Of the departments and annually to
Congress.
A NEW TARIFF PROPOSITION.
By Mr.. Chalmers: A joint resolution
relative to the tariff, as follows:
WHEREAS, Inc only eACuHb lOT pro-
tectiye tariff Ia IN encourage manufactures
and protect the free labor Of the United
States against the slave and pauper labor
OF foreign countries; therefore, 10 secure
the benefits intended the American labor.
erg,
Resolved, That the Secretary oil the
Treasury shall, as soon as practicable, as.
certain and report the cost Of producing
In foreign countries, oil articles on which
custom duties are now levied, and the cost
OF producing the same articles in the
United States, and whenever the cost of
producing any article which has been
manufactured or produced In the United
States for ten years shall be less in any
foreign country than the producing Of the
same article In the United States, then
the custom duty on such article shall not
exceed the sum equal to the difference be.
tween the wages paid In the foreign coun.
try where suCh an article is more Cheaply
produced, and wages paid the laborers em'
ployed In producing the same article In
the United States with the cost ot trans
portation added thereto,